Foreign Buildings at the Fair Show World’s Architecture Equal to America
A survey of foreign pavilions at the World’s Fair notes twenty nations on the grounds with Germany and Spain among strong peers, France’s Hall of Hercules and Paris exhibit drawing heavy attention. Brazil’s fine forest pavilion leads, while the New York and Massachusets displays stand out among American entries. Visitors marvel at German, British, Spanish, Turkish, Ceylon, Canadian and Latin American structures, with Bertillon’s crime-detection display and a rich mix of life-village exhibits enhancing the international scene.
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America
Worlp's Fair
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Germany
Spain
New York
Brazil
Lake Michigan
Art Palace
France
Australia
Sweden
Heavil
Japan
Costa Rica
Colombia
Turkey
Ceylon
Canada
Hays
Venezuela
Nicaragua
New South Wales
Great Manufactures Palace
Mines Department
Midway Plaisance
England
India
Great Britain
Uncle Saul
Valencia
Victoria House
Hercules
Palace of
Versailles
Benjamin Franklin
United States
Paris
Bertillon
Guatemala
Norway
Hayti
Walter Wellman
Table Novelties Shine Straw berry Spoon Gifts
Among recent table novelties the strawberry spoon in gold or silver rises in favor as a wedding gift. It features a perforated oval bowl and a straight pointed handle, used for strawberry and olives alike. A small silver dish and pedestal bowls with a glass resting inside offer serving elegance for meals.
Victim of a Corporation and the Candy Store Venture
A St Louis banker recalls a 1865 childhood stock scam titled Victim of a Corporation. A dozen boys pooled thirty cents to form a candy shop on school grounds, with the narrator as president. They cut a shelf from a dead tree, stock him with candy, and open the store at noon, but the next day find the stockholders have vanished with the store’s assets, leaving an empty shop and a startled narrator. The tale extends to a later admission by a stockholder that he helped dispose of the stock. Shaving the Beard in Russia notes Peter the Great taxing beards to civilize Russians, priests urging beards for St Nicholas, and Swedes without beards forcing beards to be kept for protection. Recent applications of paper describe paper as a substitute for glass, clay, iron, wood, porcelain, and stone in construction and manufacturing, including paper window panes for greenhouses costing about eighty-five cents and lasting four years.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Republic
Russia
Peter the Great
Adam
Peter
St. Nicholas
Nicholas
United States
E. Astein
Popular Science Monthly
Douglas Jerrold in School and Early Years
The London Standard notes that Douglas Jerrold wrote Black Eyed Susan at twenty one and later contributed to Punch with Candle Leectores. It recalls his nine year old reading difficulty and his apprenticeship to a printer after a period as a midshipman at sea, which sparked his intellectual growth.
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Douglas Jerrold
Jerrold
London Standard
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