The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-13

as spring wheat is grown. A gentleman
in that building said, I'VE would have
great time getting in our crop if we
had to wait till spring TO sow all our
wheat
I think Washington gives you the best
chance on the ground to study the ores,
Notwithstanding the Mining building.
The school exhibit Is fine and complete.
A typical miniature farm is found there
which gives us a good idea or wheat
and oats harvesting and haymaking. The
foundation of the building is made of
logs which the card says are 125 feet
long. After visiting the Washintonians
one feels thankful that they were so
energetic and elaborate. Washington is
destined to be the home Of many people,
/ should think. The Kansas building
shows us the products of the silk station
in Kansas and other displays worthy of
that state. In the Florida building the
top of a cocoa tree with the fruit pen
dent is shown. The Floridans exhibit
their state we'll in their own and the
agricultural buildings. The Arkansas
building contained what 1 had never
seen and one of the things 1 was look
ing fora real stock of cotton. I found
the straws or stalks of rice in the Ven
zuela and Florida departments in the
agricultural building New Mexico has
fine collection of Indian relics, and Idaho
has a prehistoric mummy. Ceylon and
AlgierS give an exhibit of tea in great
display. Some of the states buildings
contain no exhibits to speak of, but If
you have time you should visit them all,
and the foreign buildings also; as you
might find something Of interest where
you scarce expect IT. Guatemala, Swe-
den and India are worthy of special men
ton. The India building has a good dis
play of vases, MOSAIC work, carved
wood and other nice displays. The Jap
anese exhibits are very pleasing, so are
the Japs themselves, they are courteous,
mannerly and talk English fairly well
and make you feel friendly toward them.
They are quite different in appearance
and ways from their neighbors the Chi
nese. The machinist will be unable to
appreciate the acres Of machinery there
The largest boiler in the world is in the
furnace room of machinery hall. It
stands on end.
The loN ers Of the animal kingdom ina
tural history will have their almost re-
mOrselful desires nearly or quite reju-
Venated at the Columbian exposition. The
otter, beaver, all the types Of bear, pOr-
cupine, tapir, ferOcious wolves, sea lion,
panther, ant eater sacred OK, giraffe,
zebra, moose, wolverine, lynx, cariboo
and nearly all the other animals in ere
alton are represented Once I feared
would never get TO see the elk. but am
satisfied now. I saw him in all his glory
excepting that he had passed through
the hands of the taxidermist. The elk
used to inhabit the dense forests OF In
diana and other old states east of the
Mississippi, but he left long ago. Yes,
even the walrus is represented in the
government building, and the armadillo,
too The birds of the world are equally
represented. The fish, too, are not found
wanting, are there from the whale down
to the minnow. For specimens of the
most rare animals you will have to visit
the anthrOpological and archaeological
building. That building is very inter-
esting to some anyway.
At the worlds fair we may see the
difference between countries as produced
by climate and perhaps the soil, and we
appreciate the necessity of commercial
relations between our own and other
countries. The necessity of cheap and
rapid transportation strikes one forcibly
while looking at the exhibits from our
states and foreign countries. Just here
I will give two quotations to be found
on the frieZe above the architrave over
the east main entrance OF the transporta-
ton building: There be three things
which make a nation great and prosper
easy conveyance for men and goods
from place to place."-Bacon.
"Of all inventions. the alphabet and
the printing press alone excepted, those
inventions which abridge distance have
done most for civilization. "-Macaulay
Cheap transportation is what we neel
now. T. NJ. JACKSON.
New Lancaster. Ind, Sept. s,