Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.

Persia has accepted an invitation to the World’s fair, and named Spencer Pratt as honorary commissioner. Editor A. of the Philadelphia Times, has declined the appointment of commissioner for the Chicago fair. The Paris chamber of commerce strongly recommends manufacturers to exhibit at the Chicago fair, and asks the government to obtain additional facilities from America for exhibitors. Chili, although kept pretty busy with a formidable insurrection within its territory, has taken time to decide to participate in the World’s fair, and to appropriate. sloo,<XX)foi that ympoMOT."' The exposition grounds are inclosed by a high board fence, and daring the progress of the erection of the buildings no one will be allowed inside the inclosure who does not present a pass countersigned by President Baker of the exposition directory. M. Proust, whom the French World’s Fair commission selected to be director of the French art exhibit at the World’s Columbian exposition, held a similar posiat the late Paris exposition and is unquestionably eminently fitted for the place. Captain Gilbert P. Cotton, special commissioner of the World’s Columbian exhibition to Central America, reported that the government of British Honduras has accepted the invitation to participate in the World’s Columbian exposition, and has appointed commissioners to look after an exhibit.