Chicago Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 13 October 1892, Page 3

Chicago Notes.

Work at Jackson Park has progressed considerably during the past week in August. Except on the Manufacturer's Building, all the structural iron work is now in place. The Machinery Hall and Electricity Building are the only structures incomplete. Work on landscape gardening i? now far advanced. Twenty-three state buildings are in progress. The Washington building will at once be commenced. Montana will probably be the first Btate building finished, for the interior work as well as the exterior staff work is already well advanced. The Turkish village on the Midway plaisance will be immediately started. Work has been commenced on the building for Germany. The govefh- . ment departments are being actively pushed forward. The main building is .about finished, except around the base of the dome, while the battleBUip Illinois is now commencing to look something like a jnan-of.war, with its white covering of cement and smokestacks in place. Work has also been begun on the government life-saving station.

A model of ocean currents is to be exhibited at the World's Pair which will possess great practical value. This model, whioh is a huge scientific tank, is made to represent the , surface of the earth spread out on an . area of about 80 feet square, the ocean and seas being shown by actual water. Small streams of water are ejected through pipes under the model so that the whole body of water moves exactly as the ocean currents move. The direction of the currents is shown distinctly by a white powder on the surface of the water. Near the model will be placed a large map giving * the -inllest* details of the force,, volume and direction of the various ocean currents.

An effort is being made to secure For exhibition in the Horticultural

Department of the World's Fair a specimen of giant cactus from the desert legion of southeast California. The cactus grows at times to the height of seventy feet. A specimen when boxed ready for shipment will weigh eight tons, and it will require an expenditure of something like $2,500 to deliver it in good condition in Chicago.

Ten almond trees in full bearing will be transplanted in the Exposition grounds at Chicago from San Joaquin county, California. They will be furnished by P. B. Armstrong, president of- the Armstrong Fruit and Nut Company, which owns an orchard of 1,016 acres— one of the largest in the work. MiArmstrong will also make a display of peaches, no one of which will be less than a foot in circumference.