Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-17
" orIds Fair Notes.


AT Chicago, which shall eclipse the one
it made at the Paris exposition. where it
Carried off the honors of the oriental
section.
Michigan will construct It's buildings
wholly of Michigan material. and will
send il to Chicago in sections.
Welshmen will hold an eisteddfod in
Chicago at some time during the Expo,
sition, dispensaiion permitting them
to do 50 having been granted by the
National Association. which met recent
ly at Swansea, Wales.
The publishers Of Puck, the well
known comic paper, have been granted
space. 80 by 100 feet. for building on
the Exhibition grounds. in which to
show fully every detail of the process of
editing and publishing a humorous
paper.
An impostOr. calling himself wv. Sti
asSny, of 10 Rue Louis-Ie-G Grand, Paris"
has been engaged in selling, in Europe
agencies for the Exposition. He sold
the agencies for Norway and Sweden to
a Stockholm man for 1000 The Elk
position authorities have taken steps to
put stop to his operations. No one is
authorized to sell agencies for the Ex-
position.
Henry B. Worthington has offered to
furnish the Exposition. free of charge,
pumps with capacity of 100000 gal
Ions of water day.
The first cotton gin. made by Eli
Whitney. will be exhibited at the Expo
sition by the New Orleans Machinery
Company. which will also make an OK
tensive exhibit of cotton gins, sugar
mills and other machinery,
Among the exhibits from Southern
California will be model CONSTRUCTED
TO illustrate irrigation. A committee
has already been chosen to prepare it.
A genius at Muhlenberg. Pa, has
completed marvellous clock for exhi-
bition at the Fair. Around the dial is ii
railway track. on which mineature To-
connective makes the round every five
minutes. 1t requires magnifyiug
glass TO see the delicate machinery
Ihe oil cups at the journals are so small
that nothing larger than hair can be
inserted. There is a headlight and bell
ilag-holders on the pilot, whistle, and
everything connected with a locomotive.
1t has link motion under the engine to
reverse it. The weight Of the locomo-
tive is l pounds, and it has been named
The Gem"
The owner of the hrownstone quarry
in Wisconsin has offered to the State
commission for exhibition at the Fair, a
solid monOlith, larger than Cleopatra
needle in New York City. The obelisk.
when completed, will weigh 400 tons
and be the largest mass of brownstone
ever quarried.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has called upon
woman sculptors to send designs in the
form of miniature models of the soul
iure work for the women's building
The designs must be delivered to Mrs
Palmer's office before Nov. Is next.
One is group If figures in high relief
to fill the pediment over the main en-
trance forty-five feet long at the base
line and seyen feet IN the center The
second design of groups of statuarY
stands free above the attic cOrnice, rest
ing on the base, five feet long, three
feet deep ami two feet high. sixty feet
from the ground These groups con
sist of central winged figure. standing
about ten feet high to the tip of the
wings, and supported by smaller sitting
figures. The compositions should be
typical of woman and woman's work
in history. Each design submitted
must be. accompanied by an estimate of
cost. with full-sized plaster models. de-
livered Ut jackson Park, and the auth
Dress of the design accepted will receive
the contract for the execution of these
fulszed models.
A magnificent microscope has Just
been completed by the Munich PoeIler
PHYSICAL and Optical Institute for the
great Chicago Exposition, at a cost of
$500. H. possesses magnifying
power of 1000 diameters. As might
be expected. electricity plays AN i'm
portant part in the working of this gi-
gantic instrument. which, after inspec-
tion by American citizens, is expected To
give an impetus to the Munich mart for
scientific apparatus. The electricity fur
nishes and regulates the source of light,
which placed in the focus of parabolic
aluminium reflector reaches an intensity
of II 900 candle power. The electricity
also provides the means of an ingenious
automatic mechanism for the centering
of the quadruple condensers and illum-
mating The lenses. There is an arrange
ment for the exact control of the dis
lance of the carbon point. The most
important novel feature is the cooling
machine, which is Indispensable on ac-
count of the extreme heat, 1-43 calories
per second. generated by the intense
Illuminating arrangement. A machine
regulated by a Helmhotz electric cen
trlfugal regulator provides the several
microscopic and polariscopic systems of
the apparatus with fine spray of fluid
csrbonic acid, which Immediately after
its release from the copper vessel. in
which it is held under pressure of %
atmospheTes, becomes converted into
gaseous matter. so entenselv cold that
only .00007 gramme of carhonic scid
per second iSrequlred to give the result
/ rhe magnifying powers of the appara-