Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-26
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE City OF Mexico will have a special
exhibit at the Worlds Fair
GERMANY will be represented at the Co
lumbar Exposition as it never has been at
any previous international exposition.
THE Pilot Commission of New York has
decided to make an exhibit at the Worlds
Fair In the Transportation department.
THE old whaling bark progress with
its extensive museum OF marine curios and
relics of whaling voyages, Is now III the
harbor at Chicago, and is being visited by
hundreds of people.
WILLIAM L. LAFOLLETTE, Superintendent
of the W orld's Fair agricultural exhibit for
the State of Washington, is arranging for a
complete model farm IN miniature for the
" Washington exhibit.
IT is announced that the Postmaster-Gen-
eraI of the United States has decided to Is
new series of postage stamps, with de-
signs appropriate to the cOmmemOration of
the discovery of America.
HIP LUNG, the wealthiest Chinese mer-
chant in Chicago, together with several in
fuentIaI Chinese OF Canton, San Francisco
and New York, have applied for space e.
the w Worlds FAIR for big tea house.
New YORK will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair sections of all the trees which are in
digenous to the State. OF these there are
fOrty-three species and eighty-ive varieties,
a number which is not excelled 1t is claimed,
IN any State in the Union.
PROFESSOR PUTNAM and his assistants,
while engaged in collecting material for the
chronological exhibit at the Worlds Fair,
have made a very important archaeological
discovery near Fort Ancient, Ohio. It is
that of a serpent mound 1900 feet long and
about ten feet thick.
NEW YORK will have a large exhibit of
interesting historical relics at the Worlds
Fair. Among them will be Washington
relics, autographs of ell the Presidents.
tographs of the 81 gners Of the declaration of
independence and famous men of the revo-
lutionary war; portraits OF famous citizens
of New York, including those of all the
Governors; model of Fultons steamboat,
and many other relics dating back to revo-
lutiOnary times.
The Worlds Fair buildings will be dedi-
Gated on the 2lst of October instead of the
18th, Congress having passed a bill to that
effect October 81 is the exact anniversary
OF Columbuss landing, allowance being
made tor the correction in the calendar
made by Pope Gregory. The change of the
date OF dedication was made in the interest
of chronological accuracy, and also to obllge
New York City, which will have a Column
bian celebration on October IL
"MARsHALLs GOLD NUGGETT' will be ex.
hibited at the Worlds Fair by California,
and it is safe to say that thousands will con-
slider it one of the most interesting of the in
Vulnerable objects which will be displayed
at the great Exposition. This is the lden-
tical nugget which Marshall picked up in
the American River, February 16, 1913,
when selecting site for Suffers mill, and
which constituted the first discovery Of gold
in California. The nugget is about the size
of a lima bean, and on account of It's aSso-
Citations and the almost lncalculable wealth
and development which have resulted from
its finding, is regarded as an almost priceless
treasure.