The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-18
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

loaned by Queen Victoria and
several from the Prince Of Wales
collection.
The japanese royal family Will
be REPRESENT 4 at the Worlds Fair
It is announced positively that the
eldest son and prob .ble successor OF
the Mikado will visit Chicago in
September.
Germany bui ng at the Worlds
Fair was i.dic4ged With aqpro-
pirate exercise on Jan. 27-the an
niver.ary of Emperor Williams
birth. The building Is handsome
structure. costir. $50 600.
TIE king of 5 an, at his own ex-
penae, has decided to make Az inter
estlng display in the manufactures.
agricultural and forestry buildings
at the Worlds Far, and Will also
erect royal pavilion of elaborate
carved woods
The Royal Chorus society of
Belgium. more than hundred
strol z, will visit the Worlds Fair
and take part in the concerts in
choral hall The chorus recently
gave a series Of concerts in London
for charitable purposes, and was
received with enthusiasm.
An English salt concern has made
a salt statue, modelled after Bar
tholdIs "Liberty Enlightening the
World" in New York harbor.
The statue is 81 feet high. The
salt was taken from a mine 250 feet
deep. The English firm will send
it az an exhibit to the Worlds
Fair.
II G Patterson and Newark mills
of New Jersey will make a
splendid silk exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. The 81 k in all its stages of
manufacture will be displayed, to.
gether with the silk worms and
cocoons from which the silken
threads will lie spun ard passed
through various manipulations until
they appear in the silk texture
ready for the market.
The Queen gent of Spain will
he represented at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition by the In
fsnta Eulaia and her husband,
Prince Antoine. The Spanish
Cabinet has sanctioned their visit
to the Worlds Fair as representa-.
tives of Queen Rs gent Christina.
The Infsnta Eulalia was born Feb.
II. 1864, and is, therefore, nearly
20 years Of age. She was married
to Prince Antoine, son of Prince
Antoine d'Orleans, Duke of Mont
pensier, Feb. IS, 1887. The In
fanta Ealalia is the Youngest sister
of King Alfonso.
The list of Germany's exhibitors
at the Fair contains 5,017 names
Represented in 1t are $50 cities and
towns of the empire, and of these
forty cities send more than ten
exhibits each. Berlin leads with
2s3 exhibitors; Munich follows with
1877; Leipsic with l49; Frankfort,
So: Hamburg, 81, and Chem
nitz, Al.
The Michigan Worlds Fair Board |
will make an exhibition of its news
papers. The frat page of every
newspaper or magazine published |
in the state will be mounted on
wood vaneer leaf, vanished the
same as mounted maps are prepared,
and hung on leaf standards.
The Bureau of Music of the
Worlds Fair has issued the follow
ing relative to concerts by Ameri-
can artists at the Exposition:
Those among the younger, native
born, professional musicians of this
country who may desire to avail
themselves of the opportunity, are
invited to communicate with the
Bureau of Music before May /,
with such testimonials as shall in
dicate clearly the degree Of their
ability and talent. Those appli-
cants whom the musical director
can recommend Will be asked to
appear before committee with
headquarters in Chicago, to be APP
pointed by the Bureau of Mnsic a