Chicago Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1892, Page 2

Chicago Notes.

" Marshall's gold nugget " will be exhibited at the World's Fair by California. This is the identical nugget which Marshall picked up in the American Biver, Feb 16, 1848, when selecting a site for Suttee's mill, and which constituted the first discovery of gold in California. The nugget is about the size of a lima bean, and, on account of its associations and the almost incalculable wealth and development which have resulted from

' its finding, is regarded as an almost ■' priceless treasure. The Electric Launch and Navigation Company of New York has been awarded the contract for running electric boats on the interior waterways at Jackson, park during the World's Fair. It will pay the Exposition 82| per cent of the gross receipts. These boats will convey visitors from one point to another or on a general three mile tour on the grounds, as desired. Such a tour affords some of the finest views of the buildings and gounda, aha is sure to be popular. California is sending a section of one of her famous big trees to the World's Qolunlbian Exposition at Chicago. The seotion of the tree will b» twenty-three feet in diameter and thirty feet long. This will be divided into three parts and-.7tb.ele will be placed in their natural position, one above the other and so arranged as to form something Jik;e a two story house. . There are,t of course, larger trees in the forest, but the requirement wag that tiias section should be perfect in all respects, cylindrical, straight and without' a burn in the 'bark, and this- was the largest found to fill all the conditions. The tree selected is one known as the " General Noble." It measures thirty -three feet in diameter near the ground, but as' the object was to have the seotion. of the same diameter at both ends, as nearly as possible, a piece is being taken out of the tree at some distance from the ground. To do this and to preserve the section from harm, by falling as well as to meet other., requirements has proved to be a work of considerable magnitude- The idea is not to send a solid sectionjb/ut, rather,' the rim of the tr, ac hollowed out and cut into segments of suitable size, a"nd 'all to be numbered- 00. that* tbey can be erected at; Chicago, so as to look from the exterior like a solid section of a sequoia thirty feet in height. To get. the tree, to a point where wagons can reach it required jihe building of abroad two miles ldiig. The entire exhibit, including the work, will cost the Government several thousand- dollars. The tree when, erected ..at Chicago • wily be surrounded by a glass dome, and will stand directly under the great dome of the Government' building. . . i An Indiana stony quarry company is having a life-size figure^of an ele? phant chiseled out of a's'oM felbcfor stone. It will ba exhibited at the World's Fair \ ' How was the copy obtained ? As a " model of the figure of Lot's wife in salt " will appear in the Kansas World's Fair exhibit to represent 'or illustrate the salt industry of that state. . ■ „"';' ■ • ;; •■■■ ■ A creole kitchen with native cook* and waiters, and dishes prepared in creole style, will be a striking adjunct to the exhibit which Louisiana will make. , Chief Willard A. Smith of the Transportation Department of the World's Fair has secured foi' exhibition one of the old French voyager's boats, which he found in the State Historical Museum of Wisconsin, at Madison. The boat is an old batteau of the pattern used by the FrenchCanadian fnr traders in their voyages on the lakes and rivers of the North-, west before Illinois of Wisconsin had been organized as territories "It is a leviathan of canoes, weighing 1000 pounds, is thirty^ feet long, and in its day carried eighteen men and over a - ton of goods for the Indian trade. Secretary. Thwaite of the Wisconsin Historical Museum* on one of his canoe trips two years ago, found this relic, . water-logged, pa the banks of the tapper St. Croix, and had it conveyed to Madison. ■>