22 The Humming Bird. 



The President of Uruguay has designated the Associa- 

 tion Rural of that country as the National Commission to 

 have charge of Uruguay's exhibit at Chicago in 1893. 



Vilmorin & Co., of Paris, who made the largest horti- 

 cultural exhibit at the Paris Exposition, have had a repre- 

 sentative in Chicago conferring with Chief Samuels and 

 perfecting arrangements for making a similar exhibit at the 

 World's Fair. 



A 10,000 dollar model of a stamp mill for reducing copper, 

 now the property of the State Museum of Michigan will be 

 shown at the Fair. This model was made and presented 

 by the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company. 



The Atlantic Transport Company, operating a line ot 

 steamers between London and New York, has agreed to 

 carry exhibits from London to either New York, Philadelphia 

 or Baltimore free of charge, except the actual expenses of 

 loading and unloading. This generous proposition makes 

 it possible for European exhibitors to have their displays 

 brought to the American sea-board practically free of 

 charge. 



The budget committee of the German Reichstag has 

 voted a World's Fair appropriation of 900,000 marks, or 

 $214,200. 



Chief Putnam, of the Department of Ethnology, has 

 thirty agents in North, Central, and South America, col- 

 lecting material for the Ethnological exhibit. 



One hundred and twenty car loads of glass, enough to 

 cover twenty-nine acres, will be used in the roofs of the 

 various Exposition structures. More than forty-one car 

 loads, or eleven acres, will be required by the great Manu- 

 factures Building alone. 



Edison's electrical exhibit at the Exposition will represent 

 an expenditure of something like $100,000. 



The women of Texas have organized a State World's 

 Fair Board of Lady Managers, with an executive committee 

 of thirty -one, and Mrs. Wm. H. Tobin, of Austin, president 

 and Mrs. Sidney Smith, of Dallus, as secretary. 



The London and North-Western Railway will send to the 

 Exposition an exhibit illustrating the English railway 

 system. 



The Austrian Government has postponed, until 1894, tne 

 International Jubilee Art Exhibition, so that it will not 

 interfere with the World's Fair. 



The Exposition Commission, which will visit the countries 

 of Southern Europe and Northern Africa, is composed of 



