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Show "" S U P PLE FEBRJARY THE WORLD'S FAIR. HK Columbian Exposition oi TTT lSttf will, witbout doubt, be the most expensive the world This will ever seen. be true of the magnificence, beauty, aud size of its buildings and the extent ot its grounds. That great inland sea, Lake Michigan, will be made tri' utaiy to i's convenience and beauty, while the park system of Chicago, one of the grandest in the world, will add its charms and grandhas eur. The exposition will be for the display of material things and forms, and illustrative of their uses, but it will have nothing to do with men and mind. exposition hitherto has at temped to bring together the great men of the world in their several fields of investigation or achievement, as it does not properly fall within the scope of an exposition. But the broad-miuie- d men who are arranging for the Columbian Exposition have oiganizd an association, Lot a part of the exposition, but an auxiliary of it, to get together during the months of the ex position, congr sst s of men eminent in every branch of science, literature, art, education, philanthropy, architecture, engineering in short, men eminent in every department of bumin knowledge anfl skill from all parts of the world. This association is styled The World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition. Que or more, probably two, immense auditoriums, capable of seating as many persons as one voice can address (twenty thousand, more or less,) will be elected, and in connection with these twenty or thirty smaller halls, wherein, simultaneously, congresses of a few hundred or a thousand persons may meet for discussion. This will, no doubt, be the means of bringing together such a gathering of the great men of the world as never assembled before, and even as has never before been proposed. The educators of the deaf are included in those who are invited to hold a world's congress at the time all the other departments of education are havh g th'ir congresses. A month will oe given to educators i f every N) de criptiot-- . E N T M 15, 1L92 It is hoped that instruct aud ing, he mastered devi 1 ped a decided taste in architectural studies, which a course at the National Cjllege for the Deaf at Washing on, D. C. enabled him to further satisfy, Graduating from the latter institution, Mr. Hanson continued his architectural studies in various offices at Milwaukee, Minneapolis and OJiaba. Two years ago, he decided on a foreign trip and passed a whole year abroad, making long-stain the principal cites, all the time devoting himself to a close study of architecture in general, but moie particularly invest igatii-- the progress which has been made in Europe in the direction of providing accommodation for the education of the Deaf. Returning to this country, Mr. Hanson passed some time in the office of one of the largest archi' ectural 11 ins at Philadelphia, hut is now settled in St, Paul'sMinn., have opened an office in room 701 .Globe building. When young Hanson was entered as a pupil in Fairbault school, he had but a wry imperfect acquaintance with the English language. He now writes and speaks it with perfect lluency, his accent and pronunciation alone somewhat being affected by bis inability to hear and correct hi until. But he is a man with a well rounded education, of excellent character, and as an architect we don't see why he should not have a bright future before him. Indeed, his ability as a professional man has already met with considerable encouragement, the new building for the school for the deaf at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, being erected according to his piaus and specifications, accepted, it should be added, in type-setti- ng, orsof the deaf from Ejrope, Asia, Australia and the islands of the sea, will be present, as well as from America, and that such an uplift will be given the case of the deaf as it has never know hitherto. An address: soon to be issued, has been prepared to the educators and instructors of the deaf throughout the world, and will soon be issued by the committee for t is purpose, and to arrange for the congress. Ti.is committee consists of l)r Pnilip G. G llett of Illinois, chairman, Dr. J. L. N yes of Minnesota, Prof. John W. S .viler of Wisconsin. Thete gentlemen have been selected because ot their nearness to Chicago, and the readiness with which they can be broug'it together. This committee is expected only to arrange for the congress, not to direct it in any sense after it has assembled. All that they will do will be only after consultation with and the approval of Mr. C. C Bonnty, of Chicago, president of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition. Mr. Bonney is one i f those men of great mind and heart that seems always almost to grasp and master every subject, and enter into it with the wisest prudence and most zealous earnestness. The teachers of the deaf in all Christendom should be making their plans to attend this congress, the like 01 which has never occured, and will not again occur for a century at least. Advance. inst-anteous- ys 1 ly One morning about twenty years ago, son of a Olaf Hanson, the ten-year-o- . ld family, but a short time before immigrated from southern Sweden and then living in Kandiyohi County, Minn., There had betn woke up stone-deano noticeable intimation of the misfortune which thus of a sudden befell proved the boy, but his deaf-nes- s A bright permanent and incurable. lad he was, and the family being in was good circumstances, every-thintried to restore his hearing, but all in vain, and he was lioally sent to the Minnesota school for the Deaf at Faribault. At this excellent institution his education was successfully carried on and finished as far as posstbl". Beside the usual book learn perference to those of eight other architects. Among those knowing him best Mr. Hanson is verv highly thought of, and Mr. J.L.Noyes, superintendent Fairbault, of the Minnesota recently spoke of him as an architect f. who had made such a success of his business that he was seriously thought of by the committee as architect and superintendent of the new building there. Ex. g There are ' lungs. 1) ) air cells in the not he stingy with fresh air 171 ,000,000 in your bed rooms. |