The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-02
THIRD LARGEST IN WORLD
National Library Of Paris First
in Number of Books.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM SECOND
The Congressional Library Began With
Only 5000 Books, Now Contains
More Than 100000
Volumes.

libraries. In the year 1900 Congress.
first met in this city and passed al
act appropriating a sum Of $4,000 ''fol
the purchase of such books as may bt
necessarily Some fifty different libra
ries have been established and the
humber of volumes has increased from
1000 (all the Congressional library
contained up to 1910 to an aggregate
I of more than 100000 volumes eXclu
sive of pamphlets, charts, etc. The
Congressional library will soon move
nto new quarters, and it's veteran chief
Answorth II. Spofford must lock for
ward with no little pride to going intC
perhaps the finest building in the world
for library purposes, and if the view
ing of and resting in "a thing OF
beauty" may bring Joy forever" Mr.
Spofford and his corps of able assis-
tants will certainly have their cups OF
JOY. trimming over. This new library
viii rank third in the world as to
number of books-the National Library
of Paris coming first and the British
Museum at London, second.
The principal shops of the town are
pow crowded with tic feminine ele-
ment who have been forced for lack of
funds to remain at home and are
spending the long, hot midsummer
days in pursuit of bargains, of which,
! if the daily newspapers are to be
trusted, there is no lack.
! The new dollar bill just issued by the
! Treasury department gives beauti-
! full view of the National capital from
Wilson Park, Congress Heights, with
figure pointing down ON Washington.
| From Wilson Park, it is said, the
finest view of Washington City can be
had, Gen, Z, S, Grant at one time
wanted this property, end made an
offer for II, but the owners at that
| time did not want to sell. The park
is named in honor of Hon. r. T. Will
son, the New York millionaire.
There are endless criticisms on the
artistic features of the bill and on the
spelling of the word tranquility" with
one 81" The New York Tribune says
| they will be withdrawn, but this is
not likely, as the word is spelled after
i the original in the State department
copy.
The latestS1ashionable fad for wo-
| nan is to blae cher eye~lashes. No mat
| ter what the color of your hair and
eyes your lashes must be dyed jet
black.
| Miss Eythe Chapman, the at
| tractive summer actress here, who has
helped largely TO draw crowds for the
new National theatre, gives as her
definition of philosophy ''the fortitude
with which one bears the misfortunes
of others" The definition given above
is perhaps as old as Miss Chapman.
/ The executive committee of the In
ter-State Democratic Association met
here Saturday.
| 400 rlprcpnc will tN1,rNln 1alyr ta yn
the trip to New York ON the occasion
of the notification meeting at Madison
| Square Garden. AS soon as the Ma
| tic nal Democratic committee amour
cesthe date of this meeting the rail
roads will take up the matter Of spe-
ciai rates.
Now that the wives of the respective
candidates for Presidential honors are
exciting so much attention, it may in
terest your readers TO hear that should
Mai. Mckinley be seated in the White
House, it is thought highly probable
that his eldset niece, Mrs. George T..
Morse, will aid Mrs. Mckinley in dis
charging the duties and maintaining
/ the honors of first lady in the land
Mrs. Mckinley is physically not strong
and Mrs. Morse, who is a pretty blonde,
with pleasant engaging manners and
a good deal of personal magnetism, is
not unused to oiiicialdom. for her
father was American Consul to Hawaii
and later Hawaiian Consul General OF
the Pacific coast. She is about % years
old and resident of California. Her
husband is George e. Morse, Of the
i Western Sugar Refining Company.
Pleasing accounts come from Gray
Gables of the ideally pleasant and
f.at
hrs. Cleveland are enjoying there Mrs.
Perrine, is their only guest SO far, with
occasional interchange of visits with
Secretary Olney and wife. The three
little girls, Ruth, Esther and Marion
are adding much to the happiness aud
beauty of the home life.
Mrs Potter Palmer, who won such
honors at Chicago as president of the
Board of Lady Managers of the World S
Fair, is now at her Newport cottage
where she is entertaining her niece
Miss Julia Grant and Miss Vivian Sar-
1oris, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Nellie
rant Sartoris. Apropos of the Worlds
Fair adj Mrs. Palmer, one is reminded
of North Carolina able women repre-
sentatives there, one Of them Mrs Geo
w. Kidder, of Wilmington, is now
president of the North Carolina So
ciety of Colonial Danes, and a most
able officer she makes. At the meeting
here in April last of the different State
representatives of the Colonial DANES
CT America, it was acknowledged, with
out question, that she was one Of the
ablest of many able women and it was
she who introduced the resolution To
bring in non-Colonial States, after the
precedent established by Congress
with power of debate but not the
privilege of voting. This resolution
was referred to the executive commit.
tee of which Mrs. kidder is a member
and will be decided at the meeting @.
this committee to be held here in
Washington next April. The OBJ
iect Of the resolution is 10
prevent the disappearance Of
the unique feature of the original
thirteen States, and yet to bring in the
non-CoioniaI States through their sev-
eral parent States. 1t is always graft
flying to hear pleasant things Of North
tarotipiaHs, of her noble daughters
and deserving sons and also encourag-
ing TO hear of benefits conferred upon
The 0ld North State by her adopted
sons.
MIR ieora. ~. Vanderbilt Who b
mentioned rs belonging to the latte
class. proposes now 10 establish al
Rfjtim0re a School of Forestry, at thf
head of which win be placed 8r 0ff
ford pinchot ho has made q hlgt
reputation in this science. Mr.. Van
deFbIGs library upon forestry which j