Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-14
EQUESTRIAN STATUE IN PRUNEs.

~ INlhN DlAAOH AS
Among the curious displays in the parade
was the fairy carriage of the Michigan
buggy company, drawn by the smallest
horse on earth, an equine Tom Thumb "a
incnes high. Another was a parade of
about $50 bicycles, the wheelers represent
ing all sorts of races and characters from
Columbus TO Cetewayo, with knights,
Samoans, Americans Indians, Cinnamon,
Dahomeyan and Fijians. In the water
parade was every kind of small craft, pro-
PEELED by steam, naptha, gasoline, cleo
tricity. wind and m~an-power. There were
gigs from the battleship, cutters, fishing
boats of all the nations from Alaska to
Norway, Indian, Esquimauy and West
African canoes and a long array of pleas
ure boats. After the style came the fun.
such as tub racing and other aquatic
comedies, and so the evolution of progress
was exhibited from the followed log of
the aborigine to the latest triumph of
science.
In rambling about the grounds and
reading the notices posted IL various Ian
guages am once more struck by a fact /
often noticed in New MeNico-that u state
ment can nearly always be made in fewer
letters in English than in any other IAN
guage. Here is a familiar card:
Bite Nicht zu beruhm.
On est prize dc nebas TOUGHER.
ST pgega di non toccare.
Ruego que NJ 10 toquen.
Please do not touch.
Hands off!
The. five sound polite; the last means
business, Even the potter form in Eng
lisa is shafter than any OF the others. All
this make me think that if we would only
reform cur barbarous spelling, English
would become a sort of universal language
in fifty years. AS ii is every foreigner has
to learn two languages in this country, if
he would be thought an educated man
the spoken and the written. And the lat
ter is SO much more arbitrary than the
former that it requires more labor. Now
If i should write the longer English form
above in some of the well established
soundrforms of our speech it would run
thus:
Pliez dough notte tueh.
-.
1t is not in the power of any one man to
get the hang of all hat is lone and being
done in the various branches of the relig-
GUS COnSfeSSeS Oh TINS MONTH buTnCe IL
TO say that the Catholics began on Sunday
the Bird and in their eight days really did
a wonderful work. What with Maryland
Day, Columbus Day, SPANS Day and
Irish Day yet to come their prominent
men really had a great deal to DO with
running the fair. and since they have
called my attention to ii / confess 1t does
seem a little singular that all of the two
Americas, save u little strip of the north
Atlantic coast should have been discovered
and explored by and should once nave be-
longed TO the Catholic nations. | guess
they have earned a right to be prominent
| here.
The Jews began on Ang. q, but their
activity in the fair Is exclusively Of a
business nature. The Lutherans and the
Welsh religio-musical societies were active
last week. The Protestant denominations
are now making a so-called presentation
each morning and evening while the
main religious parliament is running, the
Congregationalists having led off ON the
10th. In the correspondence of DIR. Bar
rows are letters from over a thousand of
the worlds prominent men and religious
teachers, warmly approving the great par
lament, including Gladstone and nearly
sil the great lights OF the English estai-