The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-06

OF educational institutions, or the prod
ucts of the worlds factories in the Man
ufactures building-no matter what the
section, it may be described without
any eXaggeration as the biggest the
world ever saw.
Coming to individual exhibits, there
are single features conspicuous enough
to overwhelm the imagination For in
stance, the worlds fair has a power
plant of $1,000 horsepower where the
Paris exposition had but 5000. OF the
$1,000 horsepower at jackson park,
5000 is applied by electricity while the
Centennial had no electrical exhibits
save few arc lights. One engine of
this big plant has 1000 horsepower
capacity, ecipsing the Corliss engine at
the Centennial, and outdoing anything
ever attempted in mechanical apparatus
in this country.
In the agricultural section is to be
mammoth among commonplace dis
plays. tits a cheese-a plain, Canadian
cheese, but its weight is 10000 pounds,
its height six feet and its diameter nine
feet. 1t furnishes so much weight
within small area that the foundation
of the floor had to be strengthened to
sustain it.
In the live stock department will be
seen the largest steer in the world,
blooded animal owned by George w.
Childs, the famous philanthropist and
fancier Of fine flowers and stock
Kentucky has prepared a surprise for
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eral wealth, and particularly her coal
mining industry. 1t will be a solid
block of bituminous coal 90 feet high,
mined in one piece and occupying
point of vantage in the Mines building.
One Of the rarest and raas interesting
of the big displays VIII be from the
Kimberly diamond mines in South
Africa. Heretofore the diamond fields
have confined their exhibition efforts to
illustration of lapidary processes. At
the Columbian exposition visitors will
see Kafir natives from the Cape of
Good Hope, washing diamonds from the
blue earth in which they are found
they will see the rough stones sorted,
put through the grinding and polishing
process by Dutch lapidaries; and they
will see on exhibition the greatest col
lection of gems, polished and in the
rough, that has ever been gathered
outside a royal palace. In the same
building, not far from the diamond
washers, will be the gold and silver
quartz displays of California, Montana,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and
other mining communities.
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quartz with a mental picture of unin-
teresting stone heaps, bearing little
trace of value and of interest only to
biologists. The miners of the country
are determined to show such sight-seers
! that gold and silver-bearing quartz are
among the most beautiful and pictur-
esque features of an exhibition when
they are developed properly. In this
| particular display the most valuable
| veins of the far west will furnish
pyramids, arches and spires of ore rich
enough torecall the fables of GolcOnda.
| No accurate estimates can, of course, be
placed upon unsmelted gold or silver, but
| conservative experts who know what
isto be exhibited say the gold and sill
yer camps will send a display worth
more nan million dollars.
Horticultural hall is at the head of
the procession of giant displays. 1t al
ready has 10, 600 primroses blooming in
one collection, which government for
lists declare is beyond question the larg-
est and most beautiful display of the
kind ever grown. II has the largest
tree-fern ever sent out of Australia-a
monster 80 feet high, measuring
! nearly two feet at the base 1t