Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-10
QUAINT THINGS AT THE SHOW
Oddities that Attract Attention at the
Atlanta Exposition.
LOTS WIFE HEWN OUT OF SALT
story of n Race Illustrated by a
LighthOuse-MiIcs of Fishing Net
Hanging Scene Every Day
Invention for InvnIids.

Every exposition has distinctive features
illustrating the industrial or geological char
acteristics of the country. The Worlds
fair combined in a greater degree than any
previous exposition the products and handi-
work of the civilized world, but it did not
touch local characteristics to the extent OF
the Midwinter fair at San Francisco, or the
Southern States exposition. A correspond
ent of the New York World describes the
attractive oddities of the latter, many of
them presenting in a striking manner the
lesson of the progress of the people in all
that contributes to their happiness and pros
perity. Among these is a statue of Lots
wife. She stands in her rock-salt state on
a pedestal in the agricultural building. She
was hewn from a massive piece Of rock salt
found in Louisiana, either on Joe Jeffer-
sons farm, where salt mines have been
opened up, or Immediately adjoining it. She
is still looking over her left shoulder, as if
studying the outlines Of a bonnet of a rival
lady of the period. A Georgia mill shows
a net two and a half miles long, which was
made for use in the Columbia river salmon
fisheries. This Georgia mill makes a
SPECIALITY Of deep-sea fishing tackle.
In the negro building a Montgomery in
dustrial school tells the story of race progress
from the standpoint of the negro race in a
DlS hldNll6 ltllt SCHNlll6 u lBHNuOuSt, the
beacon light of which is character. The
lighthouse is built up from a base, the first
stone Of which represents housework; then
comes cooking, sewing, nursery, writing,
reading, arithmetic, languages, geography.
geology, physiology, hygiene, music, history
and then, showing through the light, char
acter. The ingenuity of the negro seems to
run to ships. There is a model Of the United
States steamer Raleigh, built by w. b.,
Smith, steerage steward Of the revenue
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one of the most unique specimens of ship
building ever seen. This is a model of the
three-masted schooner Universe. 1t has
miniature sailors in the rigging. 1t was
built by a negro boy living in the Virginia
highlands at Lypchbrrg, who has never seen
the sea nor has even read OF 1t.
Seven hundred young chickens are piping
away in the Georgia building, each anxious for
its ma and with no ma in sight. They
are a 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 affection for the rather rude looking
machine which brought them into this world.
The two machines that attract the greatest
crowds in the machinery hall are the pin
machine and the linotype machine, The only
thing about either that Is southern is the
operator, The girl who runs the pin ma
chine is a Georgia cracker. The man who
operates the linotype is one of the few ma
tyes of North Carolina who is willing to
acknowledge that they came from that state.
a man is being hanged every day at the
exposition grounds. He is a dummy man, to
be sure, and he belongs inside Of the model
Jail that is shown down near the negro build
ing. Inside the jail is a contriyance Of hang
ing, which is presumed to gave the expense
Of a gallows for each person condemned and
at the same time to secure privacy In the
hanging, A Georgia invention in the south
east corner of the Georgia manufactures
building attracts almost universal attention.
II is a health-lift for inyalids, so arranged
that an invalid without any expenditure Of
strength can lift himself out OF bed and
carry himself TO any position possible. A
factory at Barnesyille, in the heart OF the