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WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

educational exhibit at the Exposition. Many
prominent Catholics are much Interested In
the enterprise.
TwENTY-EoUR foreign nations have now
officially accepted the invitation to partlcl-
pate In the Exposition. Russia, Turkey,
Denmark, Persia and Egypt are among the
recent acquisitions.
The American Society Of Wood Engrav-
ers, which had a splendid exhibit at the
Paris Exposition, and carried of all the hon.
ors in its line there, has decided to make q
similar showing Of its work at Chicago IN
1893.
MINISTER PHELPS has hopes OF inducing
Baron Krupp to exhibit some of his immense
guns at the Exposition. Baron Krupp hesl-
tates, for, he says, it will cost him S25O, OoO
to make an exhibit creditable to his estab-
lshment.
THE iumbermen of Washington have
promised to contribute all the material
necessary for the construction Of the build
ing Of that State at the Exposition, and the
Northern Pacific has agreed to transport the
exhibit free of charge. Thus Washington
can expend upon it's exhibit the entire s1OO,-
600, which was appropriated.
CALIFORNIA may show at the Worlds
Fair, as a part or its exhibit, the finest col
lection Of minerals IN the United States. In
stead of making spacial collection, as was
done for the New Orleans, Philadelphia ana
Paris expositions, there is strong Prons-
bility that the State will send the magnlh-
cent collections belonging to the State Min
ing Bureau Museum.
CANADA has received, through the medi-
um of Great Britain, an invitation to make
an exhibit at the Exposition, and there is no
doubt that it will do so. A deputation OF
Ontario members Of Parliament has asked
the Dominion Government to assist Ontario
producers and manufacturers in making an
exhibit at the Chicago Worlds Fair. Favor
able consideration was promised.
The Kansas Worlds Fair managers offered
prizes of $40 each for the best samples OF
wheat oats, rye and other grains and
grasses, to be put In bundles eight inches IN
diameter; each contestant furnishing two
bundles. Half Of the samples received Will
be entered for premiums at the Exposition
and the others be used in decorating the
Kansas State building at the Fair.
MODELS in papier D1achs representing the
fur seal and walrus fisheries on the coast OF
Alaska are being prepared by the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington for the
Worlds Fair. 1t il the intention, by means
of these models, to give visitors to the Ex-
position an idea Of the seal industry which
has caused much diplomatic correspond
ence recently between this country and Great
Britain.
LIEUTENANT ROGER WELLEs, JR., of the
United States Navy, Commissioner to Vene-
zula and the neighboring colonies, reports
that the Governor General Of the Dutch
Colonies In the West Indies, composed of the
islands of Curacao, st. MAJ tins, Bonaire,
Aruba, st. Eustache and Saba. has accept
ed the invitation to participate In the Expo
sitiop, and has appointed commission Q:
take charge Of the work.
q. C. PAYNE, Special Commissioner to
Mexico, says that country will probably ap-
propriate at the start $3.50. 600 for the rep.
r.seutation at the Exposition, and that it
will most likely increase the amount to 3d.
600, 900 later on. Mexico voted s400, 900 at
the start for the Paris Exposition, and spent
81, 300 900 before it got through. Great en-
thusiasm Is manifested over the Chicago
Exposition, and Mexico will certainly excel
all previous efforts.
TIE colored people, through the National
Emancipation Monument Association, pro-
nose to erect q monument seventy-four feet
hi9h. in the Exposition grounds, commemo-
ratiye Of the emancipation Of the negro race.
The plans provide for a huge stone plinth
surmounted by negro soldier and surround
ed at the base by bronze statues OF Lincoln,
and two or three others prominent In the
emancipation movement.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and Woman's Temperance Publica.
ton Association have applied, through
Josephine r. Nichols. Of Indianapolis, for
lOOxSO feet of space in which to make an e1-
hibit. Miss Nichols says these organizations
want to exhibit flags, banners, books and
other publications and numerous otner
things, all prepared by women. and also 10
establish and operate hospital and model
creche, at the latter Of which women visitors
with babies can leave them to be cared for
while they see the sights.
Nor the least interesting feature OF the
Government exhibit at the Fair will be the
fast fight of carrier pigeons. Captain r.
E. Thompson, Of the Signal Service, mas snis
feature Of the display In charge, and at ire
cuent intervals he will iberats birds for
diehts to within 200 miles Of Chicago.
George W. Childs, the Philadelphia philan-
thropist, has taken q great interest In this
feature of the Government display. and
offers q prize valued at 500, which WILL be
on exhibition at the Fair, to the owner OF
the bird making the greatest distance In one
day.
THERE is a possibility that the visitor to
The Exposition may see the celebrated
Splitter art collection, the most comprenen-
siye collection Of European art in the world,
and valued at above a, ,OOO, COO. NJ. Splitter,
Of Paris is dead, and the magnificent coileo.
ton Is for sale. It is the hope OF artists all
over the world that this treasure may be
kept together, and all are looking to Amer
lea for the.purchaser. The bringing OF the
collection to the Exposition must be the
work of private enterprise, and 1t Is possible
70 affect this, It Is claimed, if the owners can
ha insured from loss. This collection In
eludes everything known in art during the
middle ages.
Tu1ARz, California, proposes to furnish a
very novel exhibit for the Fair. From o
gigantic redwood tree 800 feet high, and
twenty-six feet In diameter, will be cut two
lengths forty-fve feet long, and these Will be
transformed into full.sized railway coaches
by following out the interior. The rough
bark of the tree will be left on the root, and
on the sides and ends the natural wood will
be left unpublished. The interior will be nm
ished after the style Of Pullman cars: One
will be buffet dining car, with bath, BAR
ber-shop and kitchen, and the other o sleep
ar. with observation room. Ordinary car
trucks will be put underneath, and the men
of Tulare, with their wives and children,
will make the trip to Chicago in these
strange coaches and live IN them Wnlie tn9,e.
The intention Is to keep these cars In tne E3'
position grounds and to sell as mementoss
the portions Of the tree cut away In taeir
construction.
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