St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-31

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Illustrating Life Among Lie
Known Peoples.
The journey of the worlds fair COM
misslonerS through Minnesota and
North Dakota came to az end last even
ing, the party arriving in st. Paul at
S:15. From here they were taken to
Milwaukee by the st. Paul road. Tney
will be the guests of that road today,
and will leave in the evening for Chf-
cago.
All of them say with great enthusiasm
that their trip has been one of the most
enjoyable events of their stay in this
country. On the way from Fargo to st.
Paul much of the time was devoted to
discussing what they had seen, and
giving vent to their feelings upon the
subject. The different modes of doing
the latter were, of course, in keeping
| with national characteristics. The En-
| glish-born members of the party re-
marked, with a moderate enthusiasm,
"Ihis is very fine country, don't you
know. But it is really no more than
we expected to see. We always had
very high opinion of America, don't
| you know. We knew it contained some
of the most wonderful country in the
world"
II am equipping myself with facts, I"
said j. +. Atkinson. of Sheffield Eng
land, 'jotting them own as we go
along. A good deal have seen On this
trip is quite new to me, aud j intend to
make advantageous use of it,"
National characteristics.
W. o. Campbell, English-born, but
commissioner of New South Wales.
Australia. was 10th to admit that the
Red river valley was any finer than,
some of the country on the great island.
butthe undertone expressions of sur
prise. which he was unable to conceal,
told plainly that he had never seen any
thing to compare with this. the pride of
| America. Col. j. f. Hobbs and two
other Australians made no comparisons
and at the same time made poor effort
to appear rather Indifferent to the great
sights in the valley. However,, they
very politely said. This is a great
| country"
The German representatives frankly
admitted that their country had nothing
to compare with what they had seen,
and INDUCED in quite candid praise. Z
| A. Grinevsky, assistant commissioner
| of Russia, a handsome young man. who
would pass for full-blooded American
| anywhere So long as he refrained from
talking. INDUCED in calm and dignified
praise. But" said he. "Were l to
wake up in this country not knowing
where was, L should surely think 1t
was Russia. You would be surprised
tOsee the similarity in contour between
the two countries. Perhaps the quality
of our wheat is not quite equal to that
| grown in the Red river valley,
but we do raise very fine qualities.
l think, however, that the main diff
ference lies in the better machinery
used in this country, by which the grain
is turned out In perfectly clean con-
dition. We market our wheat badly
mixed with seeds Of weeds, other grains
| and with much dirt and chatf in if,
Hence it gets no grade. The American
is graded so finely that the London
buyers take it on the grades without
ever looking at it. They cannot do that
| with our product, hence they prefer to
deal in yours. l am very much i'm
pressed with your American farm ma
| chinery. 1t is far the best in the world,
and intend to do what l can to intro
duce it widely in Russia. If succeed
you will profit greatly on your machin-
cry trade but lose proportionately on
your grain trade"
The representatives of Latin coun-
tries were, with few exceptions. very
demonstrative in expressing their feel
ings. Oh, Ze beau-u-u-tiful, beaa-u-u-
u-tiful, g-r-r-r and country!" calculated
he at frequent intervals on the way out.
And yesterday on the way back one of
them went into rhapSodies in this wise:
'Oh. zis all seems like a, like a; vat you
call i'm? Like dhr-r-r-eam. 1 wish
could talk English for vone leetle
minute, so could eXpraess vat | feel
for gr-r-r-atitude for re Americans vat
pring us ze great pr-r-rivlIege for seeing
zis beautiful country. shall tell my
peoples every ting vat saw"
However, NJ. l.. Vassilliere, inspector
general of agriculture of FRANCE, and
Henry Leveque de Vilmorin, president
made no displays of this sort. Indeed,
both would be mistaken for good, sub
stantial Americans. were it not for their
imperfect pronunciation of the English.
| But those who went into eXtravagant
EXPLANATIONS we're evidently sincere;
and their methods are only mentioned
to compare the different characteristics
of the people in the party.
A jollier or more congenial party
never junketed III any country. The
Quietest members were Sen Tsuda and
K.Twara. the imperial commissioners of
Japan; but their silence was due for the
| most part to their poor understanding of
the language. for they were on hand for
every entertainment,ands showed clearly
that they were having the best OF enjoy
ment. They took deep interest in
everything they saw, and will no doubt
introduce in Japan many of our i'm
provements.
On the Big Farms.
The party was taken from the Lari-
more farm, the visit to which has been
described, to the Grandin farm, often
called the Dalrymple farm. This is the
largest wheat farm in the world, raising
annually over $4,000 acres OF the cereal :.
After number of the mammoth thresh-
ing machines were inspected as they
failed out the grain at $500 bushels
each day, the train put up for the night
at Hillsboro. the place being close to the
farm. In the evening the ladies of
Hillsbo1o gave reception to the party,
at which almost every commissioner
made speech. Yesterday morning
the party was taken to Fargo, anu en-
| ioyed a carriage ride about the city as
the guests Of tne citizens.
! On the way back from Fargo several
of the guests delivered themselves of
much interesting information. NJ.