The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-07-06
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

South BuEMAH and the East Indies in.
tend to have n worthy exhibit at the Ex
position.
japan has applied for spacs in the Worlds
Fair Mines and Mining building Tor min
eral exhibit.
COLLECTIVE exhibit at the Worlds Fair
by the various college fraternities in the
United States is well assured.
THE Indian exhibit Mt the Worlds Fair
will include representatives, of every tribe
from the extreme north to Terra del Fuego
SOLID gold brick, weighing 800 pounds
and worth $3.50, 900, will be exhibited in the
Mines aud Mining building at the Worlds
Fair by "a Helena tMontana) mine owner.
The Ohio State Archaeological and His
torical Society will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, among many other interesting articles,
collection of specimens OF old colonial aud
State bank money.
The chair in which Thomas jefferson sat
while writing the Declaration Of Inhepend.
ence is now owned by the Philosophical
Society, Philadelphia. IL is reported that
the Worlds Fair.
A SCHOONER is now being fitted out at
Halifax to go to the arctic regions to get ten
or twelve Esquimo families fifty or sixty
persons in all, for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair. Dogs, fishing implements, utensils,
and everything necessary to show Esqulmo
life, will also be procured.
THREE Worlds Fair Commissioners from
France are now in Chicago TO erect aud
decorate the building which will be the
headquarters of France at the Fair, aud TO
compete arrangements for installing the
French exhibit. They say that France will
have AN exhibit unrvaled by that of any
other Nation.
The Worlds Fair grounds aud buildings,
now nearing completion, are so renowned
as most beautiful and interesting spectacle
that not only do from 5OOJ to H., 900 people
day, at u cost of twenty-five cents apiece,
inspect them, but the great majority OF
travellers who pass through Chicago devote
day or more to the SAME purpose.
MRS. Potter PALMER, President of the
Board of Lady Managers, who has recently
returned from European tour, reports
that the women of Europe, particularly of
Great Britain, France, Germany and Bel
GUM, are deeply Interested in the Worlds
Fair, and are working hard to make the
woman's branch OF 1t splendid success.
AN exhibit of bells will be made at the
Worlds Fair by a large manufacturing con-
cern in this country, and the firm is plan
ming to display it in reproduction of the
Tar Kolokol king of BELLS, the famous
broken bell OF Moscow, which is twenty
two feet in diameter and twenty-one feet
three inches high, weighs 448 az pounds,
and is used as chapel.
IT is probable that number of genuine
Astrakhan sheep, the finest specimens living,
will be exhibited at the Worlds Fair. A
dozen of them have recently arrived in this
country from Persia, having been pur-
chased there by United States Minister
Beale for Secretary Rusk, of the Department
of Agriculture, who intends to try the ex-
pertinent OF raising the species in this coun-
try.
THOSE who have been charged with the
preparation of the Turkish exhibit are max
ing very extensive preparations TO have 1t OF
superior merit and interest. They will char
ter large snip to transport the exhibit.
They will bring over 40 native TURKS ar
rayed in their National costumes. They will
reproduce at Chicago street in Constanti-
nople with all its peculiar crookedness and
narrowness and its interesting bazars aud
restaurants. The bazars will be filled with
salable articles of Turkish manufacture.