Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — WONDERS OF THE SHOW. [ARTICLE]

WONDERS OF THE SHOW.

Random Notes that Serve to Show the Bigness of the Fair. The fountains throw streams 150 feet in the stir. Twenty gondolas manned by Venetian gondoliers, four State barges, forty-five electric launches,twenty steam launches and six steamboats navigate the interior waters of the Fair. Fourteenhundren children sing in the choruses. Fifty-two boilers in a row, each of different manufacture, constitute a bank of power, (>OO feet front, the greatest in the world. Forty-five engines are in the power plant, not including motors scattered all through the White City. There is one engine twice as large as the great Corliss over which the world wondered at the Centennial. The pictures in-the art rooms, if hung upon one line, would cover a mile. Yet the French judges were forced to send back 1,500 worthy of exhibition because there was not room. A statuette of Emperor William of Germany on horseback contains 1,500 silver dollars. The section of a tree, shown by its circles to be 401 years old—a sapling when Columbus landed—is in the forestry section of the Government building. Pennsylvania has put up a pyramid of anthracite blocks, ten feet square at the base and fifty-two feet high, guaranteed to contain just 100 tons. Wisconsin has a five-acre patch of cranberries growing, and will harvest a crop in September. A dwarf cedar 300 years old was sent from Japan, but one Chicago winter was too much for It. The little tree is dead. ,

A china plate, decorated with the German Emperor’s picture, is five feet and 3 inches long, 4 feet and 8 inches wide, 1J inches thick. A Swiss exhibit of watches is valued at $250,000. The Wigan Junction colliery in Lancashire, England, has sent a twelve-ton lump of cannel coal. From George’s Creek, in Allegheny County, Md., has come a larger lump, 15 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 3 feet thick. But the Rosyln lump from the State of Washington is larger than either and the largest ever mined. It is 5 feet thick, 26 feet long, aad weighs over 50,000 pounds