The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-19
NOTES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR

Kentucky has made : 800, 900 World
fair appropriation.
Victoria, Australia, has made a World
fair appropriation of 100000.
The Deadwood board OF trade is arranp
Ing to make q special Black Hills exhibit q
the exposition.
Great Britain has added e335, 600 to it
Worlds fair appropriation. making it no,
a6o,OOO, or approximately $500. 600.
Arguments for and against Sunday open
ing OF the expedition will be heard by th
national commission on October 9th.
The American Bible society will make Al
exhibit in which will appear copies Of bible
in more than 200 different languages.
The number OF intending exhibitors an.
nounced from Pennsylvania, up to date, il
about 800, Of which $50 are Philadslphians
Applications for spnos in the exposition
buildings now aggregate more than 1000.
600 square feet, a little over one-third he
Ing from foreign applicants.
In the California building will be showr
a growing specimen OF every California do
mestio flower obtainable, and also paint
ings, in water and oil, of 600 wild flowers
and grasses.
The French chamber of deputies ap-
proved, by a unanimous vote, the credi,
asked by tbs government to be expended
Tor the French exhibit at the exposition,
The appropriation amounts to 1875, 300.
b houae committee on territories has
reported favorably q bill permitting Utah
to expend $50, 900 for its representation at
the exposition, the amount 10 DO raised b.
slightly increasing the rate Of taxation.
A young lad, son of the editor of the
Florida Standard, ia making, for exhibition
at the fair, q table upon which appears nm
inlaid map of tile state, each county BEING
accurately represented by a separate piece
of native Florida wood.
Tiffany g. Co., Of New York, have en-
grayed the official seal Of the board Of
lady managers. from tho design furnished
by Miss Sara Bodtker, of North Dakota,
and presented it to the board. The work
manBhip is of the finest.
Acarnival of sports, in connection with the
exposition, is contemplated aud quite likely
to be established. II is proposed to provide
a large arena or amphitheater in which will
be enacted, as far as possible. every kind of
athletic sport known to the various nations
and races of the earth.
The board of lady managers proposes 10
erect near the woman's building a child
ren'a homo or public comfort pavilion fnr
mothers n children. The estimate for
the building ia $40, COO. and for mainte-
nance Slo,ouo, which sums it 10 proposed to
such a place where yonng children can be-
safe and we'll cared for while their pnrents
view the sights of the exposition will nrove
= great and appreciated convenience.
Mexico's exhibit will include n nnrnho,
of fine works OF art. Casts are being ,nnda
of the sncrihcial stone, the god Of war ths
goddess of waite. the calendar stone and
other Aztec relics, now in the Mexionn Ma
tional museum. From tho National Art
gallery, which hns n very large collection of
paintings, n number of the best works will
be sent to Chicago. Among them will be-
the representation of Hiunlgo, the "GeorOe
Washington of Mexico which was oxhib-
tied at tho Paris exposition.
During October of this yenr a fair will be
hold in San Francisco under the Joint
auspices Of the California Worlds fair
commission and tho Mechanics instituts.
Exhibits, classified by counties, will be
shown from every rortion of the Btate. and /
special efforts are being made to have them
of tho most complete and representative !
nhnrncter. This fair iB In pnrt pfer nratiou !
for California'a exhibit at tho Worlds fair. !
for 1t 10 officially announced TINT the ~stnts'a |
exhibit will be nude III largely Of the best !
articles shown at San Francisco.
A unique exhibit from Pennsylvania will
be y map of tho United States, eighteen by
-four feet, made entirely Of p%iclklos.
vegetables, fruit. ETC.. preserved by tho com.
1Aay which makes ths exhibit. The state !