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Show S"ir hl'NDRKd and thirty one year--go (l'MS) the first stone ot the Cologne cattitJral wad laid, and the mihty plo is j'jat now approAchin completion, utit Aujuat bviug find upon as th time !r t!:-U event. Tj: bu:.dio U the Urgft-s spetia:c ol Gotbic awiiiteoiure m the world, being 511 feet long and 231 feet wide, the towera oil feet high, the choir 160 feet high. It took 300 year to c.mplete tbe chuir alone, and by that tirue the me for great cathedrals bad about diid cut. 1 he prepress wia ;iow izem that lime uc:i. ISoO, when Frederic Wil.iaai III. cf lrii-a a ucderv-ok iU repir and his ;u vi :-or atte.i' pit J to ccn.'.-.-.te it. L'.rsa sums o! rmr.r--. were rAL'eJ by p:;va:e -vjb-jo.'iptjo-i thruhcut Ejn pe Lt the pu.-iote, and tne Lirraia e jTornmeot contributed contri-buted gnercm.y. la ISij tne qit-1, aisles aod transept were coc iterated sr.d in lst.l the interior wis o'ra-p!e;td. o'ra-p!e;td. Ail ihat tew retciiin to be dons is tLi3 crowning decoration cf the sutely twcra. Tea majoie atone cpd bate to te U.J, ad to t:.em lii-d tae c!ict:c Crtee3 tn.;!y l-et r.:,;4. In ail p:taM.:iy j.o;e ;i. appronriatiey CT.rOrte tr.e sv-ri: ucxl A--.St:t. |