Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-17
A. NOVEL DISPLAY.
Kansas Contributes a Menagerie
to the W orld's Fair OdditieA ,
The Animals Arc Not Alive, But They
Look just rs Natural as If They
Were - Other Interesting Fea-
lures of the Exhibit.

When the worlds fair visitor enters
the Kansas building next year the first
display that bursts upon his gaze will
lead him to suppose that he has walked
into u circus mcnagcric.
AS nc Institutes on the threshold and
his glance sweeps about he may wonder
how it is that mountain lions, goats. buff
falo, elk, deer, moose and foxes are al
lowed to occupy 4 common inclosure-
1t will then probably dawn on his
weary consciousness hat the realistic
group before him is simply a marvel of
taXidcrrny, and such it is.
The display is the first of the Kansas
exhibit and is the result OF years of I'M
RENTING toll on the part of Prof.
Louis L. Dychc, of the Kansas state
university. The display will occupy q
space ninety by seventy feet. directly
before the entrance of the state build
ing. Each OF the specimens will be
surrounded by the natural emery
which goes to make up it's habitat, and
when the whole display is properly
grouped the animals will appear SO nat
Tral that one would not be surprised at
Seeing Il catamount spring or hearing a
buffalo below.
On the rough, rocky eminencc in tho
center will be seen n group of noun
tain sheep, ut the base of the elevation
two buffalo bulls will be grouped in
attitudes of defiance and 4 little to
ono side two mountain lions snarlinC
over a slain deer will appear. Other
animals representing mammals from
all parts of North America will be
picturesqucly grouped in the remaining
space.
Not the least interesting of the ex-
hibit will be the remains of what was
the only survivor of Clusters last stand
the Die horse, Comanche, ridden on
that fatal day by gallant Capt. Kehoe.
The horse is SO well mounted and has
such a natural expression of drovsy old
age that the spectator momentarily OK
poets him to yawn. Incidentally this
expression Of scnilc laziness cost Prof.
Dychc six weeks work in crcasing and
arranging the para-ocular tissues.
One carload of ~cvaporated sea salt has
been received al the fishery building at
the exposition. 1t will be used in maxi
ing the proper medium for saltwater
fish To gamDol in. 1t is estimated that
Il carload Of salt will make scventy-fivc
thousand gallons of sea water.
The salt differs from commercial salt
in being unpuriiicd. 1t is the product
Of simple evaporation of the sea water
and contains all the organic material
which tho natural water holds in solu-
ton. The only difference between the
water to be used at the fair and the
water which the dolphins, star-fish, por-
poiscs, etc., arc found in, will be the
lack of organic impurities in the form
er. Experiments with line in rcmov-
ing these impurities arc now being con-
Quoted in the aquarium annex of the
fisheries building, in which the large
glass tanks for exhibits are now com
p!ctc. The object OF the experiments
is to remove the organic material and
render the water perfectly clear, at the
same tilne leaving no chemical in solu-
ton which would injurc the fnny oc-
cupants of the tanks. In the clear water
thus procured will DC dissolved the salt.