Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — Page 6

THE WORLD’S FAIR.

The JSalavs - Magnificent Dist ances - Wouaersofthe Argentine. TIIT MALATS,

have a stroke of heart disease if he happened in on a Javanese dinner at the fair. The liliputians from the East think dinning-rooms a great tiuu vuxzy imu miuii verandas good enough for them. They arc shaded by a thatched roof above and the matted floor makes an elastic seat when they squat cross-legged. Their shoes taken off for comfort, sit around among the dishes, but a little thing like that doesn’t ruffle a Javanese appetite. Several diners gather around a single tin basin of rice and curry standing on the floor between them and dip up that delieacy with rude tin spoons contributed* by orphaned tomato cans, and when they get tired of balancing the food on the slippery piece of tin, they go for that dish with a little black hand and five lasers. The Javanese drink coffee brought from home and their cups are joints of bamboo, a neat and simple contrivance. Since coming to Chicago these‘pygmies contracted the reprehensible nabit of eating bread. A loaf is broken into pieces which art? dumped into a basin and each person

VENTRAL COURT OF BRAZILIAN PAVILION.

grabs a hunk, which may be nearly as large as his head, and of course has no butter. The floor is the table the tin and the bamboo dishes are scattered about. permiscuously, everyone reaches for what he wants there is no ceremony, and the “brownies” keep up a merrvchatter. These people say they are Malays.

MAGNIFICENT DISTANCE.

Chicago Record. How far must a man walk, to .see ail the fair? This is a hard question to answer, but here are some fairly accurate figures on the larger buildings. If you wish to traverse the main aisles in the Manufactures Building, just to get a good general impression but without edging around thousands of show cases, you will find nine main aisles east and west, with north and south aisles, eleven in numberrinakmg a total" ,length of 26,000 feet, a trifle less than five miles. The minimum estimate for the gallery on the same basis is 12,500 feet. This does not allow for passing through sections or walking buck and forth through the narrow aisles of open exhibits. It refers only to what might properly be called the streets and avenues, furthermore, it does not allow for doubling up on each thoroughfare. The visitor must see both sides at the same time. The same rule is followed in the case of each building. Manufactures, main f100r............26.000 Mteafadturesy gallery..:. .......... .12,500 Agriculture, main f100r............. 9,900 Agriculture, gallery 4,500 Agriculture, annex ; 4,400 Forestry 2,900 Slide and leather. 3,500 Krupp gun and convent 1,00) Administration 400 Electricity, main floor 5,250 Electricity, gallery... 2,(00 Mines, main floor 3,150 Mines, gallery.. 2.000 Transportation, main floor 5,440 Transportation, gallery 4.000 Transportation, annex. 7,0)0 Horticulture, main floor 3,000 Horticulture, gallery 1.0 0 Government 9.(00 Woman’s, incliidinggallery 4,000 Fisheries 1 1.5(H) Art palace, main section 3. 03 Art palace, two wings ..J )f 2,0j0 .1. The grand' total is something in excess of 118,000 feet, or nearly

ARGENTINE EXHIBIT IN MANUFACTURES BUILDING.

twenty-three miles. At the same time the estimate does not include State, government or private buildings, tho Plaisance is ignored and no account is taketj of the long

HE FASTIDIOUS .creature from New 'York who was • - . • ‘ c- , shocked by Chicago [people sitting on their porches would

jumps from one building to another. Let the reader figure-for- himself' whether by walking forty miles he could see every nook and corner of the exposition from the washy head of the pier to the westward end of Midway Plaisance. The moral ofraH“this is: “Don’t try to see everything in out day.” THE ARGENTINE EXHIBIT. In the exhibits made by the Argentine Republic in the various buildings —and she has space in agriculture, forestry, and mines in addition to the general made in Manufactures Building—there is every thing calculated to show that it is a great and growing country,

ON THE MIDWAY—EXTREMES MEET.

or, more properly speaking, a great country being rapidly developed. It is a country for which railroads are doing much in the way of bringing out resources, one of the many immediate results of i-ailroad building being the opening up of mining industries, which are destined to become one of the country’s richest resources of wealth. The mining area of the republic is nearly nine times greater than that of Great Britain. In the provinces of Cordoba, Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, Jujui, Salta, and Mendoza alone nearly three thousand mining concessions have been granted for the exploration of gold, silver, copper, coal, iron, petroleum, etc., samples of all of which are shown in the Mines Building. Throughout the entire I‘epublic this is an industry to which great attention is paid and into which each succeeding year larger capital is being invested. In the Mines Building the Argentine Republic's mineral exhibit is in charge of Gustav Niederlein, an expert who has for many years been in govern-ment-employ and who is thoroughly versed in ail Argentine mining aDd mineral matters. The rockingstone of Tandil is one of the wonders which Americans will go to see when the intercontinental railway begins to carry tourists to South America. On the summit of a low hill on a great plain of the Argentine Republic looms this great mass of rock. It weighs 2,000 or 3,000 tons. A thousand horses couldn’t roll it over. Yet a man can stand under the edge of it and putting his hand against it can move the entire mass until it rocks to and fro. If a bottle is put close to the under edge'of the mass and two or three pushes are given the rock will roll back and smash the bottle. There is a picture of this curiosity in the Argentine exhibit.

TIIE rROBABLE ATTENDANCE. Cleveland Leader.. The paid admissions to the World's Fair nutnbe.re.d_l,oso,o37 2,675,113 in June. Up to July 20 the paid attendance for the month was 1,965,205, a total of 5,690,345. This figure was not reached at the centennial until the 16th of September. On July 20, 1876, the total number of

ENTRANCE TO URUGUAY'S EXHIBIT SECTION.

paid admiss ons had been only 1,535,1)58. At the Philadelphia exhibition the cash admissions in May were 378,890. In Juno they numbered 695,660, and in July there were 636,518. August furnished 908.687 paying visitors, and the first half of September added 806,045, making 3,425,893 in ail. Then the rush began The last two weeks of September brought 1,324.946 cash admissions, and in October 2,334,530 persons paid their wav into the fair. It will be seen that the records of the Centennial point clearly to a much larger attendance in October at the Columbian Exposition than there has been in the whole time “since the fair was opened, and there should be 4.000,000 visitors in the last half of September, against 2,500,000 in the first two weeks. August is likely to furnish 3,500.000 paid admissions, and there will be nearly 1,000,000 in the last ten days of July. Altogether it is pretty safe to couiit on a grand total of more than 20,000,000 paid admission.;, and 25,000,000 would not be surprising. If the Columbian Expositon could have had a year of general prosperity and easy money markets the record of 28,000,000 made at Paris in 1889 would probably have been surpassed, and 30,000,000 visitors would havecon-

tributed to the financial success of the great show. HE WOULDN’T TAKE A FEE. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Isaac Taylor, the architect, who has made several trips to the World’s Fair, returned a few days ago, full of an adventure which is received askance by such of his friends as have visited the “White City.” “Yes, gentlemen,” said Mr. Taylor to a group of friends at the Southern Hotel, “I met during my last visit the only living person in Chicago who would and did refuse a ‘tip.’ I know it is hard to believe, and T was myselfnrach astonished. While strolling through the Midway Ftoance,4n company with William Eden of the Great Northern Hotel, we dropped into the Persian Palace. After inspecting the various relics of ancient and modern art, a gentlemanly young Persian in his native togs, who spoke good English, asked me to sit down and have a cup of tea or coffee. “We complied, ordered tea which was elegantly served in cups of fabulous value. When we had finished the beverage, I asked, ‘How mush is it?’ “Nothing at all, sir: we give this away.’ “Xhe answer took away my breath and it was a moment before I could recover sufficiently to draw out a coin and say, “Well, take this for yourself.’ “ T beg pardou sir, but it would be in violation of our rules. We cannot accept any fees whatever from the people who are temporarially our guests. ’ “Lput my money back and checked an inclination to. ask this phenominal person if he had photographs of himself for sale. I would have willingly given $5 for one.

Lemonade Beats Bandolline.

Youngstown Ohio, Evening Telegram, “I was out to a dance recently,” said an acquaintance tb me, “and a funny thing happened, It was not so very funny either, but it made me laugh after it was over. You see, it was as hot as a bake oven and the room was crowded to suffocation. I had a girl and we were waltzing around as best we could when suddenly the girl gasped, turned pale and said: 'Get me out to the air.’ I stopped and released her and offered her my arm, when bump! down she went on the floor in a heap. Fainted away see? Dead as a herring. What did I do? Why tried to pick her up and couldn’t do it, for she was a heavy weight. Then I succeeded, with the aid of others, in getting her to the porch, but she wouldn’t revive. Then I ran into the refreshment room for water, but the tank was empty and the only thing they had was lemonade. Some thing had to be done and I got two glasses, ran back and emptied their contents into her face—not exactly ‘into’ but ‘onto.’ After using about 30 cents worth of nice, sweet lemonade she came to. Well, say; you would have died to see her hair. Sticky? Why bandoline, quince seed, gum arabic. and kindred concoctions were not in it. Lemonade beats them all. Was she mad? Well, Igv ess yes. She said I was intoxicated and a natural born fool. Some one else took her home, I didn’t.

The Great State of Colorado.

Boston Evening Transcript. The puissant State of Colorado was admitted into the Union in 1876. Its population in 1890 wad 412,198. The assessed valuation of the property in the State in 1890 was $220,544,061: its mining property was valued at $5,727,657; railroad property at $34,411,921. The silver bullion product of the State in 1889 was $19,341,847. These figures are well enough to remember when a little back borough like Colorado essays to rule or ruin the Union. Any one of a dozen cities scattered from East to West outweighs the whole State of Colorado in population, in capital and in every material, moral and political consideration, except, indeed, that it has two United States Senators, like several of its near neighbor States.

A Natural Inference.

Somerville Journal. ‘•Give an example of natural inference,” the college professor said. “Well, sir,” replied the student, “if you should meet a carriage some Sunday afternoon with a young man on the front seat and another young man and a pretty girl on the back seat, a natural inference would be that they were going after another pretty girl.”

A Reasonable Request.

The German. Beggar —Please give me a penny, sir? Gentleman No. T never give money away on the street. Beggar—All right, sir. If you will give me your name and address I’ii call at the house for the money.

Now For the Earthquake-Makers.

Atlanta Journal. Since the famous earthquake in South Cait.ina the soil of Berkley county has been much more productive. Professor Newman, of Clemson College, accounts for this on the theory that the earthquake provided better drainage than previously existed : ——

As the Druggist Said It.

New York Tribune. It was a popular druggist who exclaimed yesterday, “Let me draw the soda* water of a nation, and I care not wh6 makes its laws.”

THE ARIZONA KICKER.

she Editor Acknowledge* a Snob from Mrs. Col. de Verde. New York Sun. About Snubs —When we established the Kicker we were a lonesome looking man. We were dead broke for cash, hard up for clothes, and we made no pretense as to grammar, poetry or oratory, but in establishing the paper we also determined to establish ourselves in society. In fact we determined to lead it. The people rebelled against this innovation, but we persisted. It gradually habiting this plateau we knew the difference between standing' up to a dish of fried bacon and sitting down to a six-course dinner and they crowded back to give ns room. As editor, Mayor and Senator, there is no doubt of our being the Ward McAllister of a very large extent of territory, but now and then an individual rises up and attempts to hurt our society feelings. Such was the case last Friday evening when Mrs. Col- de Verde, of Arizona Place, gave a birthday party and left us out in the cold. She told some of her friends that she dit it to rebuke our egotism, and we were no doubt rebuked. In leaving us out in the cold Mrs. de Verde brought disaster upon herself. Viewed from the McAllister standpoint, her party was a flat failure. Half the people present used the finger bowls to drink from, the coffee was ‘sweetened with New Orleans molasses, and she was eleven napkins short when refreshments were served. To further rebuke us she invited the wretched Old critter whom we are obliged to refer ts as “our esteemed contemporary,” and he sat at the head of the table and hollered for tripe and lemonade and corned beef! No wonder the party broke up at 10 o’clock and rushed the gate Off its hinges in the mad desire to get away! Yesterday morning Col. de Verde was taken to Wyoming under arrest. We have known for a year that he was “wanted” there. When the Colonel conspired with his wife to pour icewater down our social spinal column, we felt it our duty off a brief telegram giving his location. We are not a revengeful man, but we have a policy to carry out. We have provided ourself with a swallowtailed coat, white vest, biled shirt, and other adjuncts. We have read up our- etiquette. We know when the celery should be removed and the fried eggs brought in. We know when the salad should be gently retired and the ice cream quietly substituted. An attempt to snub ua may justly be considered a blow at society, and will be certain to result in disaster to the snubber..

QUEEN VICTORIA.

(Sketched from life by Harry Furnisa, Now York World.)

The Great Unknown.

London Sunday Times, I had the advantage of knowing a lady once with plenty of money and the laudable ambition to shine in society,’ but who found the ascent of the social Avernus somewhat difficult. Asting, however, under the advice of experienced friends, she made a most successful coup by always inviting to her reception a mysterious, but dignified personage, whose name appeared next morning in the Morning Post as, say, the Archimandrite of Melipotamus. He was very tall, had a long black beard, his vestments were richly embroidered with gold, his headgear somewhat resembled a tubular chimney cowl covered with black velvet, and he never said a word to anybody. For all this, the Archimandrite “drew" tremendously, but to this day I have never quite settled in my mind as to whether he really was'amember of the hierarchy Melipotamus, or whether he, his robes and his chimney-cowl cap were supplied by an eminent costumer from Covent Garden at so much per might.

Fashion Echoes.

Wash silk gowns are cool for summer wear. They are pretty iu gray and white, made with a skirt gathered to a round waist. A velvet girdle with velvet pieces fastened at the arm size, and tied on the* bust in a beau knot, will give character to this simple dress. In fact all the summer silks are made simple. White and green, gold and green, heliotrope aud gold and the very palest of blue and gold are among the popular combinations for dressy summer wear.

THE FAIR SEX.

Henrietta Herscbfeld. the first woman graduate of the Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery, is assistant court dentist in Germany. Queen Victoria has written an account of the Balmoral tartan which will be given in a work upon “Old and Rare Scottish Tartans,” to be published shortly. The volume will contain reproductions of the various tartans described, not in colored plates, but in silk, woven exactly to pattern, color and scales. The work contains a series of letters on the subject of tartans, written Dy Sir W alter Seott-amt Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. «,

THE VERY LATEST ORNAMENTS FOR THE WAIST.

Among the wedding presents received by the Prinqess May was a churn and a sewing machine, and the announcement is made that she is also to be presented with a cheese from the dairymaids of Ontario. A family of Loflings, in England, is said to owe its wealth to the thimble, which, called then the “thumb bell,” as it was worn then on the thumb, was first made by one of their ancestors in London less than 200 years ago.

SOME PRETTY BELTS.

Lady Margaret Scott, the first lady golf champion, is the daughter of the Earl of Eldon, who is an ar dent devotee 4>f the ‘‘royal-aud ancient game.” He has an almost perfect course at Stowell Park, his Gloucestershire seat. Lady Margaret Scott is a member of the Cotswold Golf Club, and when in London plays on the ladies’ link at Wimbledon. ■ i— ■' ‘

THE SUMMER GIRL’S FAVORITE.

Not long since Mrs. Grant was buying the confectionery for a din ner at West Point. While she was in the shop some young girls, accompanied by cadets, came in and bought candy, the girls paying for it, as the cadets are never expected to have money. Mrs. Grant smiled on them and said, “I am buying candy for the old Generals and the pretty girls are buying it for you.”

Miss Charlotte Mary Young, the author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” “The Daisy Chain” and other popular novels, completes her seventieth year on August 11, and her friends propose to present her with a birthlay gift.

Mrs Nancy W. Boynton celebrared her 100th birthday at Hoosick Falls, if. Y., Sunday last. Mrs. Boynton, whose maiden name was Wheeler, was born in Fitchburg, Mass. She has bad ten children, of whom seven are living.

TOO VALUABLE TO SELL.

Where Property Gan Scarcely Be Bought fbr Low or Money. Chicago Post. There are twenty or thirty great business centers in the City of London where property is of almost equal value and rated exceedingly high. To buy the four .acres now occupied by the Bank of England and bounded by Princess, Threadneedle and Lothberrv streets and Bartholomew lane it would be necessary to produce a well certified check for the snug sum of $40,000,000. Ten million dollars per acre is the valuation made not long ago on a lot in the vicinity of the bank, and a lease was mada on that-basis. Pieoadilly, Strand, Fleet street, Charing Cross and other business streets in London have corners worth from $50,000 to 1100,000 a front foot. The owners of this property being as a ruio men or estates of great wealth, are satisfied with 3 to 31 per cent, on their investments, whße here the owners of such property—expect 6to 8 per cent.: consequently land is a great deal higher in the business center of London than it is Chicago. I notice that on the sec-ond-hand business streets in London land is held about twice as high as it is here. In the suburbs of London a great deal of property has been sold out by the lot by methods similar to ours. London is fast becoming a great city of home owners. The managers of large estates that were held for a number of years upon leases made on a low valuation concluded that it would be better to subdivide the property and sell itout in lots, and reinvest the money. This has been done to a great extent in all parts of the city of London, and probably accounts for the wonderful increase in population during the last fifty years. Small buildings, such as we sell for S3OO to SI,OOO are sold in London for almost twice that sum. In Paris little property is offered for sale; in fact a sign board is U rarity, although occasionally you see a piece of property on the backstreets for lease. It is very hard to get any information about property in Paris. Most of it is held by owners who are wealthy and refuse to sell, but on the principal streets the rent of the stores is high, considering their size, the stores being very shallow and small. Prices are no doubt higher, the rental value considered, than in Chicago.

In Venice scarcely any property is offered for sale. tfhe city has decreased in population, but there seem to be no vacant houses, and the only way I could ascertain the value of property was to figure out the rents on the business streets, which were higher, all things considered, than in Chicago. In the old city of Rome rents on two or three of the principal streets are very high, and the stores being small it would seem that a small income must be produced according to the value held upon the land. In some directions from the center of Rome buildings are being erected, and land for an ordinary residence lot, in a rather poor locality, compared with any of our suburbs, would be about 30 or 4G per cent, higher than the prices we. ask.

Even in Cairo, Egypt; the price oi lots along the business streets would astonish an American. I asked the proprietor of an English store called the Manchester, located near Shepneara s rioitti? wiitix rtjn t no patti. The store was about 25 feet front by about forty feet deep, with a small annex half as large. He answered that he paid about $2,000 per annum. It did not look to be worth over SSOO. Cairo has a population of about $350, - 000, and there are some stores in the Turkish quarters where the bazaars are, about, 4 feet square—room enough for the proprietor to sit tailor fashion and sell his wares to passers-by—which bring about SSO a month. Even in Jerusalem a boom is in * progress, on account of the railroad having been extended to the city, and lots were selling for SSOO to SBOO that we would consider high at $200; and I discovered in nearly every city I visited, even in old Athens, which is rapidly increasing in population under the administration of Kiug George, that lots were selling on the outskirts for S3OO to S4OO.

A scientific journal tells this story of a frog’s cunning; A brood of chickens was fed with moistened meal in saucers, and when che dough soured a little it attracted large numbers of flies. An observant toad had evidfentjy noticed this, and every day toward evening he would make his appearance in the yard, hold to a saucer, climb in and roll over and over until ho was covered with meal, having done which he awaited developments. The flies, enticed by the smell, soon swarmed around the scheming bntrachian, and whenever one passed within two inches or so of his nose his tongue darted out and the fly disappeared. The plan worked so well that the toad ness of it._

Accommodating.

Fraueazeltun g. Guard—Fraulein. get iu quick, please! The train is just going to 3tart! Young Lady—But I want to £fivc my sister a kiss. Guard—Get in, get in, I'll see to that.

In the White City.

Harper'* Wepkly. Paterfamilias (entering the gate at the head of the procession). Great lan’gloriah! I'd a giben dat spotted mule ob mine for de contrac’ ob whitewashia dis yer place!