The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-02

cupation and living specimens of the race,
the peculiar plants of the desert and scores
of curiosities which provoke inquiry rather
than satisfy curiosity.
Oklahoma is very different. It has no
mountains, 10 antiquities, nc great mines
and no remarkable natural scenery. Never
theless much has been accomplished in
this the youngest of American common
wealths, and a very creditable showing will
be made. Arizona will supply the greatest
number and variety of antiquities. There
will be little models of towns which were
old and abandoned centuries before the
pilgrims saw Plymouth Rock, models of
the curious cliff cities in Canyon de Chelley
and elsewhere, raised maps or facsimiles
showing the wonderful formation of her
mesas and canyons, and long, long shelves
lined with glittering specimens of ores in
black, white and red, in blue, green and
gold.
To one not familiar with natures posi-
bilities in silver and its closely related
metals the mineral cabinet in the Terri
torial building will be like a realization of
his early dreams of fairyland. The gray
and yellow chlorides, the glittering cubes
of galena ore, the geometrica1 perfection of
some Of the figures made by iron pyrites,
the delicate hair lines or frostwork of 'sil-
yer glance" and the grains of gold shining
like yellow stars in the almost transparent
quartz, where they are sometimes found,
all these are but the commonplace of min
eral collections. There are rarer curiosities
in silver ores, the sports of nature flor silver
will combine chemically with almost any
other mineraD, such as the blue azurite
and ruby silver, the glowing peacock ore,
the horn silver and the tetrahedrite.
1t is not to be supposed that Utah will
make any special exhibit Of her peculiar
institution, but she has several Indian
tribes to be represented. A Pi-Ute, Pi-Ede
or Gosha-Ute family in its native wick--up
and engaged in its everyday domestic life
would be a rare show for people of strong
stomachs. New Mexico has Apaches, Co.
manches and Utes to exhibit as aboriginal
nomads, but she has also the far more high
ly civilized Navajos as well as the Pueblos.
The ancient race which once filled all the
arabic valleys with a busy life has left but
a few remnants, but in its decay h race is
still interesting, and the models of ancient
Taos will repay a close study.
There is no longer o doubt that every part
of the great exposition will be complete
and in order by the day set for the opening,
ana many ScelleS Will NC Pfeseuueu SLOW
ing the common life of strange and distant
lands. Among these will be the German
village, with its ancient castle reproduced;
the street and quarter in Cairo, looking ex-
actly like its prototype and occupied byth
same brown race of merchants; the Irish
village, where lace and soft woolens are
manufactured as in the cottages of the
peasantry; the Japanese quarter, the Eski-
mo camp, and scores Of little groups from
Asia, Africa and the islands of the eastern
and southern seas. As the finishing strokes
are being given to the buildings on the
Midway plaisance, learned visitors tell us
that2S regular languages are spoken among
the workmen, not to mention the minor
patois or local dialects.