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Show THE BEASTS OF KANSAS. A Novel and Interesting- Exhibit for the World's Fair. Kansas will make at the world's fair a notable exhibit of its native animals. The specimens are being prepared by Prof. L. L. Dye-he, of tbe Kansas State university, one of the most skillful of living taxidermists. The exhibit will consist of at least four hundred animals, and. will Include a fine group of ten Rocky mountain sheep, seven Eocky mountain goats, nine moose, eight elks, seven antelopes', five caribou, five buffalo buf-falo and twelve deer including mule, white-tailed, Virginia and others; eight wolves, timber and coyote; five mountain moun-tain lions, six bears, twelve foxes, including in-cluding a beautiful silver gray; besides a large number of lynx, wildcats and other smaller animals. At Ctlcago the exhibit will be divided di-vided into fifteen groups. It will occupy oc-cupy a room 83x60 feet and the entire floor space is to be built up to represent a natural landscape, with rocks, grass, cacti, willows, quaking asp and natural fir anjl evergreen trees. On each side of the'wtng will b biiiit a tall cliff and in between a valley with a running stream of water, a lake and swamp. On the back it Is intended to have a panoramic pano-ramic painting, continuing the effect of be scenery of (he foreground and giving distance to the scene. Each group of animals will be placed among surroundings imitative of their native haunts; tbe moose yvtU be seen in natural positions In the swamp; the goats and sheep on the rocky cliffs and the buffalo on a buffalo grass prairie, One feature of the exhibit will be "Comanche," "Co-manche," Gen. Custer's famous war horse, that has been mounted by the protestor wtb)n the Jasf jyear, |