| Show THE GREAT CATHEDRAL AT MILAN afat MAik Twi in who is traveling in the east describes the beit cathedral at milan ns as follows fol lowa the ilie buildings is feet long by wide wi du and the pi is in the neighborhood of feet high it has maible st statues attics and will have awai d of mote when it is ia finished in ill addition it has 1500 bis bas it has haa spires 20 nore are to be added each bauli spire is surmounted with a everything about the is marble and all from the stine s tine it was wab bequeathed qt IC at thed I 1 i ed to the for this thia purpose cent centuries udes ago so no hing but the divot lonan ship costs still that ju is expensive the bill toots u up p six aix hundred bundred mid and four millio millions ns of francs thus f fir ir considerably over a hundred million collais of dol lais and it is estimated that it will take a bundled and twenty years yet to finish the cathedral it looks complete but is fur bir from being so BO we saw a now new statue put in its niche day malonff side of one which had been standing taci e four jeara there are four staircases leading ullo up to the niacin main steeple each of which cost a hundred thousand dollars with alje statues which adorn ali them C m campioni Comp ioni was the architect who designed sign C d tb the wonderful structure more that years ago arid and it took forty six years to work out the plan and get it il ready i to hand over to tile the builders buil build deis ets he is ia dead now the building was begun a little les less lesi i thau five hundred years ago and the thaid generation hence will not bee it completed |
