Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-30
The Colonel Dives Deep Into the
Misty Past and Makes Some
Researches
Amongst Ancient and Costly Litera-
ture Of Four Hundred Years
Ago.
The Yates Trip-Land Office BUSH
ness-Johnson's Body Found
At Last.
News II GOSSIP.

News and Gossip.
CHICAGO, June 22-New features are
constantly being added to the exhibits
from the several states and territories
and new attractions to the commercial,
archaeological and other exhibits. An
exhibit attracting the attention of edu-
Gated men, more perhaps than any
other, and intensely interesting to all
persons, is the Cliff Dwellers cave. It
is near the ruins of an Aztec temple and
in the vicinity of the Anthropological
building. 1t represents q bluff or hill
of sandstone on which shrubs and cactus
are growing just as they are found in
New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.
There is nothing about the general ap-
pearance of the rock to indicate that it
is anything else than an ordinary bluff
of sand rock. In the interior, however,
are over one hundred rooms, and a
correct representation of the life and
homes of the Cliff Dwellers. Their
mummies are here and also remains of
their food and clothing, their imple-
ments for cultivatlng The soil, for grind
ing the grain and for other purposes.
There are several thousand relics every
one of which was taken from their
ancient homes, and the collection is the
best in existence. From the cones, dom
key paths lead up the mountain sides
and donkeys from the land of the Cliff
Dwellers are provided for the amuse-
ment of the children, but mor especially
for bringing out the life of the people
as it seems to have appeared. The ex-
hibit is especially appreciated because
there are no fakes connected with it.
On the Plaisance you note signs indi-
eating that admission is free. They
may be taken as a warning that it will
cost a great deal to get out if you are at all
susceptible to the smiles and importuni.
ties of those who vii! urge you to buy.
In old Vienna there is a very interest
ing exhibit of old portraits taken from
Greek tombs, and mummies over 1000
years old, and in the Egyptian temple,
in the ~s@reets of Cairo, mummies over
1000 years old, but the relicts in the
Cliff Dwellers cave are much older than
these. In the Montana exhibit there is
a section of a vertebra of a biped which
exactly resembles that of mar which
was from an animal, thing or person
over forty.fve feet high. There must
have been giants in those days. I notice
a Dakota man has made himself famous
by bringing to light another section Of
the same kind which indicates a height
of sixty feet.
Yesterday a fine collection of books,
exceedingly rare and interesting, vas
placed on exhibition by the owner in the
Minnesota building. It is a collection
of the books of past ages by Alfred Bull.
Some are copies or limitations but many
are the originals of books printed in the
earliest years of the art of printing.
There are manuscripts in Greek, Latin,
Hebrew, Flemish and unfamiliar Eng
fish. There are manuscripts embelished
and printing in close imitation, books on
velum and bound III the highest style.
Some are bound in human skin. There
are autographs from the days of King
Hal down to the present and books for
merly owned by notable persons of all
lands. A volume printed in 1481-Eph.
emerida Astronomi@ OF Regiementanus,
is supposed to be M of the same edi-
ton used by Columbus containing charts
which made bis voyage in 1892 possible.
Amerigo Vespucius is supposed to have
used q volume from the same edition.
A book containing notes made by the
Duke Of Wellington, printed in 1881, is
also found. A Plutarch printed in 1475
and bound in old Russia by Roger Payne,
is also in the collection. There is also q
"Coppye Off the Challenge" of the Earl
Of Northumberland to Sir Francis We're,
whose dust lies in Westminster, "and
Sir Francis We're His Answere." There
are books and relics from old monasteries
and several of the old Bibles. a Beecher
Bible. It is q collection valuable, rare
and curious.
There is certainly q growing interest
in the fair. The crowds attending are
daily growing larger and the interest is
deepening. Possibly some suggestions
may be of value to those coming from
the northwest. The cable cars land one
near the Fifth-seventh street entrance.
The jackson Park cars do. The Van
Buren, street express trains on the ILL
nois Central land them two blocks south
of F%ifty-seventh street. The elevated
trains land them near the south end
about Sixty-third street. People from
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Nebraska and Iowa and Washington
will desire to enter the grounds nearest
their state buildings. At these build.
in.s there are check rooms, if they de-
sire to leave any of their things, toilet
rooms, and a register where they can
leave their address or obtain the address