The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1893-08-26
GRENADA, MISS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1888.

for building and roofing; egg coal, hire
clay, soapstone, brick for tiling, ochres
in different colors and glass sand from
Augusta county. The most original
and interesting objects in her exhibit
are statues made from epellei, which
in turn is made from zinc. These stat
ues are beautiful in execution and finish
and are made by the Bertha zinc mine
in Pulaski county, Va.
The Louisiana exhibit shows that this
low lying State which cannot boast d
mountain range OF any Importance pos"
sesscs a great wealth Of useful minerals.
Many Of these arc undcveloned and arc
being worked by Mr.. sam Il. lato'i,
the energetic state commissioner.
Among such minerals, are a high grade
of carbon, indurated mari and green
sand (which has never been put on the
market), soil capable of being used as Il
fertilizer, gypsum, marine shells. Crys-
talized quartz, limestone, high grade
carbonate of lime and phosphate.
There are also specimens of hard chalk
from stratum LII feet deep, whose
full depth has not yet been ascertained;
this chalk is very useful for cement and
for luxing iron. The white rock from
Katahohia county is a better stone than
the English Or Scotch rock. The
Louisiana kaolines are of a superior
quality, and when put on the market
will prove y fine lubricant. The State
boasts a large variety of marbles, many
of which are surface rocks; there is the
Dore marble, the conglomerate, the
zebra, which is peculiar to Louisiana
and comprises thirty varieties; stalac-
tite and banded marble, (which stands
q higher pressure than any other mar
BILE; notified Dore marble and agate
marble. Indian relics carved OF agate,
crude petrol, Canadian stone, amethyst
from Bienville Point, while zinc ore
from Winn parish, coal Ignite and salt
from New Iberia parish are other feat
ures of the collection. In the gallery
there is an annex to the Louisiana
mineral exhibit in the form of u statue
of Lots wife cunningly carved in salt.
The West Virginia exhibit is highly
creditable. 1t consists Of iron ore.
salts, refined and crude petroleum,
mineral waters, oil rocks, sandstones,
some varieties Of brownstones, fire
clays end potters' clays, various speci-
mems of pressed brick and mineral
wool. Its chief display, of course, is
coal. There are huge blocks and pill
lars of anthracite bituminous, semi-bit-
luminous and canncl coal, representing
over one hundred and seventy-tive
developed mines in the State, also spec
linens of the fiat top coke which has
just supplanted. the Connellsville coke
with the Illinois steel company.
The kentucky exhibit occupies a
handsome pavilion built OF coal. The
Gothic arch of its entrance is built en-
tirelv of camel coal and is both unique
and impressive. Inside part of the
floor is paved with tiles made by the
Kentucky construction and improve
ment company, of Mayteld. Each
county is represented by salt, mineral
waters, ochres, kaolinc, cement rocks.
hydraulic limestone, coal and iron ores
OF every sort. From the rear of the
pavilion one may enter Mammoth Cave
or so clever a representation OF it that
it amounts to the same thing. The
dark entrance, the thousands of stalac-
tites, crystals, quartz, etc, pendant
from the ceiling and walls, the crystal
grotto and eyeless fish, give u fairly ac-
curatc idea Of Kenturkys great physi-
cal wonder.
In the woman's building there are
samples of Southern wOmcns skill in
lace work and embroidery and OF her
genius in painting, drawing and sculpt-
ire. The Mississippi Industrial In-
stitute and College, through its excel :
lent drawings, paintings and woodwork
speaxs strongly of southern education-
al enterprise. The small representa-
tion of Southern writer's in the library
for the works of American women in
this building is most unsatisfactory to
our pride in our gifted Southern won-
en-, The Tennessee case, for instance.
contains the works of only one author
of any prominence, namely, Charles
Egbert CraddOck. Miss Murfree is, by
common consent, Ou: greatest woman
writer, but we have other women
whose writings deserves q recognition by
the State. Where are the stories and
poems of Mrs. l.. Virginia French
. Mrs. Lide Meriwcthcr, Mrs. Virginl;
. Frazer Boyle, Miss Will Allen Drom.
eoole, Mary Jacqueiine Thornton and
} Fanny Murfree? A foreigner might
; think that we have no women authors
We know that lack of enterprise alone
} explains our small showing.
, One Southerner has shifted his at
tention to the government building
and, being somewhat of an antiquar!
| and proud of his country's past, he dc
, lights in the colonial relics from Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Maryland
, placed there by the board of lady man
| ayers. He glares at the offended ma
: who makes his son hurry by them. say
: ing: ''Oh, come along! Nothing bu
: ladies interested in that" He feel
, pretty we'll satisfied in looking at thes
t and at the pictures Of prominen
Southern Statesmen. Only the remen
!, brance of some other Souther exhibit II
terferes with his present happiness:
q His pride can more easily spread II
!, wings while going through the Sta,
o buildings, for although some Of th
}, prominent Southeyn States have nor
: there, still most OF the houses afford
/, pleasant rendezvous for visitors ar
|, are appropriate in design. Arkansa
l. our sister State, has a very pleasaI
building with centra! court, splas
3, ING fountain, cosy reception-rooms AZ
d exhibits Of local talent In art, rs We
l. as a fine collection Of grains and fruit
n West Virginia has handsome bull
10 ing. though there is nothing distint
II i,,o about H. Kantuckv'a hnildin