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THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

This building consists of three stories of
pure Grecian Ionic order, and measures 46S
feet from north to south, and 264 feet from
east to west, and inclusive of porticoes and
steps, $50 feet by 900 feet, costing nearly
81, 900 900. The office of the Secretary of
the Treasury is beautiful apartment on
the second floor. The most attractive feat
ures of the room are the walls, which are OF
highly polished marbles of beautiful variety
The vaults, in which the current funds of
the Government are kept, are well worth a
visit. They are made of steel and chilled
iron. The amount usually kept in these
vaults is about $1o, 600, 900, including old
coin. Near the vault is an elevator, used
for conveying money between the vaults
above and the express office below. AS
much as SIS, 900 has been shipped in one
day. In this building is the Photograph
Office, in which fac-similes of accounts for
verifcation by agents sent through the
country, and plans of the building are made
by photography.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

cornerstone of the original Capitol, now
the central part of the structure, was laid
in 1898. by George Washington. with
Masonic ceremonials. The corner stone of
the extensions was laid in 1851, Daniel
Webster delivering the Grafton. The Cap
itol is always open to visitors except on
legal holidays.
The admission is free, and parties exdeav-
oring to COLLECT an entrance fee to this or any
ofher public building in Washington are
fmbOstOrs, and ought to be handed o0er to the
police aUitAont ce,emOny.
Here the objects are so numerous that
space can be given only to brief mention
of each of them. Upon platform erected
in the east central portico, the oath of Office
is administered to the President in the pres
ence of the public, and here he delivers his
inaugural address. Fronting the portico is
Greenough's statue OF Washington. On each
side of the steps leading up to the portico
are emblematical groups in marble; the one
on the south side is Persico's " Discovery"
the one on the north Greenough's "civili-
cation" The first represents Columbus
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Battle of Chapultepec," in many respects
one of the most remarkable works of art in
Washington over the east staircase hangs
Powell's painting of (" Perry's Victory at
Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie.' The west stair
case, on the Senate side, is of white marble;
on the east side it is of Tennessee marble.
The ground floor is occupied by committee
rooms, bathrooms, the Senate restaurant,
etc. In the basement is located the heating and
ventilating apparatus-weI worth visit.
There are many other objects of interest
in the Capitol building to which lack of
space prevents reference. Regularly author
lied guides may be found in the building,
who are allowed to charge visitors a
moderate fee for their services Strangers
should be wary of sharpers and swindlers who
abound in Washington and assume to be
guides, etc. In every case, unless they can
show official authorization, such men
should be avoided. In any such case it is
well to appeal to the police.
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DE Soto Discovering the Mississippi" by
VIM. H. Powell, for which the government
paid 81 S 5,ooo;' The Landing of Columbus, "
by Vanderlyn, $I2, 900; The Baptism of
Pocahontas," by Chapman, $4,000 and
" The Embarkation of the Pilgrims" BY
Weir, $4,000. There are four doors
opening into the rotunda, and over each is
an alto ,eliego, viz. over the north door
g. PENIS Treaty with the Indians in 1868
by Grevelot; over the south door, The
Conflict between Daniel Boone and the
Indians in 1775," by Causici; over the east
door The Landing of the Pilgrims on
Plymouth Rock" also by Causici and over
the west door is the % Preservation of Cap
tain Smith by Pocahontas," by Capellano.
Above the architrave is a fresco in chiaro.
oscura of sketches from American history
The work was begun by Brumidi, and at
his death was taken up by one of the mas
ters of his school. 1t will, perhaps, be COM
pleted by the end of the present year. in
the canopy above is Brumidis allegorical
painting, representing Washington Seated
in Majesty" By climbing 365 steps the
visitor may ascend to the top of the dome,
whence magnificent view of the city of
Washington and the surrounding country
may be had.
The old hall of the House of Representa-
tives is reached by passing through the
south door of the rotunda. The finest
piece of sculptured work in Washington is
the marble clock in this hall. 1t is by
Franzoni, and represents the Genius of
History making up her Records" This hall
is now known as 'Statuary Hail." and is
reserved for the reception of statues-each
State being permitted to send statues of
two of her chosen sons. Of these there are
already here Ethan Allen, from Vermont !;
John Winthrop and Samuel Adams, from
Massachusetts, George Clinton and
Robert R. Livingston, of New York !;
King, of Maine, Nathaniel Greene and
Roger Williams, of Rhode Island, and
Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman, of
Connecticut Besides these there are
plaster cast of Houdan's Washington !;
Winnie Reams' Lincoln, bust of Kos
ciusko Ames' bust of Lincoln; statues of
Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton and
Thomas Jefferson; bust of Thos. Crawford,
the designer of the statue of Freedom and
the Senate bronze doors a mosaic portrait
of Lincoln made by an Italian who never
saw him, portraits of Joshua Giddings,
Cunning Bedford, Henry Clay, Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton, General Washington,
Benjamin West and Thomas Jefferson. A
large safe standing in this hall is filled with
papers of historical value placed there in
1876; the safe is not to be opened till 1876
Proceeding still further south, through
corridor of handsome proportions the new
hall of the House of Representatives is
reached. This is I3o feet long. 90 feet
wide and SO feet high. Galleries which will
accommodate over 1000 people range
about the sides of the chamber, and are
always open to the public when the House
is in session. There are reserved spaces
for families of the representatives, news
paper correspondents and the diplomatic
corps. The ceiling is vast sky-light, the
opaque glass being set in panels in great
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holding a globe aloft, while an Indian
maiden crouches by his side In the other
the pioneer husband and father rescues the
wife and child from impending death at the
hands of the bloodthirsty Indian. Within
the portico are statues of War and Peace in
inches. The door opening into the rotunda
is the Rogers bronze door, so widely
famous. 1t is we'll worth the closest study.
1t was cast in Munich, in 1861, from designs
by Randolph Rogers, and cost altogether
about $50. 900. 1t is nine feet wide and
seventeen feet high, and here, in a great
bronze picture, is told the story of the life
OF Christopher Columbus
Having studied this magnificent work of
art, the visitor enters the rotunda a vast
circular room, ninety seven feet in diameter,
500 feet in circumference, and $50 feet in
height to the base of the canopy which sur-
mounts it. The lower part of the wall of
the roturla is occupied by eight historical
pictures. Four of these pictures, viz. :;
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

MRAVELERS who have visited all the
capitals of the world pronounce the
Capitol to be the finest civic building extant,
and certainly every American may we'll be
proud of it. 1t stands upon Capitol Hill,
fronting both east and west 1t is ISL feet
long from north to south, 324 feet in width,
covers an area of three and one-half acres of
ground, and has cost upwards of SIS 600 900.
The central portion is of sandstone, painted
white; this was partially destroyed in 1874 by
the British. The extensions are of Massa-
chusetts marble with monolith columns of
Maryland marble. The dome is of iron and
weighs 40 tons. 1t is surmounted by a
Statue of Freedom, from designs made
under the direction of Jefferson Davis, at
the time he was Secretary of War. The
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iron frames, each panel bearing the arms of
State. On one side of the Speakers chair
is a portrait of Washington, by Vanderlyn );
on the other portrait of Lafayette, by AIRY
Schefer, both full length there are also
paintings by Bierstadt. "The Landing of
Henry Hudson" and Discovery of Cali
fornia," and some frescoes by Brumidi, also
find space here. The Capitol is foored
with English Minton tiles. The corridors
are lined with rooms for the use of the
various committees of Congress, elabo-
rately frescoed and furnished. The stair
cases on the House side leading to the
galleries are of Tennessee marble. Over the
western staircase is Deutze's great picture,
Westward the Course of Empire Takes its
Way" over the eastern is Carpenters
picture "The Proclamation of Emancipa-
ton. The library of the House is located
on the second floor. The ground floor is
used for committee rooms, the House
post office, the House restaurant, folding
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

"The Declaration of independence" "The
Surrender of General Burgoyne, ." The
Surrender of Lord CORVALLIS and the
Resignation of General Washington"
were painted by John Trumbull, son of
Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, and for
a time an officer of General Washingtons
staff. The chief value these paintings have
lies in the fact that every face in them is a
portrait. These four pictures cost the
Government $32, 900. Besides these are
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eastern entrance to the Senate, the cele-
brated Crawford Bronze Door will be found
worthy of attention 1t illustrates revolu-
tionary history, and cost in the neighbor-
hood of 500, 200. 1t was cast at Chicopee,
Mass. Over the centre of the portico are
number of figures illustrating the Pro-
gress of American Civilization and the
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

rooms, ETC., etc. Still further down are
the engines and furnaces which supply
heat and ventilation to the south end of the
building. Underneath the rotunda is the
crypt, now nearly all taken up with tempo
rary rooms in which are stored the surplus
books belonging to the Congressional
Library proper, and for which accommoda-
tions are lacking in the rooms assigned to
the library above.
Retracing his steps from the House wing,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

the visitor on entering the rotunda will gain
admission to the Congressional Library
through swinging doors on the west. Here
he finds himself in the midst of library
comprising upwards of 100000 volumes.
They are stored in three beautiful halls, the
main one being eI feet long, "a feet wide
and sS feet high; the two side halls are each
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05
THE WHITE HOUSE.

The Executive Mansion, standing on
elevated grounds between the Treasury on
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-05

No70, when you are through wearing
them just drop us postal card and we will
send after them and store them until next
Fall, lnsuring them against all damage by
fire or MOTHS for small percentage
Right m07O is the proper time to have done
any
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
THE ADVERTISER,

copous and prompt publication of Local News and
Its readers are kept constantly posted of events
in other parts of the world particularly United States
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
The Messenger Boys Lot.

Altogether, the lot of messenger boy
is not happy one, They are subjected
to exposure in all sorts of weather and
have TO take their turns in working all
night. The little fellows walk q mum
Der OF miles in the course of a day or
night and in carrying the hundreds of
dispatches nightly to the newspaper Of
fees they have many flight of stairs
to climb. No matter how hard it rains
or SHOWS or blows, the messenger boy
has to go out in the storm. He can't
wait for the abatement of the storm,
because his message is an important
one, and must be executed at once
These boys carry in sealed envelopes the
s1ews of the world from the telegraph
offices to the newspaper offices, and as a
rule they run the errands with dispatch
OF course they play and loiter along
the streets, because they are boys, but
the lettering is generally done after they
have delivered their messages, when
they are on their way back to the tele-
graph Office. None of the district offices
employ a sufficient number of boys
They manage to have only enough
boys to keep the messengers they have
busy This, of course, is an economic
move which the messenger boy does not
the boys get dime or quarter here
and there now and then.
Their association with street life and
the queer scenes they come in contact
with has a tendency to make them
tough, and by the time they have grad
uated from the messenger service they
know pretty much all that is worth
knowing about the shadows and lights
of great city. They carry love mes
sages to expectant girls and messages
that help to break women's hearts.
They see a great many things that most
people don't see and they know mora
than the ordinary observer gives them
credit for.
Said a manager: eve are very par.
ticular about the boys we employ.
Every one must read readily and give
two or three good recommendations
Very few boys are taken under Is years
of age, and most of them average be-
tween Ii and is. We give our BOYS
lectures sometimes and thoroughly in.
struct them how to deliver packages
and run errands. SO we'll have they
been trained that they could not be
stopped on the street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
THE ADVERTISER

Is necessity to Every English speaking 1nhabant of
Kingdom who desires to keep pace with the times.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
AUSTRALIAN ARaoNAUTs.
ReekIessness of High Old Times When
the Rich Yellow Was Plentiful.

ReekIessness of High Old Times When
the Rich Yellow Was Plentiful.
owe digged for gold, and I've found
gold wherever gold was to be digged for
and found, Obstinately remarked an
old Australian, in reply to some obser-
vatlons just made by a California gold
miner. I've digged in California as
hard as you have, and I've digged, for
my pains, in Ireland, when fellow
sailed hole in Galway and raised
company to plough up the gold that he
had sowed. But there was more gold,
and redder gold, and maybe better gold
in Australia IN 1852 than there has been
IN any other part of the world before or
since. And there was more fun in get
tin the gold than you could shake
stick at.
THE harbors of Melbourne and Sid
ncy were crowded with ships that
couldn't get away, because their crews
had deserted them and run off the dig
glngs; and the towns were crowded with
the sailors, and lots of others, too,
comm back with their pockets full
for nobody seemed at that time to be
tryin' to make fortune and 90 home
All they wanted to do was to raise
enough money for good spree in one
of the towns; and their notions of what
a spree meant would, 1 think, have as
tonished a Californian. A dozen times
I've seen fellow walk into a liquor sa-
loon with q crowd behind him, call for
drinks for all the rest, and issue spe-
cial order for dozen of champagne and
a tub for himself. Selfish2 oh, no,
there was nothing selfish about it. lie
merely poured the champagne into the
tub, pulled off his shoes and stockings,
and washed his feet in it. OF course
no was crazy; but doesn't gold make
nine out of ten men cray, whether
they dig it out of the earth or get it IN
Wall street,
Everything had to be paid for in gold
dust, and every bar had weights and
scales to test the value of the dust, which /
was then current coin. For what a |
miner then paid for an ordinary round /
OF drinks he could now buy a heavy /
gold ring, b1c such q ring then would |
have been Of small value IN Australia (
compared with the worth of a pint of /
whisky. The eccentricities of success
full miners coming to the cities to spend |
their gains extended to their clothing |
Almost all of them were fond of tall silk /
hats, but their tastes varied as to the /
part OF the hat that was most becoming,
some preterring the top and some the /
bottom, and q common sight was man
walking in a crowded street wearing the
highly polished crown of a silk hat, fol-
lowed or accompanied or preceded by a
man whose head showed itself above
the low walls encircling the rim that
had thus been cut off from the upper
portion of the hat
Elaborate weddings took place every
day. AS often as not the bride and
sat together on the driver
seat of a furniture van, both drunk, and
still drinking health and long life to the
crowd that was cheering them on their
way, and exchanging Jokes with the long
procession that drove or rode after the
happy couple. l don't know whether
such weddings resulted well or not, but
they were celebrated very often.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
Softening Cast Iron.
fChicayo Tribune1

An accident in a foundry at Mel.
bourne, Australia, has led to the dis
covery that tie plunging of iron cast
ings into a mixture Of molasses and
water softens the metal to such a de-
gree that it can be punched, bored, or
tapped as easily as wrought iron. 1t is
not stated if the iron must be hot or
cold when treated TO its bath of sweet
ened water, but we presume the point
can be settled without much trouble bv
any one anxious to avail himself of the
discovery, which looks as if it Will prove
to be far from the least valuable OF those
that have been made in iron manu-
facture within few years past
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
THE ADVERTISER

Has for many years been noted for its Reports Legav
Proceedings, Important Law Cases,
Verbatim when the importance of the it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
AN Expianatio
In strated wnrld.l

Girl-You are in better temper to-
day grandfather. What made you say
such things to me the last time Icame to
see you2
Grand 'a'her-Law bless We, my dear;
don't ye think nuthin OF il. Sinst
lost my front teeth, words will git ont
now and agia as don't know nuthin'
about
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16
THE ADVERTISER

Represents the Interests of the Politician the Merchant the
Planter the Storekeeper, the Lawyer the Workman and
fact, all Glasses of the Community.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-16

LSomerville LonrnnI

tSomervile Journal
a man never appreciates how verbose
ne Is IN ordinary speech until he comes
10 write hts irst dispatch in telegraph
Dfice.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
The Saugatuek Valley.

Westport raised S5000 in subscriptions for the Saugatuck Valley road, one day last week and is still at it. The sum of S75, 900, which Westport is to raise, must be nearly completed. Newtown has as yet made no subscriptions, for no in structions have been received from those In authority at Westport or elsewhere and the anticipated visit of Lawyer Will son has not occurred. As soon as Chief Engineer Bowler and men have finished surveying at Lake Waramaug, they are expected on the Newtown spur and may arrive, this week.
 It may not be generally known that the articles of association of the road dis tinctly provide that majority of the di- rectors shall be Connecticut men and a preference is expressed for Westporters.
 If the Shepaug is extended northward to a more suitable terminus than Litch- field, 1t will bring the new road into di. rect competition with the Hartford and Connecticut Western and will also virtu ally parallel a short portion of the Naug atuck. The announcement that the She paug would go to Winsted created not s little excitement there.
 From New Preston station on the She paug to New Preston village is fou miles; a spur track would cost $75, 1000 The citizens want it, and President Chip man has subscribed $500, besides $30 from Supt McNeil. It is said that three fourths of the amount is already raised If New Preston can have railroad why not Newtown?
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

A letter from General Passenger Agent Perrin of the Housatonic informs Secre- tary Oscar Pitzschler that the date se- lected for the firemen's picnic at Parlor Rock is taken and quoting but half a special meeting, Mir Pitzschler ascer- tained the date which the firemen favor ed and took immediate steps to secure it. The picnic will certainly be held at Par Tor Rock, which has been so greatly rem ovated that it is almost like new resort. Those who have not examined the grounds, this year, will be surprised at the changes that have taken place. Spec ial cars will be attachedto the train leav- ing Newtown at 9 02 and the fare, round trip, will be 50c for adults and 25c for children. The committee of arrange ments, of wnich MT Pitzschler is chair man, will do all in their power to make the picnic a success.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
Edwin Camp.

Edwin Camp, who has been feeble for years and has made his home with his brother, Lemuel F. Camp, died in Dan bury hospital, July 10, 63 years old. About n year ago, paralysis attacked his lower limbs and, slowly but none the less certainly, advanced over his body. That he might receive the best of medical care and the benefit of all mechanical devices for relief, he was removed to the Dan- bury hospital, but died in about week. The disease had previously been so grad ual that none thought his life threads wore SO soon to be snapped asunder.
 The funeral, which occurred last week Friday, from the residence of his broth CT, was attended by a large concourse Rev c. M. Wilkins ofiiciated and the in- torment was in Taunton cemetery. Ths pail bearers carried the body from thu house to the grave.