Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-06

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600 by tI25, Goo and Massachusetts, has
doubled the ST5, 600, which it had already
appropriated.
The Canadian Pacific railway will ex-
hibit at the fair model passenger train,
and also models Of the fine ocean steamers
in that comp4ny's service
The Silk Association of America and the
Silk Industry association have decided to
combine in making the finest possible ex-
hibit of silk goods and products.
A choral building, 100 by 260 feet, and
costing 100000, will be erected near
horticultural hail. 1t will be devoted to
musical attractions, chiefly large Choir
uses.
A herd Of live elk will be taken from
Idaho to the exposition. In the Montana
exhibit will be shown about one hundred
specimens of wild animals and birds,
native to that state, and set up by q
skilled taxidermist.
The Methodists have decided to hold an
international camp meeting of months
duration at the time of the exposit tion. 1t
will be held half the time at Desplaines
and the other half at Lake Bluff. Both
places are a few miles out from Chicago.
Norwegians living in Chicago, with the
help of their countrymen in other parts of
the country, are engaged in raising sufli-
cient money to erect building for Nor
way at the exposition. Norway's appro-
priation of S56, ,260 is to be devoted entirely
to securing an exhibit.
The Italian government has selected its
war ship, America, to convey to the
United States the Italian exhibits to the
exposition free of charge. The Rome
chamber of commerce has invited other
chambers to form committees to promote
the securing of Italian exhibits.
Minnesota will supplement it's worlds
fair appropriation of $4,000 by 800, 900
raised by subscription. Nearly three
fourtbs of that amount has already been
secured. Hennepin county, in which Min
neapolis is situated, has contributed $685.
600. Minnesota will expend $4,000 for a
building.
The secretary of the treasury has in
structed collectors of customs at all
United States ports that the transporta-
tion of articles intended for exhibit at the
exposition must be facilitated in prefer
ence to all other importations. Exhibits
from foreign ports are already beginning
to arrive in New York in considerable
numbers
Idaho will show some splendid speci-
mems of mica in the mines building. 1t
has ledges of mica eight feet thick and
apparently ineXhaustible. Sheets of it us
large as 10 by - inches without flaw,
and as thin as tissue paper, are not u
common. 1t is proposed to have some of
the windows in the Idaho buildings
glazed with mica.
Mrs. Palmer, president of the board of
lady managers, is in receipt of communi-
cations through the state department
showing that the women of Russia are
greatly inter Asted in the woman's exhibit
at the worlds fair. Secretary Blaine, at
Mrs. Palmer's request had asked the ap-
pointment of an imperial commission of
Russian women to collect an exhibit of
woman's work in the empire
1t has been finally settled that the shoe
and leather industry will have separate
building at the fair. Representatives of
that industry have accepted the site
offered them, and will erect, at an ex-
pense of 100000, building, measuring
$50 by 600 feet, in which they will show
an almost endless array of leather prod
ucts, and every process in their manufac-
ture from the raw hide to the most fin
ished article.
One million signatures of people di-
rectly or indirectly connected with the
exposition are being collected by the
Worlds Fair Mammoth Autograph AL
bum company. Copies of these collec-
tions of autographs will be bound in three
volumes of $500 pages each, to be pre-
sented, res ctively, to the president If
the United states, for the Smithsonian
institution; to the governor of Illinois, for
the state iblsry, and to the mayor of Chi
cago, for + } city public library. I 9
names will be collected from all parts of
the world.