Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-07
Worlds Fair Notss.

Michigan will construct its bu'ldlng
wholly Of Michigan material and will send
it to Chicago in sections.
Henry b. Worthington has offered to
furnish the Exposition free Of charge,
pumps with capacity Of 40, 900, 900 gallons
of water 8 day.
Siam has decided to make and exhibit at
Chicago which shall eclipse the one it
made at the Paris exposition. where it car
ried off the honors in the oriental section.
Welshmen will hold an eisteddfod in
Chicago at some time during the Exposition,
a dispensation permitting them to do SO
having been granted by the National Asso-
citation which met recently at Swansea,
Wales.
The first cotton gin, made by Eli Whit
ney, will be exhibited at the Exposition by
the New Orleans Machinery Company,
which will also make an extensive exhibit
of co..on gins, sugar mills and other ma
chinery.
TIE publishers Of Puck, the well known
comic paper, have been granted space, 90
| by 100 feet, for building on 'he Exposition
grounds, in which to show fully every deta
Of the process of editing and Publishing q
homorous paper.
The owner of brownstoue quarry
Wisconsin has offered to the state comr9
sioner for exhibition at tie Fair. so. d
monolith, larger than CleopstrA's needle in
New York City. The obeiisk. when COM
pleted, will weigh 400 tons and be the
largest macs of brownstone ever quarried.
An in postor, calling himself Nv. S :
assny, Of 10 Rue Louis e-Grand, Paris,
has been engaged in selling, in Europe,
agencies for the Exposi ion. He sold the
agencies for Norway and Sweden to
| Stockholm man for 50 0C0. The EXPOSE
ton authori es have taken steps to put q
.top to his opera ions. No one is author
ized to sell agencies for The Exposition.
More than $4,000 was psid into the
Exposition treasury on stock subscriptions
IN Aug 81, and for week or more pre-
vious III, receipts ran from $4,000 to
s75 900 daily. The Exposition directors
some time ago offered one ticket for each
share paid up before Sept |. and many
accepted he prefer. Another 20 pr cent.
Of stock subscriptions, making go per cent.
in ali, was due Sept. l.
| 1t has been decided to have the mschin-
cry annex an anrex in fact. instead Of being
an isolated structure a. at first plan ed.
The annex will xdjoin machinery hall on
the west. The entire structure will thus
measure 800 by ], 400 feet and be second in
size only to the manufacturer building,
the dimensions Of which are 788 by l 6SS
feet. With its galleries, the latter building
will have forty acres Of floor space.
A genius at Mnhlenberg, Pa, has COM
pleted marvellous clock for exhibition ..
the fair. Around the dial is railway
track, on which q miniature locomotive
mskes the round every five minutes. 1t
requires maenifying gla's to see the deli
cate machinery. The oil cups at the Jour
nails are so small that nothing larger than
hair can be inserted. There 10 head light
and ball, fag holders on the pilot, whistle,
and everythin come cted With . locomo-
tive. II has link motion under the engine
| to reverse The weight Of the locomotive
is Ii pounds, and it has been named 1.-The
GEN."
Mrs. Potter Palmer has called upon
women sculptors to send designs in The form
| of miniature models Of the sculpture wock
for the vomen's building. The deslgns
must be delivered to Mrs. PAlmer's eftice
before Nov. Is next. One is q group Of
figures in high relief to fill the pediment
l over Ile lIlAlU tulauEt fo Actt iubB 6t tit
base line and feet in the center. The
second design Of groups Of statuary
stands free above the a..ic cornice,
resting on the base. feet long, 3
feet deep and two feet high, so feet from
the ground Those groups consist OF .
central winged figure, standing abo It ten
feet high to the tip Of the wisgs and sup
ported By smaller sitting figures. The
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womsn's work in history. Each design
submittee must be accompanied BY an es-
timare of cost with fuIl-szsd plaster mod
els, delivered st Jackson Park and the an
ihoress Of the design accepted will receive
the contract for the execution OF these faii-
sized models.
A magnificent microscope has Just been
completed oy the Munich Poeller Physical
and Optical Insti'uts for the great Chicago
Exposition, al . cost of $3.50. 1t poses
ses msgnifying power Of ii 900 diane
ters. As might be expected, electricity
plays important part in ne working OF
this gigantic iusti umsnt. which, after in
sps ction by American citizens, 10 expecad
to give an impetus 10 the Munich mart fol
scientific apparatus. The electricity fur.
nishes ard regulates the source OF light,
whIrh pl.csd in the focus Of . paraboic
aluminium r,f-ctof reaches an intensiy o1
IL 900 candle poxer. The electricity also
provides the means Of an ingenious auto
matte mechanism for the centefin2 Of the
qusdrupie condensers and Illuminating thu
lenses. There is an arrangement for ths
exact control Of the distance Of the carbon
point. The most important n'vei festur'
is the cooling machine, which is indispen
sable on account Of the extreme heat, / 4;
, calories per second, generated BY the 10
tense Illuminating arrangement A ma
chine regulated by Helmhotz electric cen
trifugal re egalator provides the several mi
croscopic and polariscopc systems Of th'
apparatus with fine spray Of fluid car
bonic acid, which imms diately after its re
lease from the copper vessel. in which it i
held under = pressure Of % atmospheres
becomes converted into gaseous matter. d
ints nsely cold thss only .00007 grAmme o
csrbonic acid per second 10 required 70 Civ
the result. Tne magnifying power Of sh
q / apparatus With ordinary detectives. as hs
/, been sisted. is about IL coo diametefs, bu
b with the oil imnersion is can be increase