The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-13
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

SOUTH BURMAH and the East Indies in.
tend to have worthy exhibit at the E1-
position.
Japan has applied for space IN tho Worlds
Fair Mines and Mining building for min
eral exhibit.
A COLLECTIVE exhibit at the Worlds Fair
by the various college fraternities in the
United States is we'll assured.
THE Indian exhibit at the Worlds Fair
will include representatives Of every tribe
from the extreme north to Terra del Fuego.
A SOLID gold brick, weighing 500 pounds
and worth $50, 900, will be exhibited in the
Mines and Mining building at the Worlds
Fair, by Helena (Montana) mine owner.
THE Ohio State Archaeological and His
torical Society will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, among many other interesting articles,
q collection Of specimens OF old colonial and
State bank money.
The chair in which Thomas Jefferson sat
while writing the Declaration Of 1ndepend::
ence is now owned by the Philosophical
Society, Philadelphia. 1t is reported that
this interesting relic will be exhibited at
the Worlds FAIR.
A SCHOONER is now being fitted out at
Halifax to 60 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 snow Esquimo
life, will also be procured.
THREE Worlds Fair Commissioners from
France are now in Chicago, to erect and
decorate the building which will be the
headquarters of France at the Fair, and to
compete arrangements for installing the
French exhibit. They say that France will
have an exhibit unrivaied by that of any
other Nation.
The Worlds Fair grounds and buildings,
now nearing completion, are 50 renowned
as q most beautiful and interesting spectacle
that not only do from 5000 to l2OOO people
a day, at a 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
oium. are deeply interested in the Worlds
Fair. and are working hard to make the
woman's branch OF it splendid success.
AN exhibit OF bells will be made at the
Worlds Fair by large manufacturing con-
Germ in this country, and the trm Is plan
niug to display 1t in a reproduction OF the
lar 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 443, '72 pounds,
and is used as chapel.
Il is probable that a number OF genuine
Astrakhan sheep, the finest specimens living,
will be exhibited at the Worlds Far. a
dozen of them have recently arrived IN this
country from Persia, having been pur-
chased there by United States Minister
Bea.e for Secretary Rusk, of the Department
of Agriculture, VINO intends to try the e1-
pertinent OF raising the species In this coun-
ITS.
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 a large ship to transport the exhibit.
They will bring over 400 native Turks ar.
rayed in their National costumes. They Will
reproduce at Chicago a street in CONSTANT.
nople with all its peculiar crookedpess and
narrowness and its interesting bazars and
restaurants. The bazArs will be filed with
salAble articles OF %urKish manufacture.