The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-12
Worlds Fair Notes.


hibit at Chicago, which shall eclipse
the one it made at the Paris exposi-
ton, where it carried off the honors in
the oriental section.
Michigan will construct it's build
ing wholly of Michigan material, and
will send it to Chicago in sections.
The suggestion made by promin-
ent members of the National Society
Of the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton and the Sons of the Sons of the
Revolution, that October l lth should
be the celebration throughout the
world, as the Fourth Of July is cele-
brated in the United States, is meet.
ing with general approval.
| 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 Association, which
met recently at Swansea, Wales.
The publishers Of Puck, the we'll
known comic paper, have been
granted space so by 100 feet, for a
building on the exposition grounds,
in which to show fully every detail
of the process of editing and publish
ing humorous paper.
An impostor, calling himself "W.
Stiassny, of 10 Rue Louis-le-Grand,
Paris" has been engaged in selling,
in Europe, agencies for the exposl-
ton. He sold the agencies of Nor
way and Sweden to a Stockholm man
for $4,000. The exposition authori-
ties have taken steps to put stop to
his operations. No one is authorized
to sell agencies for the exposi.
ton.
Henry B. Worthington has offered
to furnish the exposition, free of
charge, pumps of capacity of 100000
900 gallons of water day.
1t has been decided to have the
machinery annex an annex in fact in
stead of being an isolated structure
as at first planned. The annex will
adjoin machinery hall ON the west.
The entire structure will thus meas
ure 500 by 3,4OO feet and be second
in size only TO the manufactures
building, the dimensions of which
are 1873 by 1858 feet. With its gal
leries, the latter building will have
forty acres Of floor space
| More than $4,000 was paid into
the exposition treasury, on stock sub
scription, on August 81, and for a
week or more previous the receipts
} ran from $4,000 to $4,000 daily.
The exposition directors, some time
ago, offered one ticket for each share
paid up before September Land man y
have accepted the proffer. Another
20 per cent. of stock subscriptions
so per cent. in all was due Septem-
Der l.
The first cotton gin, made by Eli
Whitney, will be exhibited at the ex-
: position by the New Orleans Ma
chinery Company, which will also
make an extensive exhibit of cotton
' gins, sugar mills and other machin-
cry.
Among the exhibits from South
D ern California will be a model con
structed to illustrate irrigation. A
0 committee has already been chosen
e prepare it.
A genius at Muhlenberg, Pa, has
= completed marvellous clock for ex.
e hibition at the fair. Around the dial
= is rail way track, on which minia
= ture locomotive makes round every
five minutes. 1t requires a magni.
. flying glass to see the delicate mach.
3 inery. The oil cups at the journals
7 are so small that nothing larger than a
hair can be inserted. There is a
3 headlight and bell, fag-holders on
the pilot, whistle, and everything
connected with a locomotive. 1t has
7 link motion under the engine to re.
verse it. The weight of the locomo.
tive is II pounds, and it has been
, named ."rhe Gem"