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The supporting columns for the Forestry Building are to 

 be trunks of trees, with the bark on. Chief Buchanan has 

 requested each State to furnish three trunks of trees for this 

 purpose. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, 

 ■Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New 

 ■Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington, and 

 West Virginia have promised to furnish their quota. 



The president of Ecuador has ordered that a complete 

 display of woman's work shall be prepared for the Fair. This 

 is to include a collection of gold and silver braid work, woven 

 straw, and other novelties. Two or three women may be sent 

 to Chicago to take charge of the display. 



Hassan Ben AH, of Morocco, is seeking a concession to 

 make a Morocco Exhibit at the Exposition. He says he will 

 spend §50,000 in showing the people, manners, customs, 

 amusements, etc., of his country, and in bringing to Chicago 

 a tribe of Berbers. 



Among the exhibits to be made at the World's Fair by 

 foreign nations, the visitor will doubtless find that of Persia 

 one of the most interesting. It includes rare specimens of art 

 industry work. Rich and highly wrought fabrics will 

 constitute an attractive feature, as will exquisitely fine 

 embroideries and elaborately worked gold and silver jewelry, 

 rare Persian rugs, carpets, embroidered hangings, etc. 

 There will also be found in this Persian exhibit a department 

 for manufactured articles, such as arms, curios and richly 

 wrought armour, tiles and tile work, mosaics, objects of art; 

 antiquities, musical instruments, wearing apparel, etc. Alto- 

 gether the Persian exhibit is promised to be characteristic 

 and exceptionally unique, a collection rich in objects of cost 

 ^ahd beauty. 



Fac-similes of thirty-seven of the most prominent of the 

 Aztec idols in the museum in the City of Mexico, have been 

 prepared for the W^orld's Fair at Chicago. 



- From Holland an offer has been made to the Hollancd 

 Society of New York, and the St. Nicholas Society of 

 Brooklyn, to construct and present to them an exact repro^ 

 duction of the Half Moon, the ship in which Henry Hudson 

 discovered and explored the river which bears his name. The 

 societies named have accepted the offer, and are planning 

 to fit up the ship as a club house, and to take it to Chicago 

 both to be exhibited and to be occupied by their members 

 during the Exposition. 



