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Show top of this court there were until lately a large number of plaster of paris busts (or should we say "bursts"?), but their position was so lofty that it was impossible to make out whom they were intended for, and in fact they have always been one of the stock mysteries' of official Washington. They were hauled down the other day because they were toppling top-pling and threatening to fall on the devoted head of some clerk or rubbernecker. Then the secret of the years was revealed. The busts represented Indian prisoners except that the architect of the building, General Meigs, had sought to immortalize himself and his family by including their effigies among those of the "bad Indians." Just what freak idea prompted General Meigs thus to ensconce himself and relations in this ill-assorted hall of fame will never be known. At first the busts of the Indians were to be sold for old junk, but as they made a valuable collection of typical Indian heads they will be preserved in the national museum as relics of official "high" art in the nineteenth century. A PENSION OFFICE COMEDOWN. In the big" barnlike pension effice building at WasbJngrton there is a vast covered court which is nearly 100 feet high. Around the |