People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The Wishing-Chair. [ARTICLE]

The Wishing-Chair.

At the world’s fair there is a “wish-ing-chair,” which is built exactly like the famous old wishing-chair in the Giant's Causeway, County Donegal, reland. The chair is a big fiat rock surrounded by other rocks, in the midst of which it nestles as snugly as if it had been built there, instead of being placed there by nature. The story of the wishing-chair is that anyone who sits in it and makes a wish will have his wish fulfilled inside of a year. At the worlcFs fair the wishing-chair is occupied by some one all the time’, and ?nftny are the wishes that are made there. One little girl sat in the wish-ing-chair and wished that her dolls wculd all turn into candy, so that she csmld eat them. And a cunning little boy who had to be helped into the chair wished that he could live in a circus-teqt and feed the animals pea nuts every day of his life. It is said that the wishing-chair sometimes disappoints peoplfe’fcy not fulfilling their wishes; but when that is the case it is because they have changed their minds abaut wanting the wish gratified. The Irish people, who are to be seen in the chair every day, almost always wish for better times for their native land. And surely we can all hope that all good things will be theirs. In the Fisheries building are -ten aquaria hating a capacity of 7,000 to 27,000 gallons of water each. In the center of the eastern polygonal building is a rotunda 60 feet in diameter, in the middle of which is a basin or pool 26 feet wide from which rises a mass of rock covered with moss and lichens. Almost every fresh water fish known may be seen swimming in the pool. The czar of Russia has twenty-one horses at the fair, some of them with’ pedigrees that run back 125 years. There is more than one of them that 1100,000 would not buy. Agbicui.tube and its kindred interests of forestry, dairy and live stock has exhibition space under roof of sixty-nine acres, ths building costing •1,218,000.