Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — THE WORLD’S FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WORLD’S FAIR.

Orientals at Chicago—Electrical Cooking—How Johnny Worked —— the Gates, Etc. ORIENTALS AT THE FAIR. Harper’s Young People. Among the young people who are visiting the Columbian Exposition this summer are a Javanese baby, three Chinese boys of from two to six years, a pickaninny from Dahomey, a dancing Soudanese . baby, a little Bedouin girl who dances in the Arab encampment a pappoose or two in the Indian village, and a half dozen Egyptian boys who belabor the tiny gray donkeys in the Cairo Street. As the readers of Young People have already guessed, these boys and girls did not visit the Fair to see the curious things in the wonderful white buildings, but to be a part of the show. They are there to be looked at, not to look, and they are among the most interesting of all the exhibits. The black baby lives in the Dahomey village, which is supposed to look as if it had been picked up in Africa and set down in Chicago. In some respects it certainly does resemble the hot country about which Mr. Glave has told us during the past year. The ground is sandy enough and the sunshine hot enough for Sahara, and the reed-thatched huts which line the high board fence surrounding the village are uncomfortable enough in appearance to

satisfy the most enthusiastic explorer. In the middle of the village is a larger hut, open at the sides and covered with thatch, and in this hut the dwellers of the Dahomey village dance the war dance of their native country every hour or two for the entertainment of the white people who stroll in to see them All of these men and women are hideous in their gay calico clothing, with strings of teeth and strange-looking , bits of stone and metal hanging about their necks and dangling from their arms and ears. »But the pick a ninny is as cunning as most babies are. When I saw him he was sitting in a puddle of dirty water with no clothing on to get soiled, watching his mother and an older brother scouring two or three brass and silver rings with a bit of rag and a handful of sand. The little fellow wanted the rings to play with, and when he found he. could not have them, set up a howl that sounded very much like a white boy of two years crying because he could not have a porcelain clock or a circus wagon to play with them. COOKS BY CURRENTS. One of the interesting exhibits in the Electricity building is the cooking done by electricity. The Ansonia Electric Company have an interesting pagoda, or several of them linked together, in the gallery at the west end of the building. In one. of these on dainty tables are cooking stoves heated by electricity. A bright woman in charge will roast a chicken or a piece of beef, make a potpie, make bread, pie or cake, and tell just how much better, safer, quicker and neater electricity is for cooking than is wood, coke, coal, or gas. She will tell you and convince you with her proofs. Another thing new in the electricity exhibit is the turning off and on the light of a room by locking and unlocking of the door. It serves two puposes; one to insure the enonomy of turning off the light when not in the room, and the other as a burglar alarm, if any intruder should succeed in turning the lock after you have retired at night. To wander around the Electricity building and study the different appliances and the thousands of recent discoveries makes one believe that even with all the wonders of the present age electricity is only in its infancy as far as bur knowledge is concerned. Haypig done so much, there’s nothing that cannot be done. HE WORKED THE GATES. Chicago Inter-Ocean. X A young lad who gives his name as Johnny Semple and his home at 321 Ontario street, was yesterday caught in the act of slipping into Cairo street. Johnny claims to have been doing the Fair for three months without costing him a penny. More than that he lias ridden back and forth on the Illinois Central cattle trains all that time, too, and the rides have cost him nothing. If he hadn’t been too confiding he might have kept up his free rides and free admissions all summer, but in a moment of exultation he confided to a stranger whom lie sat beside in the car his great success. This stranger was a Columbian guard in citizens clothes. Yesterday this guard was on duty in front of Cairo street when he recognized the boy trying to get in. .

Johnny is not more than ten years old, and is evidently a street arab brushed up and one with educational ambitions. He says he watches his chances at the gates to the grounds and to the various Midway exhibitions until he sees a motherly looking woman enter. He gets up close to her as she passes the gateman,

then he stopsand appears to be looking around until the lady gets some distance away. He then claims that the lady is his mother and that he is under 7 years of age. Rather than get the boy lost from his mother he passes him in. Johnny says he has been doing the fine arts lately, and that he worked the Intramural and Illinois Central trains by means of a ticket which he had attached to a rubber fastened up his sleeve. He would hold this over the slot and let go of it when the rubber would draw it up his sleeve. FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Uruguay though an American State, is comparatively little known

in this country. But today Uruguay will introduce herself to the public of the United States and to the world in a most attractive way. Uruguay’s exhibit is in the northeastern portion of the Agricultural building, and is most attractively and artistitica ly arranged. Wool is the staple product of the republic, its chief export, and clippings and fleeces are displayed in the exhibit from many ranches. The wool is very superior long, fleecy and silky, and the output is entirely consumed in England for the manufacture of the finest cloths. All the known products of the temperate zone are grown in Uruguay, and its grasses and cereal exhibits are first-class, and complete in appearance with the best of like products in that country. But of this elaborate display, the most interesting is the

educational exhibit, abounding in samples of the kindergarten work of the little children, and maps, drawings, penmanship, etc., of the more advanced pupils of the free school which the government fosters and the church superintends. The mine, liquor and beer exhibit, is one creditable to the industrial phase of life in Uruguay. Possessed of few manufacturing interests. Uruguay makes a good leather exhibit, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes has a great display, and provides at home for the employment of many people.

INHABITANTS OF THE STREET IN CAIRO.

JOHNNY BEATS THE RAILROAD.

OLD WHALING BOAT, GOVERNMENT B'L’DG.