Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Wonders of the Paris Exposition. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of the Paris Exposition.

Cloud gallery, where visitor# walk above the clouds. Active volcano with daily eruptions and earthquakes. Enchanted house, in which everything is upside down. The Mareorama, a mimic sea voyage taken on land. Giant telescope that makes the moon look only a mile off. The Cosmorama, showing the earth, sun, moon and stars. Subterranean world, showing how gold and silver mines look. Sea beach with salt water pumped from the ocean 125 miles awry. Trip in a shell in which you are tired from a real mortar gun. Bottom of the ocean, with a sunken ship and strange submarine life. Palace in the sky, a huge house shaped airship that rises 2,000 feet. Fuiry palace under the River Bcinc, with mermuids and the lore lei. “Light of Kimberley” diamond, worth $2,000,000. Biggoßt in the world. Antomobile aud bicycle jialaee, with an arena for races and exhibitions .. Japanese temple and Oriental gardens, with dancing geisha girls from Tokio. American corn palace, with wails of cornstalks and tower made of corncobs. Moving sidewalks that will show the whole exposition grounds without walking a step. Restoration of old Paris of 500 years ago, with its royal court, minstrels and tournaments. Reproduction of the city of Venice, with Us water ativeta, gondolas and ancient palaces. North Pale, with icebergs and Eskimo houses, made of ice cakea, with atmosphere kept at 80 degrees below zero by liquid air. Exposition postofflee to be at the fop of the Eiffel Tower, 1,000 feet above ground. Monstrous wheel, twice the size of the Ferris wheel of the Chicngo World's FalY.' I**l ace of costumes In which the modes of dress of all ages an<r all nations will be show-n. Panorama of the world, which will represent a trip around the world in sixty thlnntes. The Alps in with mountain guides and Swiss chalets in the htarrof Paris.