Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-02
SOUVENIR STAMPS.
The Latest Thing in Worlds
Fair Novelties.
MILLIONS OF THEM AT CHICAGO.

All Designed Especially for the Column
bian Year-Promise of a Remarkable
Floral Display--A Feature OF the Johore
Exhibit-The Malay ''Sarong''- Rrupp's
Big Gun and the Preparation. Making
to Bring n West-h Word About the
Machinery Hall DISPLAY
CHICAGO, Dec. 3I.-Turteen million Col
lmbian postage stamps were received
at the postofIice Thursday and
yesterday from Washington They
will be placed on sale Tuesday aud
tremendous rush to secure the latest
Worlds fair novelty is expected The
stamps are about twice the siz- of ordinary
postage stamps and from al arts ic stand
point surpaS- anything ever issued by the
government The stamps are Of every de
nomination from cent 70 =. The guam
tity of each is i'll proportion to the average
demand. Or the l-cent kind 100000 ARE
IN stock and 100000 2-cent onas. Very
'ew s. STAMPS We're received.
Expects Enormous Demand.
Postmaster Sexton expects an .normous
demand for the Columbian stamps 1t is
customary FOR many of the big wholesale
firms to send out tons of matte. early in
he new year, and several Of IL large,
customers have been waiting for the ar
,ival Of the new stamps. "Ti IRE j., $50
danger of the supply ruaniE- Out" Mr.
sexton said. The pu@tolice department
nad BOO. 900 OF chem vriG;ct. en0u .a
90 supply the demand for au ordinary 5. .
We viii get Columbia. envelopes L.ud ~
and IN "a short time the old issue will been
tirely displaced
The Educational i.NhibI..
Director General Davis has defuitcly
settled the location Of the eI"c4 Ioual ,v-
hibit 1t viii be in the south galI cry of the
. manufacture. and liberal art, building.
! The space assigned TO il is 1900 square
; feet gross. The commercial exhibits to We
/ made in the liberal arts department will
occupy the southwest portion of this gal
lcry. q space of about $1,000 square feet
. The bureau OF hygiene and sanitation and
charities and correction will be installed n
the new ethuologica. building The space
awarded in the educational exhibit to
Brother Mgurciiau FOR the Ron an Cath
Ollie public educational exhibit amounts TO
5000 square feet.
NiH BE Acres of Flowers.
About 81" 100 worth of decorat We plants
have already arrived at Jackson park. and
are grouped in horticultural hs II. Chief
Samuel7 says the collection is one of the
| finest in the world, and the plants have
| just commenced to arrive. a car load OF
! flowers from Costa Rica. chiefly orchids,
| were frozen l"~J week in transit Oil lamps
We're used 60 neat the cars, and they did
not furnish enough heat There are now
5000 pTiuroses in the greenhouse, grown
from seed sent here by the foremost hOrti-
culturStS of Italy, Germany. France, Great
| Britain, aud the United States.
Floral Freaks from Japan.
Japan vii! send more freaks t. the fair.
! IN the way of odd and unique plants and
trees. than any other nation in The world
Already number OF dwarf oak and ever
green trees. some OF them less than three
feet high, have arrived at JACKSON PARK
and are carefully packed away until
spring. These We're sent by the japanese
government. Chief Samuels received in
| formation yesterday that number Of PHI
yute horticUituTist- would suppl ament this
display with exhibits from their own gar
| dcns. These Will be in the form OF those
! peculiar ornamental plants for which the
| fiOwcry kingdom Is noted