Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-19
WORLp,s ElLR NorEs.

Paraguay has decided to participate in
the Exposition. Barbados, French Guiana
CeYlon and Curea have also Joined the list
The upholsterers of Philadelphia have
applied for $4,000 square feet II space in
the Manufacturers building, for u collec-
tive exhibit from their several establish
mcnts.
The District of Columbia has decided to
ask Congress for an appropriation of
SJlOD1 to enable 1t to make Il creditable
exhibit at the fair.
Electricity is to be the motive force in
Jackson Park during the construction of
the buildings. The electric plant has been
completed and steam engines must go.
This is done in order to reduce the fire
risk. The saw mills. used in getting out
building material, which have been run
by steam, are now supplied by electric
power. furnished, if desired, night and
day, Electrical Engineer Sergeant is pre-
pared with 81 horsepower plant to sup
ply electric motor service. In a few days,
300 horsepower will be available.
British Guiana has appointed its ROYAL
Agricultural and Commercial Society q
Worlds Fair commission to represent the
colony, and has appropriated S2UuOO for
an exhibit President b. Howell Jones,
of the commission. has benr made It's
executive officer A space of BJxiO feet
has been requested near that assigned Ia
the Dominion OF Canada and other British
American colonies, SO that Il contrast may
be made between their exhibits and those
Of the Latin American countries.
llu5san Ben Ali, of Morocco, Is seeking
a concession to make a Morocco exhibit nj
the exposition. He says he will spend
$4,000 in showing the people, manners
customs amusements, etc, of his country
and in bringing to Chicago Il tribe Of Der
| bers.
l.. Takaqui and X. Ikeda, two reprcsen
tativcs commissioned by the Mikado oi
Japan, have been in Chicago seeking de
tailed information concerning the exposi
| ton. They were greatly pleased and sale
| their country would make fine exhibit
and that in it would be number Of til,
private art treasures of the Mikado
Day and night shifts of men are nov
worked on all the Exposition buildings
Ample restaurant accommodations ar,
to he provided at the Exposition grounds
The locations for restaurants thus far de
| cided upon are four in the Mines and Min
ing Building, Ii in the Manufacture
Building, and six on the esplanade il
front, four In the Electricity Building
and two in the Woman's Building. Som
are on the ground floor and some in TIN
galleries.
disappearing columns for the Forestr,
Building arc TO be trunks Of trees with TIL
bark on. Chief Buchanan has requisites
each state to furnish three trunks Of tree
for this purpose. Arkansas, California
Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana
Town, Maine, Minnesota. Montana, n,
braslka New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas
Wisconsin, Washington and West Virgini
have promised TO furnish their quota.
Acting Secretary of State Wharton ha
issued an order to all diplomatic officers q
Of the United States instructing them I
use their influence to have all cuts an
Autographs sent out free to boom tn
exposition admitted into foreign countrit
FREQ OF duty. This order was issued b,
cause the admission of such cuts, &c, dnt
free, has been refused by some countrie
and, in consequence, the desire to give III
exposition the greatest possible publicit
Is interfered with.
The Catholic church in Chicago wants |
, make an exhibit at the fair, and has a.
piled for 75x75 feet of space. The exhibi
according to the request, is to consist
FIRST kindergarten work; second, primai
grades; third, grammar schools fourtl
: colleges and academies; fifth, industri
schools orphanages, and deaf and dun
} institutes.