The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-12
In the art OF fine printing, as far as results
are concerned. France still leads the world.
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

A SWISS exhibit OF watches is valued at
$3.50. 900.
A FOUNTAIN sends up great jets and many
SPRAYS OF real California wine.
A srArUErrE OF Kaiser Wilhelm, OF Ger
many, on horseback contains 1900 silver dol
lars.
WISCONSIN has fve-acre patch OF cram
berries growing and will harvest q crop IN
September
SrEASGE religious rituals wore observed in
the opening OF the Russian exhibit in Manu-
facturers' Building.
A DWARF cedar 300 years old was sent from
Japan, but one Chicago winter WAS too much
for it. Tho little tree is dead.
PENNSYLVANIA has put up pyramid OF on
thraafte blocks ten feet square at the base
and f1fty-two feet high, guaranteed to con-
tain just 100 tons.
TIE section OF tree, SHOWN by its circles
to be 4O1 years old-a sapling when Colum-
bus landed-is in the forestry section OF tho
Government Building.
A CHINA plate. decorated with the German
Emperor's picture, is Ave feet and three
inches long, four feet and eight inches wide
and one and half inches thick.
M1ssoUR1's piece Of lead orc weighs $500
pounds. Ten thousand specimens OF zinc
represent this States industry, which gave
132, 900 tons OF this metal to the world last
year.
The pictures in tho art room, If hung upon
ono line, would cover mile. Yet tho
French judges were forced TO send back 1900
worthy of exhibition because there was no
room.
A scorcHuAN who employs 1000 French
women in Paris making lace, has sent pal-
81 nrto ms hnU
months required for the making OF these cur
tans 1000 different women worked on them.
The cost Of this single pair OF curtains, three
yards long, was $4,000. The Scotchman him.
self came to sapprinteEd the hanging OF his
$50, 900 worth OF lace exhibit.
THE Wigan Junction colliery in Lanca-
shire, England, has sent q twelve-ton lump
OF camel coal. From Georges Creek, In A..
| lcsheny County, Md, has cone larger
lump, fifteen feet long, four feet wide and
three feet thick. But the Rosiyn lump from
the State Of Washington Is larger than
either AMI the largest ever mined. 1t Is flvo
feet thick. twenty-six feet long and weighs
over $4,000 pounds.
shores OF sunny Italy unIsrtook to cross the
! path OF an electric launch the other after
noon, with very unsatisfactory results. The
| gondOla WAS capsizei and nine persons
thrown into the chilly waters Of tho lagoon.
! BY most fOrtuitOuS circumstance al Wero
rescued, though two Of the ladies were sink
! ing the second tim..
In tho Horticultural Building there is q
solid silver filigree model OF that structure
/ which cost 1886, 900. or about one-seventh oil
! the cost of the lnrser building itself. It
weighs ITO pounds, Is eloven feet long, three
feet three inches wide and three feet nine
| inches in height. TO b9ild it required tho
services oftwelve men working eighteen hours
Il day thirteen months. Tie work was done
by the MeXicans, who arc the most adeDt IN
the hligr2e art.
IN tho Transport ltioa Buildn; there is !
large lifeDoat which bears this inscription
I'm this boat, or the morning OF September
Z, 1888, Grace Darling, then 90 years .: ,ice.
with her fnther, rHs'Gal nina people from L
wreck of tine Forfarshi., ut Longstona Oh
the Earne Islands" SO great have been tn.
depredatons Of the relic hunter that it has
become necessary to in"losD the boat IN Il
large franc, with netting around it, and be-
sides placing Il guard to watch. ais) offer :.
reward FOR tho apprehension OF :ny one d.
facing 1t.
! THE privilege OF constructing upon tho
| exposition grounds Worlds Fair school anil
! lecture bureau has bcan Srantei Professor
Hiram A. Gooch. Tho Exposition IL all is
details will be set forth IN / series oi Lectures
; by instructors specially chosen for this wo-.:.
| rho lectures will be given in the morning
hours, beginning at 0 o'clock anl continuin.,
one hour, after which tho differen. instructors
will go with their pupils ioS i more prr:scal
/ observation OF the exhibits. Tho Lectures
will be given in Administration Building.