The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

| A HERD OF petcOchS IEOul OuiO AbFo pOSA
| given home on Wooded Island.
The Pennsylvania State Board gave ban
auet to the foreign commissioners
A FIDDLE AMI chair made by Kit Carson
are exhibited in the California Building.
TEE managers of tho Dahoney Village
nave sent to Africa for fifty more natives.
TIE American Bible Society's exhibit in
sludes Bibles printed in 242 different Ian
;yuages.
The total attendance at the Worlds Fair
| In May was 1,0?7,233 daily average OF
IS, 1000.
| SUSAN B. ANTHONY addressed the National
Association OF Women Stenographers at the
| Art Institute.
| FIVE more Samoan women have reached
Midway Plaisance they brought with them
two large fishing canoes.
| Ar the opening OF the German exhibit In
Machinery Hall, the Tyrolean girls in their
picturesque costumes served champagne.
NERO, the biggest OF the lions in the 'Hag-
| enbeck arena, has been shipped back 10
Hamburg because he has become ungovern-
able.
TEE grounds are gradually acquiring that
gala appearance so much desired by the OFF,
cials and 80 necessary for the success OF the
Fair.
WEST 'V1na1NrAs coal, coke and building
stone display has received its finishing
touches, and been thrown open without
ceremony.
OK June 12 a congress OF trained nurses
held its opening session. 1t is hoped to In
| corporats American nurses into society
similar to tho Royal British Nurses Associa-
| ton.
| FRANCES musical exhibit, for want OF space
| in Manufactures Hall, has been set up in the
Electrical Building Among the tfty-flve
pianos shown is one with complete steel
frame.
The fifty foot anthracite needle, with the
name "Pennsylvanie" on its base, which
stands in the center OF tho building, IS one
of the sights ofthe Department OF Mines and
Mining.
In the Transportation Building is farm
wagon, strong and sa.viceable, but very light
| in weight The tires Of the wheels arc OF
steel, but all the other metallic work Is OF
aluminium.
TIE pavilion in which the City OF Paris
has its municipal display forms Il half circle
in q colonade around bronze fountain. 1t
| Is one of the most ornamental! structures on
the grounds.
! A1ARaE collection Of English medals and
historical relics, including some famous
swords and valuable old letters, have been
placed in the United States Building and are
now on exhibition
THs National League for Good Roads has
an exhibit in the Agricultural BUILDING or
roud making materials and sectional sam
ples OF approved roads. Around the build
| ing different kinds of roads are to be outt.
| Miss KA.E MARsDEN delivered two addresses
before the Medical Congress on her work
among the lepers Of Siberia. Dr.. Donald Nc
Lehman, Of Honolulu. sent a paper on lep-
rosy in the Hawaiian Islands. which was
read.
The changing coIors OF the lamps on the
| great tower in the Electricity Building, which
are moved to the strains Of music, changed
from gold to white and then to purple, tothe
strains OF the Beautiful Blue Danube" at
the opening.
The Wonder tree is o camera ohseura
which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition
| it has now been set up in Midway Piaisance.
1t gives the visitor the impression that he has
climbed tree and Is looking down on the
| crowd beneath.
HENRY B. FULLER, author of the "Cheya-
| lier Of Pensieri-Vani, in reviewing the minor
| architecture Of tho Exposition, prouounces
the Merchant Tailors' structure ''the rival, In
| miniature, of the Art Palace itself, in the se-
we're beauty OF lCS proportions.
In the New England log cabin in Midway
Plsisance the ceremony OF Hanging the
Crane" took place, the crane being fixed into
the fireplace while Longfellow' poem ''Hang-
| ing the Crane" was recited. This was the
| formal opening of the log cabin.
EDmUyD RUSSELL, the Delsartean profess
sor, is decorating a room for the San Fran
cisco women in the California Building. The
| room is formed by partitions of red wood;
the general tone is dull copper one end is
devoted to Cailornia's musical instruments
portraits adorn the wall.
In the Pennsylvania exhibit in the Mining
Building is q pavilion constructed to show
every use to which slate can he put /; 8 collec-
tion Of saventy-eight varieties OF building
stone in the State, samples OF glass sands are
shown. and a primitive furnace used in tho
infancy OF the iron business.
THE Javanese orchestra is largely made
I'D Of bells I'he players sit in front OF blue
and gold stand holding u dozen queer shaped
bells, made OF brass and with round pin
nacle 1t tho top OF the dome and on this the
musician pounds. There are deep brass bells
on big stands and high treble bells on small
stands. big yellow AMI green drum and u
pair Of huge cynDals accompany the bells.
In the Electric Building, Miss Johnson,
editor OF Table Talk, demonstrates the prac-
tical advantages Of cooking by electricity IN
series OF lectures Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at ii o clock. She broiis steak
! IN six minutes, makes hapjacks, three at
, time, heating her griddle in one minute. Miss
! Johnson says that electricity costs no moro
than gas. and big family cur. do their cook
| ing for 50 month with electricity. All the
cooking on the new whaeback steamer Chris
topher Columbus is electric.
THE Samoan colony In Midway Plaisance
contains an old house which belonged to
Mataafa, tt 9 king whose cause Robert Louis
| Stevenson is championing. 1t is buit or
bread fruit wood, the only wood which the
white ants OF the island cannot eat. 1t Is
round, shaped something like tent, the
sides being upright to height OF five
feet the peak then rising high in air. The
uprights are about four inches in diameter,
| crossed BY circle OF the wood every four
feet. The pieces OF wood are oil short and
| joined together by thongs. The roof IS OF
twigs covered with thatch
THE California Building is reproduction
| OF tho old mission houses. It is 4S5 feet long,
IA feet wide and two stories high: it cost
S150,000 and large windows and heavy
columns ars its principal features. In tho
centre OF the building is & palm tree 100 years
! old. A bronze statue Of James w. Marshall,
the man who first discovered gold in the
| State, stands in the midst Of specimens of
gold ore. There is big display OF California
woods, Cleopatra needle in olive oil and
collections OF fruits, grains and grasses. Ex-
Governor John Doggett sends collection OF
| Indian baskets. One room in the building is
decorated in poppies and another in various
wild flowers Portraits Of celebrated Cali
fornia girls are shown on the walls among
them are Sybil Sanderson and Eleanor Cal
houE.
TIE English potteries exhibit in the Man