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Show -uyster Palace" on the shores of the 1 classic Chesapeake, or a "Yam Palace" in Georgia. 8t. Louis Rennhlio, Falace. of Various Kinds, Awny back in the misty past, when the porcelain makers of China combined and erected their famous "Palace of Porcelain," they little thought of the example ex-ample thoy were setting for coming generations. gen-erations. The ice bound Russians first took the hint, and erected the first of the "Ice Palaces," an example followed by Montreal, Quebec, St. Paul and other boreal American cities, who thought to boom their prospects by advertising the fact to the world at large that they were situated within the circle of the shadow cast by the north pole. With a more practical eye to business the people of the south erected the "Cotton Palace" at New Orleans, followed closely by the 'Corn Palace" at Sioux City, la. Since the last named unique erection "palaces" have sprung up all around, like toadstools in damp weather. Nebraska Ne-braska has her "Sugar Palace," Crestoh, la., her "Hay Palace," Pueblo, Colo., her "Mineral Palace," Ottumwa, la., a "Coal Palace," and last but not least the "Flax Palace" at Forest City, la., in which an exhibition of the resources of that section sec-tion of the state isnow in progress. If this "palace" business is carried much further we may soon expect to hear of "Uold Paiice" on Wtill street, an |