The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-28
the WORLDS FAIR
At New Orleans in December
The Government to be Repre- :
sented by interesting
Exhibits.

The following is the outline of the i'm
portaut exhibits to be made by the Gov
eminent ut the Worlds Fair in New
Orleans:
The Department Of State will exhibit
samples Of cotton, wool and Cosmos f.
bres, aud Of fabrics made from them in
all parts Of the world, with the statistics
Of markets, ruling prices and demand.
The Loan Department will exhibit
models illustrating various works of the
Engineer Bureau, such as torpedoes for
protecting channels and barbors, mod
els Of methods Of submarine mining, and
all outfits and appurtenances of military
engine field service.
The Ordinance Bureau exhibit will
include every variety of artillery and
small arms, of fuses and projectiles from
those in Use before the revolution to
the latest improvement Of the present
|, day. The manufacture Of guns and
metal cartridges will be illustrated by
machinery in operation.
The Signal Office work in war and
peace will be illustrated by all apparatus
Of the field service and by the exhibits
3 Of the methods of the war bureau.
Tie Navy Department will exhibit
: every variety of ordinance and small
> arms used in service, and those thai
u have been superseded. Its display o
artillery and machine guns will illus
trate the successive stages Of progress
. made during the century, All torpe
! does used in naval warfare, with ever
!, kind of projectile, will be shown. Ais,
y Farmers dynamo electric machine 70
:, firing, models of war vessels, ancien
= = and modern, and things belonging t,
. the Supply Department, will be exhib
= tied.
The Postofice Department will plac
IA handsomely equipped. office in pract
cal operation at the Exposition, and will
exhibit postal railway car, and all ar
planes of mail service. 1t will ais
T.. have machinery in motion making en-
velopes and stamps.
The Department Of the Interior vii
l. exhibit great variety of objects col
lected by agents Of the Indian Burea
Illustrative of the aboriginal life an
E, customs and of the gradual progress d
}, the rcd men from barbarism toward
st civilization.
7, The Patent Office display will consis
g of groups Of models taken from its case
l. showing chronological advances il
y steam engineering in cotton spinnin
~ and in other industries due to the ingt
nuity of American inventors.
G, The exhibit of the Geological Surve
te will comprise mineral ores and rock
IT from every State and Territory, and 81
IS gantic and interesting fossils of extnc
a animals and plants discovered in man,
:. sections of the United States.
If The Bureau of Ethnology will exhlbi
e models of ancient Pueblos and Gilt
d dwelling still existing in the Southwest
e with large collection of relics illustra
ting the life and condition of the In
\ dams, and prehistoric of the inhabit
e ants of that section.
e The Smithsonian Institution will hav,
exhibits from several divisions of tn:
e National Museum. The first will pre-
, sent every species Of American food
: fish by life size, casts, and by specimen,
. preserved in alcohol.
The processes employed by the United
, States Fish Commission for securing
and Matching eggs and transporting
young fish to the various parts Of thu
5 country with all implements, apparatu.
and transport appliances of this depart.
/, ment, will be shown in detail Every
variety of fishing tackle used through
I, out the world, from the crudest savage
: devices to the latest inventions of civil.
4 Mtion, will be exhibited. Photographs
of fishermen pursuing their calling. OF
u their homes, of their manifold methods
II OF preparing their catch for market, OF
S their boats and fishing craft, and of ev.
erything connected with their lives and
;, surroundings, will be displayed, together
y with life-size figures of fishermen of all
nations, clad in their peculiar costumes.
Evolution of ship from primitive
crudity to present perfection will be il.
lustrnted by a collection of handsome
models, to which all nations have con.
tributed.
The Albatross, one of the largest and
pest EQUIPPED steamers of the Fish Com.
! mission, will be anchored at the Expo.