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Show OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Dozens of Unique Materials Used In the Craatlon of World's Fair Statuary. Statu-ary. Umlurlng mnrble anil tempornry stall, which hnvo marked tho statuary statu-ary of past expositions, aro not tho only kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Imposition, although more works of art enrved fronj these iritterlals aro there exhibited thau wtro ever collected col-lected at one place In tho history of the world. Many odd mnterlals have been made up Into artistic figures that eloquently elo-quently proclaim the Idea of tho do-signer. do-signer. Somo of these unique stntues nre colossat In size and larg sums of money were expended In their making. mak-ing. Birmingham, Ala., has built a statuo of Vulcan. It Is 60 feot high, tho base constructed of coal and coko and tho statue cast In Iron. It portrays por-trays Birmingham's Importnnco as a manufacturing center. King Cotton Is Mississippi's offering. Cotton Is tho material used, nml tho giant Is as tall as Alabama's Vulcnn. Tho Spirit of Utah Is manifested In an artistic figun idelcd from beeswax. Idaho presi i ,.s the flguro of a Coeur d'Alono miner east from copper. Coldon butter was used by a Minnesota Minne-sota nrtlst as tho appropriate material ma-terial for a statue of John Stownrt, tho builder of tho first creamery. Louisiana presents two curiosities In sculpture a flguro of Mophls-topholes Mophls-topholes In sulphur and Lot's wife carvod from a block of rock salt. California shows tho flguio of nn elo-pliant elo-pliant built of almonds. |