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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 26 
WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. 
[EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] 
Chicago, August 12.— One by one the 
long list of hotels located near the ex¬ 
position grounds, are falling into the 
hands of the sheriff of Cook County, who 
will probably make more money out of 
hotels than any other citizen of this city, 
during the current year. Of the hundreds 
of hotels built with special reference to 
the exposition business, scarcely one in 
a 6core is doing a profitable business. 
The bottom is clean gone out, rooms are 
abundant and cheap and now is a good 
time to visit the fair, providing your rail¬ 
ways are offering reasonable terms. The 
weather is comfortable nowadays, and, 
all things considered, it is a very good 
time for the trip. 
The Midway Plaisance, as it is called, 
is a remarkable feature of this remark¬ 
able fair. While there is much of clap¬ 
trap and fakirism to be seen in it, it is 
still well worth a day’s time and its 
accompanying expenditure of cash. In 
no other way or in no other place can 
one so easily acquire reliable data as to 
the various nationalities there repre¬ 
sented. Turks are as plentiful as one 
would expect to find them in the streets 
of a Turkish village and their mosque is 
at hand. They have a Turkish theater, 
Turkish restaurant, confectioners, etc. 
One can eat a “ Coney Island sandwich ” 
and smoke a narghileh at the same time, 
while his ears are regaled with a jargon 
of a dozen languages. South Sea island¬ 
ers are as plentiful as flies and they have 
a theater, all their own. Java has a 
village where many of the Javanese in¬ 
dustries are carried on and the people 
have a theater and orchestra. They are 
a peaceful, pleasant-faced race, rather 
below the average size. The women are 
especially small. Their hair is straight 
and coal black and their complexion 
tawny or brown. In Cairo one can see 
Turks, Egyptians, Soudanese, Arabs and 
Moors, with other mixed tj pes and all 
of unquestioned genuineness. Dahomey 
has a village with its dusky, woolly men 
and female warriors. One can see a 
Lapland village, and can watch a per¬ 
formance by Bedouins of the desert or 
barter for a chibouk or a rug in the 
Algerian bazar. One need not go more 
than across the street to see a Persian 
palace, theater, restaurant and bazar, 
and the Moorish headquarters are near¬ 
by. Brazilian natives give their concerts 
in a small hall of their own, and at the 
Chinese theater one can see a genuine 
Chinese drama and his ears may be 
lacerated by Chinese music. In addition 
to all these, there are a hundred shows 
of various kinds, which will take one’s 
dime or quarter and give him the worth 
of his money. It is a motley place—a 
dream of Cosmopolis. 
New fruit is coming in freely and the 
Horticultural Buildingislooking brighter 
with each succeeding day. The New 
York exhibit received its first grapes on 
August 10, from Wm. D. Barn£, of Mid¬ 
dle Hope, N. Y. They were Champions, 
and without exception the handsomest 
I have ever seen of this variety. Mr. H. 
A. Holmes, of the same place, and Mr. G. 
G. Iiarcourt, of Highland, sent pears and 
apples. The Red Astrachans sent by Mr. 
Iiarcourt were superb. This morning the 
exhibition was enriched by a contribu¬ 
tion of 15 varieties of summer pears from 
Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester. 
The State Experiment Station at 
Geneva is still forwarding fruits and 
vegetables of the finest type. Its show 
of tomatoes has won the unqualified ap¬ 
proval of the expert judge, Mr. Warder, 
of Ohio, who compliments the station 
highly. 
The Ives are prominent in the Illinois 
exhibit of grapes. It may be that I am 
prejudiced in the matter, but I confess 
that I do not think the Ives is, in any 
sense, a table grape, though it is doubt¬ 
less valuable as a wine grape. I do 
not eat grape seeds, and one cannot sepa¬ 
rate the seeds of the Ives from its pulp 
with the tongue and teeth. One must 
swallow the seeds or refuse the Ives en¬ 
tirely. 
Mr. Henry Lutts of Youngstown, N. 
Y., on July 28 picked and sent to'the ex¬ 
position some Ogon plums At this 
writing, August 12, every one of them is 
perfectly sound, which would indicate 
that this would be a good shipper. In 
appearance, it is a very handsome, bright 
yellow, small in size and in quality 
rather lacking. It certainly stands well 
after picking. 
Exhibitors of fruit find one great 
annoyance—greater than most persons 
would imagine—in the petty pilfering 
which goes on constantly in such places. 
It sounds rather ungallant to say it, but 
candor compels the statement that a 
large majority of the offenders in this 
direction are women. Out of every 
hundred women who pass a given point 
in a fruit show there will be found three 
or four who cannot, or will not keep 
their fingers off the fruit. They will 
pull a single berry out of a bunch of 
grapes and so spoil the bunch. With 
placards “ Please don’t handle” staring 
them in the face, they will pinch a pear, 
peach or apple so hard that it rots in 24 
hours, and they are mightily offended if 
one reproves them for their fault. A 
plate of gooseberries left unwatched will 
disappear like mist before the sun and a 
plate of strawberries will lead a score 
astray. It is excessively annoying, but 
there seems to be no way of stopping the 
trouble. e. g. f. 
THE JUBILEE AT ROTHAMSTED. 
On July 29 a large party of farmers 
and scientists gathered at Rothamsted, 
England, to honor Sir J. B. Lawes and 
Dr. J. H. Gilbert. For 50 years these 
worthy men have worked together for 
the benefit of agriculture and it was pro¬ 
posed to make this a jubilee celebration. 
Leading representatives of English and 
European boards of agriculture were 
present. 
A memorial in the form of a granite 
boulder weighing over eight tons had 
been erected. On its face is this inscrip¬ 
tion : 
to commemorate 
THE COMPLETION OF 
FIFTY YEARS 
OF CONTINUOUS EXPERIMENTS, 
THE FIRST OF THEIR KIND 
IN AGRICULTURE 
CONDUCTED AT 
ROTHAMSTED 
By 
Sir John Bennet Lawes 
and 
John Henry Gilbert. 
a I). MDCCCXCIII. 
The presentation included a three- 
quarter length portrait of Sir J. B. Lawes 
and a massive silver salver to Dr. Gilbert. 
Many speeches and addresses were pre¬ 
sented from which we can quote but a 
few. The English Minister of Agricul¬ 
ture said : 
More durable even than that granite 
block would be the complete series of 
records of the work done at Rothamsted 
which were contained in the large series 
of works which lay on the table before 
him. During the 50 years the experi¬ 
ments at Rothamsted had been in prog¬ 
ress there had been remarkable changes, 
wheat having fluctuated no less than 50s. 
per quarter, having been as high as 74s., 
and in May last as low as 24s. 8d. He 
thought the development of the steam 
ocean traffic had done more to bring 
down the price of wheat than either 
Cobden or Bright, and the present low 
range he attributed to England having 
accumulated an unusual surplus just 
after the Russian famine, and in the 
diminution which had been going on 
there might be found some scintilla— 
slight it might be—of better times. 
The Royal Agricultural Society pre¬ 
sented an address, from which this ex¬ 
tract is taken : 
It has been well said that nothing in 
the records of scientific research is more 
honorable to our country than the ex¬ 
periments which, with self-denying skill, 
you have, in connection with Dr. Gilbert, 
carried on and continue at Rothamsted. 
These independent and continuous 
scientific operations, conducted under 
uniform conditions, are unique in the 
whole history of science. They have 
been carried on during 50 years at your 
sole cost, and their future continuance 
you have secured by munificent endow¬ 
ment. 
As regards ultimate cultivation, with¬ 
out added or artificial enrichment, you 
have taught those concerned how to es¬ 
timate the actual mean fertility of the 
earth’s surface ; and, amongst other in¬ 
numerable and invaluable lessons, be it 
especially remembered that in the com¬ 
position of permanent pasture you have, 
to the practical advantage of the farmer, 
successfully employed readily available 
chemistry to modify at pleasure the en¬ 
tire character of the vegetation. 
The National Agricultural Society of 
France sent an address which states, in 
part: 
More fortunate than Boussingault, you 
have enjoyed the rare advantage of con¬ 
ducting with an unequaled vigor and 
singleness of purpose through a long 
series of years, the toilsome and arduous 
but glorious pursuits to which you have 
devoted your life, and of crowning your 
multifarious researches with results of 
scientific and practical values which for¬ 
ever will engrave your name in the grate¬ 
ful memory of mankind. 
By a remarkable concurrence of cir¬ 
cumstances, we observe that in the year 
185(5 two of the then most prominent 
agricultural chemists of Europe were rt - 
ceived in our ranks, namely, Dr. Julius 
Leibig and Sir John Bennet Lawes, thus 
finding their opportunity to blend their 
superior knowledge with the science and 
experience of our own Boussingault, 
whose methods of investigation bore a 
striking similarity of genius and a frame 
of mind akin to tneirs. 
Sir J. B. Lawes, in replying to these 
addresses, said that it was only a very 
few months since he and his wife re¬ 
ceived the congratulations of many 
friends on having attained 50 years of 
married life, which was occasionally 
called a golden wedding. That after¬ 
noon he had to return thanks to that 
distinguished company for congratulat¬ 
ing himself and Dr. Gilbert on the 
work they had carried on together for 
50 years. When two persons were joined 
together in marriage they could not 
part—they were bound together by a 
solemn tie. Dr. Gilbert and himself 
were bound by no ties; but this con¬ 
nection, as he had said, had continued 50 
years. What was the cause of that ? It 
was nothing less than that he had an 
immense love of the work they were en¬ 
gaged in. lie had delighted in the work 
from the very beginning, and had given 
as much time to it as he could consistently 
with other duties; but Dr. Gilbert had 
made it the work of his life. Had it not 
been for the labors of Dr. Gilbert the 
affairs of Rothamsted would have been 
in a different state to that in which they 
now were. Dr. Gilbert was not only at 
work when he was at home, but what 
were called holidays were spent by him 
in visiting other countries and places, 
and putting himself in communication 
with other bodies, so that he might make 
his own work more valuable to those at 
home. 
It is Bust to Break Up a Catarrhal Cold 
In Its early stages, by using Dr. D. Jayne's Expec¬ 
torant, and thereby save yourselt much risk and 
misery.—Ada. 
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stomach, and making the process natural and easy. 
Price, 50 cents and $1 size bottles. Sold by all drug¬ 
gists, or direct from me. Take no other. 
r>r. ,J. W. CHILES, Dixon, Ill. 
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