Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07


osIties in this lire are tine n1EniIaTfn chair
from China, the jinricksha from Japan.
the pretty %palanquin used by high caste
folks in India, the silla or chair in which
the silleroof the Andes carries travellers
over the mountains, and the many va
rieties OF chairs, baskets and carriages.
AS for the housings on camels, elephants,
donkeys and b~uffaloes; a mere list of them
would stretch out to a tedious length.
IL is a far cry from a %palanquin to a
Pullman palace car, but the railway ex-
hibit in the great annex is a worlds fair
in itself. The Transportation building
proper is only 900 feet long and 255 feet
wide, but the annex extends from it to the
west side of the grounds and covers nine
acres. In it are locomotives from,every
firm of makers in the United States but
two, cars of every kind known in the busi-
ness with every kind of brake and buffer
ana many ola rellcs oil great historic inter
asst All this, however, the public of today
knows all about. Neither is it necessary
for me TO set forth the wonderful array of
skiffs, canoes, outriggers and lifeboats,
the models OF the large steamers n sail.
Ing vessels, the immense dioramic views
or all the principal ports In the world, the
raised maps showing the depths and shall.
lows in the principal harbors or the really
wonderful and practical Illustrations Of
steering and determining courses, Overthe
beautifully carved arch to the main en-
trance is a paragraph from Macauiey TO
the effect that next to the art of printing
improved transportation has lone most to
civilize and humanize the race, which l
beg leave to condense to a single text
Easy Communications Improve Good
Manners.
In the Italian section of the Liberal
Arts Is shown the evolution of glass as
used for toilet and decorative purposes.
The varieties of mirrors in sizes and
shapes is almost endless and the enormo
curved glasses on each side of the north
entrance furnish continual amusement to
the visitors, 1t is quite an old device,
this of ~distorting the human form by
curved mirrors, but these are only curved
vertically, just as if a great slab OF plate
glass were bent, and are of such size and
clearness that a large group is reflected
n distorted at once. A family party
standing before the one finds itself trans
formed to a set of twelye-footers, and be-
fore the other to a family Of fat dwarfs as
broad as they are long. Staple as it seems
in the descriptions the distortionis so uni
form that a startling effect is produced
n the laughter is loud and long. 1t is
in Machinery hall, however, that the pro-
gress of modern man is best illu trated.
There stands the first printing press used
in New Hampshire-and any good black
smith and carpenter can make one like it
and beside it the wonderful Hoe, dash
ing off copies Of the Daily Columbian at
the rate of q, coo an hour.
The evolution of morals and good humor
seems to have halted at the Midway plais-
ance. There is trouble of various kinds.
One Egyptian went out in the Christian
city, forgot the precepts of the Prophet
and came back bowling drunk, drew his
cimeter and 'ieaned out Cairo street.
Others have taken to strong drink as a
a steady thing. The Persian theater was
closed for immortality. was allowed to
open n got worse than ever; then the
Persian commissioners sent in complaint
that their country was shamefully mis-
represented by folks who were not Per-
SLAMS and the place was closed again-for
good, perhaps. The J~avanese closed their
village, complaining Of ~extortion, but were