Last Saturday a custom was instituted at the World's Fair grounds, that bids fair to be'of great popularity. It. was a procession of the inhabitants of the Midway Plaisance, that tract which is irreverently known as the "'side-show annex" to the Fair. Now the Midway Plaisance has inhabitants from most all of the lands of the globe in which inhabitants dwell, and some which are popularly supposed to be uninhabited, and the procession was a marvel to see. From Dahomey, and Algiers, and Java, and Samoa, and Zululand, and Lapland they cane, beating their musical instruments or chanting their strange songs, and the reinterested and pleased. The particular sult was that thousands of spectators were
reason for speaking thus briefly of a portion of the Fair which is to have a letter of its own before long, is that for the first time the showing made by China was in evidence. In the procession marched the Chinese actors who were brought here by a private corporation, and as they were all in the costumes of their plays, they attracted much attention. Since then, the Chinese theatre has been doing excellent business, and the managers are promoting the scheme of having a parade every day. It is a matter of much regret that there is no stronger representation here of the products of the Chinese Empire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.