Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29
H0RLD'S ram NOTES.

The international chess tournament
to be held at Chicago in connection with
the Worlds Fair will distribute $1,000
in prizes,
The owners of the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky propose to reproduce the
starry chamber" in the Mining build
ing at the Worlds Fair.
The British building at the Worlds
Fair will have among its decorations
flags bearing the arms of the principal
cities Of the United Kingdom.
Seats for 1876, 900 people are to be pro
vidcd in the great manufacturers build.
ing Mt tho Worlds Fair for the dedica-
ton exercises on October 2lst.
The women Of La Sale county, ILL.,,
are raising money for the purpose Of
paying the expenses of some 600 or 700
women and girls during a visit to the
Worlds Fair.
Building material dealers will make
an exhibit Mt the Worlds Fair. They
will also hold an international congress
for the discussion of matters Of interest
TO the building trade.
Arkansas will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair relief map of the state, showing
all elevations ,depressions, lakes, swamps,
coal and stone areas, arabic lands, wheat,
corn and. cotton regions, timber and
prairie lands, etc.
Sweden's building at the Worlds
Fair has been designed on the lines of
the old Morse Stave churches, but with
more sDlidity. The building is being
constructed in Sweden and will be sent
to Chicago in sections.
The main railway station, within the
Worlds Fair grounds, where all excur-
sion trains will discharge their passen.
gers, will be handsome structure cost
ing $225,OOO, and will accommodate
$4,000 persons at one time.
The proposed building for collec-
tive exhibit by merchant tailors at the
Worlds Fair, will probably be near the
fisheries building. As planned. it will
be 3D. feet square with portico extend
ing to the lagoon, The tailors of Chicago
have raised $4,000, and $4,000 is
expected from members of the trade
ontside.
Persons in Bombay, India, are per-
suaded that there will be considerable
profit in making a varied display at the
Worlds Fair. They propose to send
over II elephants, so that visitors can
take rides sin howdah with mahout;n
to give exhibitions of suffice, cremation,
iugglery, nautch, wrestling, ETC., and to
sell tea at 10 cents cup. They expect
TO sell million cups.
Dauphin county, Pa, will send for
exhibition in the woman's building ut
the Worlds Fair an deliberately carved
table of extraordinary historical interest
1t will be composed Of woods taken from
tho yoke of the famous Liberty Bell
from the house in which the first Ameri-
can flag was made, from Washington S
headquarters at Valley Forge, from the
old ship Constitution, and from pillar
in Independence Hall. The upper sur
face will he inlaid with Indian arrow
heads, relics Of the Six Nations, with
whom what is now Dauphin county
was once q favOritc hunting ground.
Late adyices from sydney, New South
| Wales, sustain the view that, nntwith-
standing the commercial and financial
depression existent in some parts of All
strain, the Australian exhibit at the
| Worlds Fair will be great and repre-.
sentative display. From sydney will
| be sent a remarkable astronomical
clock. This clock is forty-tive feet high
| and twenty-five feet square at the base.
Within it is exhibited the motion Of The
sun, Mercury, Venus, and the earth re-
| yOlving on its axis around the sun and
the moon round the earth. The sun is
to be represented by nm electric light
which will illuminate the surrounding
planetary bodies.
AT an expense equal to about $500,
an industrial school at Guntoor, India,
will make Il notable exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. The exhibit will be en-
tirely Of articles made by Mohammedan
women. and it is stated that none of
their work has ever been exhibited at
an international or national fair. A
small drawing room in the woman's
building will be furnished with articles
made by the pupils Of the school.
Among the articles to be sent are very
| handsome velvet PDrtierG embroidered
with gold, velvet embroidered with gold
for upholstery, y table cover OF white
serge embroidered with gold and silks
a piano cover, curtains of Indian ina.
terial embroidered with silks, fancy
wall decorations, handsome picture
frames with gold embroidery, table
covers, rugs, tea cozies, cushion covers
centre pieces for tables, trimming fol
evening dresses, altar cloths, &c. some
Of the articles, it is announced, will be
for sale.