New-York tribune., 1901-06-02

must therefore, be supposed TO be instructive.
1t is effectively designed and displayed and is
as battling as cycloramas usually are to any at
tempt to discover just what is built up and what
is painted There two other cycIoramas
one representing the Battle of Missionary Ridge
and one showing the great volcanic lake of
Hawaii. The latter is interesting as illustrat-
ing to the people of the United States what a
wonderful sheet of fire they have annexed.
ANIMAL SHOWS
Anybody who was firmly bent upon instruc-
tion could doubtless find some in Bostock's
hibftion Of trained animals, but is TO be feared
that the average visitor to a menagerie does
not know much more zoology when he comes
away than he did when he went This is not
saying. however, that every visitor will not
feel paid for going. The ostrich farm next door
must be set down among the instructive shows.
because however interesting it is it makes no
attempt to he amusing. 1t might he. if the
same man could be found who superntended
the ostrich farm in the Chicago Midway and de
livered an illustrated lecture the nature and
habits Of the birds. with a droness almost
worthy of Artemus Ward. But there is young
man there who win tell you What you want to
know Of the characters and necessities of big
and little Ostriches in matter Of fact way.
The glass factory and the California gold mine
form, in some sense, a class by themselves.
The former ready to oven when the
present writer last viewed the Midway. and it
will therefore have to wait for = later descrip-
ton The Colorado gold mine is a working
model which reminds one of the Strasburg clock.
The men who are at work in the mine are about
two inches tall. and the mine and everything
else about 1T are in proportion. But every
thing goes on just it would in a real mine.
Cars run along tracks and raised and low
cred by elevators. buckets move up and down
shafts and slide off to the stamp mill where
the stamps bob up and down crushing the ore.
1t is hard to tell just whether the reproduc-
ton Of the Johnstown food is intended u be
amusing Instructive. 1t is certainly a strange
subject to choose for the tightening Of heavy
hours. Its chief interest is in Illustrating ;he
effects which a clever scenic artist can pro-
duco with few theatrical Incchan:s:ns end
lights.
one exhibition must certainly be regarded IS
Turely instructive. Tn infant inc,ihat ,rs ca.-
not possibly be- suupDs sed To- 1nuse l;ut they
do demonstrate to many who never Grcarrd of
such things before how faithfully aaI win
What care ana jelioacy science has Forr - Wo:k
10 save the lives II many bahi-s which. with
out such aid. would never live TO know their
right hands from their left Nor mast tie
mistake be made Of surprising that VIA, -
accomplished is merely the saving Of tie hfe
and not the health Of child VIII, would al
ways be weak at best. II is not that IT all
The ca'e which these babies here receive mere
ly takes them safely through period where
without It the most OF them woId dle. The
critical stage once passed. they grow To no
large ana healthy habrs Statistics
live without the incubators. The iECubators
save three quarters Of them. Ask tie doctor in
charge whether they will grow up strong and
prove worth saving and he reo.;es.
Julius Csnsar and Victor Hugo both
babies OF the sort that come here. thinE tnst
il is worth while to try to save them"