The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-29
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WoNi'l Fair Correspondence IN Philadelphia PrssS.
Graham Bell, theinventor of the tele,
phone, and worth Sl5,OOO,O00, is occupy
ing a room nea the Worlds Fair
grounds that costs him Just 81 a day.
The electrical energy used in the fair
grounds Is gTeaIer than that required
TO light the whole Of the city OF Paris,
the best lighted city in the world.
Be sure to see the chickens Matched
by electricity in the gallery OF the cleo
trical department. It is the most anus
ing sight in the whole Fair.
II Is not easy to please everybody, /
heard an artistic visitor complaining to-
day because the colossal statue of the
republic is covered with gilt. There ia
this to be said in its favor, however; It
Is pretty nearly the only statue here
that is covered with anything.
There Is q row Of forty clocks in the
department of public comfort, giving
the time Of day in all parts OF the
world. Visitors from every cline in
the universe 20 there to see what time
it Is at home,
The bead OF the statue OF the Repnb.
lie measures thirty feet round. Fancy
what 1t would be to pay her millinery
bills, II she did not always go bare
headed.
There is not q more charming spot
anywhere in the fair than the big,
shady piazzas Of the public comfort
buildings, with their chairs and com.
portable benches. All for nothing, too.
In the Brazilian exhibit there is a
collection OF leaves OF that great repub-
lie OF the south that look SO exactly
like satin and velvet that women can
hardly be persuaded that they are not
artificial.
A crowd always surrounds the watch
makers in the department OF manufac-
lures, You see the watch made from
tho crude metal up to the placing in OF
the crystal. Machines do most OF the
work.
There Is no feature Of daily life at the
fair more delightful than that of the
concerts given every afternoon by the
finest bands in the world. The EN-
poror William band, which ia one Of the
hest, came here, II 10 said, at the OK.
press command OF the kaiser.
They boil eggs, roast beef and bake
pies with electrical heat in one end of
the electrical building. There is no
telling where electricity is going to end.
There Is an enormous pair OF elephant
tusks in the department OF far away
Siam that is said to be worth $1,000.
1t Ia curious how everything "goes."
Hero are women drinking quantities OF
strong black tea in the Ceylon section
without sugar or cream aud pretending
10 like it, whereas in Philadelphia you
could not persuade them to drink tea
without sugar or cream under any cir
cumstances.
The entrance to the section where the
presents oil the Emperor OF Germany
are on exhibition is guarded by q set Of
magnificent hammered iron gates. The
gates are said TO be among the finest in
the world and TO be worth $4,000.
One of the most conspicuous exhibits
in the German department in the Lib.
eral Arts Building is a big pavilion full
Of powders and rouges for ladies' COM
pleXions.
Among the Japanese EXHIBITS there is
a doll "baby' nearly six feet high.
never knew an exhibition where so
little was given away. Even the exhib-
tors have little slot machines in which
you must drop q niGkle to get any Of
their chocolates or coffee or crackers.
At the Centennial Exposition the ex-
hibitors used to give away such things
without charge. One OF the few exhib-
itors who give anything for nothing is
an English manufactured Of soap. But
hungry mortals cannot eat soap.