Passaic City record., 1892-05-21
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE Salvation Army intends to show at
the Exposition in a complete manner its
whole scheme of moral and social reform.
THE general tint of the Worlds Fair Build
ings will be pale ivory Several of them
however, will show modification of that
color.
THE liberation of carrier pigeons and the
keeping of a record of their fight will ba an
interesting feature of the live stock exhibit
at the Exposition.
THE Brazilian Minister at Washington has
notified Director-General Davis that the
Republic of Brazil will send special COM
missioner to Chicago to arrange the preim.
inaries for its exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Executive Exposi-
tion Commissioner for Canada, says that
large and excellent exhibit from the Do
minion is assured. 1t will be especially no.
table in the lines OF agriculture, dairying,
minerals and manufactures.
LIBERIA, the negro republic has accepted
the invitation to participate in the Exposi-
ton. Forty-five nations and thirty -one
colonies and provinces have now accepted,
and the aggregate Of their appropriations,
with thirty yet to hear from, Is "a, SIG. .895.
PHrLADELPHIAs contribution to the Penn
sylvania exhibit at the Fair will include a
number OF articles of great historic interest.
Among them are the desk and chairs used in
the Continental Congress. and the celebrated
portraits of the signers Of the Declaration of
Independence.
SUCCESS is already assured to the project
which an association, under the auspices of
the Board of Lady Managers, has Of erect
ing several dormitories where women. espe-
ciaily those of the industrial class, can OBJ
tain neat respectable and cheap living
quarters, while visiting the Exposition.
ITALY has finally decided to take part Of
fcally in che Exposition, and has
entrusted the management of par
ticipation to the various chambers of COM
merce in the principal Italian cities. The
Government will encourage an extensive
exhibition of Italian products and will trans
port all exhibits to New York in one Of its
war ships.
PROFESSOR CHARLES D. WALcoTT, Of the
United States Geological Survey, intends to
have at the Worlds Fair an exhibit which
will illustrate section of the earth's crust,
by specimens of the rock strata placed in
their proper relative positions. and by col
connection with the formation IN which they
are found.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has accepted the in
vitation, conveyed to him by committee,
to attend the dedication ceremonies of the
Exposition Buildings next October. 1t is
believed certain that every member of the
Presidents Cabinet and of the Supreme
Court, and nearly every Senator, Congress
man and Governor also will be present on
that occasion.
HELENA, Montana, will send to the Ex-
position meteor, discovered near that city.
It is composed Of nickel and magnetic iron,
and is in two pieces of ninety and seventy
pounds respectively. It is reported that
when found these pieces were in a hole in the
ground large enough to contain house.
from which fact it is inferred that the
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THE New York State Building at the Ex-
position, as shown by the plan which the
commissioners have approved, will be one
of the most commodious and artistic Of all.
It will measure 81 by 1913 feet, be two stories
high and covered with ssstaff, = treated to
represent marble. SThe estimated cost is from
$50, 900 tc 100000 The ground floor is to
contain wide corridors, an information
bureau, pOstoffice parcel-room. open court
and large reception room for women. The
second story will have large hall or audi
torium, forty two by eighty feet, general
reception room and an apartment for the
newspaper men of the State who may be
sent there.
MRS VIOLA FULLER, of Mitchell, s. D.,
has applied for space in the Woman's
Building for unique and beautiful opera
cloak, the only one of its kind existing. The
garment, which is fifty seven inches in
length, and circular in design, is CON posed
entirely of certain small 'und particularly
delicate feathers Of prairie chickens. Only
five or six feathers of this peculiar kind are
found on single bril-, consequently the
cloak represents not only ten years patient
labor. but the plumage of hundreds of
birds. The feathers were sewed to the foun-
dation one at a time and deeply overlap
ping, and now form light, even surface as
smooth as the birds breast The cloak is
trimmed in otter fur, which is also the pro-
duct of South Dakota.