Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-26
ODDITIES AT ATLANTA.
SOME or TIiE NoVILrtEs At THE
EXPOSITION.
Lots wife iIcwn out OF salt Rock .
+. Fishing Set Miles Loug-iianging
Scene Every Day Invention for
Assisting In,aiids to Rise.
From the New York World.

| From the New York World.
Lots wife is at the Atlanta exposi-
tion. She stands in her rock-salt state
/ ON pedestal in the agricultural build
/ ing She was hewn from a massive
piece Of rock salt found In Louisiana,
( either on Joe Jeuersun's farm, whore
/ salt mines have been opened up, or i'm
! modiatcly adjoining 1T. She is still look
! ius over her LETT shoulder us If studying
! the outlines OF bonnet of rival lady
/ Of the period. a Georgia mill shows "A
net two and q half miles long. which
| was made for use in the Columbia river
| salmon fisheries. This Georgia mill
! makes a specially OF dcep-sea fishing
/ tackle.
In the negro building a Montgomery
! industrial school tells the story of race
! progress from the standpoint OF the
! negro race in big drawing representing
| "a. lighthouse, the beacon light of which
/ Is character The lighthouse is built up
/ from a base, the first stone OF which
! represents homework; then comes cook
| ing. nursery sewing, writing. reading,
| nrithmetiC. languages, geography gcol-
| ugy physiology. hygiene, music, history
i and then. showing through the light.
| character The ingenuity Of the negro
! seems TO run to ships. There is model
! Of the United states steamer Raleigh,
! built by W. B. Smith, stcerige steward
| OF the revenue schooner Franklin Right
| across from IL Is one OF the most unique
| specimens OF shipbuildng ever seen.
/ This is a model of the three-mastcd
| schooner Universe. II has miniature
| sailors in the rigging. 1t was built by a
negro hoy living ia the Virginia high
! lands at INnChburg, who has never
seen the sea nor has even read Of 1t.
/ Seven hundred young chickens are pip
I ing away IN the Georgia building, each
/ anxious for It's ma" and with no ma"
/ In sight. They are part of the exhibit
| Of an incubator made at Marietta. Ga.
! The chickens run all around the space
of the exhibit but do not wander away,
/ for they seem possessed of real difeC-
tion for the rather rude-looMng ma
! chine which brought them into fsis
/ world. The two machines that .ract
the greatest crowds in machinery hail
are the pin machine and a linotype ma
| chine. The only thing about either that
| is Southern is the operator. The girl
| who runs the pin machine IS a Georgia
cracker. The man who operatonthe limo
! type is one of the few natives of North
! Carolina who are willing to acknowledge
| that they came from that state.
4 man is being hanged every day at
| the exposition grounds. He is dummy
| man, to be sure, and he belongs inside
of the model Jail that is shown down
near the negro building. Inside the jail
| is a contrivauce of hanging which IS
! presumed to save the expense of n. gal
! lows for each person condemned and at
! the same time to secure privacy in the
/ =. a
| southeast corner of the Georgia manu-
/ faCturers' building attracts almost uni
| Versal attention. 1t is a health-lift for
| invalids, so arranged that an invalid
| without any expenditure of strength can
! lift himself out of bed and carry him.
! self to any position possible. a factory
1 at BarnesVile in the heart of the cot
| ton section of Georgia, makes a spe-
cialtY of underwear, and uses nothing
| but Egyptian cotton, importing all of
10 mn 4
of Egyptian cotton, about one-third as
| large as the Georgia bale, is shown.
There are two pieces of art in the
negro building that deserve the name.
one of these is the bust of Charles
| Sumner. by EdmOnia Lewis, who now
lives in italy and has forgotten all about
| her African extraction. The negroes
| point to ii proudly and say that any
| way ii was made when she was n ne
| gro" The other piece worthy of the
name is a painting by II. o. Tanner,
/ entitled, Learning to Play the Bag
! pipes" Tanner is in Paris, where he
/ has been for several years, and he Is
/ said to be doing good work. Whether
he has about forgotten that the blood
| of the African runs through his veins
or not the attendant al this exhibit was
| unable to say. Piles Of onions and pO-
| tatOos and Il lot of picture frames made
! from paper are the principal objects in
| the exhibit made by the Carrie Steele
/ orphan home. Carrie is an Atlanta
| woman who mas Done noble WORK ior
: tine poor niue casl-"iL orphans OF her
/ race The onions ana potatoes repre-
sent the efforts of the boys to contrib
ute to their own livelihood, while the
| naner frames snow the hrst steps OF tne
! little girls IN the development OF IeHH-
| nine tastes
! pyramid IN the Georgia building rep
| resents zone months feed for milch
! cow" There are $50 pounds OF cotton
! seed meal and GOO pounds OF cotton
seed hulls-the proper proportion me
cost of this feed at the market prices
/ is $40 IF we were To lose all OF our
| pasturage In Georgia we could still COM