The Humming Bird. 5 



The State of Idaho has applied for 10,000 square feet of 

 space in the Mines and Mining building for a display of 

 minerals. 



Mrs. Potter Palmer is to drive the last nail in the Woman's 

 building. The lady managers of Montana, at the suggestion 

 of Mrs. J. E. Richards, are having the nail made of gold, silver 

 and copper. It will be forwarded to Chicago as soon as 

 completed. 



Wisconsin's building at the Exposition will be 80 by 90 feet, 

 three stories high, and of the Queen Anne style of architecture 

 Its cost is estimated at $29,600. 



Sir Henry Wood, the British Commissioner to the 

 Exposition, who recently visited Chicago, has made a report to 

 his government. The cable dispatches report that it is very 

 elaborate, that it is about 10,000 words in length, and deals 

 with a great variety of details concerning the Exposition. Sub- 

 joined to the report are plans and descriptions of the grounds 

 and buildings, the regulations for installation, transportation, 

 etc. ; mail facilities, and other important data. In concluding 

 his report, which is exceedingly favourable to the Exposition, 

 Sir Henry Wood says that he has no doubt whatever of its 

 ultimate success. 



Florida's Exposition building will be a full-sized reproduc- 

 tion of Fort Marion, which was built at St. Augustine in 1620, 

 and is believed to be the oldest building in the United States. 

 It is of stone and covers a space of about 150 feet square. The 

 walls are twenty feet high and nine feet thick at the base. It is 

 a rectangular structure, the interior court being about seventy- 

 five feet square. Within the fort are some twenty-four rooms. 

 The reproduced structure on the Fair grounds will be frame, 

 covered on the outside with the phosphate rock of Florida, to 

 give it the appearance of stone. The walks on the parapet 

 and within the inner court will be covered with the celebrated 

 pebble phosphate of Florida. This use of the material will 

 constitute the State's phosphate exhibit. The old fort is en- 

 compassed about with a deep moat. This moat will also be 

 reproduced, and will constitute a sunken garden in which will 

 be shown all the tropical plants of Florida — the pine-apple, 

 banana, rice, sugar cane, oranges, etc. It is contemplated to 

 partition off a portion of the moat and fill it with water and 

 have there several alligators and, perhaps, crocodiles. Several 

 of the old Spanish cannon that once did service at the fort will 

 be taken to Chicago. The Florida building promises to be 

 one of the most unique of the State structures. 



New York, Dec. 19. — Messrs. Chance, of Birmingham, 

 England, have notified the World's Fair authorities that they 



