The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-08
A NOVEL DISPLAY.
Kansas Contributes a Menageris
to the W oriG's Fair Oddities
The Animals Ara Not Alive, But They
Look Just as Natural as If They
Were = Other Interesting Fea-
lures of the Exhibit.

When the worlds fair visitor enters
the Kansas building next year the first
display that bursts upon his gaze win
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 Enclosure.
weary consciousness that the realistic
gronp before him is simply marvel of
taxiderny, and such it is.
The display is the first of the Kansas
exhibit and is the result of years of IN
renting toll on the part of Prof.
Louis L. Dyche, of the Kansas state
university. The display viii 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, aud
when the whole display is properly
grouped the animals will appear so nat
ural that one would not be surprised at
seeing a catamount spring or hearing a
buffalo below
On the rough, rocky eninence in the
center viii be seen a group of noun
tain sheep, at the base of the elevation
two buffalo bulls VIII be grouped in
attitudes OF defiance and little to
one side two mountain lions snarling
over a slain deer win appear. Other
animals representing mammals from
all parts of North America viii be
picturesquely grouped in the remaining
space.
Not the least interesting of the ex-
hibit win be the remains OF what was
the only survivor of Clusters last stand
the old horse, Comanche, ridden on
that fatal day by gallant Capt. Kehoe
The horse Is so well mounted and has
such a natural expression of drowsy old
age that the spectator momentarily ex-
poets him to yawn. Incidentally this
expression of senile laziness cost Prof
Dyche six weeks work in creasing and
arranging the para-ocular tissues.
One carload of evaporated sea salt has
been received at the fishery building at
the exposition. 1t will be used in max
ing the proper medium for saltwater
fish to gambol in. 1t is estimated that
carload of salt will make seventy-6ve
thousand gallons of sea water.
The salt differs from commercial salt
in being unpurifed. 1t 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-fsh, por-
poises, etc, are found in, will be the
lack of organic impurities in the form
er. Experiments with lime in remov-
ing these impurities are now being con-
Quoted 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-
cupants of the tanks. In the clear water
thus procured will be dissolved the salt