The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-12
SOME "sALTYo ART.
Liberty Amusing the World" q. Gem
From England


From England
CThere are many amusing attempts at
the worlds fair to combine art and indus
try, says the Herald. If a man has dis
covered a new method of pulling teeth he
seems to think the world will never know
it unless he illustrates it by painting or
a statue Not all efforts in this direc-
ton are failures. An excellent por-
trait of Emperor Joseph-resemo cling an
oil painting at little distance-that has
simply been woven with cotton and silk
ON power-loom, hangs in the Austrian
section of the Manufactures building.
Because one exhibitor can make a credi-
table portrait out of thread another thinks
he can make statue of Liberty or a COW
out of salt. The thought is father to the
act, and the visiting public is amazed at
the product shown near the center of the
Mines and Mining building. Some per-
sons in England who fancy they possess
the salt of the earth-in other words
salt that is salt-have undertaken TO
show how it behaves under the chisel, as
if that had anything to do with butter
making So there stands on a pedestal in
the center Of their space the most ridicu-
lous copy of BarthOldis beautiful statue
as seen in New York harbor that was
ever made. Visitors passing it at first
said to each other when they had found
out what the material was: THAT'S Lots
wife - No woman ever looked back at it, ad-
mOnished by the example of the poor vic
tim and dreading such fate. The eXhib-
itors found it necessary to put up this in
scription: 'Statue of Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World. Carved in Salt"
AN EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION.
This extraordinary production was
carved in pieces from blocks of hardened
salt and cemented together on their ar
rival at the fair. The blocks were origin
ally about two feet square and nearly as
thick. The salt was evaporated from
brine pumped up out of a natural reser-
voir in the interior of the earth at the
company's works and kiln dried in blocks
as described. The blocks are not as hard
as marble nor as soft as butter from
which the celebrated butter head of the
centennial exposition was made. But the
sculptor was a mechanic and his chisel
apparently as cumbersome as his talent.
The pedestal is not badly done, but the
draperY is more depressing than a shroud,
the uplifted arm resembles picked bone
from a dissecJing room and the face. with
fiat nose and crooked eyes, turns toward
heaven with such an emptiness of express
sion that should have saved Mrs Lot
from the hbelOUs insinuations of observ-
eIs. 1t is not the likeness of any person.
real or ideal. The head is crowned with
an etfulgence made out of pasteboard and
preparations are being made to place an
@ 'ctric torch in the extended hand The
effect will be CHASTITY as well as ludicrous.
ANOTHER WORK OF ART.
The company shows also in its gallery
of salt art a ifesize cow Half of her is
seen in profile in panel on one side of
the exhibit and the other half on The op-
posite side twelve or fifteen feet away
The cow is next TO the goddess in point
of interest. She suggests work of art
by an ancient Egyptian, but any subject
of Rameses who might nave cut so IN
truthful hicroglyphic on the side of a
barn would have been executed The salt
artist drew upon mis- imagination in de
picting the milk-pouring qualifications of
the cow, presumably to emphasize the pre-
serving effect of good salt upon butter
but the poor animal Jared badly in the
matter Of eyes, horns and legs Each
half was given one weak eye and u sickly
horn, but two forelegs OF different