The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-16

state of deliriurn trernens. Ranged in the
order of their appearance are reconstruct
ed skeletons showing the history of old
earth's surface from primitive man back
to the early tertiaries, when the ptero-
dactyl famed the languid air with his
leathery wings and the iguanodon bask-
ed on the sunny banks of primeval re-
pose.
A Spur Effort.
But this is too superscientifc. Let US
return to the universities The Oldest in
the city proper is Columbia, which has
its main building at Fifteenth and H
streets, opposite the Shoreham, but has
various branches and departments of
law, medicine, academies, dental sur
gerry and so on in separate buildings.
Most noted, however, in early times was
the famous Jesuit college of George
town, which has splendid buildings and
a large library. Many have pronounced
the view from the front of the college
building the finest in this vicinity. In
the oldest building they have a very
curious collection of old manuscripts
The board of trustees of the new insti-
tuition has representatives of the Baptist,
Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Congre-
gational churches and three also of the
Southern Methodist Episcopal church
It is, in fact, pam Protestant, to coin
a word, but the control is in the Meth
odist church, as that is thought best to
fix the responsibility. Fifty trustees con-
stitute full board, but at present there
are only 46.
A Great Art Center.
Now they not only say that Washington
is soon to be a great educational center,
but that it already is a great art center.
Of the art schools that connected with
the Corcoran gallery is the most famous
The gallery is at the corner of Seven
tenth and Pennsylvania avenue, oppo-
site the state, war and navy building,
and the school is in a separate building
Just back of it, and no visitor should go
away without seeing the latter. His
having no taste for art cuts no figure,
for he would be delighted with view
of the students, who are mostly ladies,
nearly all young and generally quite
pretty.
The Art Student league has rooms on
Seventeenth street near by, and there are
many teachers and private studios in va
rious parts of the city. How much in
struction the art student will get out of
the pictures in the capitol is more than
I can even surmise, for what don't
know about art would make large sized
book OF architecture, however, I mod
judgment is that, taking originality of
design and finish in combination with
its fitness for the purposes designed, the
Smithsonian institution is very near the
most interesting building, as a building,
in Washington.
Enduring Time.
Many visitor to the Columbian ex-
position at Chicago will recall that as he
walked those beautiful avenues in the
early evening and saw the White City
shining in the soft moonlight he felt
pang of regret that all this fair crea-
ton must so soon pass away. It was not
difficult to imagine that, like those ia
bled structures mentioned in ''Vathek''
and Paradise Lost, it had risen by en-
chantment from the marsh and the sand
hill, and the poetic visitor could only
dream Of it as made permanent by the
fat of some higher power. Washington
city is in part that dream realized.
From the eastern end of the Smithsonian
grounds westward to the monument, by
the museum, the agricultural department
and other buildings is a walk which
gives one as pleasant an experience as
any at Chicago in 1898, and, though the
wonders of that palace of Liberal Arts
have not even a pale copy here, yet the
magnificent columns of the capitol and
other buildings and the general finish
Of the dwellings in the northwest sec