Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-08
SOME SIGHTS OF THE FAIR.
| Interesting Exhibits That Attract the Atten.
tion Of Visitors.

Antcreetang Exniohs Ihot ATTRACT the Atte0.
ton Of Visitors.
From the Eansas City Timea
A piece Of white silk five feet square, Q large
| eagle in the center. with the streamer and az
Pluribus Unum" inscribed upon Il, and with
one claw grasping the shield Of stars and
stripes, wi,he the other holds an olive branch
this is one Of the FIRST United States Tags. 1t
was made in 1915 and carried in the battle Of
Plattshurgh. A Kansas man, Joseph Sholtz Of
Olathe, sends it to the fair
Michigan shows In miniature q model Of the
greatest copper mine in the world.
Some Of the old Spanish bells swing liz the
towers Of the California building. which il .
copy OF one of the missions.
Florida has reproduced the oldest structure
in the United States, Fort Marion. at st. Angus
tine. which was begun the year the pilgrims
landed at Plymouth Rock
Idaho and North Carolina are the only states
in which mica is found. Mica hall Of the Idaho
building is lined with sheets Of it, almost as
clear glass.
In the Indiana building is figure Of an
elephant chise.ed oct OF stone at Of the state
quarries.
There is Creole building with all the old
time belongings in the Louisiana buil6ing
Massachuss Is copied the old John Hancock
house. which stood on Beacon street. TO- her
state building.
The statue of Hiawatha which stands in front
OF the Minnesota building. was the work Of .
Norwegian resident of that state.
Baron 1t Ramon No-kaml Naosuke was the
James q. Blaine of Japan forty years ago. He
Favored reciprocity and negotiated the treaty
which opened Japan ports to the United States
For this he was set upon one day and asssssi-
mated. His policy triumphei after his death
The Japanese have brought to the worlds fair
hfe-size statue in wood of the baron and
given ii the place of honor in their exhibits
Black lace, which the baron wore in life. hangs
from the cap down the back OF the statue, and
tablet which was the baror's is in the right
hand. This statue Of the baron, of which the
Japs are very proud. ii being bv their greatest
sculptor, will be presented to the United States
after the fair.
An American eagle. nodded from artificial
stone, is shown by the German manufacturers.
In cotton and silk liie-size portrait of En-
/ peror Francis Joseph Of Austria has been pro-
duced on power loom, the h-st successful APP
plication OF the idea. IL was accomplished by
charging a photograph rwentv-three times.
Then the outlines were obtained or q linen
| sheet The likeness reproduced on 100
sheets with millions OF dots. IL necessary
to punch Is. 9S4 cards. and that work required
! three months. Altogether nine months were
consumed in completing the picture.
The wife Of the King of Corea has sent her
best bed. 1t is q silk mat. stuffed with fne
grass the silk embroidered with storks and
trees and landscapes. There are no stoves in
the Corean palace. When the queen is chilly,
brick, which 1T into the floor, are taken up and
heated. They are then restored to their cavi-
ties. the bed is placed on them. and the queen
sleeps as warm as q toast.
Everybody has seen a composite photograph
! made by combining many faces in one. The
Harvard professors have made two composite
statues. They have christened them The
typical American students" One Of the figures
! is young man. The other is a young woman.
They are the averages of 2. 500 of measurements
taken of students at Harvard and other Ameri-
can institutions. Both statues are life size and
| are shown nude. The casual observer doesn't
need to be told that these average figures of
American youth in colleges come very uea- be-
| ing physically perfect And there is the lesson
which this exhibit conveys. The professors are
proud OF the results. They say il would take
an auatomist to show wherein these average
students fall short of physical perfection. In
the results Is found the answer TO any criticism
made upon American colleges for too much foot
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