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Show Painting the Dome of the Capitol. The dome of the cnpltol at Washington Wash-ington is being pulntod Every llvo years Its coat Is renewed and 15,000 gallons of white lend are used In tho process. The work Is being done by eighteen men, under tho direction of "Hilly" Lewis and "A! ' Ports. Tho lntter has been employed for such work about the capltol for thirty-nino years. Ports Is the only man who ever climbed to the top of tho Statuo of Liberty surmounting the dome. Ho did this on Labor day, 1894, and fastened fas-tened a garland of electric light bulbs around the neck of her majesty. |