Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-16
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

! A HERD OF peacOcks from ONO nave Deeh
! given home on Wooded Island.
The Pennsylvania State Board gave ban
| auet to- the foreign commissioners.
I A FIDDLE and q chair made by Kit Carson
/ are exhibited in the California Building.
The managers Of the Dahomey Village
have sent to Africa for fifty more natives.
The American Bible Socety's exhibit in
cudes Bibles printed in 2i2 different IAN
/ guages.
The total attendance at the Worlds Far
in May was 1.O77 .233 a daily average OF
$1,000
SUSAN B. ANTHONY addressed the National
Association Of Women Stenographers at tho
Art Institute.
FIVE more Samoan women lave reached
Midway Plaisanee they brought with them
two large fishing canoes.
AT 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 ungoyern-
able.
The grounds are gradually acquiring that
gala appearance so much sired by the OIL
cials and 50 necessary for the success Of the
Fair.
WEST YrnG1vIA's coal. coke and building
stone display has received its finishing
touches. and been thrown open without
ceremony
Oy June u n congress Of trained nurses
held its opening session. 1t IS hoped 10 IN
corporate American nurses into society
similar to the Royal British Nurses Associe-
ton.
FRANCES musical exhibit. for want Of space
in Manufactures Hall, has been set up in the
Electrical Building. Among the fifty-iiye
pianos shown is one with complete steel
frame.
The fifty foot anthracite needle, with the
name "Pennsylyania" on its base, which
stands in the center Of the building is one
of the sights ofthe Department Of Mines and
Mining.
Is the TRANSPORTATION Building is a farm
wagon. strong and seryiceable, but very light
in weight. The tires OF the wheels are OF
steel. but all the other metallic work is of
aluminium.
The pavilion in which the City OF Paris
has its municipal display forms a half circle
in n colonade around a bronze fountain. II
is one Of the most ornamental structures on
the grounds.
ALARaE collection Of English medals AMI
historical relies. including some famous
swords and valuable old letters have been
placed in the United States Building and are
now on exhibition.
The National League for Good Roads has
an exhibit in the Agricultural Building oi
road making materials and sectional sam
pies Of approved roads. Around the build
ing different kinds Of roads are 70 be built.
Miss KATE MAnsDEx deliyeredt two addresses
before the Medical Congress on her work
among the lepers OF Siberia. DR.. Donald Me-
Lehman OF Honolulu, sent paper on lep-
rosy in the Hawaiian Islands which was
read.
THE changing colors 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 tho Beautiful Blue Danube" at
tho opening.
The Wonder tree is a camera obscura
which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition
II has now been set up in Midway Plaisance
II gives the visitor the impression that he has
climbed tree and is looking down on the
crowd beneath.
HENRY b. FULLER, author Of the "Cheva-
lier OF Pensierl-Yani, in reviewing the minor
architecture OF the Exposition, pronounces
the Merchant Tailors' structure ''the rival, in
miniature. OF the Art Palace itself, in the Sc
we're beauty of its proportions.
IL the New England log cabin in Midway
Plaisance tho ceremony OF Hanging the
Crane" took place, the crane being liked into
the fireplace while Longiellow' poem Hang
ing the Crane" was recited. This was the
formal opening Of the log cabin.
-. TN,1n .-f, ,rfa
sor. is decorating room for the San Fran
cisco women in the California Building. The
room is formed by partitions OF red wood
the general tone is duh copper one end Is
devoted TO CALIFORNIA; musical instruments
portraits adorn the wall.
In the Pennsylvania exhibit in the Mining
Buildingi is pavilion constructed to show
every use to which slate can be put collec-
tion of seyenty-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
up of bells. The players sit in front OF blue
and gold stand holding dozen queer shaped
bells made of brass and with a round PIN
nacle at the top OF the dome and on this ths
musician pounds. There are deep brass bells
on big stands and high treble bells on small
stands. A big yellow and green drum and
pair Of huge cymbals accompany the bells.
THE Samoan colony in Midway Plaisancc
contains an old house which belonged 10
Mataafa, Il o king whose cause Robert Louis
Stevenson is championing 1t Is built OF
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 a height OF five
feet the peak then rising high in air. Tho
uprights are about four inches in diameter,
crossed by a circle OF the wood every four
feet. The pieces OF wood are all short and
ioined together by thongs. The roof is OF
twgs covered with thatcn.