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Show HUMORS OF SCULPTURE. "When architects insist on decorating deco-rating tbo facades of public buildings build-ings with symbolical groups," remarked re-marked a philosopher, "they often add unconsciously to tho humor of everyday life. .lust look at those two ehcrutw over the central window win-dow on tup the Hall of llecords, for example. How can any ono with a memory ocr forget the scandals of the construction of that building in looking at these two figures? One of them is plainly going over the account hooks of tho cost, while the other ono is peering downward, as if he were trying to get a glimpse of that imitation marble woil; that has been put up on (he walls of the tipper stories. And the best of it is that such stories latt. Who ever .went lo Washington for tho first time thai bo did not havo to listen lo (hat yarn about the statuo of Columbus or Washington or some one else thnt stands in front of the eapitol, throwing the ball up (o the Goddess of Liberty on the dome?" .. Y. Tress. |