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Show .Till-MinWINTHK FAIR. Items from our legular (Torres-r (Torres-r jondent. Tlio best neujot tlio week In romicit-ioiivrlth romicit-ioiivrlth tho coming l'.xiiosHiorilinB been tlio extension of tlio time limit o( nxcttr slon tickets from tlio Hast to thirty "ln.vs This moans Hint those who ionic to .a1i(ornito3i-c the MiJulnlor l'.xposl-tion l'.xposl-tion will hmo n monlh In which to visit other jvutii of tlio Statoi Ii2siles thos- contiguous to Snn i'rnniIco, nnd that tlio hinolHs to ho derived by tlio entire l'aclflc Cout will he corresponding!) nuil'iplied. and jii'l hero there ought to lo n wonl snld nbout the number of visitors tlmtiimy reasonably lie expeitcil to conic out of the frozen Lnst to hllicr-nato hllicr-nato In the country : "Whoro tho leaf never fades In the still blooming boners Anil tho boo innijiiert on through n whole jear of flowers " The list nf attractions continues to grow, anil thcro will bo lively times during tho next threo weeks getting 'ill the concessions in readiness for the opening day There is one feature of tho contemplated attractions, however, for which no olalwrato building has to lie erecled, and jet it is ono In which a very vvidc-tiprrad Interest center?, and that Is tho grand athletic tournament. This tournament fa to cover the entire term of the exposition. Tno contests will not boon each succeeding day' programme pro-gramme hut there will bo several cvrnts each week it ml ovtrj Mlimlay will bo largely devoted to this failure. There will bo games of Liirowio between llrltishColumbhn and Ainereian teams; tbero will bo l'olo uiatclits hetvuen swell society riders, therH will be foot-bill foot-bill gamtwdetwrcn collegia and university univer-sity teams; there will be in tea and all porta of contests on tho Cinder pith mid last, though by no means least, a series of luse-h ill games in which the entire I lVillic Co let la invited to lahe part. I lu tho lou list of other attractions it 2s dlfllcult to select ono that is worthy of mora speciil mention than tl o rest, but x jterhipsthe latest added features may ho '.he mostlutcrestlng. Tlio very latest and most startling of nit tho suggestions (that have been forthcoming in tho form of concessional fc.it una of the fair Is that which is to represent "Dinte's Inferno", and w hich has already begun - to bo 'spoken of about town as "Hell an earth", i This concession is t.i bo located "V hi n very prominent part of tho expoai jMP tion gViin-s,"nud' tho character of tho Li-'.. ' outrage to the building containing tho r. .xhj bit is ono that will attract inevitabl V " attention. A great diagon's head, fif teen feet in height, with bat-like wings juotuding from either sulo, eeenis to crouch ngaiust tho ground and grin a welcome to tho pissing rrowls. The bat-liko wlngi, and entire front In fact, gilded to look like burnished gold, nud when tho sun is reflected frgm it, represents repres-ents as brilliant an exterior as ono cin easily imagine. Out of the tenter of tho lower part of this llgurc-hcad, to to speak, piojecls n long red tonguo of the dragon, and on to this, those who cure ?, f fytS to voitur-jln must stop und walk hct- jl If ' ween the teeth of tho dragon's lower jiw ' - tA into the vcrv body of the beaut. C 'jfc" Tlio interior arrangements of these ,? f " ' "Infernal Uegions" is rendered remark- '. v fi' nlily effective by tho highly colored ; stalactites which hang from tho walls . ' an I which seems to extend for miles, , j nhnt, away in tho distanro This J "( j.roi-)cctlvo is produced by means of T -fe- mirrors. There aro mirrors on every ' IrWlh hand, and never beforo has thcro been a wr better utllzntion of tho looking glass for t H llluslonsry purposes, lllddeh lights aro i '' imiilo uso nf to add to tho (.ilects n( the , f teeny and in'.riclcics of passago aro nlw !- ' I- hioiight into play. , e r In ono laigo grotloa Btago is erected, ,? t , .And half a ituten skeletons dancing I 4 ' grusiiinly lu tho foiegrouud aio so ; reflected hy minors that their uunihir j$ tosiiu to bo legion. At another polntr , .' ' t, ' after traversing tevcral tortuous avenues LJLiV tho visitor eomemiponn clever cun.ti- ' ' iiction with lnirrois nbovoand below and lss?p-" ithll,thts sum ranged that thero really I ' c' -ueeniHjo he no top or bottom to the , Amx, and hence the name of the "Uuttonless I'll". Only n little further j,," , nny tho visitor comes to tho "Uiullcwi (jn;o", produosil In the same way and j u(toas iuteiiitinrc- As tho vinlton to f " this rtmarkablo place progresses from J jiointto point, ho rises ton liigherclcvii lion, and, by trnversliig an almost Imperceptible grade, ho finally llnd himself on the shorn of n great hike, into which pours a full of Isvn, nud it It Jieie perhaps that ho gets the best idia nf this repiesontatlons of the "iuftinal llogions". The flTuit is piodurul, of fourse, by colored lights plav in upon ' Ihodeeoiationsof t he Ftiiiitiiie, and bv I divers mid sundrydovhcsforlhodihiuic- lug nf tinge ilftcte. Thero u much that is grolesquu nloiil the dancing skeletons In the mvo rofuiitr to, and thro is considerable tliat is uiunnuv in -ovcrr jiart nf tills urraiigoiucnt, hut there is ii'ithlng that is disgusting oi terrifying tlionjh thero is nuuli to ninmr. Wl.on peopln turn lu go out, alitor having wen nil the slum, they find themselves lonfronted by numb. "!' jmsages which Mem to leadevcrj here, but which really loida now here, foi I ivlienjouiilnit to fojlov oueou run V D9BMI plump against n mirror, and the result Is that lioforo vou find tho way out yo-iarp convinced that this pirllcular type of "lit II" is a decidedly Jolly place to be in. |