The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-29

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Canada's section in the Manufactures
building is crowded with exhibits that rival
those of older, more popnlous and more
pretentious manufacturing countries, and
in many cases outrival them. Cotton fab
RIGS of all kinds occupy n prominent place,
and tweeds, meltons, brads silk thread
gloves, hosiery, underwear, ready made
clothing and carpets give fair idea of tho
Doninion's ability in textile lines. In iron
goods and miscellaneous hardware house
hold novelties band and circular saws, Can
ada doesn't have to take her hat off to any
body, and she may proudly tuck her troll-
sers i'll her boot tops, for her footwear and
other leather goods are well worth exhibit
ing.
The display of the Canadian department.
of Indian affairs attracts great deal of at
tention, principally because of it's mode!
Indian school, where teachers and pupil,
pursue their usual routine as if they were
in the woods of the far northwest There
are many interesting relics of the warpath,
the hunt and the camp, and many exam
pies of what the civilized" Indian has &C
complished since he was harnesscd TO tho
car of progress-gran and vegetables that
he has grown and useful things that he has
manufactured.
CanaGa's display i'll the horticultural
building is one of the most important and
attractive. comprising three courts devoted
TO fruits, vegetables and wines. Her dis
play of fruits is the largest shown by any
single state or foreign country and occupies
about IL sixth of the entire fruit space
Peaches, pears and small fruits, as well as
apples and other hardy fruits peculiar to
northern countries, and 400 bottles of pre-
served fruits Of various kinds show the
surprising range OF the Dominion'5 pomo-
logical possibilities. The exhibit from Brit
lsh Columbia attracts attention because of
the immense size of the apples and pears
In the Forestry, Transportation and Fish
cries buildings Canada also makes IL good
showing, and her 10000 square feet OF space
i'll the Mining building furnish fair index
of her great mineral wealth British Co
lumbia alone has produced over ST., 10000
IN gold since the yellow metal was first dis
covered there, and Ontario averages IN out
put of 81 600, 000 annually. Ontario nickel
IS conceded to be the best i'll the world by
all the governments that have tested it for
armor plates, and the exhibit from Sudbury
attracts not few experts. OF coal, if need
were, Canada could easily furnish enough
to warm the world, and of the other treas
ures hidden beneath her broad domain the
samples here displayed show the possession
of enough to dover Il universe
Anglers have Il shrine ut the fair now
dedicated to their patron saint, IZaak Wal
ton, and opened Oh the three hundrcdth an
niversary of his birth. 1t stands on the
shore of the north pond, just east of the art
galleries, and is plain simple and small not
more than 20 feet by 1G and only one story
in height. The walls of the interior are
decorated with rods and lines and Il mum
Der Of oil paintings of piscatoral subjects,
and the furniture consists of plain oak
table and few chairs. The building was
erected by the Chicago Fly Casting club,
which is organizing great international
contest for experts with the rod and reel, to
be held some time in September. The club
offers three gold medals--one for long dis
lance fly casting, another for accuracy, del
icacy and distance in fly casting and the
the third for accuracy and distance in Dait
casting It's now quite the proper thing
for lovers Of the meditative sport to in
scribe their names on the register ut the
lZaak Walton cottage, and the signatures of
many men famous in various walks of life
here testify their approval of this pleasur-
able avocation.
In the New South Wales exhibit in the
Anthropoogical building is picture of IL
hairy, burly cannbal who was a most re-
markable man. 1t is a portrait of Mickey,
the great chief of the Ulladu1lahs the most
expert boomerang thrower in Australia, a
mighty warrior who had eaten the hearts
of no less than so of his foes When he got
tired of killing opposition chiefs with his
boomerang, he devoted himself to art, and
six pictures of his painting show his supe
riority to the general run of native Aus
tralians in other fields than those of war.
The missionaries got hold of him, and he
died in the odor of sanctity n couple Of
Years ago at the age of fourscorc
Z. Il. BANTER.