The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-11-13
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

| John Thorpe, the Horticulture
Chief, says that the Exposition will
advance Horticulture in this country
fully twenty-five years.
| More than one and one-half million
pounds of steel and iron will enter in
to the construction of the Mines and
Mining Building.
The Royal Agricultural and Com
mercial Society of British Guiana has
decided to hold local exhibition of
it's resources preliminary to the dis
play it intends making at Chicago.
The President of the Uruguay has
designated the Association Rural of
| that country as the National Com
mission to have charge of Uruguay's
exhibit at Chicago in 1893.
Valmorine s. Co., of Paris, who
made the largest horticultural exhib-
it at the Paris Exposition, have had a
representative in Chicago comforting
with Chief Samuels and perfecting
arrangements for making similar
exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
a $4,000 model Of stamp mill for
reducing copper, now the property of
the State Museum of Michigan. will
be shown at the Fair. This model
was made and presented by the Calu-
met and Hecla Copper Company.
A collection of all the orchids of
Central America is offered to the ex-
position by Richard Pau, a German
agriculturist, for 5000. He is now in
Central America making a selection
of orchids for the royal gardens of
Kaw and for the German Emperor.
He says he will include in this collec-
tion all the orchids between the 18TH
mus of Tehauntepec and the Isthmus
of Panama.
Mr.. Small, of London, writes to Sec
rotary decentralization he adj
dresses as General Embarrassing
for space in which to make an eXhi-
bitiOn of the newspapers of the past
Butterworth in London and had a
talk with him about this exhibit
The Secretary thinks it will be very
interesting. Mr.. Sells application
for space will probably be referred to
Chief Peabody Of the liberal arts de-
partment,
Hassan Ben Ali wishes to bring a
tribe of wild Africans, 500 in number
to the exposition as a sort of Wild
East show.
"A man living in aTitusville, Pa,
has on file an application for the ex-
elusive popcorn privilege at the ex-
position. 1t is thought that this pri-
vilege will sell for about S25,OOO
The American Pottery Association
will erect a building to cost about
$4,000.
One of the largest bicycle factories
in America has written to Chief
Smith, of the Transportation Depart
ment, that it will exhibit at the Fair
bicycles and tricyles of every style of
the trade, showing the rise and pro-
gress of the art of making wheels,
from the first bone shaker built in
this country up to the highly finished
safety Of the present day."
Chief Ives of the Art Department,
now in Europe, writes most encOurag-
ingly concerning the prospects Of the
Art exhibit Of the Exposition. He
has conferred with artists and art
societies in many of the principal
cities of Europe and has found them
greatly interested in the Exposition,
and anxious to send paintings and
other art productions for exposition.
He reports his success much greater
than he anticipated.
The Atlantic Transport Company,
operating line Of steamers between
London and New York, has agreed to
carry exhibits from London to either
New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore
free Of charge, except the actual ex-
penses of loading and unloading. This
generous proposition makes it possible
for European exhibitors to have their
displays brought to the American sea-
board practically free of charge.
A letter is received from Alex.
Campbell, Commissioner to Australia,
in which he says he will send the De-
partment Of Agriculture very large
collection Of maps and documents re-
lating to irrigation. He says Austria
liza will make surprising and COM
plete exhibit, both in the separate
fleece and in bales; also live sheep will
be sent. Mr. Campbell also says the
collection Of native woods being made
by the Forestry Department in these
colonies will be large, representa-
tive, and highly interesting exhibit.