The age-herald., 1900-11-03

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 Quite number of additional exhibits for the State Department arrivd ysterday and was placd in a large tent near the woman's building. Among the products in the state exhibits sack of oceans grown on the farm of Commissioner of Agriculture Poole in Marengo County. These oceans are as large as any raised in Texas. MT. Poole states that they were taken from tree twelve years old, and that he gathered sevral bushels from the same tree. He has several trees on his farm
 The rice exhibit from South Alabama has attracted considerable interest. Compara- lively few people in Alabama were aware that rice grown in this state at all. Escambia. Conecuh and adjoining counties raise over 900 bushels annually. Some of the farms yield from 40 to 50 bushels to the acre.
 In the Fruithurst exhibit is a sweet po- tato grown by Arnold Schess that weighs seven pounds and measures A inches in circumference.
 Three interesting relics were added to the woman's exhibit yesterday. They were loaned by Mrs. M. F. House of this city, One is a a-crucifiX in a quart flask put there by tramp in consideration of a meal fur nshed him. Another is a large dirk given to her grandfathe in 1S40 by Gen. Arfdrew Jackson. The third is wine decanter that has been in Mrs. Houses family for more than seventy years.
 Miss Burke of the faculty of the Girls Industrial School at Montevallo and Miss Lena Peterson, a student of that insttu- tion and daughter of the president, have charge of the exhibit from that school. The art display was received yesterday and put in position. Among the exhibits from the Girls Industrial School are specimens of the work of the pupils in the millinery de- partment, the dressmaking department, in art, shorthand, cooking and fancy work. In the art collection are several most excel lent sketches from life
 Midway Bert,' known wherever an ex- position or State Fair has been held since the Worlds Fair in Chicago, is official an- nunciator at the State Fair. He has a good strong voice and can be heard all over the grounds
 Work on the Republic Iron and Steel Ccmpanys exhibit is being pushed, and it is expected that this splendid device for displaying that company's products will be completed by tonight.
 The mineral exhibit has been more ad- nired than any other feature of the fair. In the small space allotted for this exhibit is assembled a vast quantity of coal, coke, red and brown ore, limestone, marble Aux, marble, pig iron, steel, brick, clay, chert and numerous other minerals. More visitors have visited this department than any other 1T, the fair The mammoth marble shaft is looked upon with wonder It is the biggest thing of the kind ever before seen in Bir- mingham and is said to be the biggest single piece of pure white marble ever quar- ried in the United States. At least, 1t is the largest of which there is any record.
 The machinery department had a large number of visitors and all found something there to admire and to instruct. The gin ming plant of the Confinal Gin Company was kept in operation the greater part of the day and many persons, for the first time in their lives, saw how the lint and seed are separated and the lint baled The waterfall or cataract attracts considerable attention. The water is kept running by
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