Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-22

Noa3ama and HfAdo0 thero s<ia tnka
things % AsArk All tha attendants In
this Csylna building ars pure Cnsalese,
Den little uAd9 tha average American
height and slendse In figure, very dark.
With delicate faces and hair - very black
and straight that Il b Q show IN itseA
Mons Of ths yeddaha. Wild pecple oe H.
intsEios. could b. induced 70 coms.
lava has the nnest sits q ths grounds
porch facs upon the lAks. and thsEN u n
ons or moro groups diseuastng silver and
and Mr.. Cleveland; Cxasp. Mckinley and
oehsr exciting toptea fhs intsrior y .
marvel Calling. dado, friess. panels and
pillars are ornHmensed IN elabor.ss snd
appropriate designs Of grain and grassea,
and in the centsf b . beautiful model Of
the state house front in corn, enclosed in
glaas cylinders and boxaA Soms one has
perpetrated an ingenious Joke on VISITORS
not familiar with corn. In the exhibit Of
that grain hang three ears Is inches in
length, with large grains and cob COM
plste, all looking = natural as IL Just
from the stalk. By looking closely, how
ever, ons viii ~ under them In small let
tefs: Ideal siss Of Iowa corn as the next
Columbian exposition" Iowa's day II
Sept n. Governor Boiss will b here, Of
eourssL There will be one orAtion and
some short speeches, with plenty Of music
and various social doingA
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There has been Q good deal Of ofyicial in
termeddling Of one sort and another which
puzzles most visitors and enrages . few
exhibitorA The restriction on the dancers
Of the plAisance was quite Puritanical for
awhile, but has been relaxed again. In
the British section OF the Woman's build
ing . loom was seen for three months,
showing how British wool is woven into
,loth and incidentally how buxom Brit
ish maid may be very vigorous worker
and remain ruddy and handsome. OF
oourss the yam and cloth manufactured
there was not sold. and there are cards
lying everywhere on the exhibits in all
buildings giving notice that the United
States will not permit any purchased arti-
Gle to Be delivered till the fair closes and
the customs duties are paid. Nevertheless
the collector Of customs, Mr.. Clark, de-
cided that raw material from abroad could
not be turned into q manufactured article
here. The looms owner must pay 500
duty or stop 1t. He stopped it.
About the same time another small Sec
ton Of the British exhibit through which
visitors had passed freely, was shut off by
stretching red ropes across each end. The
observer can now walk around but not
near the articles because, said Mrs Cope
In charge, visitors had carelessly picked
up and carried away specimens Of the fine
yarns and other little trifies. Thereupon
the collector decided that the difference
between allowing an exhibit to lie there in
skeins and in manufactured form, mere
ly to lie there, you observe, amounted to
sos; but the law of it no common fellow
can find out. There are some exquisitely
tainted fans there which the same collec-
tor now says must go to the Fine Arts
building under this same mysterious Gus
toms law.
lam told, but have no conclusive evil
dence of it, that there is also some sort of
legal hitch about the marvellous Japanese
collection in the Manufactures and liber-
al Arts building. If that exhibit remains
Ia this country and the duties are paid, it
will aid materially in strengthening the
bridges for 1884, for there are hundreds OF
articles there worth more than their
weight in gold. When i want to be over
and dazzled go there. On every
vide see marsels of handiwork, from the
vase worth 5000 down to the minute
flowers and grain heads glittering in gold
and silver, in delicately wrought iron,
bronze and copper. There are fiocks of
birds and swarms Of bees, showers Of fall
Ing leaves, clusters Of roses, flowing
streams, evening skies, gorgeous sunsets
and picture after picture in mythology
and history, all wrought in shades as deli
cato as the finest paintings in the Art pal
ace and yet in materials more enduring
than granite or flint. No lapse of time
can dim the hriiliancy Of one Of these
pictures so much that very
slight polishing will not bringit out again,
and withal nothing in that line is 20 fra
eile but that reasonable care might pro
serve it till the end OF the world. No ono
can give a satisfactory description. One
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