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BrotCI,'G IRON Biiters.

Does your stomach refuse to assimilatc
the food you eat?
Brovn'S Iron Bittcrs furnishes aid to the
stomach to accomplish It's work. Onlya
medicine which has a specific action upon
the stomach will do you any good, and
Browns Iron Btters will act directly
upon that organ, toning it up and giving
it strength to do its work, relieving the
pressure Supon the nervous ssystem,
strengthening the nerves, quickening and
improving the appetite, removing iatu-
lcncy and heartburn, restoring the appe-
tite, and dispelling the dizzy spells which
are so annoying, and may prove very
dangerous.
Anricty, care, dependency, gloom, which
have resulted from the dyspeptic condi-
ton, will no longer exist if faithful use
Of this valuable medicine is made.
1t will not produce constipation or head.
ache.
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Byo,cn's IRON Bittcrs

is the only iron medicine that will cure
both Of these complaints.
The scientific combination and sbilful
preparation Of Brown's Iron Baiers en-
sures a remedy always the same and al
ways effective. 1t is composed of the
best vegetable Alternative medical agents
known. With these iron is so assimi-
lated that its strengthening and tonic
properties are added to and form a part
Of the blood purifying elements Of the
best medicine known for the cure of all
blood poisoning stomach disorders, kidney
and lirer troubles and diseases arising
from impure, weak, or vtiatel blood.
Ladies can take
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Rids for KIinsIe Ford Bridge.

The Commissioners to-day received pro-
posals for the construction of an iron
bridge across Rock Creek at Klngle Ford,
described heretofore in THE CRITIC. The
bidders for the bridge were the Pittsburg
Bridge Company, 81 900; King Iron Bridge
Company, $2,50O; Edgemore Iron Bridge
Company Qnformal), S2Sl5. The bidders
for constructing the stone abutments were
Atchison 4 Lynch, $4,00l50; John Lyon,
S4,174.50; Flannery Brothers, $4,000; j.
Mcknight, $5,5G2 so. No award has yet
been made. There will also be new road
built from this bridge to the Tennallytown
road
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~. John's =. ". Church.

ST. Johns =. Z. Church, which has been often
called the State Church because more Presi'
dents have worshipped there than AT any
other, stands at the corner of II and SIX
teenth streets. II was built In 1916 and en-
larged In 1870. In II have worshipped Pres
idents Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams Uhoulh the latter was Conqoga-
tiOnaIistj Martin Van Buren, though he be-
lunged to The Dutch Reformed Church. llar-
rison, Tyler. Polk, 'raylOr, Fillmore (though
the hitter was n uuitarian), Pierce, Buch-
anau and Arthur, Presidents Lincoln,
johnson and Grant have also attended Di'
vine services here although not steadily, It's
interior reminds one very iorcibly of the
old, dim English country Episcopal churches
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DVspepsi0! q!
Indigestion! Uodk stomach !

Indigestion! Ucdh stomach Y!
Indications :-Di=siacss, Lack Of
Appetite, Sour Stomach, FIat,t-
lency, Heartburn, Nervous Pros
trdtion.
CanseS:-Occr-eating and drink
ingj too title food; impaired
digestion hurried eating; too
title rcSt;; too close confinement.
Cure -
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Ssrcutly Excited,

Not few of the citizens OF Washington
have recently become greatly excited over
the astounding fact that several of their
friends who had been pronounced by their
physicians as incurable and beyond all
hope-suilering with that dreaded monster
consumption-have been completely cured
by DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
tion the only remedy that does positively
cure all throat aud lung diseases, coughs,
colds, asthma and bronchitis, Trial bottle
free at Stott Cromwell Il Co.. drug store;
large bottles 81,
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IarrOOn, Licenses.

The license year of the liquor trade be-
gins next month, and the Commissioners
and the police are kept busy examining ap-
plications for license. The Commissioners
to-day approved the following applications
for barroom licenses: John Callahan, 3l9
Thirteenth street northwest; o. II. Rund-
ginst, 1928 Maryland avenue northwest;
Michael Kug, 2i5 Virginia avenue south.
west; John Rooney, Thirteenth and G
streets; Susanna Ludwig, Rock Creek
Church Road.
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In suduvMB ,---------------------
rest at ease from O.,
With pinks and violets to marS
My small horizons rim.
A truant cricket gone astray
INDUCES in roundelay-
A lissome-footed guest;
And then ere long entertain
Gay butterflies, dazzling train
In gold and purple drest.
At will upon the fountain spray
! watch the frollc colors play
In soft, translucent bars;
Or gazing In the leafy skies
/ dream see dryad's eyes
Laugh mid the jasmine stars.
-lSamuol Minturn Peck.
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.rmtIicinry snnnrc.

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 the
northeast corner of the square which runs
from Fifth to Fourth and from u street and
and Louisiana avenue TO q streot-three
lou, fam
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Hermann ut the Insane Asylum.

At the Invitation of DR.. Godding, the
superintendent, Professor Hermann visited
the st. Elizabeth Insane Asylum this after
noon, and mystiled the numerous patients
with an exhibition Of his wonderful necro-
nancy. The Professor was accompanied
by number of newspaper men, and there
is some solicitude at their respective Of
fees in fear that the reporters may be
mistaken for the Doctors regular boarders.
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Nlr. HnItOn,a Cnmnlnint.

Mr.. VIM. NJ, Dalton has written the Com
missioners, complaining of the "Inhuman
rules" in the public schools. lie alleges
that his 12-year-old son, who attends the
school Of Miss Lane at the Jefferson build
ing, was refused permission to leave the
room when 1t was absolutely necessary for
lin to 90.
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The Botanical Gardens.

Passing eastward from the Museum, over
the railroad bridge that spans Sixth street,
and through the pretty park lying between
Maine and Missouri avenues tho visitor
comes to the entrance on Third street, Just
south of Pennsylvania avenue, of the Boz
tanlcal Gardens. These interesting grounds
are open daily from 0 in the morning to
70 IN suo me- dmey mere estuuiiGIed @ Sir
with the choicest and rarest foreign plants.
Around the gardens are extensive Collec
tions of trees and shrubs. In the centre of
tracted SO much attention at the Philadel
plia Centennial,
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WAN. N,NY ana stnte ncpartments.

This CdinCe. once named bya Washington
Journalist the "Triunc Building occupies
the west side of the Presidents reservation,
state Department occupies the south part,
the Nayyis located north OF the state, while
the War Department occupies the entire
northern half II Is q new and very hand
some structure. The most beautiful room
In the whole building Is conceded To bo tho
library of the State Department. with south
front, from whose windows the eye can
sweep unlntorruptedly down the Potomac
to Mt. Vernon and lar over the Virginia
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A Handsome Hmprovement.

Mr.. Il. F. Schneider had his plans for
eighteen dwelling-houses on Wallach Place
approved to-day by the Building Inspector,
who issued the necessary permit. The
houses will be two stories with cellars and
they will have Il frontage of eighteen feet
each and depth of thirty feet. The esti-
mated cost is SG5, 600.
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Corcoran Art Gallery.

The Corcoran Art Gallery Is at the corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth
street, opposite the War, Navy and state
Department. 1t Is open Tuesdays, Thurs
days and saturdays free; on other days tex
cept sundays a small admission fee Is
charged. This gallery, although not TO be
compared with the great Old World gal
leries, Is nevertheless a very creditable in
stitution for so new country as the United
States, 10 contains among other original
objects Powers great statue of tho "Greek
Slave, -
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Unprecedented Attractiont
over Quarter Million Distributed
Louisiana State Lottery Co.

Incorporated in 1868 for % years by the
Legislature Tor Educational and Charitable
purposcs-with u Capital of si,ODO,OOO-to
which q reserve fund of over $3.50 900 has since
been added.
by an Overwhelming popular vote its fran
Chisc was made part OF the present state
Constitution adopted December ?, A. d. 1879.
It's Grand Single Numher Drawings will tako
place monthly. N H,U.r af0.ts Ur pystyDagS
Look at the following Distribution.
Grand Monthly Drawing at the Acad-
cmy Of Music, New orleans, Tuesday, Nov.
., 1896
100000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths, I'm proportion.
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Uayy Fsurns' Cottage.

Davy Burns Cottage, on seventeenth street,
near the river. II may be reached by the
drive south of the 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
heiresses of Washington.
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LIST or PRIZES.

APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
approximation Prizes OF si5o...... 6,750
do do 2JO..... 1880
1907 Prizes amounting TO s2G5, 500
Application for rates 10 clubs should be
made only 10 tho ONCE OF the Company IN
New orleans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money orders or New York Exchange IN ordi-
nary letter. Currency invariably by Express
at our expense, addressed
NJ. \. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
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One Of the pecularitles OF q 240-pounl
pumpkin grown at Newburg, N. Y, Is
That it was fed on milk. A root was sent
out from the vine to basin of milk,
aud 1t consumed pint Of the fluid each
day.
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DIED.

REICHENBkClI--At i;i5 a. m, october 10,
1856, Mrs. Catharine Reichenbach, relict OF
the late +. G. ReiChenbach.
Funeral from her late residence, 423 Elev-
cnth street northwest, Friday, october 10, at
3 p. IN. No flowers.
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The Louise Home.

The Louise Home is beautiful building at
the corner of Massachusetts, avenue and
Fifteenth street, near Scott Circle, lt has
extensive grounds, beautifully embellishcd,
and Is unique establishment. II Is a
memorial to the wife and daughter of Mr..
W. W, Corcoran, and is intended as a home
ment, Who have been reduced to poverty
from affluenCe.
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Most. Pnul Relics for Him.

"Have you heard of that interesting case
down East of woman who was cured of
paralysis by the miraculous power Of relic
Of st. PAUL."
"Yes, | have; but Pm from Minneapolis,
and wouldn't touch relic of st. Paul
with ten-foot pole. - Chicago Rambler
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tism, seizing the victim aud tossing him on
a suffering bed "Not so he cried, "not
sol Wait, my ancient foe, just five minutes,
until the boy brings a bottle OF Salvation
OIL, then wen see who wins the dawn
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,rhe yycntI,cr Iyurenu.

The Signal Service, or Weather Bureau, Is
about one hundred yards west of the State,
WaI and Navy Departments, ON q street. 10
is one OF the most interesting places in
Washington to visit. The observers In
charge, when at leisure, always take
pleasure in showing visitors how they
"manuiaCture weather.
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Thc Peace Monument.

Just half way across the Avenue from the
@ n@oriheast angie OF me iBotanlcal Garden,
Is the Peace Monument. This was de-
signed by Admiral Porter in honor of the
dead soldiers and sailors of the late war.
platform $4,000. II is proposed TO remove
this monument to one Of the squares on the
northwest section.
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The Treasury Department.

The Treasury Department Is cast OF tho Whlte
House and extends the whole length of tho
front between fennsylyania AMI Now YORK
avenues. IL Is 5S2 feet long 10y 800 feet wide.
The central east portion is bull of freostone,
rebuilt In lS36-ll, while the other parts were
commenced in 1855 and built OF granite.
tiful apartment In the north wing, the en-
france to which Is from the north porch.
The vaults are under the Cash Room and
can be seen on a written permit given by
tho treasure of the United States, whose
Office Is IN the north east angle ON the first
floor. This permit must be shown the cash
Ter who will detail guides 10 take the yisl-
tor into the great bullion chests OF the com
try. The old state Department used 10 be
on tho site occupied by the northeast cor
NOR nI Iln TrnnSuIN.
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.BroiCi,'s IRON Bittars

without producing nausea. Growing
children derive great benefit from small
and frequent doses. 1t will not injure
or discolor the teeth; of no other iron
medicine can this be said with truth.
It has no deleterious action upon the
system, as no whiskey enters into its COM
position. Prepared by the Brown Clemi-
cal Co., Of Baltimore, Nd
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".AIderney Dairy vyagons.u

Fresh Attorney butter, ehurned every
morning and delivered In ! h. "Ward"
prints, 40c. per 10. Also cottage cheese !;
butiermllk ond sweet milk, DC. per at.
Cream, l5c. per pt.
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The postofice Department.

The General POstOifCe Departmont Is on tho
square bounded by T., r., seventh aud
Eighth streets II Is Il handsome building,
holder brother, the Patent Once, some
what obscures It's great size and tends 60
lessen its beauty, Its different bureaus
possess great interest to the visitor, but the
Dead Letter Office Is particularly the one to
be observed. The collection of curiostles
taken from the mails In transit, as speci-
mems OF the uses to which the Nations pos-
tai conyeyances are put, Is both varied and
dian tumahawk tou stuffed kangaroo, Is TO
be seen IN this collection, and IL Is still
growing,
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Petroleum. .

FetrOleum.
b. X. Plain & Co., st. Cloud Building,
furnish the following OIL quotations:
Closed yesterday, G43; opened to-day, IS;
highest, G5s; lowest, 64i a:l5 p. M, 6is.
New York stock Market.
The following have been furnished by J.
Vance Lewis, broker, southwest corner
Eighth and + streets:
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Thc CoIumbian University.

Coming down Fifteenth street from the Louise
Home, at the corner of Fifteenth and IL
streets, the visitor sees the Columbian Uni
versity, which occupies the site of the old
Griswald mansion. This university was in
corporated as Columbian College In 1921,
and is under the special supervision of the
Baptist Church. II is an institution famous
for the discipline and thOruughnoss Of its
instruction,
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The Smithsonian.

Across Twelfth street, Immediately east from
the. Agricultural Department, are the
Smithsonian Institution and the Smithso-
nian 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 n visit to
Washington to see. They contain tho
memorial urn TO the artist who designed
the park, Andrew j. Downing, and tho
bronze statue of Professor Henry, tho first
secretary of the institution. The latter is
at the northwest corner of the building: the
Downing Urn is in the centre of the grounds,
two hundred yards north of the east wing.
Tho Smithsonian is filed with tho most
varied and interesting objects connected
with science. II Is reached by the Seventh
Street, the Ninth Street and the Belt Limo
pf parg
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The Geological I,ureau.

The Geological Survey is located ON + street,
near the Ebhitt House. The Interior De-
parlmcnt building, immense as II is, Is en-
tircly too small for the accommodation OF It's
bureaus, two of which, besides the Educa-
tiunal and Geological Bureaus (Agrculture
and Pcuslunl are located In other quarters
These two last bureaus are among the larg
est under the Government
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Thc District Iiuiidlngs.

will proceed down the Avenue to Fourand.
half street ard no'thward up that street
few yards, when he viii be In froSt Of
wherein the officers of the District arc com
PEELED to sacrifice their temper. health and
euod looks while attending 10 business.
These buildings are SO utterly untitled for the
thoroughly ahominahle and Insecure that
they form, PERHAPS the greatest curiosity
IN Washington. No visitor should fail 10
INSPECT them,
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The NnvnI Observatory.

To the West of the Washington Monument,
on the highest elevation that borders the
Ieth.s ji"ights nnd GcorSoioyn GnIlcco
stands the Naval Observatory The hill ON
which II stands Is famous for having been
the camping ground of Washington, Brad
dock, and the lattcr's army, when ON their
march to the fatal field, where the English
General fell victim TO his sclfconrcit and
vanity Tradition also points out this hill
as the decisive battle ground between tho
District Indians and the mysterious SusQuc.
hannas. This observatory contains the
largest refracting telescope In the world,
next To the new equatorial just built for tho
Lick Observatory. by its aid that most in
teresting, If not greatest, astronomical dis.
coyCry of the country was made. the moons
of Mars. The entrance to the observatory
l. at Il and Twenty third streets northwest
The llerdic cabs 90 to Twenty1secohd and
G. streets.
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.BrOUi,'S IRON BittcrS,

the great blood purifying, kidney and livcr
medicine, can be obtained everywhere.
Price only one dollar bottle.
Do not be deceived byimitations. The
genuine has trademark and crossed red
lines on the wrapper, and will cure
Dyspepsia ana Indigestion.
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Great good results from the mInistri-
tion of ST, Jacobs OIL Baltimore Amerl-
cAn,
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The National Museum.

The National Museum Is In the Smithsonian
grounds, q 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 a. m. 70 4 p. m.
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III IT W wv VI
Retraeing our steps we find
Thc Printing nnd MngrnvIng Hnrenu

located at the corner of Fourteenth and B
street southwest, southeast from the Monu-
mcnt and southwest from the Agriculture
Bureau. II Is reached by the Belt Line
Cars, and Is opened to visitors every day.
The Washington critic., 1886-10-14

Immediately south of the white House stands
the Washington Monument, the lOftiost
structure erected by man, and the most i'm
posing obelisk ever constructed. II Il Dos
feet above its base, which Is ~ feet above
tide'watcr. Its cornerstone was laid July
4, 1913, and the cap stone, forming the apex,
was placed in position December q, 1891. In
II are lsl blocks of inserted stones or cop.
per, gifts from various countries and So
cietiCs. The total cost will be oyer $3.50.
be n beautiful park
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NtcdicnI Museum

on Tenth street, between u and Z, round the
corner westward from Masonic Tcmplc, Is
the famous Medical Museum This build
Ing was once prominent Baptist Church. 10
was converted about the beginning of the
war into a theatre, known the country over
as Fotd's, and II was In n private boz there
in April 1865, that John Wilkes Booth
Killed President Lincoln. The latter was
carried to house, just opposite, whore lac
died. a marble tablet In front Of the house,
No. 5l0 Tenth street, commentaries this
fact. The theatre was then seQucstratCd by
the Government and turned into the Med
iCal Museum attached to the Surgeon Con
erals office. IL Is full of interesting surgical
relies of the war, and has the largest meli
cal library in the world, Among the curl.
ostics within It's walls Is the artculatcd
skeleton of Guitcau, the assassin Of Prosi-
dent Garfield. Coming down Tenth street
from the Medical Museum the visitor will
not fail 10 inspect the massive and hcauti-
iul Post Building In which Is situated the
Office Of TUE CuTlC. This Is the largest
newspaper establishment south Of phludel
phia and east of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. Four Of the leading and most iniu-
cntial Journals In the couutry-two morning,
one evening (TnE CWriC) and one indcpen.
dent sunday paper have their home In this
pstublIslmCHt,
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.Mzz9z9g)mezazzg-5
Ss1sS

We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers,
Will pay all Prizes drawn In the Louisiana
State Lotteries which may be presented at
our counters.
j. u. OGLESBY, Pres. La. Nat. Bank.
J. W. KiLBgETH, Pres. state Nat. Bank.
4, BALDWIN, Pres. y. y. Nat. Rank.
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There are about l,400 lawyers in San
Francisco alone, or one to every 40 inhab-
itants.
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department OF .sus,icc.

north Of the Treasury Building
and lust across tie street is tho Depart
mcnt OF Justice. This building was Otigin.
ally erected as the Trcclman's Bank, The
square In which " Il erected Is u historic
one. on the same street, at the cast corner,
stands Riggs Bank, which was built for the
accommodation of tho Washington branch
Of the old United States Bank. Tho greater
part Of II Is now occupied by the clerks Of
the Surgeon. Generals Oficc. Around the
corner TO the west Is the Commssary.Gcn
erals Office, formerly the old Washington
Club House. In front of which Philip Barton
Key was shot by Slckcs. The tree, unlcr
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
Commlssary Generals Office, is the house
made famous by the ownership Of COmmo.
dore Decatur and where Dolly" Madison
lived and ,reigned so long social Queen
after hor husbands term as President eX-
PRED.
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UNDERTAKERS.


A CGUST BuRGDORF,
N FURNISHING UNDERTAKEN,
No, 3lG Penna. ave, n. W, bet. 81 and II1 SITS
Every thing first class.
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LnfaYctte SnMpre.

Due north from the White House Is Lafayette
Square, the first public reservation In Wash
ington that was improved. IL contains tho
equestrian statue of Andrew jackson, by
Clark Mills Many of It's trees are old forest
nonarChs, n hundreds of years old II is In
part a specimen of the old formal landscape
gardening SO fashionable in England two
ported info this country. Lafayette Square
was, one hundred years ago, part >f grave
yard that enclosed the square north, on
which ST, Johns Church H. built and the
square east, on which are situated the At
torney. Generals Office formerly the Freed
mans Bank, the Surgeon Generals Office
and Riggs Bank (both In the building for
merly used as the United States Bank,
teenth ard ahalf and II streets, and the
old Club House, near which Philip Barton
Key was killed by Daniel Il. sickles, Mem
bodies from this graveyard were not re-
moved until 1919.
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hills. The building Is In the italian Ronals-
sancc. IL Is tGf feet long and 3i3 fCCt wide
Its greatest height Is i2S feet, and the nag,
floating over the central portion, flaunts IN
the breeze higher NJ than any other nag In
the city, not executing those above the
Senate and House " Representatives, Tho
cost of the building was five millions of dol
lpfs about three times as much as the
White House, and, we think, as much US
fhp Cnuitp1
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WEAK, UNDEVELOPED PARTS

or TnE HUMAN TODY TNLARGEn, nEyELOPEn
STRENGTHENED, EI., ts An Interesting hlygfila,mgn.
unB ln ourl,per lnIell 1lnluIles W NJ U say tha
hiFhy uiOrc Interested person,
nny get scaled ccunrs giving all pateuars by addIessnl
ETa Nanc1I C0-, Rndal0' y. Y--Tolrdo k,enlns Ice.
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The Agricultural Department.

This building Is situated east of the MOnu-
ment. II Is enclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden In the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
Arboretum probably In the United states
Attached TO this Department are the EX.
pcrimental Gardens, whose offices are i'm.
modiately west of the main building. The
Belt Line cars 90 right past the grounds.