People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — A BRITON'S VIEW. [ARTICLE]

A BRITON'S VIEW.

<n EHtliuslustic Euloglutn on Our Great Fair. What I saw when I gained the northern and eastern balconies of the Administration building surpassed and surprised my highest expectations. After all that pen and pencil had done to prepare me for the sight, I felt that not one-half had been told me. The great White City which rose before me, silent and awful, seemed to belong to an order of things above our common world. It was a poem entablatured in fairy palaces, only to be done into human speech by the voice of some master singer. It was a dream of beauty which blended the memory of classic greatness with the sense of ALpine snows. It was an apocalypse of the architectural imagination. The wildness of the day lent its own apocalyptic setting to the scene; A swaying, drifting curtain of cloud shut in the horizon, blurring lake and sky on the one side in an indistinguishable haze, and on the other shrouding the eity in a gloom of smoke and rain. Ever and again the towers of the fair were draped with wreaths of trailing eloud. while the beating rain and! chilling wind added to the elemental effect. The cluster of buildings hung together there a sort of city in the clouds, yet severe and unmistakable in outline. It was a vision of the ideal, enhanced with mystery. The dreams of Columbus, the aspirations of the pilgrim fathers, the boundless possibilities- of the American continent itself, all seem to nave been crystallized in this, mute world of hall and peristyle,, of column, and capital. It stood there one-colossal temple of temples, awaiting in silence the presence of the supernal glory.Review of Reviews.

Venice sends laces ranging in value from two scents to four hundred dollars a yard. Twenty years ago the famous old industry had about died out There were only five women in Venice who preserved the secrets, of making Venetian point lace. To-day four thousand women of Venice make lace for one firm at fifteen and sixteen cents a day. In the Venetian lace house at the fair is forty thousand dollars’ worth of lace, with tho veil patterned after that of Queen Maria Louisa at the head of the exhibit One of the most unique exhibits in the Agricultural building is that from Liberia, the little republic near the equator on the west coast of Africa. It is in the southwest corner, near the entrance, and may be easily found by the collection of skins displayed agains t the walls. In. the assortment may be seen the beautiful brown and black spotted hide of the leopard, that of the African cat, deer and monkey of tpceiea.