Passaic City record., 1892-07-30
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE Wisconsin W orld's Fair building will
have a $4,000 grand staircase.
BUTTERFLIES to the number of $50. COO
will be shown in the Pennsylvania exhibit at
the Worlds Fair. The collection is said to
be the most complete and finest in the
world.
IT is estimated that the thirty-five rail-
roads which enter Chicago will expend $110-
S00.000 in increasing and improving their
equipment and facilities for transporting
Worlds Fair visitors and freight
COSTA RICA's pavilion at the Worlds Fair
will be surrounded by gardens ornamented
by profusion of tropical plants, and in the
galleries of the pavilion will be placed more
than 5000 beautiful birds, many of which
have very gorgeous plumage.
MRS. PAUL and Mrs WISE, Lady Manag-
ers for Virginia, together with their aux
iliary board. have undertaken to raise
SIG, 600 for the Virginia building at the
Worlds Fair, which is to be full-sized re-
production of Washington's home at Mt.
Vernon.
FoR the Washington State building at the
Worlds Fair, the lumbermen of the State
have already donated 113, 900 feet of lumber
and 174 huge logs. measuring from twenty
four to 121 reet long and from twenty one to
forty-two inches in diameter at the small
END. The logs alone are valued at coo.
CONSPICUOUS in the shoe and leather ex-
hibit at the Worl,'s Fair will be the display
made by Lynn, Mass. Lynn is the largest
shoe producing centre in the United States
and fully seventy-five and perhaps one
hundred of the shoe manufacturers of that
city will furnish exhibits. They are acting
in harmony in the matter
DAoUD SIFICo. wealthy merchant of
Algiers, on recent visit to Chicago, OBJ
tanned from the Worlds Fair authorities
concession to establish an Algerian village
ana attactions on Midway Plaisance. Ac-
cording TO his account the village will be a
marvel, in its way, of Oriental construction
and highly interesting exhibits.
The Duke of Edinburgh has announced
his intention of sending for exhibition at
the Worlds Fair some of the almost invaiu-
able collections of ancient musical instru-
ments which he possesses. A part of the
collection is now on exhibition at the Inter
national Music and Art Exhibition at
Vienna, where it attracts much attention.
A SIOUX squaw living near San Diego,
California. will exhibit in the Woman's
building at the Worlds Fair a dress OF deer
skins, richly embroidered with sixteen
pounds OF beads She worked for two years
IN making the garment. From the San
Diego Mission will be exhibited a valuable
collection OF fine needle WORK by Indian
girls
FRENCH breeders have become so much in
terested in making an exhibit of their horses
at the Worlds Far that they have sought
to stimulate comp stitiou, and thus secure
the best results by offering as prizs
handsome pronzs STATUE of a typical French
trotter. This statue is to be moaeled from
life by M. Isadore Bonheur, and be awarded
to the best collection of trotters exhibited at
the Exposition.
FRANCE intends to show its skill il land
scape gardening at the Worlds Fair. A
cab.egram has been received from the French
commission asking that it be allowed to do.
and uear the expense OF, the whole decora-
tion OF the spaces surrounding the Horticul-
tural and the Woman's buildings This
generous offer, doubtless, will be accepted If
1t does not interfere with plans too tar ad-
vanced to be changed.