The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

scale, with SUU players, S,OOO singers
and an audience of 1900. The music
hall will contain fine concert organ,
and in festival hall will be placed an
organ for chorus support.
The national convention of the pro-
hibition party passed resolution ia
voring "a liberal appropriation by the
general government for the Worlds
Columbian Exposition, but only upon
the condition that the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor upon the grounds be pro-
hibted, and that the Exposition be
kept closed on the Sabbath day"
New York will have one of the finest
state buildings at the Worlds Fair 1t
and three stories high. Inclusive of
donated material and decorations the
structure will represent an expenditure
of more than $150,000.
Director General Davis has asked
the State Department at Washington
to make public the following ruling re-
garding the placarding of goods at the
exposition; Foreign exhibitors in the
Worlds Columbian Exposition will be
permitted to state upon placards at
tached to their exhibits the prices at
which said products will be sold at the
place of manufacture, and also the
prices i'm bond and out of bond, or eX-
elusive and inclusive of the customs
duties in Chicago.
A syndicate, representing men of in
fluence and money in both Austria and
the United States, is making arrange
ments to produce in Chicago during
the Worlds Fair the famed Passion
Play exactly as it has been given for
centuries, at intervals of ten years, by
the people of Ober Ammergau, Bavaria
The syndicate is Incorporated as THE
Original Ober-Ammergau Passion Play
Association" with capital stock of $780,
600. 1t is reported to be the intention
to present the Passion Play in Chicago
with the same east and same costumes
as were employed at its presentation at
ODER Ammergau in 1890
The executive board of the Aberdeen
Angus association has appropriated
So 600 for premiums for that breed of
cattle at the Worlds Fair in addition
to the premiums offered by the EXPOSE
ton authorities.
The Marquis de LacaZe, of Paris, has
a portrait of George Washington, made
bylStewart, an American painter, which
he offers to lend to the Worlds Fair at
Chicago. 1t was taken to France by
his wife's grandfather, at one time
minister to the United States. AS the
portrait is by an American artist, it
cannot be exhibited in the French Sec
ton, but the Marquis de Lacaze offers
to send it over if the government will
pay the charges, which it undoubtedly
will do.
The generators that George Westing-
house is building to furnish electricity
for the 93, 900 incandescent lamps at the
Worlds Fair are to be the largest in the
world. One of them will operate co.
600 lamps. THE ordinary generator
supplies but 1 200 lamps" Mr.. West
inghouse said, land most of them less.
Our largest generator will supply 90.
600 lamps, and most of the others will
be of 10000 lamp capacity each"
A complete set OF maps and illustra-
tions of the Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds, handsomely illuminated and
framed, is to be exhibited at the Ex-
position soon to be held at Madrid,
Spain.
More than 100, 600 cabinet specimens,
all of them fine ones, have already been
secured for the mineral exhibit which
Colorado will make at the Worlds Fair.
Besides these the many different pro-
ducing mines in the state have agreed
to furnish, in unlimited quantity,
specimens of their ores. The State
School of Mines will make valuable
and comprehensive scientific display
One of the Aspen mines has offered
several thousand dollars worth of silver
for IA statue of pure metal symbolical of
the states mineral resources. Com
panies and firms interested will make
very complete exhibit of marbles,
coal, clays, building stone, roofing slate,
mineral waters, etc. The State Agri-
cultural College, among other things,
will exhibit cross sections of all native
woods, the grasses and flora of the state
and collection of insects, injurious
and otherwise. Among other notable
exhibits which Colorado will make are
those of education, sheep and wool,
honey, irrigation, fish fruits, cliff
jewellers relics, etc. The counties
have added between $4,000 and $780,
600 to the states appropriation of $780,
600
The Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar club
of Troy, n. Y, is arranging for an ex-
cursion to the Worlds Fair for its
members and their friends to the num-
Der of fifty. The party will charter
drawing room cars and live in them
during the entire visit.
just back of the New York building,
at the Worlds Fair, in depressed area
will be spread out flat an immense
Typographical map of that state. 1t
will be 36 feet long and 26 wide, and
will show the mountains, forests, rivers,
towns and all of the great natural and
artificial features of state scenery.
At the Worlds Fair an oyster exhibit
will be made by the shell fish commits
sion of Connecticut. An oyster bed,
models of oyster boats, the system of
dredging, ETC., will be shown.
Two of the cannon which, it is believ-
ed, were at one time mounted on board
Christopher Columbus flagship were
received at Chicago recently. The
cannon are of the ancient and clumsy
pattern of such guns turned out in the
Efficiently century. Nothing but the
body of the guns remains, the wood
work, of course, having rotted away
centuries ago. The guns themselves
are almost worn to pieces and are not
much more than huge chunks of rust.
Indeed, the cannon are put on the
tecran ironv lief in tho cnsfnp, hnusa