Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-21
noR1p,s EdIn NOTES.

furnish the Worlds Fair with an at.
traction in the shape of collection Of
snakes. lie claims to be able to show
as many as 1000 different varieties.
A group of Caribs from the Lesser
Antilles, descendants Of the cannibal
race discovered by Columbus on his
second voyage, will be at the Worlds
Fair, engaged in making baskets and in
other native industries.
An agent Of the Turish government is
on his way to Chicago TO superintend
the construction of the Ottoman pavil-
ion and Turkish village for the
Worlds Fair. Accompanying him arc
native masons who will build the
pavilion.
The Swiss National Council has ap.
propriaied 10000 francs 1924, 900 for
an exhibit at the Worlds Fair Of the
Swiss matchmaking industry. II also
approved subsidies for exhibits of other
industries, including female work in the
manufacturing line.
The kentucky building at the Worlds
Fair will be typical representation Of
a southern colonial mansion, one of the
distinctive features Of which is great
pillared porChes or verandas. Exclusive
Of these porrhes the building will
measure about rs by 80 feet.
Major Fred Bracket of the United
States treasury department, is in Chi
cago to make arrangements for hand
| ling Worlds Far exhibits from foreign
countries, which must 60 through the
hands Of the customs officials. He esti.
mates that large fierce of men will be
required to properly conduct the work.
One of the novel exhibits in the
| marine section of the transportation
department at the Worlds Fair, will be
200 pen engrayings of American steam
vessels, beginning with the Clermont
and following down u typical series to
the prescn; day. The pictures will be
sent by the New York .seadoard, a
marine paper
The Michigan Worlds Fair board has
engaged agents to attend all county and
other fairs in the state, the coming fall,
TO secure the first premium exhibits of
farm products that they may be drawn
upon for the states exhibit ut the
| Worlds Fair. Premiums are offered
for the best collections Of grains and
grasses.
The celebrated blue grass of Kentucky
will be displayed in the exhibit which
that state will make at the Worlds Fair.
The display will possess additional
interest from the fact that the sod and
grasses are being collected from historic
spots in the state, such a. the battlefield
Of Perryyille, the home of Henry Clay,
and the birthplace Of Lincoln.
Great Britain, France, Germany and,
in fact, many other foreign nations, are
asking, and almost insisting, that more
space be granted for their exhibits at
the Worlds Fair. Sir Henry Wood Of
the British commission, is reported to
have declared that SO great is the in.
terest in England that he believes the
English exhibit would fill half of all
the buildings if the space could be
secured.
One Of the novel exhibits in Machinery
Hall at the Worlds Fair will be mode
paper mill, IL will be in active opera
ton and will show all the processes d
papcr-making from the pulp to the
finished card, which will be in the form
of Worlds Fair souvenir. Secretary
Agnew Of the Paper Trade Cllb o
Chicago, accompanied by several lead
ing manufacturers, have recently mad,
arrangements with Chief Robinson fo
the exhibit.
Russia will make very extensiv,
exhibit at the Worlds Far. 1t ha
,, made preliminary appropriation o
10000 roubles or S3s 500, but will spenC
, altogether, it is reported, more than hal
) a million dollars on its representation
1t spent over 100000 on its exhibit a
! the Philadelphia Centennial, and it i
, now preparing to greatly surpass wha
:. ii then accomplished. Alexander Dob
, ronit2ky, Russian Imperial Commis
, sioner, is now OH his way to Chicago I,
! perfect arrangements for the reception
OF the Russian exhibits.
, Kentucky will make at the World
j Fair an exhibit of tobacco in all it
Z forms from the seed up to the maturct
I and manufactured leaf. There will b
s exhibits of different varieties of plant
G in various stages of growth, and illus
trations of the manner of shipping am
handling the weed from the time tn
seed was put in the ground until tn
/ produce goes into the chewer's o
= smokers mouth. The people may b
! assured that it will be the greatest ex
,, hibition ever given of tobacco in tn
/ world. The various ways in whicl
y tobacco is used in manufacture will ais
!. be a feature of the display.
t ave were overwhelmed with til
1 magnitude Of the preparations for til
G Worlds Fair. Yes, it is on a muc
f grander scale than was the worlds fai
V in Paris. We must admit it. q
h course | cannot give anything like def
:. mite figures, but the commercial displa
d alone which France will make will No
\ fall short Of $20,000,000 in value w
will have over here an exhibit Of every
thing the country Of France produces.
These are the words Of Baron Alfred d
I NialGr, one u the three special Frenc
e commissioners, who recently visite
c Chicago to arrange for tho erection (
& the French building at the fair
! The mineral exhibit at the World
I. Fair promises TO be incomparably fine
T. than any ever before made, either i
4 thi, country or abroad. California an
i Colorado each is striving to surpo3s a
:, other states, and claims that it wi
= surely do so. Michigan, Montana m
: Missouri, too, are making a speciality
\ the exhibition Of their remarkably rio
- and varied mineral resources, and Al
= not without hope Of winning the highe
y award. Almost every state possess
mineral resources of especial meritin OF
or more particulars, and will display j
best. From all together Il wonderful
y, complete and valuable exhibit is &c
~ tainty, Then, too, many foreign nation
a notably England, will make mineral G!
1e hihits of the most complete descriptio
ID Canada occupy 10000 square feet +,
a its mineral display. Half Of it is desire
lit NV Dntnrin rroVinca which intends