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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-11-3, Page 66siwasseesemennenzeacherainisebeateme *Ie PUBLISHED----• est EVERY FRIDAY MORNING (11111m0 for the early malls) at "The Rost" Stoma Publi"slting Rouse, Tueo0E0Br ST., Bxosseoo, 0:12, T10112.1000SrnFanlrTrox.--000 dollar and every haus, year, n le nn[;l i lydenot to by the date on the address label. AnweirruIOO HAr1as. The following rates will bo chergoil to those who advertise by the year :— sP nal:. Tx i 1 YIi. I b lntl 1 it dna One Colua1b00 ' umn 500.00 505,00 -2000 Half 3G.OU 0.0.00UO 12.00 Quarter 00.00 10.00 8.00 bigLth tt I 111.00 6.001 G.00 ._.... _.. Piut cents per line for Drat insertion, and three Dents per line for each subsequent iu. sertlou. Alt advertisements mewl ed as TOnpureil-12 news to the Laeh, 1308111000 Cards, eight lines and under, 55 per an num. AdvertiseulOute without specie°dime- thane, will Ito inserted until forbid, and charged acoardingiy. Inatructlons to chetme e• eisoontluue au advertisement must be lett at the counting roam of Tun Pose mit later than Tuesday [. This is Imperative. of eu 11 weal This P Editor and Proprietor. World's Fair. There are three things to see at the Fair—the buildings, the exhibits and the people. I fancy that the the people are as interesting an anything else, We etc all Americans, Seutchmen, Danes oe Normans, if n'e are Loyal, naturalized citizens, we are as good as the rest of you. (I have just discovered that the Scotch regiments would not fight against the Americans iu the Revolution. If you Yankees had had the Scotch to fight, yon would never have driven them into the sea.) There are strange contrasts at the Fair. Here in the woman's building is a pin - tune by Marie Bashkirtseff and a relief bust of Ophelia by Sarah Bernhardt. In another building a obeese 2,200 pounds in weight hobnobs with an :Irish round tower made out of whiskey bottles. Queen Victoria has some croohebting along with an embroidered waistcoat which Marie Antoinette made for the king of France. John Jacob Astor has an invention which jostles a coutrivancs made by a Western farmer. The prince of Sweden competes with a stone mason of Stockholm. What a difference in men's equality since Henry VIII pilled the eye teeth out of a duke whose estates he wanted I The breezes of Lake Michigan make the study of whiskers a useful and in. tereating one. There are stalagmite and stalactite whiskers. What a pity that while a man min become handsomer as he grows older, by a judicious distribu- tion of whiskers, the poor women are shut out from that- privilege. I'm not saying that the women ought not to have as many rights as men. I am willing to give them all the rights I have and one mors—the right to be proteoted. We met a man with a glib tongue— afterwards learned that he wag an exbinet crater of what had been a camp meeting volcano. Ile belonged to the genus fake, which is the most numerous genus in zoology. He exhorted us to go in and see the Aztecs. 'Come and see the Aztecs,' be implored. 'Those old and ancient poopleof that old and ancient village. Here you will find sights that will swamp your imagination and drown your fancy. We did not dig then] up in a cemetery and bring them here. They are breathing, sentient creatures like ourselves. They are alive and breath the same air that yon do. Go in end feast your eyes upon them. Go in. Everybody goes. Why ? It is historical, This is the centre of interest in the Plaisance. The father brings his family, the mother her daughter, the brother his sister ; they all go to see those old and ancient peoples, of that old and ancient village. They are all here, building ad• obe houses, making ornaments, laying out streets—all, down to the old village blacksmith malting toys for the women and obildrmn. Slop I stop I atop 1 delay a moment i pay it a visit I" And do yon know what wee in there ? Well, one poor peaked Chicago girl selling pottery, and an ugly Ione Indian trying to keep warm. People came out laughing over being fooled, and the keen•witted fakir observed with a benignant air : 'They all come out smiling—delighted.' It's just )ilio nmarriage; nobody will admit that he has been swindled. Our Western sisters aro there in great force—very vocal and very breezy, and the amount they don't know would fill a dictionary. 'That's Liberty Y ; Liberty lightin' the earth,' observed one to her friend, referring to French's great Mettle of the republic. And the other believed that it was indeed the Bttttholdi mono• meet taken down and brought over to Chicago. When will people think for themselves ? 'The dogs have bitten him, poor fallow,' said one about Orphans, who ie sculptured es facing the three. headed Cerberns. Of sixty mouths I oonnted tlairtylive were open in one gal- lery. But the ]Midway Plaisance•—ah, there yo't are 1 '.0hat is the most remarkable street the eye of men hath seen. What is the use of telephones and telegraph.; when you can sit in Java and bear the band playing in Berlin ; or watch the bhtuk 'fleeces of Dahomey while the chirrup of the Laplander is in our ear ; and the music of the Roman singers can be heard in Cairo ? The Dahomey font are interesting as being the lowest on the cantle of civilization. The young ladies smoke black play pipes, and the Dehorn- Ian mother ie the incomparable night- mare of the human race. The boys dere are s.0 bad and misohievous no they are in Terra del Somerville. The cannibals are the handsomest, of the savages—that is. the Samoans. In the Java village in Monsieur Riese, en fburang-oulang. He is as strong ns seven horses. Ido is like unto a New York policeman, and Jim said it would be well now, before Prof. Garner has taught these fe)lowe to speak, if the coachmen and others would form an Anti•onrang.ontang league. Here onpsrlutives aro in order. We have the biggest cheese ever made ; the biggest cannon ever omit ; the biggest fish ever hooked; the biggest wheel ever con. c•ived ; the biggest f0)10 ever aeon ; the biggest building oiler ereetod ; the biggest e lgn0e ever run ; the model of the biggest ship afloat ; it ditto of the biggest hammer ever used, from the biggosb furnace aver blown ; the twist fountl1i0 evor planned ; the biggest fair grounds ever laid out ; the most beautiful situation ever offered for such au exhibition ; the best built art gallery in the world ; the beet eleotrin railroad anywhere ; the oldest relics ; the newest discoveries ; the rudest barbarism, the ripest oivilizlition ; the purest religion, the most hopeless paganism ; the largest Silver status, and the most powerful electric motor 011 the earth ; the beet fire- works and illuminations that crowd the poor moon into a earner ; the greatest search -light ever mads ; lbs only moving sidewalk on the planet ; the best vase and largest diamond on this (mntiuout ; the sword of Toussaint and the sash that Lafayette staunched his wounds ,with at • Let me give yon a fete figures. The area of the World's Fair is 1,037 acres, or nearly four times the space of any previous exposition ; 0,000,000 squere feet are under roof. The main buildings cosb 58,000,000, and the whole cost of the ex- position will be over 522,050,000. Con- cerning the situation of the Fair no difference of opinion seems possible. Nothing approaching it either in beauty or extent was ever offered to an exhibi- tion before. Stretching in all its length for two and a half miles it has ire :entire front on Lake Michigan, en, the loveliest body of fresh water m the world., It is very accessible to Chicago by all means of transportation. Let me give you the dimensions of one building, the Liberal Arta building, which, whether considered on account of its gigantic size or for the severe and beautiful lines of its architec- ture, or for the great talent which made such a strnature possible, must make ns yield to delight and wonder. This build- ing is 1,687 feet long, and 787 feet wide, has a ground floor of 32 acres, or nearly two and a half times that of St. Peter's, which 10 the largest permanent building in the world. It is not only the largest roofed building ever erected by than, but it is the world's arehiteotural wonder. Some people go to Europe and oom0 back to tell us that everything American is new, cheap and vulgar. Why don't they go and stay iu Europe ? The only thing I have to say of such is, may they die soon and leave no deaeendante. Well ; this big house took to build it 17,000,000 feet of lumber, 12,000,000 pounds of steel, and 2,000,000 pounds of iron, and cost 61,700,000. Any church in Chicago could be placed in bhe vestibule of St. Peter's at Rome, but here is a building three times the size of that. The old Roman Colosseum seated 80,000 people, but this is four times larger than the Colosseum. The entire bailding would seat 300,000 people, givingeacb six square feet ; twenty such buildings as the Audi• toriom could be placed on its floor ; to grow the lumber for it would take 1100 acres of Michigan pine land ; the iron and steel on the roof would build two Brook- lyn bridges, and there are 1400 morn tons of metal in it than in the great bridge of Capt Eads at St. Louis ; in the skylights are 11 acres of gloss or 40 carloads ; the roof is 212 feet 9 inches high, the truss span of the roof is 135 feet, the weight of it is 400,000 pounds. In the central hall the Vendome Column of Paris could be mounted on a 71 foot pedestal sans touch- ing the roof, which is only 11 feet lover than Bunker Hill monument; the roof is only (3 foot bowor than the bop of the spire of Grace church, New York. he ground pan is more than twice the size of the great pyramid of Cheops ; six games of baso ball Gould go on at once upon it. At the French Exposition of 1889 the Palace of Mechanical Arts 108,0 thought to be tremendous, but that could be placed inside of lhie building, and the Eiffel Tower laid out flat on it without the Tower touching the envelop- ing structure. The standing army of Russia could be mobilized under its roof. I ]net the architect of it in Now York last month ; be told me 00280 of the buildings he bad erected, and I knew that no one but a genius could do mole things. While I was speaking to' him, one of the .111r. Vanderbilts celled him up on the telephone to discuss a mansion which be is building in one of the Carolinas, which is to be finer than any residence or palace ever built before. In design it Is severely simple, yet massive and beauti- ful. The eye takes in at a glance its chaste and plain exterior, and the mind is thrilled by the idea of its stupendous size, solidity and strength. It was in this vast building that on Friday, Oot. 21, 1992, the Vioe-President of the Unit. ed States, Levi P. Morton, dedicated the White City to the use of humanity, in the presence of a multitude estimated at 150,000, representing every natio] in the world. There are 12 miles of Melee in the thirteen main baildinga of the Fair, and it is estimated that 15,000,000 people will see it and probably more. One other great prodigy I would like to give you the figures of before Igo. That f t g she Ferris wheel. 110r. Ferris is -a ,young man in his thirties. He designed this wheel in just 20 minutes, the entire thing. No other country int Ameiioa could have built it under similar conditions. It took three years to build the Eiffel tower ; it took two years to build the St. L01ia bridge. Both were simple works. Ferris had to construct a work equalling these and yet one that would move—engineers 111010 that this is a far greater problem. On Deo. 28th every scrap of metal in the wheel was "pig" ; on June 251,11, '98, less than six months later, 2,200 tons of this "pig" had been converted into a rovoly• ing meobaniam, as perfect as the pinion wheel of an Elgin watch, and began to turn on its 70 ton axle, the largest ever made, which is suspended at the height of 140 feet. It has moved perfectly •ever since. One day, when the wind was blowing a gale of 110 miles an hour, Mr. Ferris, with his wife and a reporter, made a jontney in the wheel and the wind made no impression upon it for it is builded upon a rook. 'The axle is 45 feob long, 32 inched in diameter and was built by two men and a boy in the largest smithy ever designed by man, hammered under the great hammer Of the Bethle• hem Iron works of Pennep)vania. Bub if this town of Bethlehem in the Weat gave the world its finest tneohanism, the are reminded that the other little town of Bethlehem, in old Judea, gave the world its sweetest thought and iia purest religion. It took less muscular energy to lift tide mass than to handle m box of groceries. It Dost 8400,000 and has been it great financial 8000000, Rising 270 feet in the air it ewe its profile against the sky as delicately as a spider's web. It is 50 feet higher than Bunker Hill monument. If it were set to revolving on Broadway, Now Yak, it would lift ire THE BRUSSELS POST passengers to a level with the steeple of 01d Trinity Tile obelisk of Luxor and Trnjan'e pillar at home would not make m spoke for it ; it 18 four times as heavy as the cantilever bridge at Niagara Fella. It has been estimated that 02 per oat of the visitors to the Fair, go on the wheel. Of coarse you oxpeob to be dizzy and sea• siok by the motion of the care, and of course you are disappoint- ed. The sensation is most delightful. As the wheel stops and you enter the oars yen treat yourself to an anticipatory shedder, The door oloees, the °lank of the immense link chain ns it falls over the eprookeb wheel begins—.•will it tip over with so many people in it, 1,400 or so ? Would a driving wheel keel over if a few flies cluster round its rim ? You obange from one side to the other ; you begin to note the Midway Plaisance, the long lines of bazaars ; then the temple where Moses was educated, and where they say you Mtn see the golden calf of Aaron ; then you wheel around and see Chicago in the distance and Pullman straggling out over the prairies; then you look back at the grounds, in front the towers and long, gleaming pavilions of the White City are rising into 010w ; up and up still higher; like a Jules Vernes exeuision. Now bhe next oar is boueeth you nod anon you are at the top ; it stops a moment and you treat yourself to a lux- ury of another shudder ; then you dee. 0elld with a subtle, thrilling motion, and want to go round again, which you can if you wish to. To show the skill of Amer. Man mechanics the Perris wheel was made in sections, shipped to Chicago, pub together, and not a rod, joint or bar was defective. The axle (tarries 1,800 tone of revolving matter and could easily carry 8,000 tons, and stand a wind pressure of 000 miles an hour. In all thisreat Dir. ole there is leas defieotion from a true circle than there is ho the pinion wheel of the most perfect watch nude. The main principle which it developes is the strength of a tension spoke. Mr. Ferris believes that after this there will be few- er and fewer stiff spokes and more and more tension spokes, even down to a watch wheel, as the result of this 0110eeas. I believe that the two things that will revolutionize the life of the world in the future will be aluminium, the commonest element, and electricity, the commonest force. Thus pauses history on the thres- hold of another century. Whither will it lead us ? REv. PETER 11IAoQ001dN. THE {POOL» OF TABOR. India has 150 cotton mills. Trees are felled by steam. There are 6,000 lighthouses. Flour is made from bananas. Telephones are used by divers. London has 15,270 policemen. New York has 7,800 liquor bars. A shorthand type writer is new. Bread is made from sea water. New York has a woman cobbler. Paris is the richest municipality. Chiang° has a 20 story building. France has 182,000 coal minors. Electric plowing gives satisfaction. Soap is made of cotton seed oil. The United States has 8,000 banks. Luminous inti is it French invention. A Scotland dwelling cost 85,000,000. Bengal enjoys three harvests yearly. Clinton, Iowa. has the largest saw mill. The sound of vowels is photographed. Agriculture employs 280,000,000 people. Germany calces metal•aurfaoed paper. Vanderbilts have lace worth 8500,000. The German navy employe 90,000 men. The world's navies employ 1,030,000 men. A German Iron works employs 9,000 men. Germany's forests cover 84,350,000 acres. Telegraph wires ebrntoh 881,000 miles. A tobacco plant produces 800.000 seeds. A 110 ton gun has a range of fourteen miles. Ocean telephoning is said to be pea• Bible. A machine mattes 6,000 buttonholes a day. Tho States have 1655 women ministers. What an Ingersoll Man Shot. .Au ROO Fowad Grizzly Eetr Fails 10 Las - I/eadly Alan. The Fresno, Oal,, Evening Expositor gives an account of the slaying of a huge grizzly boar by Ben, C. Marr, of Chicago, formerly of Ingersoll. "H. A. Pratt, the genial gro0eryman of Fowler, and his friend Mr. Marr, have just returned from a bear bunt rip in the wild Sierras, They relate a very thrill. ing experience of their approach ou old bruin while the shaggy old easterner was snoring away in his bundled up pelt. They visited some very rough amnions, aha1eralled without limit, having2n6 travel- led several days they became very Dare• less and gave very little fear of ever see- ing Mr. Bear. "When, however, they were least ex- peobing one they came to 1111 open apace that is generally known as a meadow. Lh the edge of thio meadow a large bole With almost perpendicular wall, only about four feet deep and about seven feet in diameter lay at the bottom what you might oall a lunge old grizzly. The men having been out most all day and nob having Water wibh them, sought the open- ing in search of water, only to Deo bruin as bruin sate Henry one way, Mr. Marr the other. 1Guns in hand, hats in air, they made for the nearest tree. Mr. Marr, being swifts -t of the two, gob far• Chest away before the "bole" fellow was out, leaving Henry for a time ab the mercy of bruin. Henry finally shinned up a tree herd by, and 'likewise b8•, Marr, not more than 800 yards distant, both leaving their guns ab the foot of their tree-. Finally, between the two "treed" men tho bear eat, winking one eye e.t Henry and the other at air. Marr. Once they started to deooend for their 'guns, old bruin 'shows his teeth and up goes Mr, Marr. Henry climbs down n little lower, here comes the bear for Henry, Mr. Mere drops end gathers hie gun, but cannot take the Iloavy thing up the tree so with lightning speed he draws a bead and shoots, breaking One leg of the bear, which is so anxious to gat at Hairy now that ile ever -looked Mr, Marr, who con• dunes to pub hob lead after him until 13 shots had been fired, every ono porter• acing his hide. By thio time bruin had stopped Iciekingand he was pronounced dead. The hind foot measured 11 inches long by 7 helm broad at the toes. 1115 pelt weighed about 75 pounds. Afton he Wag droned the moat would weigh at least 800 pounde. His teeth were very symmetrical and very sharp. His skull in the forehead could hardly be broken With an axe, so thick was it. "Iiia Warship was very shaggy 10215 looked as large as an ox when the ]hinters were retreating, Henry says he wants no more bear Mute for boar in such close quarters., Mr. Marr entries the bolt for baring "killed a boar." "The meadow is tip near Dinky, north from the bald peak. The hunters were coming home after a long journey otiose the 000ntry. Mr. Marr left on Sat. dey's evening's train for San Jose, taking with hint one of the bear's feet to show to hie friends." The sinking Louisville and Noeln•ille railroad ahopmel at a eeoret sleeting on Saturday resolved upon a Complete sur- render. The flghb baa lasted for two 01 maths. The scribbler who (Moe the dirty work in Paris for bhe Brantford Courier, being anxious to lob the people know that hs was able to borrow money enough to take him to the World's Fair, and also to get enftieient good clothes on credit to wear while there, soaks of a painting that Ile beheld while gazing idly around the art gallery at the white City, He further etabes that it wee a pioture of • a mad ; then it o did not r e1 1 os. nb a that individual. viunld He also states that the man was repre- sented as being on his bailed lineae. Many a good man has been seen in thab position, lint when he says that it re- sembles ye editor as kneeling before a solitary policeman, then he simply lies, for we never were known to kneel before any 1110,13, mucin less a policeman, or any person who may think that all should bow to ahem even in black moan actions. That lying thing does nob say where or when the kneeling was done, Therefore we are unable to deal with that part of the question ab present. There being only a night constable in Paris, it could nob have occurred here, We would ask that scribbler to name his policeman, and where he resides, and also give his own autograph and wewill show him that we can handle him without gloves. He is only a mean, dirty sneak, in trying to get a slap ab us over the back of another, and one whose actions, if known, may not be of a very savoy kind either. Just give ua the names, please,of your policeman and yourself, and we will make you acquainted with the kind of food we recommend for your digestion, in order to keep your mental organs right, and also the kind of pie suitable for your polioemau, whoever or whatever ho may be. We are just out and dried for either of you. Conte oq, Macduif, and we may see who will do the kneeling and the humble -pie eating.—Paris Review. White Star Linea 'tont, iMAU , Sl'ir.AIIS111PS. Between New York and Liverpool, via Queenstown, every Wednesday. 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