Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE Fine Arts building at the Worlds
Fair will have a mosaic floor. the con-
tract for which has been let at $40, 9S9
ONTARIO (Canada) breeders of thorough
bred animals have already applied for space
for l63 horses, 1913 cattle, 27S sheep and
nlnety-one swine.
A SEPARATE building at the Worlds Fair
Tor the shoe and leather industry exhibit is
now an assured fact, as the required 800, GOO
oas all been raised.
MODEL of the figure of Lots wife in
salt" will appear in the Kansas Worlds
FAIR exhibit to represent or illustrate the
salt industry Of the State.
The German exhibit at the Worlds Fair
will contain an architectural display includ =
ing drawings illustrating 200 or more of the
most notable buildings in the empire
The New York State Board of Charities
is preparing an industrial exhibit for the
w orlds FAIR Of the products of the charita-
Ole, corrective, reformatory and eleemosy-
nary institutions under its supervision.
FULLY 100000 men, it is believed, will
participate in the parade on the occasion of
the dedication Of the Worlds Fair buildings
IN October. The miltiamen and regulars
who will participate will number about TO-
O00
AN Indiana stone quarry company is
having a life-size figure of an elephant
chlseled out of a solid block of stone 1t
will be eleven feet high and weigh thirty
tons. 1t will be exhibited at the Worlds
Fair.
RHODE ISLAND will present its Worlds
ralr building to Chicago after the EXPOSE
tlon Closes The structure will be very pc
turesque in appearance, being a reproduce
tlon In part of the famous "Old Stone Mill"
at Newport.
MRS. POTTER PALMER, President of the
Board of Lady Managers, and Archbishop
ireland have agreed upon plan for secur-
ing for the Worlds Fair an exhibit of the
work of the Catholic women of the world
Inns project has the special approval of Pope
Leo XIII.
A WHALING party is being fitted out at q
massachusetts, port with view Of obtaining
live whale for exhibition in the Fisheries
department at the Worlds Fair If cap
tured, the whale will be confined in a tank
ana towed to Chicago by way of the st.
Lawrence River.
MORE than 200 panels of native woods
will enter into the interior decoration of the
w ashlngtOn's Worlds Fair building. Some
or them will be carved and others decorated
with paintings Of Washington scenery and
groupings of flowers, fruits, grains, fish.
game, birds, etc.
THE South Kensington Museum, London.
recently paid $50 1900 a yard for some
lace manufactured in the south of Ireland.
1t is said that this is the highest price on
record and that the lace is of the most
exquisite workmanship. The lace will be
exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
EN- international congress of charities
correction and philanthropy will be held at
the Worlds Fair, to consi Ter questions
relating to the care of criminals, paupers
and unfortuna,es. The congress will begin
June - 1898, and last one week. Ex.Presi-
dent r. B. Hayes has been invited to pre-.
side over its deliberations.
THE California Capitol will be represented
in miniature at the Worlds Fair by an ex-
hibition of pickles: The women of Fresno
County will distribute $500 pounds of raisins
in souvenir boxes. A playing fountain of
wine will form feature OF the viticultural
display. A rose tree twenty -four inches in
circumference will be one of CALIFORNIA; ex-
hibits.
THE New York Central Railway, in it's
exhibit at the Worlds Fair will strikingly
illustrate the wonderful improvements that
have teen made in railway transportation
by showing magnificent, complete vesti-
buled train and along side of it reproduc-
ton Of the first train of cars used in this
country, the cars Of which resembled old
fashioned stage coaches