Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-10-12
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

At an expense equal to about $500,
an industrial school at Guntoor, India,
will make a notable exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. The exhibit will be en-
trey of articles made by Mohammedan
women, and 1t Is stated that none of
their work has ever been exhibited at
an international or natioual fair.
small drawing-room in the Woman's
building will be furnished with articles
made by tie pupils of the schoo,.
Among the articles to he sent are q
very handsome velvet portiere embroid-
cred with gold, velvet embroidered
with gold for upholstery, a table cover
OF white serge embroidered with gold
and silks, piano cover, curtains of
Indian material embroidered with silks,
fancy wall decorations, handsome pic
ture frames with gold embroidery, ia
BILE covers, rugs, tea cozies, cushion
covers, center pieces for tables, trim
ming for evening dresses. altar cloths,
etc. Some of the articles, it Is an
nounoed, will be for sale.
1t is proposed that one of Moptana's
contributions to the Exposition. to be
made by women of the Sts'e, shall be
a fountain made of natural ore. The
design will be selected by open COM
petition. 1t is sugg sted that the base
be made OF native minerals, the bowl
Of silver and the cup of gold.
Dauphin county, Pa, will send for
exhibition in the Woman's building at
the Worlds Fair an elaborately carved
table of extraor Iinary historical in er-
est. 1t will be composed of woods
taken from the yoke OF the famous
"Liberty Bell" from the house in
which the first American flag was
made, from Wsshington's headquarters
Mt Valley Forge, from tue Old ship
Constitution, and from a pillar in In
dependence Hall. The upper surface
will be inlaid with Indian arrow heads,
relics of the Six Nations, with whom
VI al Is now Dauphin county, was once
favorite hunting ground.
Late advices from Sydney, New
South Wales, sustain the view that,
notwithstanding the commercial and
financial depression existent in some
parts of Australia, the Australian ex
hibit at the Worlds FAIR will be
great and representative display.
From Sydney will be sent a remark
able astronomical clock. Thi> clock is
forty-i,e e feet high and twenty-five
feet square at the base. Within it IS
exhited the motion of the sun. Mer-
curry, Venus, and earth revolvinS on
its axis around the sun and the moon
around the earth. The sun is to be
represented by an electric light which
will illuminate the surrounding plane
tary bodies.
Swsden's building at theWorld's Fair
mas been designed on the lines of the
old Morse Stave churches, but with
more solidity. The building Is being
constructed in Sweden and will be sent
to Chicago in sections,
There is to be in the California build
ing at the Worlds Fair q womal's re-
ception room, to which every county
in the stare is expected 10 contr butte
some article of furniture, art of virtu.
The women of Alameda county have
decided to furnish for this room and
donate a life-size portrait of Miss
Emma Marwedel, who first introduced
IrepeI system of education on the
Pacific Slope. The framing will be of
California woods, made and carved by
local talent. Miss Marwedel is now
resident of Berkeley, a2d well ad-
vanced in years