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Show BTRAINXMG AT A GNAT AND STVAt,-I.OWIN'U STVAt,-I.OWIN'U A CAMlil., Senator Pkfi eii, who opposed th appropriation of more titan 190,000 by Kansas for the exhibit of that state at the World's fair, liits ohMged his mind about it, as appears from a recent interview in-terview heM with him at Washington. Said he: "Tho only fear is that the commission will run short of money to carry out such a tremendous enterprise. enter-prise. I ran hardly give an Impression as to the enormous character of some of the buildings, but the main building alone is two acres larger than tho farm I used to cultivate in Indiana. I'lio iron truss across that building if 688 feet long, the largest in the world. It is very ovideut that additional funds will havo to be provided and it seoms to mo that all patriotic people should be enlisted to make tho atfair a success to the fullest extent planned. J certainly cer-tainly shall do all I can to that end." There aro a good many people in T'tali, among them some of its legislators, legisla-tors, probably, who will vet be kicking themselves for not urging respectable sum for proper exhibit of Utah at the fair. Bat then our resources are too limited to permit the appropriation of more than 130,000, although we could easily stand six times as much expense per annum involved in the passago of the ' homo rule" measure. Verily, we "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." |