look around, and then come out and
report. Accordingly, last Friday we
carried this thought, or the first part
of it, into effect. We stepped in and
looked around. Now we come out and
report. Still bearing strong impres
sions of the World's Columbian Expo
sition of 1893 and of the Atlanta Ex
position of 1895, we did not expect to
be transported with the view, and we
were not; but it was our own State
Fair, antl a-; such deserves consider
ation.
Fust taking a walkabout the grounds
to obtain a general view of the whole
bcene, we found, loudest and most
conspicious of all, a gang of adventi
tious exhibitois of freaks, etc., abom
inations that should not be allowed to
thrust themselves upon public atten
tion anywhere. Some of the booths
for live stoc were occupied by ani
mals sheep, hogs, horses, cows rest
ing at ease, seemingly unconscious that
they were on exhibition. There were
some large, fine looking animals, but
generally the exhibits in this line were
not strikingly good.
Some of the buildings seemed not to
be. occupied this year, but the main
building was nine too large for the
miscellaneous exhibits it contained.
The products of the field, garden,
orchard, poultry-yard, factory, school,
were all brought together here. The
arrangement of some of the exhibits
was artistic, surprising those who never
saw the like before, that such "nice"
things could be make of common corn,
oats, etc. One farm exhibit had a
large revolving wheel, modelled alter
the Ferris wheel, with its cars filled
with products of the farm, grain of
various kinds, vegetables, eggs, etc.
