Passaic City record., 1892-07-09
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

RUSSIA will make very extensive e1
hibit at the Worlds Fair.
THE mineral exhibit at the Worlds Fair
promises to be incomparably finer than any
ever before made either in this country or
abroad.
KENTUCKY will make at the Worlds Fair
an exhibit Of tobacco in all its forms from
the seed up to the matured and manulac-
tured leaf.
GREAT BRITAIN, France, Germany. and IN
fact many other foreign Nations, are asking,
and almost insisting that more space be
granted for their exhibits at the Worlds
Fair
AN exact fac simile oe the San Louis Ray
Mission. perhaps the finest and most csle-
brated of ali the famed old mission ruins in
Southern California, will be seen at the
Worlds Fair.
IT is reported that King Alexander: OF
Servia has decided to visit the Worlds FAR
next year. He is sixteen years old and son
If the much-talked. of ex-King Milan and
* Queen Natalie.
A BUFFALO IN. " man proposes to
furnish the Worlds Fair with an attraction
IA the shape of a collection of snakes. he
.laims TO be able to show as many as 2OJo
different varieties
GROUP of Caribs from the Lesser An
TILES descendants of the cannibal race dis
covered DY COlumQuS on ulS ScCOuu NOy0SC,
will be at the Worlds Fair, engaged in max
ing baskets and in other native industries.
MORE than one thousand men ara now
work on the mammoth Manufacturers
building for the Worlds Fair. The total
number of worKmen at jackson Park now
exceeds 7OC0 1t will probably be increased
TO 10000 or more.
AN agent of the Turkish Government is on
ais way to Chicago to superlntend the con-
;truction of the Ottoman pavilion and
Turkish village for the Worlds Fair. Ac-
companying him are native masons who will
build the pavilion.
THE Swiss National Council has appro-
priated $24 600 for an exhibit at the Worlds
Fair Of the Swiss matchmaking industry.
It also approved subsidies for exhibits OF
other industries including female work IN
the manufacturing line.
ONE of the novel exhibits in Machinery
Hall at the Worlds Fair will be model
paper mill 1t will be in active operation
and will show all the processes OF paper
making from the pulp to the finished card,
which will be in the form of a Worlds Fair
souvenir.
THE Kentucky building at the Worlds
Fair will be a typical representation OF
Southern colonial mansion, one of the dis
tinctive features of which is great plllared
| porches or verandas. Exclusive of these
porches the building viii measure about
| twenty-five by ninety feet.
THE American Ostrich Company has sent
| TO Chicago for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair thirty birds from its ostrich farm at
| Fall Brook, San Diego County, California.
The ostriches have been sent on thus early
| in order that they may become thoroughly
| acciimated by the time the Fair opens AMI
appear at their best.
THE Washington Worlds Fair Commis-
| sion has arranged to make very complets
| fish exhibit 1t will include all kinds of
deep sea and inland species of fish, oysters,
CLAIMS, crabs, Holsters and other crustacsaus
turtles, frogs snakes and other reptiles,
specimens of acquatic mammals such as sea
| otter, seals, fishes. beavers muskrats, ETC.:
| fish-eating birds and their nests and eggs
and fishing boats and apparatus.
The Jelly palace. which the women of
| California will prepare for the Worlds Fair
| exhibit, will be sixteen by twenty feet and
twenty-five feet high, with two open doors
approached by three marble steps. The
| frame work will be of wire. On this will be
firmly placed several thousand jelly glasses
| cups, globes, prisms, tc.-flled with jelly
| of many shades OF color, arranged in artistic
and beautiful designs. The interier will be
brilliantly Illuminated by electricity. The
| cost of the frame work and glasses alone is
| estimated at S27n0.
|