Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — The United States In Miniature. [ARTICLE]

The United States In Miniature.

One of the most unique novelties at the World’s Fair, Chicago, will be a huge map of the United States exhibited by the Coast Survey. It will be about 400 feet square and be placed horizontally on the’ exposition grounds and a large building erected over it. This building will be provided with galleries nnd pathways on the inside so as to ullow visitors to walk over the whole United States without touching it. The model w ill be made of plaster of paris, and will show the exact height of mountains, tho depth of ri\ers and the curvature of the earth.— [St. Louis Republic.