The Arizona sentinel., 1893-07-15
A NOVEL DISPLAY.
Kansas Contributes Menagerie
 to the Worlds Fair Oddities.
The Animals Are Not Alive, But They Look Just as Natural As If They Were - Other Interesting Rea-
 lures of the Exhibit.

When the worlds fair visitor enters the Kansas building next year the first display that bursts upon his gaze will lead him to suppose that he has walked into circus menagerie.
 As he hesitates on the threshold and his glance sweeps about he may wonder how it is that mountain lions, goats, buf- falo, elk, deer, moose and foxes are al- lowed to occupy a common inclosure. It will then probably dawn on his weary consciousness that the realistic gronp before him is simply a marvel of taxidermy, and such it is.
 The display is the first of the Kansas exhibit and is the result of years of un- remitting toll on the part of Prof. Louis l.. Dyche, of the Kansas state university. The display will occupy a space ninety by seventy feet, directly before the entrance of the state build ing. Each of the specimens will be surrounded by the natural scenery which goes to make up its habitat, and when the whole display is properly grouped the animals will appear so nat ural that one would not be surprised at seeing catamount spring or hearing 6 buffalo below.
 On the rough, rocky eminence in the center will be seen group of noun tain sheep, at the base of the elevation two buffalo bulls will be grouped in attitudes of defiance and a little to one side two mountain lions snarling over slain deer will appear. Other animals representing mammals from all parts of North America will be picturesquely grouped in the remaining space.
 Not the least interesting of the ex- h;bit will be the remains of what was the only survivor of Custer's last stand the old horse, Comanche, ridden on that fatal day by gallant Capt. Kehoe. The horse is so well mounted and has such natural expression of drowsy old age that the spectator momentarily ex- poets him to yawn. Incidentally this expression of senile laziness cost Prof lyche six weeks work in creaSing and arranging the para-ocular tissues.
 One carload of evaporated sea salt has heen received at the fishery building al the exposition. It will be used in mak. ing the proper medium for saltwater fish to gambol in. It is estimated that acarload of salt will make seventy-five thousand gallons of sea water.
 The salt differs from commercial salt in being unpurifed. It is the product Of simple evaporation of the sea water and contains all the organic material which the natural water holds in solu- ton. The only difference between the water to be used at the fair and the water which the dolphins, star-fish, DOT poises, etc, are found in, will be the hck of organic impurities in the form CT. Experiments with lime in remov- ing these impurities are now being con- 6ucted in the aquarium annex of the fisheries building, in which the large glass tanks for exhibits are now com plete. The object of the experiments is to remove the organic material and render the water perfectly clear, at the same time leaving no chemical in solu- ton which would injure the fnny oc- of the tanks. In the clear water thus procured will be dissolved the salt.