St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28

unless the saints are from leading blue
grass families. The pavilion is hung
about with pictures. The newspaper
woman pointed out Que and another.
..This?" she Intercepted. Kahn
lucky" replied the man in charge.
Every one was a Kentucky scene. At
last, having been shown everything IN
the roohess pavilion, the Kentucky
woman pointed upward to where DIT
of blue sky showed through the sky
light far above. THAR" she asked.
Heaven" 1 suggested. The man IN
charge bowed low. Yes, madam, !"
he said, "that is-Kaintueky."
The transportation building has UNI
dergone some slight changes since it
was opened. 1t is adorned with innu-
merable statues, which were at first
painted a bright green. Some KIND
providence has had them reprinted IN
terra Gotta, really quite a good color.
The building is the least pleasing one
in Jackson park. Its lines are good, but
it's color isn't beautiful. 1t is
decorated in green and red. and
looks like a medical museum on the
outside, far above the windows is
painted freeze for all the world like
those interesting colored plates we used
to see in the physiology. illustrating the
circulation of blood, or something Of
that sort. But if that suggests CHASTITY
things, just wait till you have seen the
French pictures. The French are never
commonplace. Their pictures are the
most delightful in the exhibition,
but now and then one runs
across one that turns the gallery into
90 very quietly and quickly out OF the
extremely
white face and distinctly sick look.
She had come suddenly upon picture
with only strip of green, hungry-look-
ing sea, and stretch of sOddeD sand.
In the foreground is the nude body of
a woman, cast up by the waves. The
body has evidently been in
the water for weeks, aud is pur-
pie with decomposition. The shadows
have a greenish. putrid look, and the
whole thing is frightfully real. or
course, it must be art, or it wouldn't be
there, but it is the sort of thing one
would 60 miles to avoid seeing. There
are such delightful Bouguereaus. and
Durans, and Lemaires in the gallery
that the decaying dead woman is
especially frightful.
Still, this is the time to see strange
sights, and we're all seeing them, From
the FUNNY COLUMBIAN guards, WITH tielf
pretty blue uniforms. their gold lace
and their comic opera swords, to the
men from Cairo with accordion-plalted
boomers, the town is full Of queer
sights. One of popular queer sights
is troupe of Russians who sing Rus
sian songs and dance Russian dances.
The dances, by the way, are so acrobatic
that they must be extremely ia
tiguing to the dancers. The audience
likes them. however, and they are APP
plauded enthusiastically. Last night
the Trocadero, where polite people go
because they fancy it is Bohemian, and
Bohemians 20 because it is really anus
ing, was fairly rocked by the applause
the Russians received. The poor dam
GERS responded to encore after encore,
until they were really too exhausted to
dance a step. Then, as the applause
continued, they returned to the stage,
marched down to the footlights. and in
Ineligible English did what not one
American in fifty do. They sang
Yankee DOODLE"
RUTH KIMBALL.