Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-25
woRLD,s ram NOTES.

Ceylon will conduct tea-house on
Midway Plaisance.
Queen Margaret of Italy has promised
to loan her famous collection Of rare
laces for exhibition at tho fair.
The Grown Prince of Italy, according
to Director Higinbotham, is greatly in
terested in tho exposition, and says he
will visit it.
Tho Governor of Dutch Guiana has
appointed commission of IL to super
intendent the exhibit which that colony
will make at the fair.
A parade, participated in by $4,000
bicyclists, may be Il sight Mt tho exposi-
ton. Efforts are being made to bring
about that result.
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 Pennsylvania coal operators want
to construct building entirely Of nm
thracite coal at the exposition, and TO
have $4,000 tons Of best anthracite on
exhibition.
The resources and industries Of the
state Of Minas Geraes, Brazil, will be
shown at an exhibition which opens at
Ouro Prato, on June 10Th, 1892 The
best Of the exhibits will be brought to
Chicago later.
In the Washington state exhibit will
be included representation of the
methods used by the Makah Indians in
catching salmon and other fish. The
exhibit will include boats, lines, hooks
seines, harpoons, &c.
The Sultan of Turkey has consented
TO the erection of a mosque at the expo
sition grounds for the religious services
OF Mohammadans who attend the fair.
1t is reported that $4,000 will be ex-
pended in its erection.
The Rhode Island Worlds Fair board
contemplates having its exposition build
ing at Chicago combine the best afchi-
tectural features Of its state capitol at
Providence, together with those Of the
old capitol building formerly occupied
at Newport.
The horticultural department of the
exposition is planning to have mag.
niticent rose garden in which will be
fully $4,000 plants, besides large group.
in special areas The garden will he Of
classic design with temples, arbors, arch
ways and trellises.
The Illinois state exposition board
has set apart $4,000 as a special fund
| for the encouragement of live stock ex,
hibits at the fair The fund is appor-
toned as follows; horses, 81 per cent
cattle, 80 per cent; hogs, 10 per cent
sheep, IL per cent; poultry, 6 per cent
Members of the Farmers Alliance il
Kosciusko county, Ind, at recen
meeting in Warsaw, decided to asses.
themselves weekly to provide fund tC
defray their expenses for visit 10 til,
Worlds Fair About 400 farmers ant
their wives will compose the visiting
party.
1t is now the intention to have in tn,
fisheries building a restaurant devoted
as far as possible to the exclusive sery
ing of fish. Fish dinners, and fish, fresl
and salt, served in every edible style
will be q popular feature, it is believed
and will give visitors an excellent OBJ
portunity TO know the merits of fish a
food.
| Some Swiss painters, at Geneva, ar
painting large panorama of tn
Bernese Alps, with the intention o
bringing it to Chicago for the World
Fair. The panorama will measure 5
by 345 feet and cost 100000. TIL
sketches for the panorama were takei
from the summit of the Alannlichen
5000 feet high.
A dispatch states that silversmith il
Monterey, Mexico, is engaged on worl
in silver which when completed will b
an exact reproduction of the agricul
tural building now being built on tn
Exposition grounds, Chicago 1t will
be eight feet wide, will contain a auan
tity of silver valued as bullion at $1,000
and when finished will be valued a
100000.
II. Gloster Armstrong of London j
in Chicago, making applications 70
space upon which to show reproduc
ton of the Tower of London, or rathe
the most interesting portions Of it, sue
as the "White Tower" "Beaucham
Tower" "Towcr Green" "rraitor
Gate" &c. He represents compan
willing to expend $250,00O in the entel
prise.
Balsa Brothers, the largest cigar mar
ufacturers in Mexico, will make an ea
tenslve exhibit at Chicago in 1893 an
Loring Olmstead, who has charge {
one OF the largest tobacco plantations
Mexico, which is the property of I'll
Bank of London and situated in tn
state of Puebla, will make very into
csting exhibit, illustrating hacienda
life in Mexico.