St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-25


are taking advantage of it. The ex-
| position people of Texas will receive
and entertain the newspaper men of the
world at their state building tomorrow
afternoon. The Texans, who have made
creditable display of the Lone Star
| state, have worked under many dlsad-
vantages from Gov. Hogg and the state
Legislature, but they are hospitable and
| liberal-spirIted, having raised over $780,
! 600 to put up building and make ex-
hibits.
The Indiana Editors
were rendered an informal reception
from 8 until II O'Clock tonight in the
state building by the Indiana commits
! sioners. Over 200 of them, all arriving
! i'll town this morning, came out to the
fair to enjoy the hospitality of the In
diana officials and talk about state
affairs, their profession and the fair In
the afternoon about seventy-fve of the
editors and publishers, who are mem
! berS of the Republican Editors AsSoci-
| alton of Indiana, spent some time at the
state building, and were in business
session for one hour in the assembly
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| tomorrow of a state editorial association
embracing all political parties.
The much criticised bureau of awards,
headed by John Boyd Thatcher, is pur-
| suing its set course.
| The various ends of the work are
gradually taking form and shaping
| themselves into whole, which prom
ises much good to the world. In speak
ing of the work on which his bureau is
based. Mr.. Thatcher said:
"The bureau from its organization
has proposed to continue the most COM
plete and exhaustive examina ton of
| the exhibits, that we might obey the in
| junction of congress requiring us to dis
close to the world the progress made in
/ the arts. industries and sciences. The
commercial side of the awards question
sinks into insignificance when COM
! pared to the
Instructive Side.
Grain is to be chemically examined to
discover if the farmer is utilizing his
land from best purposes. Wool is to be
i experimental upon in the laboratory, to
ascertain the value of the fibre
, and the DrOpriety of raising Ger
tain grades of sheep i'll Ger
tain localities and under certain
conditions. Food products are to be
analysed, and their physiological values
determined. The opportunity to thor
, Oughly investigate aRd weigh the best
work of mind and hand brought here
by the nations of the world will not oc-
cur again in this generation. 1t would
have been easy enough TO have adopted
the old fashioned, meaningless method
of making awards, and then everything
| would have been delightfully."- COM
Portable, but what educational results
| would there have been? To know that
| John Smith got a prize for his exhibit
tells the world nothing. What we want
to know is the specific merit or i'm
provement oyer the past disclosed by
his exhibit. | have always felt that the
intelligent public would sympathize
with US in this matter if it once under
stood our object"
I Prof. Atwater, of Yale, will occupy
| the laboratory at the Chicago uni
| verslty, and will have under his -direc-
! tloL corps of chemists numbering
twenty, to examine manufactured prod
ucts for Mr.. Thatcher. The professor
| expects to show by this examination the
| degrees of substance and effects of
] manufactured food products upon
The Human SYSTEM.
! In the examination of woods the eX-
| pert work will be directly under the
| supervision of Prof. w. McMurtrie, of
| New York, author of an extended re-
| port upon Investigation of "wool and
animal fibres," published by act of
congress under the department of agri-
culture IN Washington. He will ascer-
tain by measurement the physical
| properties of the individual fibres, and
will extend the examination to include
the tineness as measured by the micro
scope and mocrometer, and get the ten
slle strength and elasticity by means of
! the dynOmOter.
The examination will cover hundreds
of samples of wool selected by judges,
! representatives of the woods of various
states aud nations whose production
fluids place in the exposition.
In the examination Of sugars, syrups,
molasses, grape fruit, beet root, palm
and milk sugars and insorshum and
glucose, Prof. George G.. Taylor, of
| Louisiana, will direct a microscopic in
vestIgation, and Prof. Wiley, of the
department of agriculture, will make
examinations at the departments lab
| oratory. The examination of cotton
and vegetable fibres will consume con-
sIderation of tensile strength, length of