People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — EXPOSITION ET CETERA. [ARTICLE]

EXPOSITION ET CETERA.

The collective exhibits now stored in the Woman's building are those from Great Britain, New South Wales, Ceylon, Paraguay and New Mexica fl The, roof of the Manufactures building will be converted into a sort W promenade, from which an excellent bird’s-eye view of the grounds, the city and the lake may be had. From Ohio there was received a piece of coal weighing eleven tons. It will form an exhibit in the Mines and fining building. It has been dressed to the shape of a small pyramid. The flagship of Columbus, the Santa Maria, which was built in Spain and towed across the ocean for exhibition at the fair, will become the property of the United States. The Spanish government has made a formal tender of the caravel. A New York confectioner will exhibit at the world’s fair a statue of Columbus iu chocolate seven and a half feet high, weighing seventeen hundred pounds, and a Venus of Milo in the same material, weighing fifteen hundred. They look like bronze. The Clydesdale Horse society of Great Britain and Ireland has advised Chief Buchanan that the society will make a special offering of seven hundred dollars for Clydesdale horses exhibited at the exposition, registered in either the American Clydesdale stud book or the Clydesdale stud book of Canada (appendix included). The exhibit which the boys of the Cathedral school in New York will make at the Columbian exposition was inspected recently by Archbishop Corrigan. Nearly all of the forty parochial schools of the archdiocese will be represented in the Catholic educational exhibit. Some of the exhibits have been shipped. France intends to make a fine arts record at the exposition. Artists and sculptors of that country have become so much interested in the fair that M Henri Giudecelli, the fine arts commissioner, said the French people would contribute a larger and iu every way finer exhibit than they had made at any,previous exposition. A unique exhibition for the world’s fair has been prepared at Sucker Creek, Mich. It is said to be the largest load of logs ever placed upon sleds. It scaled thirty-five thousand feet and weighs one hundred and forty tons. The sleds are made from bird’s-eye maple, highly polished and heavily ironed. The runners are seven feet in length and six inches in width. The load was hauled a distance of about fifty feet by a team weighing thirtyfive hundred pounds. The operation was witnessed by several men who had been sworn before a justice of the peace to tell the truth about the loading and hauling of the logs. •