BUILDINGS. Among the fine and substantial edifices may be mentioned the United States Government Building, which contains the Post Office, Custom-Ilouse, court-rooms, and various offices, erected at a cost of $5,000,000. It is of sawed freestone, three stories high, in the Ro man-Corinthian style. The City Ilall is equally fine, and much larger. The County Court Home, with the jail, occupies a whole square: it is built in the Romanesque style, and is nearly fire-proof. The City Hospital, consisting of eight distinct buildings arranged around a cen tral court, occupies a square of nearly four acres and accommodates 700 patients. The Chamber of Commerce, Masonic Temple. and Odd Fellows' Hall are grand and massive build ings. The City Workhouse has cells for 700 prisoners. with workshops and grounds for their employment. Longview Asylum for the Insane, at Carthage, 10 miles from the city, is of brick, in the Italian Romissanee style, Saint Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral is an immense iense struc ture, in the Crecian style, with a stone spire 224 feet high. The altar-piece is Murillo's original "Saint Peter Delivered." Saint Paul's Metho dist Episcopal Church, the First and Second Presbyterian churches, Paul's Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral. the Jewish Synagogue, and Saint Francis de Sales ('atholie Church, on 'ea hint lulls, are all worthy of note. The First 1'resleyteriau tower with spire, _'55 feet iu height, capped by a colossal gilded hand 'heavenward is inting.' is a prominent featruc as viewed from the ricer. It is now soneewhat dwarfed by a neighboriu,g 'sky-scraieer' of twenty-one sto ries, one of few cditices of its kind in Cincin nati. Cincinnati is the scat of a Re man Catho lic -lrclrhi hop and of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop. and contains over °_00 churches. The buildings of the tie unicipaI markets are Valued at over $ 100.000.
P.enss. The several tine parks, well wooded and picturesque. cover an area of 540 acres. The famous Eden Park, or •( arden of Eden,' me \fount _dams, has 3iG acres inclosed, and con tnins the _1rt )lu-eum and Art. School. The
Elsinore Gateway is a striking mediaeval repro duction: and from the lofty water - tower, a prominent object, the tinest view of the sur rounding country i obtained. The chief reser voir of the citv's waterworks in the park is a tine, ornamental sheet of water. Burnet \\'oods, another delightful park, embraces GO acres. The %oiilogical garden, containing GO acree of bills, valleys, and ravines, is well stocked with wild animals of all kinds. There are 3G cemeteries: Spring Grove, the best latown, has IiOO acres of land, lies six miles from the city, and is approached by an avenue 100 feet wide. _among its costly monuments are the Dexter. Fleischmann. and Robinson mausoleums, and a bronze statue commemorating the soldiers who died in the Civil War. The most noted piece of ormamcutation in the city is the Tyler l).avidson Fountain, on the Esplanade of Foun tain Square, Fifth Street. It was cast at the Royal Foundry in _Slunich, and cost $ 00,000. The Garfield statue, at Eighth and Race streets, and the eqaest•ian statue of Ceo. \V. H. Harrison, first Governor of Gino. at Eighth and Vine streets. are works of great merit.
IxsTITt Ttoxs. The educational advantages of the city are unsurpas-ed. There are several high schools, and ninny public schools and inter mediate schools. The higher institutions include a normal school: the I'niversitv of Cincinnati, an outgrowth of _\lc)lickcn University, with collegiate buildings in P.mrnet Woods Park and an astronomical elepart nun t with an ohservatory at Mount Lookout : \Veslc yan Female College: a Hebrew Union College: Saint .Io cph's and Saint Xavier's .Jesuit colleges: the Lane Theo logical Seminary. at Ralmrt Hills: the Franklin School: the ihrghes and \Voodward Ingle schools; several medical. musical, and commercial col le-ges: and college. of law, pharmacy, and den tistry.