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Show Ibo Ureal I, li-ar) uf llio United Slates. iun i) When It Is considered that tho larg nt exhtlng publlo library, that of Iho French government nt Paris, contains nsjet but ",100,000 volumes, and that uniplo sacu ixlits In thn idltlco now riling on Ca Itol 11111 fur storing more tlinn twice that number, It will I o per. ctlNetl that tho wants of thu future nru well cared for. While nearly every covtrnineut edlllconpiears to havo been built ouly for n generation and Ita uses havo long ovcrarown its limits, Hilt one, through the lar-tlght. eid liberality of Congress, will provide room for tho nation's books for nearly two centuries to come. Tbu ultimata cost Is limited to six millions of dollar, a sum somewhat lest than half tbo cost of tho Cat Itol or of tho largo building erected for tho tccummodallon of the Htato, War and Navy detriments. The library building covets very nearly near-ly the tarun tjuicu as each of there go. ernment building! (about tbreu acrit, and Is constructed of toll 1 griule, with Iron, brick nud maililu Interior. Its ample Interior courts auil tiumer out windows will rendir It thu bint lighted nnd best ventilated library cf largo proortlo yet erected. |