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Lincoln, and Washington are smaller parks, forming yee pleasure grounds. Spring Grove Cemetery is one of the most beautiful in the West, and contains about 600 acres, well wooded, and many handsome monuments and mausoleums. The public buildings include the (U. 8.) Government Building, of granite, cost $5,200,000; (U. M. cost, $201,068; the County Court House, and jail, built in we style; the City Hospital; the City Hall, erected at a cost of over $1,000,000; and the Chamber of Commerce. Cincinnati is also celebrated as the site of one of the earliest astronomical observatories in the United States, founded about the same time as that of Harvard University and the Naval Observatory at Washington. The observatory has since been moved to Mount Lookout, a suburb of Cincinnati, and a much better site than that first selected. The institution is best known for the work done there by Prof. Ormond Stone, one of its former directors, on the measurement _ of double-stars and the discovery of many new ones. It contains an 11-inch refractor and a new meridian circle, The University: of Cincinnati. opened in 1873, had twenty years later, a student body of 1,200, with 175 instructors, and an equipment and ‘endowment valued at $3,500,000.. The Federal census of 1905 reported 2,171 manufacturing establishments, employing $130,271,811 capital and 66,774 persons; paving $83,258,492 for stock used and $27,380,569 for wages; annual value of products $166,059,050, The Rookwood Pottery (q. v.) is famous for its porcelain, ‘There are many beautiful churches and fine public schools. Among municipal benevolent and penal institu. tions are the City Infirmary, the Work House, and the House of Refs uge for incorrigible or homele boys and girls. Besides large public hospitals, there are several private ones, and many orphan asylums and homes.