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The Washington critic., 1886-06-15
The Peace Monument.

Just half way across sie Avenue from the
northeast angle of the Botanical Garden.
And at the west foot of the Capitol Grounds
Is the Peace Monument. This was de-
signed by Admiral Porter in honor of the
dead soldiers and sailors of the late war.
II is of marble and cost, with PEDESTAL and
platform $4,000. 1t Is proposed to remove
this monument to one of the squares on the
northwest section,
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The Government Printing Onice

The Government Printing Once Is in a north
east direction from the Pension Office, at
the corner Of II and North Capitol streets.
IT is by far the largest printing establish.
visitors. The cost of running II goes up into
millions annually, and the money Is well
spent. II would take columns to merely
outline the gigantic establishment which
employees in its busiest season over 1000
people. It is rcacked by the Columbia line
ggsY
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IpnYY Enrns, Enttncc.

One OF the cnriosItles OF washington Is old
Davy Burns Cottage, on Seventeenth street,
near the river. II may be reached by the
drive south of tho Presidents House or by
the Metropolitan or Avenue line of cars.
Next door TO IL Is General Van Ness once
stately mansion, where he brought his
bride, Marcia Burns, one Of the original
hot 90
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The Pension NMcc.

The new Pension Building extends nearly the
entire width Of judiciary Square from
Fourth TO Fifth streets and from G., nearly
TO + street. II is by far the largest
building in the world devoted to the exam
inatiOn and settlement of claims for pen
several hundred thousand dollars. In II
was given President Clevoand's Inaugura
tion Ball. 1t can he reached by the Metro
pOlitnu and thn Rplt limo nara
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Vhe OIh sOIiiers' NOme.

The Old Soldiers Home lies about u mile DO
yond Howard University, out Seventh
street extended, and is reached by the same
convoyanccs, namely the Ninth and seventh
street ear lines. Its main building Is of
marble, 900 feet front with very high
tower The view from its tower surpasses
any similar view In the neghborhood. a
statue of General Scott adorns the grounds.
There is also National Cemetery with sew
eral thousand Union dead buried there.
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Alexandria.

Seven miles from Washington down the Po,
tomac, reached by boat or by rail, Is the old
CITY OF Alexandria, lt contains among
other objects of interest the church whore
Washington worshippod, the house that
fatai campaign, the lodge Of Masons 20
which Washington was attached, the store
where tho famous General Turner Ashby
sold dry goods for many years, ana many
nihnr nhlccts of intOrost
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Thc NynshingtOn Monnment.

Immediately south of the white House stands
the Washington Monument, the lottlest
structure erected by man. and the most i'm
posing obelisk over constructed. 10 Is 555
feet above its base, which Is ~ feet above
tide.watcr. Its cornerstone was laid July
4, 1873, and the ap-stone, forming the apex,
was placed in position December 6, 1884. In
10 are lSI blocks OF inserted stones or cop
per. gifts from various countries and so.
cietics. The total cost will be over 81 $50.
geo. 10 Is situated In what will ultOatcly
he n bpnutiful park
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The bureau of Education

The Burcau Of Education Is In a brick building
due north Of the Patent Oflice. The visito.
with scholarly tastes and instincts will not
fail to visit this bureau, which contains a
complete collection OF objects illustrating
the progress aud condition OF education
throughout the world.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15

American Ball-Blue Is product OF
science applied to the housekeeper's wants
Pure, harmless and Of beautiful effect. Try
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MIR. Bancroft at Newport.

Says the Providence Journal, "Mr. Ban
croft likes to get down to his house on the
Cliffs before June is well under way, to
watch the budding and blossomlng OF his
beloved roses They are the pride Of the
dear old gentleman's heart, aud by the 25th
of tho month his rose-garden, In which
there are over 1000 bushes, is bewilder
ing cloud of bloom. He always receives on
that day, and loves TO display the splendors
of his grounds to the friends who admire
and praise his wonderful skill in producing
such rare and beautiful plants"
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Howard University.

Howard University is the first place In thIs
country 10 provide for the higher education
of the colored people generally. It Is on Sew
enthstreot extended, just above Boundary,
and occupies high and picturesque site,
overlooking the whole city. II IS built Of
large crcam-colored brick, specially manu-
fnrtural for the ppcnSiOu,
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Lafayette Square.

Due north from the White House is Lafayette
Square, the first public reservation in Wash
ington that was improved IL contains the
equestrian statue of Andrew jackson, by
Clark Mills. Many of its trees are old forest
monarchs, hundreds of years old. II Is IN
part specimen of the old formal landscape
gardening so fashionable in England two
hundred years ago. style that was i'm,
ported into this country. Lafayette Square
was, one hundred years ago, part sf grave
yard that enclosed the square north, on
which st. Johns Church Is built, and the
square east, on,whioh are situated the At.
torney-General's Office formerly the Freed
mans Bank, the Surgeon.General's office
and Riggs Bank (both In the building for
Commodore Decatur's house. corner Flf-
teenth ard a-half and II streets, and the
old Club House, near which Philip Barton
Key was killed by Daniel L. Sickles, Mem
ber of Congress from New York. The last
bodies from THIS graveyard were not re-
moved until 1879.
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Thc Interior Department.

or, as IL Is popuarly termed, the Patent OF
flee, occupies the two squares between Sew
enth and Ninth and Il and G streets. 1t Is
built in the Dorlc style, and is an admirable
specimen of the boldest and codest of the
Greek styles. II contrasts finely with the
General Postolice, which Is Corinthlan, the
most ornate of the pure Greek modes of
architecture. The curioslties of the Patent
Office are the model rooms, where many
thousands Of Ideas have been materiallzed
and exhibit themselves to the gaze IN every
stage of invention. This building like most
OF the Government offices, Is open to the
visitor from a. IN to . u. M, The libraries
of the Interior Department are well worthy
Of n visit, The great inauguration ball at
Lincoln's second term took place In tho
Patent Office
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The Deaf Mute college.

Returning from Mt. Olivet the visitor will
pass near by and In full sight of the Deaf
Mute College, which IS on the north side of
street northeast 1t is reached by cab or
the II street line OF cars. II is the most
promiuent Deaf Mute College In the world.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15
Tie National NIuscum.

The National Museum Is In the Smithsonian
grounds, few yards east of the Smithso-
nian building. II contains thousands OF the
life, customs and history of all nations. IT.
as well as the Smithsonian, IS open daily TO
the public from 0 o. IN. TO 4 p. IN.
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Tbe Naval Obscryntory.

To the West of the Washington Monument
on the highest elevation that borders the
north bank Of the river, between ST. Eliza
beth,s Heights and Georgetown College,
stands the Naval Observatory. The hill on
which II stands Is famous FOR having boen
the camping ground of Washington, Brad
dock, and tho latter's army, when on their
march to the fatal field, where tho English
General fell victim to his self-concelt and
vanity. Tradition also points out this hill
District Indians and the mysterious Susdtte-
hannas. This observatory contains the
largest rcfracting telescope In the world
next to the new equatoralaiust built for the
Lick Observatory. BY It's aid that most in
teresting, lf not greatest, astronomical dis
covery of the country was made, the moons
of Mars. The entrance to the observatory
Is at L and Twenty'third streets northwest.
The ferdio cabs 90 TO Twenty-sccond and
streets.
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ncrnrtmcnt OF .rnsiice.

Immediately north OF the Treasury Building
ard just across the street is the Dopnrt
inent Of Justice. This buding was origin
square In Which Il is erected * a historic
ore. ON the same street, nj the east corner,
stands Riggs Bank which was built for the
accommodation OF the Washington branch
of the old United States Bank. Tho greater
pnrt Of II is now occupied by the clerks of
the SurgconG Generals Onlco Around the
corner 10 tho west Is the CommssaryGeu
erals ONCE, formerly the old Washington
Club House. In front OF which Philip Barton
PKoy was shot by Sicklos. The tree. under
which the dead mans body lay, Is still
standing, although It's bark had been com.
pletely removed by relic hunters. At the
northwest corner Of the square, above the
Commissary- Generals Office, Is the house
made famous by the ownership of CommO-
dOre Decatur, and where dolly Madison
lived and roigned so long n social Queen
after her husbands term as President ex-
PRED
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Tho .inninrinni I,nrnnn.

The Geological Survey is located on r. street,
near tho EbbNt HOuse Tho Interior Dc
partmcnt building, immense as 10 Is is en-
tircly too email for the accommOd ltion of Us
bureaus, two of which, besides the Educa-
tional and Geological Bureaus agriculture
and Pousop) arc located IN other quarters.
These two last bureaus are among the larR'
est under the Government.
Medical Museum.
on Tenth street, between aud =, round The
corner westward trCm Masonic TomUle, is
the famous Medical Museum THIS build
ing wns once prominent Baptist Church. 10
was converted about the beginning Of the
war into a theatre, known the country over
as Ford's, and II was IN private box there
in April, 1865, that John wilkes Booth
Killed President Lincoln Tho latter was
carried TO house, Just opposite, whore no
died. a marble tablet In front Of the house,
NO. 5lG Tonth street. commentaries this
iact, The theatre was then soqucstratcd by
ihe government and turned into the Med.
ical Museum attached 80 the SurgeOn-Gen-
erals Office 10 * full OF interesting surgical
relies OF the war, and has the largest mcli-
cal library IN the world. Among the curl
ositics within its walls IS the artlculatcl
skeleton OF Guiteau, the assassin of PrCsi-
dent Garfield Coming down Tenth street
from the Medical Museum the visitor will
not fail 10 inspect tho massive and bcautl-
ful Post Building, in which T. situated tho
Office of TiE CnIric. This Is the largest
newspaper establishment south of Philadel-
pha and cast Of tho Ohio and Mississippi
rivers -Four Of the leading and most nflu-
entail Journals In the cOuntry-twO morning
one evening (THE CRrriC) and one indepen.
dent sunday paper have their home In this
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St, EIiyai,eth's.

Across the AnaoOsta River, due sOuth from
the Navy-Yard, is st. Ellzahcth's or the Gov
ernment's Hospital for the Insane. 1t lies on
the top of hill having beautiful view OF
the surrounding country. There arc over
one thousand patients In this asylum. II Is
reached by pleasant carriage drive.
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Judiciary square.

The City Hall stands on the south front OF
Judiciary Square. one of the finest parks In
the city. The city Jail used to stand on tho
northeast corner of the square which runs
and Louisiana avenue to G street-three
long full eauorag
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The Smithsonian.

Across Twelfth street, Immediately cast from
the- Agricultural Department, are the
Smithsonian Institution and tho Smithso.
nlan Grounds. The former Is a specimen of
the most graceful architecture IN the city,
and the latter form the most beautiful
grounds of themselves are worth visit TO
Washington to see. They contain the
memorial urn to the artist who designed
the park, Andrew J. Downing, and the
bronze statue of Professor Henry, the first
secretary Of the institution. The latter Is
at the northwest corner of the building; tho
Downing Urn IS IN the centre of the grounds,
The Smithsonian is filed with the most
varied and interesting objects connected
with science. II is reached by the Seventh
Street, the Ninth Street and the Belt Line
Of street pnrq
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THE VISITORS GUIDE.
Objects Of Interest in and About the
National Capital,
TEE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
PARKS, Squares, Statues. Gardens aad
other Points of Attraction.
THE WAY TO REACH THEM.

Washington is fast becoming the
most attractive city of the country AS
the Capital of the Nation 1t presents
more objects of interest to the visitor
than any other on the continent, and n
brief directory Of its prominent points
will be Of service to the vast number of
persons who annually resort to the po-
litical metropolis. For 1t is estimated
that over three hundred thousand
strangers pay visit every year to this
city to behold the varied objects of in.
terest which so thickly stud the his
toric "Ten Miles Square" or these
objects the most conspicuous are of
course the Government buildings.
Chief among those is, first
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The Centre Market.

The Centre. Market occupies the squares
on the south, Seventh street on the east
and Ninth street ON the west. II Is u very
handsome market building, oxoellod In
beauty, and probably In size, by none in the
world. II Is the cleanest and the best,
whlle also the eheapest market In Amoriea.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15
The Printing and Engraving Bureau

The great money mill of the Government is
located at the corner of Fourteenth and u
street southwest, southeast from the Monu-
ment and southwest from the Agriculture
Bureau. IL Is reached by the Belt Line
Cars, and is opened to visitors every day.
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Masonic Temple.

WostWard ITOm the Patont OlliCe across Ninth
street at its intersection with II
street Is tho handsome Masonic
Temple, erected in 1858. This build
ing Is one Of the most complete in it's ar
rangements of any building cOnsecrated TO
Masonic uses in the country
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The City Hail.

Due north Of, and two squares away from,
the District Buildings, and closing up Four
and, a hall street at that point, IS the city
Hall. This Is a large and commodious
building, built for uso rather than show,
and now occupied by the District courts.
just In front and 10 the south of the city
Hall is column of white stone surmount-
cd by marble figure Of Lincoln.
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The White House.

From the west balcony of the Capitol, looking
down Pennsylvania avenue, the White
House is seen rearing its snowy-hued walls
above the dense mass OF opening that EN-.
bowers It. Ikea gigantic caia lily springng
up amid its enfolding green blades. Were
It not for the partly Intervening Treasury
building the view Of the White House from
the Capitol would be full aud complete. The
White House is the center of "Uptown,h as
the Capitol is the center of Down town"
1t Is beautifully located, the view from the
south windows covering the whole southern
front of the city, as the view from the north
up Sixteenth street west exhibits the best
The White House Is a copy of the palace of
the Duke of Leinster at Dublin, with the
addition of a large porch on the north front,
which was added during Andrew Jackson's
administration. The reservation in which
II stands embraces nearly 81 acres. The
main entrance Is on the north, reached by
the Pennsylvania avenue cars. IL is two
stories high on the north is built OF white
free.stone, 40 feet long by SO wide 1t con.
Red, Blue and East rooms, the State Dining
Room and the great conservatories. The
Blue Room Is the Presidents official rccep-
tion room and the drawing-room of the ladies
of his family The East Room, originally
designed for banquet hall and so used as
late as 1881, and in the latter part of the
century used as drylng-room for clothes
by Mrs, President Adams, Is the largest and
most noted room in the building. 1t Is q
open TO visitors every day except Sundays.
Upstairs are the Cabinet room, the private
offices. the Presidents Office, the library
and the family apartments. All these
rooms except the latter are open to visitors,
by special permission, at suitable hours.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15

This building Is situated east of the Monu-
ment. IL Is enclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden In the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
Attached to this Department are tho Ex.
perimental Gardens. whose Offices are i'm
mediately west of the main building. The
Belt Line cars go right past the grounds.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15

Mr.. Henry Norman, Baltimore, Nd,
cured severe cough with Red Star Cough
Cure.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-15
Mount vernon.

Fourtoon miles below Washington down the
river, reached by boat, Is Mount Vernon,
the hon and grave OF Washington. Nis'
itors can reach II by the steamer Corcoran,
Contaiu Blake, every day,
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Theatres.

Alhaueh's Grand OperalIouse, In the Wash
iugton Light Infantry Armory, is on Fiji
teenth street, just south of Pennsylvania
avenue,
7 he New National Theatre occupies the same
site on which 80 many historic theatres
have stood, on u street, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth,
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The Russian Prisoner.

Prince K~rapotkinin the Ninteenth Century.
The man is not beaten; he is not
knocked down. No, we are civilized
people, and the punished man is
merely brought to The cellular quarter,
and locked up in q cell. The cell is
quite empty; it has neither bed nor
bench. For the night u mattress is
given, and la prisoner must lay his
dress outside the cell, at the door.
Bread and water are his food. AS
soon as the bell rings in the morning
he is taken to q small covered yard,
and there he must-walk. Nothing
more; but our refined civilization has
learned how to make a torture even
of this natural exercise. At q formal
slow pace, under the cries of un, deux,
the patients must walk all the day
long around the building. They walk
for twenty minutes; then a rest fol-
lows. For ten minutes they must
sit down immovable, each of them on
his numbered stone, and walk again
for twenty minutes; and SO ON through
all the day, as long as the engines of
the workshops are running. And the
punishment does not last one day or
two; it lasts for whole months. 1t is
50 cruel that the prisoner implores
hut one thing: 'Let me return to
the workshops" "Well, we shall see
that in q fortnight or two" is the
usual answer.
But the fortnight goes over, and the
next one too, and the patient still
continues to walk twelve hours every
day. Then he revolts. He begins to
cry in his cell, to insult the warders.
Then he becomes "a rebel''--a dread
full qualification for any one who is in
the hands ot.the brotherhood of ward
ers--and as such he will rot in the
cells, and walk throughout his life. II
he assaults a warder, he will not be
sent to New-C Caledonia; he will still
remain in his cell, and we walk in
the small building. One man q pcas-
ant, seeing no issue from this horrible
situation, preferred to poison himself
rather than live such a life--a terrible
story which Iahall some day tell in
full.
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Female Alterations.
New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The affectations of women are quite
as pronounced as those of men. 1t is
worthnoting that each sect deals more
harshly with the shortcomings of its
fellows than with the sins of people OF
an opposite gender. OF all the afec.
tations from which New York women
have suffered none has been so pro-
nounced as Anglomania. The aver
age New York girl to-day had rather
be considered English than beautiful.
Some of them are very apt and clever
at mimicking the daughters OF Great
Britain. A square-shouldered, direct
and dashing girl whom | happen to
know, in speaking of the craze, said
frankly, the other day:
"Oi course you imagine that men
are more intellectual than women, and
need higher mental food. 1t is not
true. Man wants his girl ala mode,as
he does his trousers or his hat. The
proper girl is English now. think
sometimes that exercise is pushed Q
bit too far, and quite a lot OF girls are
certainly growing yellow, but then
they re in the swim, you know, and q
cold dip, a raw egg and a hard caiiter
through the park are Vaccinations
hard to resist when one hasfaslen INTO
their power"
The athletic girl certainly carries ey-
rything before her. Dress reform aa-
vocates have had a great deal TO 90
with making her what she is. In some
respects she meets their ideal, wearing
square, sturdy, and low-heeled boots,
loose corsets and short hair. Inedoc-
tors are reading her elaborate lectures
and her mother throws up her hanus
i'm dismay. The strain may DC 10Y
great for a delicate constitution, pus
She must and will be athletic-Decause
it's English, you know.
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When Shall Our Young Woma.
Marry?

The Brooklyn, N. Y, Magazinabo a
ing propounded the question: oWha.
shall our young women marry?o nr;pta
answers from q number of em;naas
women who might be supposed we'll
qualified to speak. Louisa M Alco.4
unhesltatingly gives her opinion tbat
from twenty-three to TWENTY-FIVE vaars
Is the right average age, and she cia;ras-
to speak as teacher, nurse. antbas
and contidante to old and vo,,naa,
Rebecca Harding Davis saws the t;9.o
for a girl to marry is when she falls +
love with a good man who loves her
Madeline V. Dahlgren believes n rsa
sonably early marriages and thinls
that a girl OF twenty summers onobt
to be able to decioe on a match viii
out making any serious mistake tn.
cy Stone doesn'tfavor early marr;aoa
She puts the suitable age at from 3s
to 30. Helen Campbell would clear
the divorce docket by teaching hat
no man is fit to marry before so and
no woman before 25. Julia C. r. DORIS
says one flower blossoms in Nav. and
another i'll August, but probably be-.
tween 20 and % is the best ACE for )
girls marriage. Eunice White Beech.
er says there are no two cases alike
but she finds reasons why marriage ii
girls from Is to 81 would seem "a
promise the happiest union provided
true love was the foundation and the
man not too old. Mary L. Booth de-
clines to fix q limit of age, but saws 4
girl before marriage should have an
opportunity to see something OF the
world and to partake OF the amuse-
ments of her age, that she may not at.
forwards be pursued with regret for
having been defrauded of the enioy-
ment of her youth. Elizabeth P. Pea.
body wouldn't have q girl marry till
she meets her ideal, and Adeline T.
Whitney says she should marry when
she is fitted for married life. The views
expressed are all interesting, and all
seem to agree that the girls ought to
marry and be wide awake about it
too. At the same time there is eyi-
dence that each and every one ofthese
very competent advisers looks upon
the matter as very serious business IN
deed.