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of the Library Of Congress are simp-
ly beyond description. We were
fortunate in seeing this brilliantly
lightsd at night, when $4,000 visi-
tors did not make too much of a
crowd. The building has no super
ior Of it's kind in the world and cost
over $6,000,O0O. 1t covers eight acres
OF ground and is superbly magnifi-
cent. There is no dazzling glare
and blindness, no sense of confusion
and shapeless immensity. A think
ing person Ia awed aud silenced by
this nobly magnificent work of man.
Stately and grand it stands, perfect
ly comprehensive in all of it's costly
finish and, parts. Every detail a
perfect "part of one stupendous
WHOLE" and yet words cannot de.
scribe this proud building. My
widest boyish dreams of the won
ders and beauties Of Alladdin's fairy
palace, did not approach what here
saw with mine eyes. Grand and
massive in design and proportion,
exquisite in its innumerable and
many voiced details, as perfect in
finish and taste as it is III design and
Workmanship, it is golden, glitter
ing, magnificent structure of which
any American could and should be
proud. Its bronze doors, succeed
ceilings, mosaic floor, with pictures
in mosaic on floor, ceiling and walls,
paintings, marble floors, pillars, col
umns, stairways, bronze and marble
figures, memorial names and figures,
precious stones and woods, crystal
splendors, golden dome, it's symbols,
pavilions of arts, sciences and litera-
ture, it's many and delicately sculp-
tured beauties, it's galleries of treas
ures, it's volumes, its purposes, it's
suture-all are alike useful and
beautiful, and the unity of the great.
and perfect whole is truly a grand,
tribute to the American people.
THE "INNooENTs" SEE MANY THINGS.
The National Museum had it's vis-
itors'from our party, those who had
seen it before and those who had
not. This building was also throng.
ed with tired looking teachers, who
seemed 70 have forgotten pleasure
entirely. The objects of interest
here are familiar to all and need no
further description. 1t may be we'll
to add that in the cabinet contain.
iag the souvenirs of President Grant,
his name is spelled with small first
letter on the card recounting the
history of his Chattanooga sword.
Wherever you went in Washing.
ton special objects Of interest claim.
ed attention. Day or night, if one
only sat still in a chair and looked
and listened, he could see and hear
things that were unusual elsewhere.
Any sort OF looking man could be
seen at any time and this was inter,
esting-"to tho ladies especially"
There were only two sorts of ladies
visible to the casual observer-tho
tiredlooking and the freshlooking.
Collectively speaking, mon knew lit.
tle about correct styles in dress and
here you could sec all sorts and do.
scr'ptions OF males, the apparel pro-
claiming the man. Collectively and
conatructively artioulating nearly all
women are adopts in the art Of dress.
ing and in a, city this great differ
ence between men and women is dis
tinctly visible.
The most distinguished looking
mon in Washington are not Con.
gressmen, Senators and Cabinet Off
GERS. They are moro apt to be head
walters at hotels and "waiters" of all
kinds. Walters for Office IN num-
bers, eagerness and anxiety head tho
list Walters for tomorrow are too
numerous to connt. These are ever
"building and spelling and spoiling
and building again." aud their conn
tenances betray them. Walters for
fortune are here, walters for some.
thing now under the sun, waiters in
Vulnerable in the vast, moving thronp