The Russellville Democrat., 1893-10-12

interesting place to the politician and the student of chiromancy. On the lake in front is the model of the battle ship Illinois, containing the U. S. Naval exhibit. Near by is the little Viking craft that made the perilous voyage across the Atlantic, also the life saving station, where the storm beaten old crew shows a large multitude of people each after noon how lives are snatehed from the yawning waves and brought safe to land.
 OTHER BUILDINGS.
 The "horny handed son of toil' who visits the Expc will naturally finger about the Palace of Agricul- ture, but he of extremely opposite tastes and profession may spend sey- eral hours profitably beneath It's spacious roof. The annex contains a splendid display of farm machin cry and implements, and the grain displays in the building proper are magnificent.
 The .'sentimentalist' who visits Horticultural Hall, with it's great roof and dome of glass, with the beautiful gardens and greenhouses outside, with refreshing fountains playing here and there, goes away invariably pronouncing it glimpse of Eden ' The interior is a yerita- ble park in miniature of tropical and ornamental trees, blooming flowers, trailing vines, brooks, cataracts, fountains, waterfalls, messy banks, fern clad mounds, eayerns, and linn pid streams alive with goldfish and covered with pond lilies. It is an ideal school for the artist and the admirer of the beautiful in nature. The fruit exhibits of the different states and countries are superb. Ar kansas diaplay, while not so large or varied as California's, is fully up with it's competitors in quality It is in charge of Col. F.. F. Babcock. former resident of Russellyille.
 If you are interested in the prog ress of the women of today, you will not fail to visit the Woman's build ing, just north of the Horticultural.
 The student of Man and his works" will not fail to visit the sec tion of Ethnology and Anthropology in the south end of the grounds. 1t is a school par excellence of the evo- lution of man.
 The live stock, shoe and leather, forestry and windmill exhibits, and the Krupp gun works near by, are places of interest to the specialist.
 And while in this portion of the ground, we must not overlook the La Rabida Convent, where the relies of Columbus are. Anchored in front of the Convent are the famous cara vels, the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina, which were built by the Span ish government and officially pre- sented to the United States.
 Whether an ayerred disciple of IzaacW alton or not, you should by all means visit the Fisheries building. Almost every species of the finny tribe are exhibited in it's numerous pools and tanks.
 Reader, would gladly take you through the many foreign and other buildings at this biggest big show on earth, but the more we see of it, the more we are impressed with the impossibility of seeing ev- erything, therefore, with a brief spin around the city of Chicago, we will turn our faces homeward.
 A FEW OF THE BIG THINGS AT THE FAIR
 The mammoth cheese in the Agr cultural building was made from POT, 200 gallons of milk, and it re quired 1,666 dairymaids to do the milking.
 A huge flour barrel, costing near 5000, is exhibited by a leading flour company
 A pair of shoes that were made to order for slave is one of the novel ties in footgear that relegates to the rear the traditional pun about the Chicago maiden's foot. It measures near 15 inches in length.
 The Minnesota load of logs, the largest ever place. on log wagon, is an object of interest with lumber men.
 A soap company exhibits mann moth statue mac of five tons of pure white soap. There is also Q giant chocolate statue exhibited by a eonfectioner.
 The culinarist likes to gaze upon the big 25x30 foot cook stove in the Michigan Stove Co.'S exhibit
 The big chunc of zinc, Jumbo, z in front of tho Arkansas building, Is labeled ''the largest piece Of zinc ever mined : T. E. l..