A highly interesting study of the natives of West Java (Dutch East Indies)--their occupations--and their bamboo huts--could be had in the _Javanese Village_ exhibiting more than a hundred little men with bright and cheerful Malay faces, and thirty-six short women whose graceful movements were a source of attraction to thousands of visitors. This scene of the tropical regions stood in striking contrast with a feature in immediate nearness--pertaining to a temperate clime--the _German Village_. Here, in the spacious concert-garden shaded by the dense foliage of numerous oak-trees, two German military bands, one of the infantry and one of the cavalry--seventy-four men in all--gave grand _echt deutsche Militaerconcerte_. The group of typical German peasant homes, the Black Forest House, the Westphalian Inn, the Upper Bavarian Home, and the Spreewald House, together with the Hessian Rural Town-hall, and the Castle were exact reproductions of mediaeval times. A portion of this stronghold from a remote date, was given up to the ethnographic museum; a collection chiefly of implements of war and of chase, illustrative of all periods beginning with the pre-historic and ending with the renaissance. An attractive group in wax constituted the figure of Germania, surrounded by German heroes from Arminius down to William I. The _Pompeii Panorama_--near by--showed a very realistic representation of this city destroyed by the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79. This display was succeeded by the _Persian Theater_ and the _Model of the Eiffel Tower_. We left the crowded roadway, and entered the narrow _Street in Cairo_ which made an imposing impression with its strange, oriental facades--the picturesque shops--and the quaint overhanging upper stories of the ancient Egyptian city. Natives of this African country--which is fertilized by the waters of the Nile--manufactured and had for sale Egyptian, Arabian, and Soudanese articles. Donkeys and camels were engaged in carrying visitors who chose to admire the busy thoroughfare seated on the backs of these animals. The native camel-drivers in their national costumes moved around and mingled with the strangers--which gave the populated street a peculiar charm to the eye, whereas the "Bum-Bum Candy" sold by Egyptian confectioners, afforded a strange sensation to the palate of the visitor. Here, where the architecture, the surroundings, and the people were as far removed from anything American as could well be imagined, we really--for some minutes--were lost to all consciousness of being in that extremely modern city, called Chicago. After having viewed the side attractions to which belonged the Egyptian temple--resembling the temple of Luxor--the tombs of the ancient kings, and fac-similes of mummies, we entered the _Algerian and Tunisian Village_. Besides a theater, it contained a great number of booths or bazaars in which a choice selection of goods of all kinds--peculiar to Algiers--was for sale.