Iron County register., 1893-08-17
The Editors Vacation.

Thursday morning, after breakfast,
| we took wagonette and went straight
to the Fair, fully equipped with ..cour-
tesies" for the fray. I'm polite news
paper circles, ''courtieses" is the proper
word. s.free passes'' a vulgarism.)
The ladies had their innings this
morning, and for several hours we
plodded our weary way through miles
of grasses, plants and flowers, the
| writer determined to make no COM
plant and to receive pleasure vicari-
ously, as it were. At length we
emerged from the department of Flori-
culture and betook ourselves to the
section devoted to fruit exhibits. OF
these California's is grand beyond COM
pare, embracing as it does the product
of every cline, tropic, semi-tropic and
temperate. Apples, pears, oranges,
lemons, grapes, bananas, cherries,
Strawberries, es,-every variety of fruit
that grows to gladden. the eye and
taste of man-make up its collection
The arrangement of the exhibit
is wonderful. Pyramids of oranges
and lemons form the piece de resistance
of the show, while jars of preserved
fruits tastefully arranged beautify and
extend it. We noted particularly a
display of beautiful, clear-skinned
lemons, labeled, s.Plucked two years
ago." They looked as fresh as if TAX
en- from the tree that morning, and our
bump of credulity was tested to it's
fullest; but on inquiry we were told
that a recently discovered process of
sweating renders this fruit almost
imperishab1e.
Another object that attracted the at
tention of all visitors was the figure in
gigantic proportions of horse and
rider Every portion of the statue,
even to the saddle, bride and stirrups,
was formed of prunes of various colors.
LILO hoiC 10 SStlo W AO,OOO
pounds. The State applied for twenty
times the space that could be given her,
and judging from that she has. the be-
holder is lost in wonder at what her
exhibit would have been under such |
condition. AS it is, after one leaves |
the Fair, her display looms in the
as does the genius of Shakes
perian in the literary world
The Missouri exhibit, although con-
fined to the products of the temperate
zone, is such as to awaken the pride of
her citizens who are so fortunate as to
ook upon it. Placed in juxtaposition
20 those of the finest fruit-producing
ands in the world, it takes no discredit
~ the comparison. The display is not
10 extensive as that of California's, but
n its province it is as creditable.
After '.doing" the fruits of all the I
arth, we took welcome adjournment {
o lunch, and, afterward, had our first t
urvey of the Plaisance. On entering S
re went to the Esquimaux Village, and c
or time our attention was taken by a | c
arty of four men popping their long I
hips at a mark for pennies and nick '
Is. The coin was the mark, placed c
1 the ground about twenty-five feet
'om the artists of the lash, who took n
lrn about popping at it. The coin t
ecame the property of the person a
no, with the tip of his lash, dislodged c
from it's place. One of the whippers e
as boy about twelve years old, and a
e was one of the most expert. His A
access evidently pleased his elder h
who smiled with satisfac- n
on every time he captured the prize. IL
team of dogs, attached to truck in c]