The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-27

are very crude aHa1rS, WIN WOODEN
wheels, far from round. The legend
here says they are drawn by water
buffalo, and pretty soon I'll show you a
water buffalo 80 you'll know what kind
of "horses" the Filiplnos have. This
wagon is part of the exhibit showing
the various methods of carrying, in
GLIDING the horse, man, elephant, camel,
etc. There's copy of the wonderful
one-horse shay that ran for a hundred
years to day" and then turned to dust.
Here is a model of a Studebaker Army
wagon, showing the contrast with the
primitive cart of the Filipino.
This next section contains models of
boats Of all kinds, from the simple dug.
out Of the Indian to the latest style of
ment- or, as the card here says, "From
raft to steamship" You see there are
hundreds and hundreds of models here,
but they are hardly of interest to US
people from Decatur county, where
boats must need have wheels. They
are no doubt interesting to those people
who live down by the sea, but we
landlubbers had better pass on to some
thing we can appreciate.
This section is devoted to firearms
and weapons, from the sling of the
ancient inhabitant of the world down
through the ages to the latest pattern
rapid fire murderer. There's the
identical cross bow with which the
Ancient Mariner" killed the albatross
and caused so much grief to himself and
shipmates.
This section here is used to store
temporarily the nucleus of a National
Gallery of Art to be established some
day when a suitable building is erected.
That large picture is called the "March
Of Time" See, if you are acquainted
with history, you can pick out the
faces OF well-known men and women Of
by-gone days. can see Benjamin
Harrison, General Schofield, Ben Butler,
Clara Barton, General Sherman, Admiral
Porter and others.
Now, back through the machinery
section, and we come to the exhibit
dealing with the electrical industries,
all of which is most too technical for
us and we'll pass on to tho snakes and
enjoy ourselves.
Here you have every kind of snake
that was ever seen in real life or
dreamed about in dreams, all properly
stuffed and labelled and looking very
life-lke in their glass cases. See that
shark there? He's thirty feet long and
quite able to bite man in two at one
snip. There's crocodile, and that
turtle there is six feet long. How'd
you like to catch him some day when
you are fishing in the "Lake?'
This section ahead is devoted to
Comparative Anatomy" and here are
mounted skeletons of all the birds and
beasteses and reptiles. You will
notice about you the skeleton OF
the rhinoceros, sea COW, elephant
buffalo, monkey, ape, man, moose. whale,
turtle, gorilla, chimpanzee, orang utan,
bear, dugong, llama, and many others
Here on this side are representatives. of
the internal organs of men and beasts
and birds and reptiles, all of which
I make me feel sort Of squeamish about
the 'tummy. We might just as we'll to
, have gone. into the Medical Museum az
to take in this section. Over there is
, the skeleton of the famous racehorse
! Lexington and hanging overhead is
the skeleton of a whale rs feet long
1t says there that it's head was more
than 10 feet long and weighed three
, tons and that it's jaws alone weighed
one ton. After looking at that, |, fol-
one, am ready to believe that the whale
, did indeed breakfast off of Jonah, Amt
you?
This section is for art, and as Mrs
| Wood is the only artist here, we'll pass
up Hermes, Apollo, Venus and the other
, fellows and let her come back agar
, some day all by herself to see them.
Oh! huh! Here's where we've go,
that old dictionary going sideways
r Look at that!-Horned dinosaur! Dino
> saur trachodon anectons! Negatherium
f Brontosaurus! Stegosaurus unguatus
Plalycarpus coryphaeous! Pteroc
taclyl! Ichthyosaurus! The whole Sau
f rus family, sure as live. Gee! | wisf
;, we'd brought a stronger dictionary. In
/ afraid this ones a little light for the
}. job. No, sir; can't find single one O
!, EN-! Well, can tell you something
$ about this section, anyway. These are
4 prehistoric animals and reptiles anc
$ birds-that is, creatures that lived be
fore the history of man began. Theil
: bones are often found in digging in
l various parts of the world, especially
in the state of Wyoming. Some time!
the bones are embedded in stone, ane
l the supposition is that the animal has
+ been caught in quicksand and suffocatet
and afterward the sand and water have
turned 20 SCOno anu CnuS preserved Che
5 bones of the animal. In the cases O.
7 some specimens the entire skeleton ha,
} never been found, nor complete SCI
, from number of different remains, bu
> the scientists, in their vast wisdom
, are able to reconstruct the entire ami
? NAL as it appeared before the days O
Adam. This megatherium, or ground
) sloth, evidently fed on the leaves O
trees, tearing of small branches by
!. standing on his hind legs. This Bronto
saurus was a giant reptile, as you car
see by the shape of his skeleton. II
+ may be that this creature is not extinct
} and that his grandchildren are today
J furnishing the sea serpent scares thai
pop up every summer at the sea side re-
!. sorts. This armored dinosaur mus
} have been horrible thing. See, he
} looks like CROSS between an rhinoc
eros, an elephant and bird, for his
skin is very like the elephants, he hat
t horns like the rhinoceros, and there
are things along his back like wings o,
: fins. Here is the skeleton of giant