Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-22
EQUESTRIAN STATUE IN pRuSEs.

Among the curious displays in the parade
was the fairy carriage of the Michigan
buggy company. drawn by the smallest
horse on earth, III equine Tom Thumb 81
inches high. Another was a parade of
about $50 bicycles, the wheelers represent
ing all sorts of races and characters from
Columbus to Cetewayo, with Knights,
Samoans, Americans Indians, Cinnamon,
Dahcmeyan aud Fijians. In the water
parade was every kind of small craft, pro-
PEELED by steam. naptha, gasoline, cleo
tricity, wind and man-power. There were
gigs from the hattlcship, cutters, fishing
boats of all the nations from Alaska to
Norway, Indian, Esquimaux and West
African canoes and a long array of pleas
ure boats. After the style came the fun,
such rs tub racing and other aquatic
comedies, and so the evolution of progress
was exhibited from the followed log of
the aborig:ne to the latest triumph of
science.
In rambling about the grounds and
reading the notices posted in various Ian
guages l am once more struck by n fact I
often noticed in New Mexico-that a state
ment can nearly always be made in fewer
letters in English than in any other Ian
guage. Here is q familiar card:
Bite NIGHT zu beruhm.
On est prize de nebas TOUGHER.
ST prega di o toccare.
Ruego que no 10 toquen.
Please do not touch.
Hands off!
The five sound polite; the last means
hy1cirocc Evynr tI1 ~o1s<Du fo>.~~, - TN--
lish is shorter than any of the others. All
reform our barbarous spelling, English
would become q sort of universal language
in fifty years. AS it is every foreigner has
to learn two languages in this country, if
he would be thought an educated man
the spoken and the written. And the lat
ter is so much more arbitrary thar the
forme that it requires more labor. Now
If l should write the longer English form
above in some of the we'll established
sound-forms of our speech it would run
thus:
Pliez dough notte tuch.
1t is not in the power of any one man to
get the hang of all that is done and being
done in the various branches of the rclig-
ious congresses of this month. Suffice it
to say that the Catholics began on Sunday
the Bird and in their eight days really did
a wonderful work. What with Maryland
Day, Columbus ny, Spain's Day and
Irish Day yet b. lone their prominent
men really had q great deal to do with
running the fair, and since they have
called my attention to it 1 confess it does
seem a little singular that all of the two
Americas, save Il little strip of the north
Atlantic coast should have been discovered
and explored by and should once have be-
longed to the Catholic nations. l guess
they have earned u right to be prominent
here.
The Jews began on Aug. 81, but their
activity in the fair is exclusively OF n
business nature. The Lutherans and the
Welsh religio-musical societies were active
last week. The Protestant denominations
are now making a so-called presentation
each morning and evening while the
main religious parliament is running, the
Congregationalists having led off on the
10th. In the correspondence of DR.. Bar
rows are letters from over u thousand of
the worlds prominent men and religious
teachcrs, warmly approving the great par
lament, including Gladstone and nearly
all the great lights of the English cstal-
lishment. The more l see of it the more
wonderful this congress SEEMS and l recall
a statement in the history of India that
the great mogul, Akbar, once attempted
to organize such q congress.
II prArvp