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Show QENmiOUS CAtlNKOIR. It li a rnro day that docs not wltnttt a wlio and generous deed at tho hnndt of Andrew Carnegie It It generally a large gift of money for public labrary purposes, for thtt It Mr. Carnegie's tpeejtt Una of benoflccnce. Within the post few weeks llvo such benefactions hate come to1 public knowledge, tho total amounts promised being 'not leu thtn S2.000.000 Of till" 11,730,000 nu tho enlargement ot the Carnegie library In Pittsburg, an Institution to which Mr.,arnog1o had already contributed con-tributed several millions. The 'addj-tlontl 'addj-tlontl turu.Mt 'is mid, will make 'tbo library thtre nnd ono-liulf tlmea larger larg-er thtn originally Intondod, nnd thj largest nnd most intgutncent building of ill kind in the world In addition to Itt use at a library, the building will hive dnpstlmtnts devoted to tbo pro-moJJertof pro-moJJertof scfeicc, mutlo, ntt and literature, liter-ature, The'fpur qUier library gifts mentioned Included one of JW.OCrO to the city ot I)uuth, Wit., (So 000 to the rlty of Tyrone, l'n ; (116,000 to the t'olrlcthnlo Mbrnry Society, of I,oulti vllle, Ky.. and IB,000 to Tucson, Aril. All these donations wore accompanied v,nh thn condition that tho cities thus favored slioujd turnlth certain sums of tuoaty for the regular maintenance of the library, , |