The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-23
WORLDS FAIR NoTps.

A creole kitchen, with native cooks
and walters, and dishes prepared in
creole style, will be striking adjunct
to the exhibit which Louisiana will
make at the Worlds fair.
In the Minnesota building at the
Worlds fair will be exhibited the old
printing press upon which the first
newspaper printed in the state-the
Minnesota Pioneer-was run off in 1S49.
The Miners Association of Nevada
county, California, is arranging to have
a small stamp mill in full operation at
the Worlds fair as part of its mineral
display.
At the theatrical and musical exhibi-
tion in Vienna great applause and popu-
larity were won by the "Schrammelnn
quartet of singers and whstlers in a
presentation entitled "Old Vienna" 1t
is announced that the quartet has been
engaged to repeat its attraction at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Professor W. N. Hailman, agent for the
committee on education of the Indiana
Worlds Fair board, is making an effort
to have the newspapers of Indiana make
showing at the fair. He will endeavor
to show the numerical growth of Indi-
ana Journalism from its inception, and
has sent out circulars to every newspa-
per in the state, asking cooperation.
An effort is being made to secure for
exhibition in the horticultural depart
ment of the Worlds fair n specimen of
giant cactus from the desert region of
southeast California. This cactus grows
at times to the height of seventy feet.
A specimen when boxed ready for ship
ment will weigh eight tons, and it will
require an expenditure of something
like $1,000 to deliver it in good condi-
tion in Chicago.
The council of the Sunday School
Union of England, acting in coniunc-
tion with the American Sunday School
Uuion, is organizing Worlds Sunday
school convention, to be held at st,
Louis, in Septenb ber, 1898, and with
view to facilitating the attendance of
English visitors is arranging for excur-
sion parties of Sunday school workers
and their friends, to leave England
about the 10th of August 1893, pro-
ceeding from Liverpool, by way of New
York and Niagara to Chicago, where
ample time will be afforded for visiting
the Worlds fair, and thence to st.
Louis, returning by way of Pittsburg,
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York to Liverpool.
The United States geological survey
has been for ten years engaged in MAX
ing great map of the United States,
parts of which will be on exhibition at
the Worlds fair. The piece, six feet in
length and four feet in width, now
ready, includes the state of Connecticut
and bit of Long Island and eastern
New York. This great map will take
at least twenty-four more years to COM
plete. Its details are such that upon it
will be indicated every stream, brook,
hillock, mountain, valley, farm, village
and city. 1t will show every public and
private road as completely as survey
or's map of small township This
map, when completed, would, if spread
out, cover little over three-quarters of
IN acre in superficial area.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2s-The following is tho
result of the racing at Brighton Beach yester-
day:
First race. 6IS furlongs-Tioga, /; jay Q,El,
2; Nubian, g. Time, LA.
Second race, " milo-Seabright, l; Saladin,
Q; Tourmaline, D. Time, l.043l.
Third race, IS mile-Crochet, l; Macintosh.
O. Sonora, 3. Time, LEES.
Fourth race, "a mickey West, /; Jack
Rose, 2; Mary Stone, 8. Time. 1.29.
Fifth race, mile-Milt Young, 1; Cynosure,
Q: King Grab, 3. Time, I43H.
Sixth race, Is mile-English Lady, /; Rogue
g. D. -