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Late advices from Sydney, New South Wales, sustain the 

 view that, notwithstanding the commercial and financial 

 depression existent in some parts of Australia, the Australian 

 Exhibit at the World's Fair will be a great and representative 

 display. From Sydney will be sent a remarkable astro- 

 nomical clock. This clock is forty-five feet high and 

 twentv-five feet square at the base. Within it is exhibited 

 the motion of the sun. Mercury, Venus, and the Earth 

 revolvinor on its axis around the sun, and the moon around the 

 earth. The sun is to be represented by an electric light, 

 which will illuminate the surrounding planetary bodies. 



The International Chess Tournament, to be held at Chicago 

 in connection with the World's Fair, will distribute $7,000 in 

 prizes. 



Dauphin county. Pa., will send for exhibition, in the 

 Woman's Building at the W^orld's Fair, an elaborate carved 

 table of extraordinary historical interest. It will be composed 

 of woods taken from the yoke of the famous " Liberty Bell," 

 from the house in which the first American flag was made, 

 from Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge, from the 

 old ship Constitution, and from a pillar in Independence 

 Hall. The upper surface will be inlaid with Indian arrow 

 heads, relics of the Six Nations, wdth whom, what is now 

 Dauphin country, w^as once a favourite hunting ground. 



The owners of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky propose to 

 reproduce the "Starry Chamber" in the Mining Building at 

 the W^orld's Fair. 



Persons in Bombay, India, are persuaded that there will be 

 considerable profit in making a varied display at the World's 

 Fair. They propose to send over twelve elephants, so that 

 visitors can take rides "in howdah with mahout;" to give 

 exhibitions of suttee, cremation, jugglery, nautch, wrestling, 

 etc., and to sell tea at ten cents a cup. They expect to sell a 

 million cups. 



Arrangements have been completed whereby excursion 

 trains to the World's Fair, by whatever road they may arrive 

 in Chicago, will run within the Exposition grounds and dis- 

 charge their passengers there. No transfer of passengers at 

 any point will be necessary. 



Carl Hagenbeck, the celebrated German Collector and 

 Tamer of Wild Animals, is in Chicago to arrange for the 

 extensive Zoological Exhibit which he will make in Midway 



