Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-09-12
CARTS AND BOATS
OF Every Shape In Transports
ton Building
Yaox THs wLR n DowI 10 DATE

% arranged ~ 70 show the slow develop
msnt through al the ages from the cave
Of the original trsgiodyts 10 the palaces Of
rfth avenue, trom the rude dus-out Of
The autochthoA 10 the wonderful ocean
steamer and from the woodsn-hsadsd
Gods Of Alaska 10 the lovely creations In
the art palace. We have here the races Of
mankind from the cultured Brooklynits
down 10 some Africans who have no word
for any number beyond . hundred; where
man ends the trained animals In the great
plaisanos show take mp the links, and
Professor Gsrnisr has ssnt from Africa 10
the congress OF sciences promise that By
the next worlds fair hs win have the Ian
guage Of the apss reduced 70 writing and
give ~ an outline Of thsir civil eonstitu.
tions and forms Of government.
Those who have rssd the new Genesis,
according 10 TyndAll. HUXLEY, Spencer
and Darwin will remember the statements
C'intsrssting. but tough" - Huck Finn
said). that when the primordial ape had
asesndsd the family tree % high that be,
In . measure. got rid OF his tail hs do
scsndsd TO earth, organised the primitive
sommonwsalth. dsvslopsd into an anthro-
poid and by natural selection and survival
Of the nttsst evolved the anthropomorphie
primordial typss-ths honunculus, the
proGnathus, the troglodyts, the sutoch.
thon and the tarregsn. These were the
generations OF primeval man, and terragsn
was the father Of the sbohgine. Well,
We have them all here. alive or stuffed OF
shown In rude carvings BY the nst men,
who were contemporary With them. and
In the Transportation building We have
the history Of thar progress In that lima
And the order Of ths uss made Of animals
VS. evidently this, First, the dog and
then the or, the sss and the horss In sue.
cesslou, with camsls, llamas. buffaioss and
elephants In their native regions.
The visitor entering that building st the
north end comes nrst upon an all.wooden
Msxiean cart With two ef thoss long
horned oxen hitched, and the whole get-up
d 20 comically natural, 70 exactly Ike the
vehicle a I saw Il In Mexico, that almost
expected 70 hear the shrill "Carambai
viejo, cabron, carrambar' a. one hears it
In Mexico. In these carts one dnds what
was undoubtedly the primitive form OF the
whesl-thst is o cross section cut out OF .
tsse, the toughest wood the barbarian
could nnd Of course. Il was great day
for civilization when some man invented
. way 10 hollow out the csntsr OF the
wheel and make Il much lighter while ~
tanning it. strength; but when hub. spoke
and fsllos were completed there was civil.
isation, indeed.
In the same line 10 the bullock cart from
Slam, the rude country cart from Turkey,
the heavy wheels from Santa Domingo
and the specimens from Malacca, upper
India and South Africa. But all these
have hub and spokes, though Of vsry rude
construction, which increases the wonder
that the solid wheel should still Be In use
In Mexico. In brides. saddles and spurs
al these nations show fasIgrsatsr I'm
provsmsnts, which may b dus 70 the tact
that they used them long before thsy did
vehicles. But the Interesting fact u that
In water transportation they reached Per
feotion, that 70 on small scale, almost at
the start. The light boats Of the Maiays,
the canoes Of the South seas, the caiques.
the little Siamess skiffs and even the
kajak lthey spsll II In several other wayD
Of the Esquimaux are about - good for
their purposes - civilissd men could
make.
United States Consul Merrill. Of Jsrusa-
lem, has sent . boat used on the sea OF
Galiilss which he maintains u OF idsnti-
cally the same pattern - that used By the
apostolic nshermsn Of the rear 81 and
thsrsabouts. II %, Peter and Andrev
must have been very skillful boatmsn. for
I should hate 70 trust myself In IL. Hs
has aiso sent. complete Jerusalem trans
portation exhibit, consisting Of the leather
bottles for carrying oil, wine and water.
water jars 70 b carried on the head,
watenkins, small hand jugs OF terra Gotta,
plaques and other covers for the vessels In
which food II carried, and . variety Of
baskets and pannisn ~ used By hucksterh
The absence Of ornament on these things
calls 70 my mind the alleged fact that
there has never been . time when art
nourishsd In Palestine and raises the
question whsthsr the prohibition 20 long
enforced among the Jews and tacitly GO
0sp ospsr,. h.rss IN ~ nsonis I do not
just now remember the name OF any great
Jewish painter or sculptor, though there
may bs such.
Far moro interesting arc the palan-
Quins, sedan chairs and other appliances
used whore man u the carrier Of man and
woman, and Of all these the most interest
;rc 4. tis Nadaosscar nslsnouin used by
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wsst sids OF the grounds and covers nine
scrss. In Il are Locomotives from svsry
nrm Of makers In the United StAtss hut
two. oars OF every kind known In the busi'