Chicago Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1892, Page 3

Chicago Notes.

The old whaling bark, Progress, which New Bedford, Mass., will exhibit at, the Fair, will begin her jdurney to Chicago sometime in June, it is announced. She has been fully rigged and sparred. Her water line has been painted brick red, and her deckhouse, boathouse and davits white. The cabin and staterooms have been grained in oak and carpets have been laid in them. In the saloon will be exhibited a collection of articles used and obtained by whalemen, for example, whalebones taken by a captain who perished in the" terrible disaster of 1871, when thirty-three ships were abandoned, with great loss of life, in the aretic regions ; polar bear skins, pictures of whaling . experiences, harpoons knives, tackle, clothing, boats, etc. The Progress is of 358.62 tons burden, and was built, at Westerly, E. 1., in i843.

Rather a good hint, The "Jibboon Club," of New London, Count, is planning to man a small schooner, such as the Connecticut has employed for many years in the West India trade, run it to the Bahamas and load it with a collection of sea shells, which in great variety, size and beauty are found strewn upon the shores of those islands. The crew will then sail the craft to Chicago by way of the St Lawrence, and , will " sell the shells . from the , de£k of the vessel! The members of the club believe they can make enough to pay the expense of the trip and also of their own entertainment at Chicago.

Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, the celebrated dealer in wild animals, will take to Chicago his entire collection of trained and wild animals also hit collection in natural history. A structure in the form of a Eoman arena will be erected in the Midway Plaisance on a space 110 feet square.

where some seventy animals and several hundred monkeys and parrots will be shown. The wildest beasts living, together with domestic animals, will go through all sorts of performances.

The English admiralty authorities will send to Chicago models of a number of modern English war

vessels