The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-29
Some Funny Incidents Which One
Runs Across.
QUEER PEOPLE AMONG VISITORS.
one Man Haunted with tho Memory
of the oentennIaI-wlsdOm in the
Art Gnllery-Tho "FaIries" Wheel.
(which Way to tho Rainbow"
Puzzles Guard.
ILinn snilh n InLn.oceaL

chance to cit down on the end oil ms
bench where he was watching the dis
play.
"Every inch OF room counts mere. Set
right down." said he. ~ found her a
place back up yender. Twas glad she
got chance to set down." Having
thus established his trustworthy status
as the head Of household the good
old fellow proceeded to visit" with me,
needing very few questions to unfold
his history and interests while the
were being prepared:
ave came yesterday" he said, 80
this ia only our second day. She asked
me did | think it came up to the Cen.
tsnnial. You see I went to the Cen
tennial in rs and saw 1t through;
stayed q week. Well, I said the Gem
tennial was the best. Well, Of course
that needs some explanation. But l
maintain" and his fist came out heroic.
ally in gesture that will be seen again
in Michigan, ~ maintain that for ar.
tisticness of taste, for magnihcence OF
beauty, and for wonderiulness OF the
thing 10 certain extent, the Centen-
NAL exposition in Philadelphia in 1876
went ahead OF this. You see it was this
way. OF course the main building
wasn't as big as this, but i 'peared bet
ter. They was twenty-three acres in
that and they's thirty-two III this nine
acres more. But when you come into
that one, there you'd see letters OF llv.
ing light, shining right up there before
you, and when you come up to them
they'd be made OF pistols. Yes, letters
made Of pistols, and looking like jewels.
You don't see that in this main build
ing. And when I think over things
like that I say the Centennial was the
best. She says got the Centennial 80
fixed in my MUD can't seem to con-
slider this"
"Well, as for buildings and right
down up and down beauty to look at
them, why, OF course, these buildings
20 right Of and leave Philadelphia stick
ing there"
try was leaning over the bridge railing
in front OF the peristyle, looking up the
grand basin by night while the boats
uASneQ ABOUT Auu Jus toNe " hShs9
were shining, all leading up to the
crown OF the administration building.
A younger, town-bred looking, man
was trying to get the elder to own up.
"Now you must say this is worth
looking at 49,
ayes, but what satisfaction is it?
You pay out your money, aud you can't
take it away with you"
"Well, IL youdon't say looking at these
buildings pays for you, wait till you see
the fine arts building, and what's in that
building, too"
~ don't take much stock in the fine
arts myself" said the elder man, lower.
ing his voice discreetly. II don't take
much stock in the fine arts. 1t makes
me feel awk'ard. Pm too modest a
man."
One dav a visitor to the fair drifted
into the stock pavilion during shower
and sat down near an intelIigent-looking
farmer and his wife, and asked the time
otday. He had to stop tocomputett. as
he kept his watch by sun time" And
while he was making the subtraction
from our usual slow estimates and the
haste OF Old Sol, his wife, with an at
tempt to be sociable, inquired OF the
newcomer in polite tones:
Are you attending the fairP The
newcomer says:
II set out to tell her no, 1 was at
home, but thought better Of it, and re-
piled in equally conventional tones OF
early acquaintance"
Tie gratuitous information people
give each other in the White City is
exhaustless. For instance: "Who Is
this picture by2" asked one woman OF
another in the art gallery, aud the
answer came promptly, "By Jerome.
He ia an author, too. He wrote that
book called Three Men in Boat to
say nothing Of the dog"
Two countrymen stood the other
morning before the Bartholdi figures
near the lagoon entrance OF the art gal
lery. Their eyes were glistening with
admiration, and one OF them spoke to
the other thus:
~ should know it for Washington,
though the comeback OF his hair amt
real natural. The other is Dee Layfatte
two great men together, greatest men
ever lived in this country"
His voice took on splendid tone OF
conception, OF historical relation, and
he repeated: Eyes, sir, they were the
greatest men ever lived in this country,
Talk about Clevelandl Talk about Har-
Fisonp
The lagoons still give Fair visitors a
deal OF trouble. At the illumination
one evening Just after some sort OF
water procession had passed, number
OF electric launches swung into line In
the grand basin from the direction OF
the north lagoons. And a woman who
had been trying TO define the features
Of the float TO her companions well
coined the appearance OF the familiar
launches with sigh of relief and the
words, "Well, now here come the la
goonS."
t. was another well meaning woman
who advised friend not to leave the
Fair without taking a'Rondola ride ION
the galloons."
''fhe FairieS' wheep lie the astonish.
ing name given to the big swing by
young person who must have thought
II named by the law OF contraries, for
how could Ntania and her train claim
the Ferris for the fairies wheel?
The environments OF the fair have
their irresistible attractions for every.
body, and nobody comes from q distance
to Chicago without some very definite
intention concerning other sights be-
sides those in Jackson park. Here Is u
striking example. At the door OF "a.
NOUS preachers church on recent
Sunday great crowd was struggling In
vain for admittance, and numbers were
being turned away One man refused
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