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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



miliarity. Eather a complicated explana- 

 tion that leaves one still prone to cling, 

 secretly perhaps, to the belief in pre-ex- 

 istence. L. W. 



ILLINOIS DAY. 



Tuesday, June 21st, has been fixed as 

 Illinois Day. at the Trans-Mississippi Ex- 

 position. The Prairie State is the first to 

 select its "Day," as it was among the first 

 to appropriate money for a building on the 

 grounds, and it is promised that Omaha 

 will be full of Illinoisans on the 21st of 

 June. Governor John M. Tanner will at- 

 tend the Exposition with his staff, and it 

 is believed that the crowd which will pass 

 into the grounds on that day will set a 

 mark which will not be beaten until later 

 in the season. The date was agreed upon 

 at a conference between the executive 

 committee of the Illinois commission and 

 representatives of the Exposition, after 

 the commissioners had visited the grounds, 

 and formally accepted the Illinois building 

 from the contractor. 



The building is nearly as large as the 

 Nebraska building, and is one of the most 

 artistic of state structures. Its extreme 

 dimensions are 63x136. It is an effective 

 combination of the Greek and Byzantine 

 ideas, with a suggestion of the cololonial. 

 The front elevation consists of a gable on 

 pillars, and is a striking example of fault- 

 less Greek taste. The body of the house 

 is in colonial severity, with a Byzantine 

 dome in the center. The building was in- 

 spected by the commissioners, who found 

 it to be perfectly satisfactory, and afte A ' 

 taking formal possession placed a janito 1 

 in charge. The furnishing of the building' 

 which will bring the total cost up to $20- 

 000, will be completed by June 1st when 

 the Exposition gates are opened to the 

 public. 



An annex to the Illinois building has 

 been erected, which will contain one of 

 the features of the Illinois exhibit. This 

 will consist of four large paintings of the 

 World's Fair by John R. Key of Chicago. 

 Mr. Key has devoted about a year to the 



four pictures which are to be shown at the 

 Trans-Mississippi Exposition. He in- 

 tends to complete a series of ten canvasses, 

 his object being to perpetuate the great 

 exposition of 1893. One of the four al- 

 ready completed gives a view of the 

 grounds and buildings looking south from 

 the Woman's building. Another is a view 

 from the peristyle in the Court of Honor, 

 including the Grand Basin. The third is 

 a scene looking north from the Electricity 

 building, and the fourth shows the Court 

 of Honor from the front of Machinery Hall. 

 Mr. Key will also have on exhibition a 

 number of World's Fair relics. The pic- 

 tures, after the exposition at Omaha is 

 closed, will be taken to Paris. 



"To remove the smell of paint from a 

 room," says New Ideas, "take a bunch of 

 hay, place it on the floor, then sprinkle 

 over it a small quantity of chloride of 

 lime. Close the room for several hours, 

 and when opened the smell of paint will be 

 gone." This is so simple that it should be 

 tried by anyone to whom the smell of paint 

 is offensive. 



President Madison is quoted as having 

 said that the United States has been "use- 

 ful in proving things before held impossi- 

 ble." Dewey's victory proves that it has 

 not outlived its usefulness. The (Kan.) 

 Advocate and News. 



One of the western papers makes the 

 following plaint as to "what it don't like:" 

 Send in your items while they are fresh. 

 We don't like to publish a birth after the 

 child is weaned, a marriage after the 

 honeymoon is over, a death after the widow 

 is married again, or a notice of an enter- 

 tainment when the job work is done else- 

 where. 



"Your wife is a forehanded little crea- 

 ture." 



"Forehanded? The day I stayed at 

 home on account of the big snowstorm she 

 made me get out the lawn-mower and oil 

 it." Detroit Free Press. 



