Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-29
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
The Arkansas Building at the Column
bian Fair to be Built by a
Woman.

More than 1860 carloads OF buildine
material have been received at the ex.
position grounds.
Two hundred and twenty four wine
growers from the Rhine region will ex-
hibit at Chicago.
Inc Worlds Fair appropriations by
loreign countries, as lar as reported, ag-
eregate more than "A, ,50O, 900.
The Canadian Pacific railway will ex-
hiDit at the fair model passenger train
and also models Of the fms ocean eteam-
ers In that company's service.
| Ireland feels insulted at pyoposed
scheme OF England to make whisky the
chief Irish display at the Worlds Fair
az indicating Ireland's industries.
Thieying 10 to be made extra hazard
ous by the police department of the
Worlds Fair grounds, having possession
OF the photographs and measurements
OF over 200, ,OJ0 criminals.
| One OF the most interesting portions
Of the agricultural department exhibit al
the Worlds Fair is to be models OF plants
illustrating the attacks OF various insecta
and diseases which destroy them.
The committee OF French Deputies on
the Worlds Fair have agreed unani-
monsly TO recommend to the Cbambe
the granting OF the governments request
ior 3,5OO,OO0 francs for the French ex-
hibit.
1t is thought the electric companies
nave formed a combination against the |
worlds Fair. Only two bids were re-
c.eived for lighting the grounds, and the
lowest was about three times the figure
expected.
A herd Of live elk will be taken from
idaho TO the exposition. In the Mon
tana exhibit will be shown about 100
specimens of wild animals and birds ma
tlve TO that State and set up by skilled
taxidermist.
The Arkansas building at the CoIum-
blan Fair is TO be built by woman.
Miss Jean Longborough has been noti-
ned that her plan OF the building has
been accepted, and that she will be made /.
superintendent OF its construction.
Australia will send to the Worlds Fair
probably the biggest astronomical clock
ever made. 1t will be forty feet high
and twenty-five feet square, and is TO be
built OF colonial cedar.
Idaho will show some splendid speci /
mems OF mica In the mines building. 1t II
has ledges OF mica eight feet thick and
inexhaustible. Sheets of 1t '
as large as lOxl2 inches without q flaw
and as thin as tissue paper are not un- i
common: II is proposed TO have some 4
d the windows in the Idaho building
glazed with mica. !
The Secretary OF the Treasury has in
'tructed Collectors of Customs at all n
Y nited States ports that the transporta-
ion OF articles intended for exhibit at K
ne exposition must be facilitated in a
preference to all other importations. Ex-
iioits from foreign ports are already be.
,inning to arrive at New York in con- z
iderable numbers.
Several additions have recently been 4
made TO the appropriations made by the = y
'tates and Territories, which aggregate y
], $4,000. Maryland and New York re-
pectively have voted 500. 900 and $780, at
90; New Jersey has increased its appro- @
riation of $4,000 by $50 0,O0O: Iowa its IL
$4,000 by $125, 900, and Massachusetts, W
as doubled the $40, 900 which it had al nj
eady appropriated. to
The corporation OF the rife manufact-
rers at Liege, Belgium, has addressed a w
etltion to the government asking for ar
iDsidy to enable it to make a worthy ia
xhibit OF its branch of industry at the ia
hicago Exposition. At Liege about 40 es
jO persons are employed in the manu-. fga
cture OF arms, but during recent wears
is said that productions of Liege have
unfinished in prestige. The manufact- 60
rers are now trying TO ore-establish their Ia IA
ms in favor, and to this end want To 70