Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-02-26
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

WURLU'S EAlR NUIESs
CRYLoN will conduct tea-house on Mid
way flaisance.
A PARADE, participated in by a, 600 bicy-
clists, may be a sight at the Exposition.
QUEEN MARGARET, Of Italy, has promised
to loan her famous collection of rare laceS
for exhibition at the Fair.
THE Governor of Dutch Guiana has ap-
pointed commission of thirteen to superin-
tend the exhibit which that colony will make
at the Fair
Iowa, in its exhibits at the Exposition,
will show the various forms in which corn
products are useful as food, and also the
processes Of their preparation.
The Sultan of Turkey has consented to
the erection o. a mosque at the Exposition
grounds for the religious services of Moham-
madans who attend the Fair.
THE Pennsylvania coal operators want to
construct building entirely OF anthracite
coal at the Exposition, and to have sc, 900
tons of best anthracite on exhibition.
REGULATIONS for exhibitors in the several
Departments Of the Exposition have been
issued and can be obtained by all intending
exhibitors by applying for them, either In
person or by mail.
THE resources and industries of the State
of Minas Geraes, Brazil will be shown at an
exhibition which opens at Ouro Prato, on
June ID, 1881. Inc OSSU OIL Tie SAulOlOS VIII
be brought to Chicago later.
In the Washington State exhibit will be
included a representation of the methods
used by Makah Indians in catching salmon
and other fish. The exhibit will include
boats, lines, hooks, seines, harpoons, etc.
The Rhode Island Worlds Fair Board
contemplates having its Exposition building
at Chicago combine the best architectural
features of its State capitol at Providence,
together with those Of the old capitol build
ing formerly occupied at Newport.
The Horticultural Department of the Ex
position is planning to have a magnificent
rose garden in which will be fully $4,000
plants, besides large groups in special areas.
The garden will be Of classic design with
temples, arbors, archways and trellises.
THE enormous steel trusses to sustain the
roof of the Manufactures Building are about
to be erected. These trusses are the largest
ever made for architectural purposes. They
span 36S feet and rise to a height of 2l1 feet
The contract for them calls for about $780,
600.
The Bureau of Music has issued letters of
invitation to all Of the important choral
societies in the larger cities asking them to
cooperate in forming the grand chorus of
1000 voices, which will render standard ora
torios at the ceremonies dedicatory Of the
Exposition buildings.
THE Illinois State Exposition Board has
set apart $40, 600 as a special fund for the
encouragement of live stock exhibits at the
Fair. The fund is apportioned as follows:
Horses, thirty seven per cent; cattle, thirty
per cent; hogs fifteen per cent; sheep,
twelve per cent; poultry, six per cent.
SOME Swiss painters, at Geneva are paint
ing large panorama of the Bernese Alps,
with the Intention of bringing it to Chicago
for the Worlds Fair. The panorama will
measure 81 by 345 feet and cost $500, 900. The
sketches for the panorama were taken from
no of no
high.
1T is now the intention to have in the Fish
cries Building a restaurant devoted as far
as possible to the exclusive serving of fish.
Fish dinners. and fish, fresh and salt, served
in every edible STYLE will be popular feat
ure it is believed, and will give visitors an
excellent opportunity to know the merits of
fish as food.
A BERLIN dispatch states that Emperor
William is greatly interested in Germany
making a fine exhibit at the Exposition, and
that he has personally urged Krupp, the
noted gunmaker, and Schlutow, manager Of
the ship building works at Stettin, to ex-
hlbit the latest and best products OF their
vast industries.
II. GLOsTER ARMSTRONG, of London. is in
Chicago, making application for space upon
which to show a reproduction of the Tower
of London. or rather the most interesting
portions of it, such as the ''White Tower"
''Beauchamp Tower" Tower Green"
TRAITORS Gate" etc. He represents COM
pany willing to expend $3.50, 900 in the enter
prise.
A DISPATCH states that silversmith in
Monterey, Mexico, is engaged on a work in
silver when completed will be an exact re-
production of the Agricultural Building now
being built on the Exposition grounds, Chi
cago. 1t will be eight feet wide, will contain
quantity of silver valued as bullion at
$4,000, and when finished will be valued at
$50, 600.
A BRITISH woman's committee has been
selected to superintend the representation of
the work of English women at the EXPOSE
ton, and to cooperate with the Board of
Lady Managers The committee has for it's
President Princess Christian, third daugh-
ter of Queen Victoria, and includes the
Marchioness of Salisbury, Baroness Burdett-
Coutts, Countess of Aberdeen, Lady
Churchill and others