Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-23
FISH AT THE FAIR.
Some Facts About Your Uncle
Samuel's Exhibits.
THE FINEY TRIBE IN GREAT SHAPE.

A Few Features of the Educational Dis
play-S!gnillcance of Satolli's Appoint
ment Papal Delegate in this Country
Cardinal Gibbons at the Capital to
Receive Senator Voorhees, Daughter
Into the Roman Catholic Church-NIr.
Blaine Losing Strength Each Day-The
McComas Case.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-The department
of agriculture is not behind in its prepare
tons for an exhibit at the Columbian
Worlds fair Four car loads altogether
have been shipped so far, and Mr.. Willis,
the representative of this department upon
the government board, as we'll as chairman
of the board itself, expresses the hope that
not less than e-half of the material for
the entire exhibit will be shipped to Chica
go before Feb. Is, about which time the
actual work of installation will begin.
The Educational Exhibit.
Commissioner of Education W. l.. Har-
ris intimates that the exhibit of the bureau
of education will be particularly inter
esting one. Among the exhibits will be
samples OF text books printed during the
earliest years of the settlement of the
country. Models will be secured from the
patent Office showing the evolution of
school furniture and fittings. Laboratory
teachers and students will daily exhibit
quickly performed experiments in heat,
light, sound, electricity, etc.
A Great Show of Fish.
The exhibit of the United States fish
commission is very far advanced The
commission will be represented in two
hIlfl r.
eminent building and in the Aquarial
building. The more important exhibit
will be in the government building. Its
exhibit will be flanked on one side by that
of the agricultural department, and on the
other by that of the interior department.
One half of the space allotted to the com
mission will be devoted entirely to illus
trate the practical workings of the fishing
industry of the country.
Scientific Fish Culture.
Probably the most instructive portion of
the exhibit will be that illustrating the
methods employed by the scientific branch
of the fish commission in investigating the
habits of the fish, and it viii include speci-
mems of deep sea dredging, casts of fishes
and collections of various kinds, etc The
space-30X6O feet-will be devoted to an
illustration of the methods now used in
Matching trout, salmon, whitefish cod
mackerel, etc. The only exhibit of live
fish in the government, building will be of
those which are Matched by the devices
used in the fish culture exhibit, and they
will be kept only long enough to demon
strate to the public how the work is done
and the means by which the commits
sion obtains the millions of small fish
which are annually distributed in the
waters of the country.
The Finny Tribe at Homo.
Independent of the exhibit to be made in
the government buildinfi is the live fish
exhibit in the aquarium. The structure
is the largest building used as an aqua
rum with single exception, viz: that at
Brighton, England. The exhibit will be
so arranged as to give the beholder the
idea that he is standing in the depths of
the sea and is looking upward at the fish
living, as it were, in their natural homes
The twenty or more fish commission sta
tons throughout the country are being
drawn on for material for the fresh water
exhibit and the fish commission steamers
along the coast are using all their spare
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