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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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aheliostat. The latter is an apparatus for observing the face of thesun, reflected upon a mirror in a dark room. In the same houseProf. Wm. F. Gardiner shows his time system regulated by astro-nomical clocks, and illustrates the manner of sending the standardtime from Washington all over the Union. Daily at noon, a timeball is dropped from the top to the bottom of a post placed on thedome of the Government Building. The reader will thus see that the exhibit of the United StatesGovernment, upon which has been expended a total of nearlyJi,500,000, includes everything in the range of our governmentalprocesses, and that the student of our system of political economycan learn very much therefrom. The managers of the exhibit areveterans in Exposition work, and to that extent possess an advan-tage over many who were preparing displays for the Worlds Fair.However that may be, all credit is due to them for the magnificentshowing made by the United States Government at the Columbian-Exposition.
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NOTHERofthe specialfeatures of the Depart*ment of Ethnology,_^ which is considered of sufficient interest and importance to be entitled to a building ofits own, is the magnificent collection of relics of Christopher Colum-bus, the ereat discoverer. The buildino- in w^hich this collection ishoused stands in a spot somewhat isolated from the other buildingsof the Exposition. Just south of the Casino, and the long pier,there is an inlet from Lake Michigan to the South pond, a body ofwater which extends almost to the southern extremity of thegrounds, and forming a peninsula just opposite the AgriculturalBuilding. At the northern head of this peninsula, and thereforealmost surrounded by water, is the structure. It is an exact repro-duction of the convent of La Rabida, the harbor of refuo^e and restopened to the discoverer, when well nigh discouraged he was will-ing to retreat from the fight with fortune, and lay aside the hope ofhis life. At the convent he was welcomed, his plans were admi

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