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WHAT OUR REPORTER S&W 
AT THE FAIR. 
Being anxious to keep posted upon even - 
thing new in the Horticultural world T we 1 
sent a representative to one of the neigh¬ 
boring county fairs. this fall, with direc¬ 
tions to report upon the fruits and vege¬ 
tables on exhibition there. The fair was 
one of the kind quite common throughout 
our country. By some they have been de¬ 
nominated “•Agricultural Horse-trots” and 
are conducted by Bankers, Lawyers, Hotel 
and Saloon Keepers and Sporting men. 
The elegant Show Bills announced “Speed 
premiums nearly $1000,” while the premi¬ 
um list for stock and other exhibits was 
summed up in the very comprehensive 
terms. "The premium List is an exceed¬ 
ingly liberal one”. A very little mathe¬ 
matical calculation resulted in the discove¬ 
ry, that the liberality of it consisted in cash 
premiums of $185. and seventeen Diplomas. 
Our reporter turned artist and the above 
Letch represents the principal fruit^ of the 
fair, and the most of the vegetables. One 
of our neighbors came home from the same 
fair, bragging that he made 85 cts. through 
his skill on a “pool wheel,” but Said noth¬ 
ing about another investment of which we 
afterwards incidentally heard, in which 
he lost $100. by betting on the wrong horse. 
In company with a stranger, who was 
“sure he knew where the right card was,, 
bnt hadn’t quite money enough to put up. 
and take it.” our friend kindly loaned $5. 
which was staked on a little “confidence 
game.” He savs lie thinks the monev must 
have gone up in the big balloon which was 
advertised as one of the special attractions 
to the fair. It will probably come down in 
some man’s pocket who understands human 
nature better than he does. When asked if 
he was an exhibitor at the fair, he said he 
“took some stock in it.” After taking a,so¬ 
ber second thought he says he thinks he 
entered ; and’exhibited 1 himself as a jackass. 1 
