The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05
INTERESTING EXHIBITS
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
REpTELTC SPECIAL.

REPJ BLlC SPECIAL
Washington. July 4.-Advices have been
received here that NJ. Mtrowitsch. a Ser
Wan diplomat. whose wife was Il Miss Dodd
Of San Francisco, IS en- route 10 this coun-
try. where he will establish the first con-
suiate Servia has had in the United States.
He Is instructed 10 prepare for representa-
ton of Servia among the foreign exhibitors
at the Worlds Fair.
North Carolina intends TO make a flne to-
bacco exhibit at the Fair. No State in the
Union is ahead of North Carolina as a to-
bacco producer, nor in the extent OF her to-
bacco manufacturing industries. The foun-
der Of the American Tobacco Company is
Mr. Duke. whose fortune was made in to-
bacco at Durham. \. {. The wealthy to-
bacconists OF the State are preparing to
contribute largely TO this exhibit at ST.
Louis. so as to show the world what that
State can do in this particular.
Captain T. c. Morton of stanton. Va.
has been appointed by the Virginia Commits
sioncrs for the Fair to make u thorough
canvass OF that State Tor funds with which
TO erect me Virginia State building on the
Exposition grounds that is TO he an exact
reproduction OF Monticello. the home Of
Thomas Jefferson. Several handsome sub
scrptioHs have been already promised. and
the Virginia Society is actively aiding in the
Iaudable project
Information has reached Washington that
a number of teachers in Kentucky are eX-
ertins themselves to secure and prepare a
most creditable educational exhibit for the
Worlds Fair.
There will he curious collection of
ancient weapons in the exhibit of the De-
partment of State at the ST. Louis EXPOSE
ton. Many of these are souvenirs of fights
our merchantmen had with pirates during
the early days OF the Republic when our
flag. though 1t did not bear one-haf as
many stars as it now docs. carried Ameri-
can commerce on American bottoms to
nearly every part of the world. Many or
these old cutlasses. knives ard daggers arc
said to be poisoned and will necessarily be
handled with care.
Just now the Bug House on the &gricul-
tUrai Department grounds can furnish
many items Of interest to the rural popu-
lation of the United States. A big in1nor,a-
ton of hugs from China has just been re-
ceiVed. and more are en- route from other
places. Mr.. Rusck will have unique .x-
hihit Of insects at the st. Louis Exposition
in which those beneficial to man will fig
,:re largely. For instance. there win pe an
exhibit of siikworns that, by a system OF
artificial retardatinn Of the eggs Will be
found living. feeding and spinning their
wonderful cocoons all through the duration
of the Fair
Another of our friends among insects.
namely. the bee will have erected for it a
Special place in the Bureau Of Entomology
at st. Louis. whore all The latest inventions
of American ingenuity in the line of agri-
culture will he presented.
Another special feature of this bureau
at the ST. Louis Worlds Fair will lie the
exhibition of living insects in glass cages
feeding on their natural food-plants and
undergoing their Transformations under the
very eye of the visitors. In this, as every
where. the economically important insects
will have predominance. Thus, 1t is intended
to have live growing cotton plants support
ing the injurious fauna peculiar to them:
likewise growing fruit trees and the differ
ent vegetables. each with its particular In
sect enemies feeding and developing On II.
In connection with these exhibits will be
shown machinery and insecticides employed
in the warfare against these curtaiers Of
the profits of the agriculturist. the hurti-
CulturiSt and the forester