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Show ARCHAEOLOGICAL LECTURE. Bishop Spalding is anxious to sec a good turn-out to the lecturo to bo given tonight ' at Rowland Hall. Professor Mitchell Carroll of George Washington Washing-ton University at Washington, D. C, is to speak upon "The Excavations and Activities of tho Institute and the School of Archaeology." A wonderful interest has arisen, and has been maintained for a good many years in archaeological research, and excavations excava-tions on the sites of ancient cities, and in tho search for monuments, relics, and evidences of ancient human habitation habi-tation in all countries. Tho interest in this subject is world-wide; but the compelling intcrost and tho most extensive ex-tensive results have been in the archaeological work in Babylon, Poles-tine, Poles-tine, Assyria, nnd Egypt. There has boon some interest, also, in American archaoology, but much of thin has bcon baffling thus far, on account of tho impossibility of satisfactorily deciphering de-ciphering tho inscriptions of Moxico and Peru, and the smallncss of the matter to go upon in other portions of America. The lecturo of Professor Carroll is under tho auspices of tho Archaeological Archaeologi-cal Institute of America, and as the lecturer is undoubtedly a savant of ability in this lino, what he will s:iy is sure to bo both of interest and iin-portance. iin-portance. The Tribune joins Bishop Spalding in the earnest hopo thnt Rowland Row-land Hall will bo well filled tonight to 1 hear this lecturo |