The Sioux City Corn Palace--and There

was liever a eorn palace outide of Sioux City - is a pulacecoven-d and embellished as with tnpestry, outside and nsiilc, witl) producís of the Meld, corn predoniinatini; ingeniously and faiicifully arranfied. In building the palace a lurife structure is tirst erected, of liimber, of a simpe that wlll carry and show to advantage the multiform decorations wlth which it Is to be ndorned. It is in forra lofty, with brokeu linos, pinnacles, buitreases, gables, bridües, ornamental Windows, etc. Over every inch of his wooden surface are laid corn and kindred plan ts in arcliitectural barmony, in a intiltiplirity of designs. The corn is euiplsyed in the stalk, tlie enr, the kernel, and even the luisk Ims lts decorative uses. All the grains and msses of the liuld IimkI themselves to the beautifyin}? of the palace. The Walls are covered on the outside with eara of cnrn cut lengtliwige or crosswise, and naileil on in jieometrical ligures or other desijfns. Tlie various colors of the cereal pennit of a wide range of shading and colorinir, while its artUtlc possibilitii-8 developed frora year to year in building tlie palace, ailmit of tlie pro dnction or elf -ets that Me us startliuü as pleasure.ible. Hiijli over the entrancc of the palace of 1889 wiis ICing Corn'a ernwn as the nuolens of a 8iiuburst, wliile below wan tlie nntional 11 ig in graceful folds - all wrought in Viiry colored corn as true and as henutlful as if paiuted liv an artist's brusli. The loof is overlaU! with corn leaves. Pinnacles and columns are capped with the sorghum plant, or with grains nnd errasses. The irridescent wall, seen from a naar distance aeetn to be ricb uiosiae of polishcd woods, wliile with the "Banuers, yellow, glorlous golden," that "That from lts roof-lree floftt and flow," the place enraptures the beholder is one wholooks upon a cloud-painted mansión that muy dissolve before his eyes. The interior work is liner and more elabórate. Here the kernel of the corn is larrely eniployed, produeing anüizing and lovely effects. On the walls are wrought pictiires, illustrating farm scènes, legendary and nursery tales, etc., with a lidellty that is cs.!culated to raise a doubt that the material employed is the homely ultilitarian {rrowth of western farms. Frescoes and flowers, ligures of persons and animáis, draperles, and thonsands of surprising and bcnutifnl things are made of field planta for the delight of the visitors to the palace, whose astonishment is succeeded by administration of the genius that conceived and developed so much of art and beauty from such homely fabrics as are employed. It will cost Í4.000 to supply the electricity for the Bioux City corn palace. Every railroad enterinjr Sioux City will make u low rate durinjl the great corn crowd ever gathered in that city. A huga water-fall 303 feet from the main entrance will bfi one of the sights at the Sioux city corn palace. The fallsare surrounded by 1,000 incandescent lights.