Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-10-26
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IL IS long anu weary Iluo 10 CHlC-
ago and the White City, but when once
there YOU do not regret it. will en-
deavor TO take you on journey up
Midway Plaisance and through that
part Of the Exposition that | have seen.
You 90 through the turnstiles and YOU
are within the White City The first
object which looms up before you il the
great Ferris wheel, but we viii not stop
at this: we Will 90 on to Hagenback's
animal show or the South Sea Islander
theater The street in Cairo is an exact
representation If Egyptian life. The
street is quite long and IS very
crooked Visitors by paying u small
fee can ride ON "A donkey or "a camel
Just hichever they prefer. There are
all sorts of stores along the street At
one confeclioncr' store the owner
keeps calling ''Dumnum, bumbum, very
good bumbum. Egyptsin bumbum. buy
some bumbum, bumbum, bumbum, .
till your ears ring with bis racket. Io
me the Moorish palace was about as
interesting rs anything, il is IN fact an
optical illusion. a person THINKS he
can see long way of and be starts of
down the aisle and before he knows It
he comes in contact with mrr5r
There is also q bOlt1mlCss well there,
Up stairs there arc our q number Of
wax figures, the original guiiiO'ine used
in he execution If Marie AntOinetie,
and an optical illusion theatre Some
more interesting things on Midway are
the Libbey and Venetian Glass Works,
Javanese village Barney Castle, Worlds
Congress Of Beauty and Persian Palace.
Now let Us suppose we are down AT
Worlds Fair steamship companies q, ca
in the city, we will take the whaleback
steamer Christopher Columbus. and
go down TO tie exposition grCugd.
twelve miles in thirty five minutes. We
land near the Manufacturer aud
Liberal Art building. which covers over
fourty-fCur acres. There YOU can see
the fountain of perfume that the YOUTHS
Companion speaks aoout, the Tiffany
diamond worth one hundred thousand
dollars, and 50 many more graud sights
that ii is almost impossible to describe
them The Electricity building is very
beautiful, especialy in the evening
when il is ighted by cleo ricitv. When
one stauds out in front of the building
Gin the EVENING" aud sees the electric
fountain playing, the search light from
tae main building. and the Admins
ra,ion building all lighted up, he thinks
himself in fairy-land. In the Iranspor-
tation building you can see the first
engine made, Grace Darling's boat, in
fact you can see the different means of
sportation used all over the world
The convent of LaRibida contains
Queen Isa5ela's original will, the
Anchor used by Columbus and many
of the Signatures Of the early popes
j he indian school is quite interesting
as it contains samples OF Indian work
mauship The Krupp exhibit is fne,
it contains lha 'oig krupp gun. aud
qule a number Of smaller ones The
Cbi'dren's building contains at nursery
kindergarten, and gymnasium.
The Horticulture and Agriculture
buildings aud the Art Gallery signify
by their name what they contain in
Machinery Hall Won can see how dia-
monds ere polished, how cloth is woven
Ct. The FISHERY building contains all
kind Of fresh and salt water fish, Wis
ConSin and Pennsl lyania have the finest
fish exhibits The Government build
ing IS very interesting. indeed, it con-
tains the Smithsonian Inst tuto eXhib
which is a museum in itself. Old war
relics, an immense tree. all the Ctr uus
things that arc sent 10 the dead letter
Office, all of The Presidents signatures
from George Washington down to
Grover Cleveland, snd last but net least
the finest and largest stamp collection
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