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The International character of the Exposition is therefore 

 assured. But besides the main buildings and the buildings 

 erected by the different nations there is another feature. In 

 those buildings there will be the products of the country, 

 but a number of concessions have been granted to those who 

 wish to show Americans these strange people themselves. 

 The subjects of the Mikado will, for instance, be seen in the 

 Japanese village, not only as they are to-day in that most 

 picturesque of nations, but as they were in distant times. 

 Pictures of the life, customs and manners of the Chinese, 

 Turks, Egyptians, Algerians, Persians, Dahomeyans,Hawaiians 

 and other residents of countries, the customs of which are 

 more or less unknown to us. 



Manufacturers in all parts of the world are taking great 

 interest in the Exposition, and applications for space in which 

 they may make exhibits are daily pouring in at the offices, 

 both here and in San Francisco. The exhibitors will not be 

 content to reproduce their exhibits at the World's Fair, but 

 most ot them promise novelties. 



The display made by Great Britain and Colonies will be 

 extremelv interesting and contain many novel features. The 

 Englishmen are taking great interest in the Fair. Sir Edmund 

 Elten, Bart., the famous potter, is designing some china 

 especially for the display, and Arups, of London, is at work 

 on some terra cotta ware which will astonish the people of 

 the Pacific Coast. Kate Reilly, the Queen's dressmaker, has 

 promised an original exhibit which will fill the heart of many 

 a women with covetousness. The Colonies will also offer 

 specimens of their handicraft, which will include many new 

 features. East India, Ceylon and Jamaica will be strongly 

 represented. Sir Henry Trueman Wood, the Executive 

 Commissioner of Great Britain at the World's Fair, is taking 

 quite an interest in the Midwinter Exposition, and has 

 expressed his intention to aid Mr. J. H. Stiles, the British 

 Commissioner for the California Fair, in every way possible. 



A. C. Goldenberg, Canadian Commissioner to the Mid- 

 winter Fair, has received applications for space from some of 

 the most important of his country's exhibitors at the World's 

 Fair. The Carlin Ale Co., and Hiram Walker & Sons, are 

 among the forty business houses from the Dominion which will 

 be represented at San Francisco. 



The revolution in Brazil happens at an unfortunate time 

 for the Fair. Admiral Joaquim Antonio Cordevil Maurity 

 says, however, that if it should be impossible for the Govern- 



