ith a fishtail, a horse
and a nude youth. The group is supposed to have been placed in the
pediment of the west gable. Other finds are awaited.--_New York
Times._

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THE WATKIN TOWER.--Four hundred plans have already been received by
the committee who offered prizes for the best and second-best plan for
the proposed Watkin tower--the English Eiffel. It has been said that
it will be so high that all that need be done when fog comes on will
be to enter the lift and in a few minutes be up in the clear
blue.--_Boston Post._

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PERSIAN COURT ART.--M. Georges Perrot will maintain in his
forthcoming volume on Persian art, being the fifth volume of "The
History of Art," that the old art of Persia had nothing to do with
the Persian people, being simply official or Court art. The
designers and builders, sculptors and artists, were, he thinks, not
Persians, but Greeks. The architect of the palaces of Darius was a
Greek or a Phoenician.--_New York Times._

[Illustration: TRADE SURVEYS]

There are signs of a subsidence of popular hostility to railroad
combinations, trusts and commercial and manufacturing organizations of
various kinds intended to conserve mutual interests. If the granger
spirit had its own way it would, through its control of the
legislative mills, grind a good many corporations to powder, and do
tenfold more damage by its destructive methods than could possibly be
repaired by mistaken remedies. It is, after all, a question whether
any form of combination is possible which can very long do much damage
to the people at large. These gigantic commercial and railroad
organizations with which we have recently become familiar are
giant-like efforts of enormous interests to rise up out of old
conditions. Progress and development must take place, and the efforts
of trusts, associations and combinations by whatever name known are
simply the preliminary movements of mighty interests to reorganize
themselves upon a broader and higher platform. The people in their
jealousy and anxiety to protect themselves have, in some sections of
the country, run into the adoption of extreme measures. They are
already preparing to retrace their steps, and for several reasons.
They are discovering that they have been fighting a bugbear; also,
that their legislation against the bugbear cannot legislate. Also,
that money stays away from radical commu