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The World's Fair committee of the North American 

 Turner Bund has made a personal application to Director 

 General Davis for space for a display of gymnastic apparatus, 

 literature on the subject of physical exercise and develop- 

 ment, and representations of gymnastic organizations, as 

 well as for outdoor gymnastic exhibitions, which the 

 Turners desire to give eight days in each month during the 

 Exposition. 



Pope Leo XIII. has written a letter strongly commending 

 the Exposition, which it is believed will have a most 

 favorable effect in stimulating interest in the Fair on the 

 part of all Catholic countries and communities. 



More than 180 exhibitors are chronicled from Philadelphia 

 alone. 



The (< San Francisco Women's California Book Exhibit 

 for the World's Fair," is the name of a society recently 

 organized in San Francisco. The object of the society is 

 to collect a complete library of books by Californian writers, 

 files of papers, scrap-books, scattered papers and sketches 

 worthy of preservation. These will be taken to Chicago 

 and exhibited during the Fair. After the Exposition 

 the collection will be given to the Golden Gate Park 

 Museum. 



The Board of Lady Managers is making arrangements 

 for an extensive exhibit showing woman's share in the 

 illustration of books, in engravings and other forms of 

 picture production. During her recent visit to New York, 

 Mrs. Palmer consulted with a number of publishers and 

 received considerable assistance from them. A list of dis- 

 tinguished women illustrators was secured and plans set on 

 foot to obtain old volumes and manuscripts illustrated by 

 women, together with historical data concerning woman's 

 share in this line of work from ancient times down to the 

 present. 



The New York Assembly has voted permission for 

 the raising of one or two old sunken vessels in Lake 

 George for the purpose of sending them as relics to the 

 Fair. 



Saginaw, Mich., noted as a salt producing city, is con- 

 structing in miniature a complete salt plant for exhibition 

 at the World's Fair. 



The cottage in which George Fox, the founder of the 

 Society of Friends or Quakers, was born in Leicester- 

 shire, England, is being taken down to be re-erected in 

 Chicago. 



The " wooded island " in the Exposition grounds is 



