The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-20
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

| RUSSIA will make a very extensive eH
hibit at the Worlds Fair.
| THE mineral exhibit at the Worlds Fair
| promises to be incomparably finer than any
ever before made either in this country OF
| abroad.
KENTUCKY will make at the Worlds Fair
an exhibit of tobacco in all its forms from
the seed up to the matured and manurac
tured leaf.
GREAT BRITAIN, France, Germany, and in
fact many other foreign Nations, are asking
and almost insisting, that more space be
granted for their exhibits at the World:
Faii:
AN exact fac simile o. the San Louis Ray
Mission, perhaps the finest and most Gale
, brated Of all the famed old mission ruins IN
Southern California, will be seen at the
Worlds Fair.
IT is reported that King Alexander: OF
Servia, has decided to visit the Worlds FAIR
next year. He is sixteen years old and son
of the much-talked-of Of ex-kinS Milan ana
e1-Queen Natalie.
A BUFFALO IN. " man proposes to
furnish the Worlds Fair with an attraction
in the shape of collection Of snakes. ne
claims to be able to show as many as 2OoO
different varieties
titles, descendants Of the cannibal race dis
covered by Columbus on his second voyage
will be at the Worlds Fair; engaged IN max
ing baskets and in other native industries.
MORE than one thousand men are nov Il
work on the mammoth Manufacturers
building for the Worlds Fair. The total
number OF workmen at Jackson Park now
exceeds 7OC0. IL will probably be increased
to 10, roo or more.
AN agent of the Turkish Government is on
his way to Chicago TO superlntend the con-
struction of the Ottoman pavilion and
Turkish village for the Worlds Fair. Ac.
companying him are native masons who VIII
build the pavilion.
The Swiss National Council has appro-
priated S24, 600 for an exhibit at the Worlds
Fair of the Swiss matchmaking industry.
It also approved subsidies for exhibits OF
other industries. including female work in
the manufacturing linz.
ONE of the novel exhibits in Machinery
Hail at the Worlds Fair will be model
paper mill. 1t will be in active operation
and will show all ths processes of paper
making from the pulp to the finished cara,
which will be in the form Of Worlds Fair
souvenir.
The Kentucky building at the Worlds
Fair will be q typical representation OF a
Southern colonial mansion, one OF the dis
tinctiye features Of which is great pillare1
porches or verandas. Exclusive of these
porches the building will measure about
seventy-fye by ninety feet.
The American Ostrich Company has sent
to Chicago for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair thirty birds from its ostrich farm at
Fall Brook, San Diego County, California.
The ostricaes have been sent on thus early
in order that they may become thoroughly
acclimated by the time the Fair opens and
appear at their best.
The Washington Worlds Fair Commis-
sion has arranged to make very complete
fish exhibit. 1t will include all kinds OF
deep sea and inland species OF fish, oysters,
clans, crabs Holsters and other crustaceaus,
turtles frogs snakes and othsr reptiles,
specimens Of acquatic mammals such as sea
otter, seals, fishes, beavers, muskrats, etc.:
tish-eating birds and their nests and eggs,
and fishing boats and apparatus.
The Jelly palace. which the women of
California viii prepare for the Worlds Fair
exhibit. will bs sixteen by twenty feat and
twenty five feet high, with two open doors
approached by three marble steps. The
frame work will bs of wire. On this will be
firmly placed several thousand jelly glasses
cups, globes, prisms, etc.-flled with jelly
OF many shades Of color, arranged IN artistic
and beautiful designs. The interier will be
brilliantly Illuminated by electricity. The
cost Of the frame work and glasses alone IS
estimated at t27OO.