Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-14

anu uduuieO Dy FAMOUS StdG0Suleu an
lawyers of other days, as well as som
quaint legal documents of ante-Revc
lutlonary times.
| The Post-Ofice Department displa
includes collection of stamps, foreig
and domestic, those first in use aud tn
latest issued; the various modes O
carrying the mails both in the past an,
at the present day; and an assortmen
of things sent to the dead-letter Office
of every conceivable character, such a
saddles, whips, harness. clothing
snakes, Lizards, hardware, kitchen
utensils, fruits, grain, etc. In dis
play of specimen letters delivered t,
correct address, the following ar,
among those shown:
"Rev. H. II. Stratton.
L Siner P o
Carter county. Mo-
delivered at Elsinore.
ssMr. Daniel Mccammon
Silver City
Barton Co. Mo-
delivered at Golden City,
A letter directed to "Big Foot City
was delivered at Chicago; one directed
to ''Smoky City," delivered at Pitts.
burg, and one directed to ..Bill Town,
Kas.", delivered at Williamstown,
Kansas.
The Smithsonian Institutions exhibit
in the Government Building is an in
teresting one, but outside of the Indian
figures therein shown, much more oil
the same character may be seen in the
Anthropological Building. In the lat
ter nearly every bird and beast that
now exists or ever had existed is shown,
stuffed, modelled or in skeleton. Mum
mics, idols, wearing apparel, bows and
arrows, bomerangs, spears and spear
heads, earthen utensils from the
mounds of the Mound Builders and
everything appertaining to peoples of
the past are also displayed in the last
named building.
The displays in the Agricultural
Building are extensive, including as
they do cereals, grasses, bread, starch .
sugars, syrups, tea, coffee, animal and
vegetable fbers, farming tools, etc.
Here, among other many interesting
things, may be seen the unwinding
of silk from cocoons, and four strands
of the same being twisted together to
make the ordinary silken thread. The
average cocoon yields 1900 yards. 1t
may be of interest to some to learn
that there is plow in New Hampshire's
exhibit which was made and used by
Daniel Webster, and also that there is
an elephants tusk in the Cape Colony
display that weighs 158 pounds. Ivory
sells at Sc and IS per pound; therefore
it will be seen that this tusk is quite
valuable. A Missouri milling firm
whose display is in the gallery of the
building, has unique way of making
It's products known. Over the entrance,
IN one side of a barrel as large as a
small cottage, which is fixed in a hori-
.ontal position, with an opening on
either side and steps leading to them,
8 placard on which is the following
inscription: Walk through the largest
'arrel in the world and get an Aunt |
(emima pancake on the other. side. :"
On the other side" Aunt Jemima, a |
'olored lady. busies herself making |
md dishing up these cakes and all the
While repeating, '.Aunt Jemima pan
axe aour-wheat, corn and rice-the
est in the world" The cakes are
'ood, too.
The object of the greatest interest in
he Mining Building-that is to the
verage visitor-is the solid silver
tatue of Justice" in the Montana
xhibit. This statute contains 240, 200
unces of silver and is upon a gold
ase, not solid. The whole is valued
100000. Mention has been made
this before, but it deserves second
office. Another statue of ..Justice" is
} be seen in the Nebraska State Build 1
lg, 1t is made of sheet tin soldered 6
'gether. 1t is said to be the work of
Nebraska boy only Is years old, and J
lat the work was done by him without !
There are four statues I
ade of solid chocolate in the gallery '
the Agricultural Building. To test y
10 truth of the announcement inscrib- Q
on placard attached to each of them f
at they were solid chocolate, some
.eptic cut a deep cash in the knee of
le of the statues-that of Minerva"
and thus satisfied himself that they n
ere o. X. Iw
The Machinery Building contains
any wonderful things. among which S
Q type-setting devices and printing
esses. v
The contents of the Electrical Build n
g shows the marvellous progress A
ade in the electrical world. Isl
The display of plants. fruits, etc, in 70
9 horticultural Building, surpasses
ything of the kind ever before ex- il