Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-07-13
WORLDS FAIR.


SHEAF are very much interested in
the Worlds Fair, and realizing that
many will be denied the privilege OF
going there, I will endeavor, briefly,
to describe few things which l saw
during my visit and which were in
teresting to me. Let lis then this
week take a peep into the United
States Government building, a beau
tiful structure APO feet long by $50
feet in width, it's main floor and gal
leries covering total OF 191 900
square feet Of floor space. In this
building the Government OF the Unit
cd States has extensive and instruc-
tive exhibits from the various de-
partments, notably the Departments
OF Agriculture, Interior, War, Treas
ury, Post Office, and the U. S. Fish
Commission, also the Smithsonian
Institution and National Museum.
In the Department of Agriculture,
the Bureau OF Animal Industry ex-
hibits models etc. illustrative OF bac-
THEOLOGICAL research, OF cars and
steamships for transporting live
stock, models illustrating diseases
OF domestic animals, and models H.
Illustrative OF government inspection.
wish that every owner OF a horse
as we'll rs every horse sheer could
see the models showing methods OF
shoeing horses. In the Division OF
Botany are exhibited collections OF
plants OF North America, and medi-
cinal barks, roots, fibers etc. In the
Division OF Entomology are found
collections OF insects, injurious and
otherwise, and models, very much
enlarged, showing structures OF silk
worm and chinch bug. One interest
ing exhibit illustrates daily changes
that take place in an egg during the
period OF Matching, from the appear
ance OF the first small streak in the
yolk, until the full fledged spring
chicken bursts the shell, ready to
crow. In the Division of Forestry
ore found botanical specimens OF
forest fora OF the United States and
collection OF wood specimens, decor
alive wood work. and manufacture
es OF wood, and illustrations OF the
tensile strength OF different kinds OF
wood. How turpentine is gathered
is illustrated by trees, logs, materi-
ais, tools and products, a represent
tation OF turpentine orcharding in
North Carolina. Passing the Sec
ton OF q big oak tree, my eye caught
this inscription: "This tree was
seeding when Columbus discovered
America The rings made by each
successive years growth were traced
with paint, so that the eye could
easily tell how much had been added
to the tree in any one year. 1t con-
tains chronological chart from
Columbus to the Worlds Fair, in
each ring being marked the year and
some important events in history.
An interesting exhibit was a collec-
ton OF edible and poisonous mush-
Rooms found in U. S. There we're al
so collections OF samples of grain OF
all kinds, tobacco, wool, silk, cotton,
and fibers OF different plants. l saw
flax raised in Minnesota, and towel.
ing made from same. Birds and
mammals injurious and beneficial to
agriculture were also shown, and ex-
hibit showing distribution of ami.
mails according to elevation. A curl.
Gus exhibit was one showing differ
ent articles taken from stomnchs OF
cattle when butchered. An iron rake
tooth, 4 it. 8 in. long, 10 lbs. stones
and pebbles, and % hair balls, were
taken from the stomach of a Texas
steer. What a voracious appetite
he must have had! In this building
is exhibited Il section, soft. in length,
OF one OF the big trees in California.
1t is 26 it. in diameter at the base
and 20 it. in diameter ut top, and
has been followed out and has a.
stairway within. This section was
cut from the tree 20 it. from it's base,
and the tree was 800 it. in height.
Though Uncle Sam is a sort OF a
penceable fellow, whose greatest de-
sire is to promote the arts and in
dustries OF peace, still, in the War
Department, he shows us that he is
also able to fight, AMI will not al
low that door old f1ar Tn no insultod