Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-02


o. W. Oh! but 1 mean what are vol
painting?
CIV. "Vy, painting him red"
o. W. Yes! see that, but what i
it, touching the object, "What do yol
call itP"
G. W. Shaking his head and point
ing to the other G. W.
o. G. W. With good natured smile
t'Bo-een."
O.W. 'Bo-een,"I don't understand
O.G. W. "Vell, 1 can't help it,
o. w. Laughing and coloring VI
somewhat as some interested spectators
had stopped to listen to the animated
attempt at conversation. "Of course
you can't help it, but you see l don't
know what it is. What do you use it
for?"
CIV. ave don't use him, shust
baint him." smiling honestly at the
woman, showing that he was serious and
not trying to evade the question, "He is
bo-ee."
"Spell it," said courteous gentleman,
coming to the rescue. "Spell it for the
lady then she will understand"
G. w. Shaking his head again to sig
Nifty that he was again beyond his depths.
@. G. A buoy, madam, gas buoy.
o. w. "Oh!" said the one woman,
and then everybody smiled at maybe it
was the infection of the 'oh, or it might
have been at the ignorance of the
woman.
G. w. "Now, you know him. He
goes in water, light him, see?" and the
obliging workmen stopped his painting
for few minutes to show by signs and
broken English how 'he' worked.
Well, confessed the one woman hon
estly, chow was to know whether it
was gas buoy or Yerke's big telescope,
when l had never seen either"
Transportation building proper and
its annex covers almost nineteen acres Of
floor space, and as its name indicates it
shows all modes of fetching and carry
ing human freight, and all things that
may be transported from one place to
another. had spent part of a Sunday
here, and in the meantime had gotten a
pretty good idea of what remained to be
seen. There are so many models every
where all over the grounds that people
do not appreciate them. Here are mod
els of everything. 1 was impressed
more with this class of exhibits when l
saw German putting up model of a
ship yard than 1 had otherwise been.
The making of these models is an in
dustry in itself, and believe that most
of the workers come from abroad, Ger
many in particular. The workman
showed me his cabinet of appliances
and explained the work. There was
everything in miniature that could be
found about the real ships, anchors, tim
bers, chains, sails, ropes and even the
little screw eyelets Cor as the workman
brokenly called them-eyeballs) for
holding the ropes. Think of the fac
tories which must have started simply
to furnish World fair supplies. Then
think of the people who will be out of
work when the fair shuts down. A
model of coast battery at Port of Car
tagena was very interesting to me and
to the student fresh from school it must
to have been doubly so. With model
true to foot of the surface it requires
little imagination to see the real, yet
there are so many models that one fails
to appreciate them as they should be ap-
preciated for the vast amount of labor
and expense that they represent.
Pullman's palace cars here are beauti-
full beyond description, and everybody
sees them whether they take the time
to look through the ancient exhibits or
not, but Ispent little time in them for 1
knew that before this present admins
tration is through money will be so
cheap that we can, any of us, avail our
selves of ride in better cars than those
over our own Union Pacific.
The vehicles of royalty are represented
in Lord Mayors carriage, Princess of
Wales carriage and that which carried
the illustrious don't get that insolvent
Mr.. Editor, for it will offend the ear of
American people who sometimes pay
their debts Duke of Veragua.
In the gallery is an old boat, presuma-
bly, about 400 years old, which was
found in the marshes on the coast of the
Baltic sea. 1t is most curious affair
with its weapons and implements that
were found in it, some of which are SO
antique in pattern that no one can form
much idea of what they were used for
There are places for thirty rowers, fif-
teen on side, and whether the boat
was a habitation for that number of sea-
men and were they all lost, or did the
boat drift away from them with their
implements aboard while they were on
land, is matter of speculation.
The articles of transportation from the
Holy Land are interesting. The palan-