Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-11

Tatooing is considered an art by them
and across the chests of several chiefs
in the village is recorded the result
of their head hunting expeditions.
The Negrots.
The Negrotis are black, short and
have kinky hair. They look much like
the African negro, but are smaller IN
stature, lower in intellect and primi-
tive in their manner of living. They
have no permanent homes but wander
from place to place in their native is
land. They are rapidly decreasing in
number. They live on herbs and roots
and game, which they can shoot They
are very skillful with the bow and ar
row. Next to the pigmies they are
the smallest people on earth.
Two Filipino midgets are on exhi-
bition here, but they do not represent
q class of people. Juan is twenty-nine
inches high and Twenty-Five years old.
Martina is twenty-seven inches high
and thirty-one years old. They each
have normal heads, but the remainder
of their bodies is small. Their arms are
not over seven or eight inches long.
They are intelligent and the woman
has taken strong desire to become
stenographer during her stay in St.
Louis.
The Pike.
When finished the Pike will show
some fifty shows. The Galveston
flood, New York to the North Pole
and Battle Abbey are all notable
structures. The electric mutorama OF
the Galveston flood is contained in a
beautiful building, $50 feet wide by
800 feet deep and represents the ca
tastrophe, the most appalling IN mod
ern times which overwhelmed the city
of 10000 and in which disaster there
are known to have persisted 5000
souls This is one of the best conces-
sions.
New York to the North Pole.
In attempting description of the
electric kinetorama of New York to
the North Pole the latest development
in spectacular art, one is at loss to
find language which will properly ap-
ply to it. It is distinct novelty and
far removed from anything which has
ever gone before.
The Hale Fire Fighters are also
classed among the best on the Pike.
The actual work of the department is
demonstrated, showing the great speed
Of the department in reaching and ex-
tinguishing great fires, their heroic
work Of rescuing the lives of inmates
and the work of their expert hose
mending a hose in four and
one-half seconds.
The Boer War.
None of the concessions could out
class the Boer war. Here the actual
fighting takes place, the horses are re-
we'll trained The different
features of the battlefield are elab-
orately brought forth.
Among other interesting conces-
sions may be mentioned: Over and
Under the Sea, Creation, Hereafter,
and Hagenback's Zoo.
The Infant Incubator.
The Infant Incubator contains at
present. twenty-one infants battling for
life in their small glass cases. The
most scientific methods are employed
in raising these small babies. Twelve
trained nurses and four physicians are
employed and give their attention TO
these little ones. The smallest and
Youngest child in the incubator at
present is Esther Simpson, who weighs
one pound and two ounces and a peck
ct measuring stick twelve inches
long laid beside her, shows how small
she is. measuring less than foot, yet
the doctors and nurses have hopes Of
raising the child.
The Indian village is of very much
interest to the fair visitors. The In
dams have fine band and it renders
excellent music. School is in session
each day. A class of nine children,
from thirteen to sixteen years OF age
was being taught the day of our Wis
it.
The children read remarkably well
and their work in arithmetic could not
be beaten by American children. Their
composition work was not so we'll done
as the other. Their work in manual
training was perfect Here girls are
taught to sew, cook, can fruit, etc. The
boys, to model and build structures OF
all kinds, print newspapers and do a
great many other things.
A great many more important fea
lures Of the fair may be described
but as time and space must be limit
ed, we will close and leave the remain
der for the other contestants to de-
scribe. We are yours very truly,
Dora Warren,
Blanche Coolidge,
Ida WEIGH.
soseph Carson caught in the act OF
burglarizing Villisca drug store is in
iail at Red Oak