Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-30
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

oian Exposition headquarters with an en-
thuslasm which assures splendid exhibit
from that country
A NEW YoRK company that manufactures
self winding clocks has offered TO furnish free
OF cost all the time pieces that will be needed
In the building during the Fair.
TURKEY has appointed AS Worlds Fair
Commissioners D. Jemel Edsndi, Agricul
tural Inspector at BrousSa, aud Pangir Bey.
Sub-Director OF the Foreign Press Bureau.
THE First infantry Regim Mt. National
Guard OF California, has decided to attend
the Exposition in a body, and has inauSu-
rated a plan for providing for the expenses Of
the trip.
The National Association of WOODEN Man.
ufacturers and the American Pottery Asso-
citation have each decided 10 make an exhibit
at the Exposition such as has never before
been seen in this country.
IVAN MALAKoFF, a St Petersburg CAPT.
talist wants to reproduce at the Exposition
a stree. scene from Mini Novgorod, the
celebrated place where expositions have
been held for 500 years. He agrees To spend
$3.50 900 upon the reproduction.
THE magnitude of the building operations
now going on at jackson Park can be sur
missed from the fact that an average of from
thirty-fve to forty car loads OF construc-
ton material arrives daily. The Expo
sition buildings are rising with wonderful
rapidity.
A COMPANY has applied for space to erect
a building in the form of an iceberg in which
to make polar exhibit. A group OF EsquL
maux, with reindeer, furs and all the para
phernalia OF inhabitants of the polar re-
gions will be installed in the building If the
concession is granted.
BETWEEN $40 and $50 men are employed
in perfectlng the landscape features OF the
Exposition site. 1t Is the intention to make
the grounds exceedingly beautiful by walks.
drives, lawns terraces fountains, shrubbery
and flowers Several hundred thousand
dollars are to be expended for this purpose.
THE WAYS and Means Committee has
granted w. L. Libby & Son Company, Of
Toledo, Ohio, concession for the operation
of o big cut-glass factory. The company
will invest between $50, 900 and SIS 600 on its
plant, which will be located at Fifty-ninth
street in the Midway Plaisance on plat Of
land $50 by $50 feet
G. w. WYNKooP has been sent out by q
London syndicate to fiud the gold mines in
the biblical lands Of Ophir, where King Sob
ONION and the Queen of Sheba got their
riches. He will report to Chief Skiff the re-
suit OF his Investigations and promises to
furnish some interesting matter for the
mines and mining department.
The Exposition Directory has called upon
the Comptroller of the city of Chicago to
sell 81, Co., 600 of the s. O0O,O 900 Of bonds
which the city voted in aid of the Expo
sition. The proceeds, which it is desired
shall be realized within ninety days, is to be
applied mainly to paying the enormous ex-
penses Of the construction of the build
fngs
The women of Illinois who have the
spending of $50, 600 Of the $500, 900 which the
State appropriated for its representation at
the Exposition, have been granted, for their
exclusive use, one-tenth of the space in the
Illinois Building, which, altogether, is some
thing more than an acre and hail. Inc
women will make separate exhibit.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, the civil service
champion, wants to have an American
Sportsman's Exhibit" made at the Expo
sition. In explanation of his idea he says.
II want an exhibit of every weapon and
utensil used in hunting fishing and trap
ping since the discovery Of the country down
to the present day. We have the greatest
hunting country on earth"
ONE of the unique features of the Mexican
exhibit at the Fair will be the celebrated
Pandure family, consisting OF five persons,
who are probably the most expert workers
in clay and'modelers of figures In the world
This family will be sent to Chicago by the
State of Guadslajara. It is the intention to
provide Mexican house for them to live in
during the Fair, and a workshop where the
work may be inspected.
The Palace of Music at the Exposition. it
is now expected, will stand on the great
island formed by the lagoons, and will be
surrounded by magnificent garden of flow
ers, ten acres Of more in extent. This loca-
ton Is desired by Theodore Thomas, Musical
Director to the Exposition but has not yet
been finally passed upon by the Board OF
Directors. The structure will measure 15Oby
$50 feet and cost approximately 100000.
DIRECTOR GEORGE SCHNEIDER has re-
ceived advices from Berlin to the effect that
the associated chemical works of the Ger
man Empire had agreed to make full and
comprehensive exhibit at the Exposition In
1893 AS is we'll known, the German Empire
leads all the world in the matter OF the
chemical manufactures, and the exhibit thus
determined upon can not fail TO be one oi
the most attractive and instructive at the
Exposition.
Dr. EDWARD BEDLoE, United States Con-
sui at Annoy, China, who has been an active
promoter of the interests Of the Worlds
Fair, writes to Chief Handy that in all Eng
lish- speaking circles in China, there Is a great
and growing interest in the Chicago Expo
sition. In addition TO other work he has Sc
cured promises from eight frierts to send on
their private collections Of curios and brio
a-brac In 1893. and hopes TO obtain most in
teresting collections from Annoy and from
Formosa.
SIR WALKER BILLIARD, who owns the
finest collection of native Maori curiositiea
and paintings in the world, has applied for q
space in which to display his collection. and
intends visiting the Exposition with his
family. Major John Wilson, of Auckland
has submitted proposition 10 the Foreign
Affairs Committee TO bring a colony Of
Maoris to the Exposition, house them in one
of their native built forts, and let them
show their native costumes, home life and
methods of warfare.
COLOMBIA will celebrate the anniversary
of its independence, July 20. by opening an
exposition on that date in 1892. The exposi-
ton will continue until the end Of October,
and will emhraca an extensiye showing OF