Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — THE GREAT EXPOSITION. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT EXPOSITION.

The Exposition at New Orleans is attracting the attention of the pres 3 in all parts of the country and abroad. Almost every newspaper has something to say about the preparations that are being made to further the work of State or local associations. The special representatives of the Exposition commissioned by President Arthur, for the purpose of procuring exhibits, have found the newspapers ready to report speeches and print the latest news relating to the World's Fair. This circumstance no doubt springs from the fact that the people throughout the land read with much interest all that is printed concerning this great enterprise. By the wide-spread influence of the press the exposition is known and talked about in India. Australia, on the banks of the Congo, in the South American republics* and in the frozen regions of the North. Seeming impossibilities have been overcome, and the scheme limited to a ootten exhibition at first, has been enlarged by degrees till it now embraces a grand exposition of arts, manufactures) mines,, agriculture, and in fact everything in which the people of to-day are interested. This Exposition is to be opened in December next, covers | more ground, has more exhibits enter- ' ed, than can be recorded of any other World's Fair ever attempted. Aside from the pecuniary means furnishpd, the untiring industry of its directors, this marvel of the nineteenth ! century owns much of its renown to [to the power of the newspapers.