statuary." "Two of the fountain basins have been converted into sport
arenas, each about eight and one-half acres in extent." Nine other
fountains, with electric light illuminations, play on fireworks nights
and on other special occasions. It is common for 15,000 visitors to
attend these Thursday night firework exhibits. Colored electric light
jets deck the fountains, flower-beds, and halls. Crystal Palace was
designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, and cost seven and a half million of
dollars. Well may it be called London's Paradise.

Shall we say that the greatest piece of constructive architecture of any
country is that of Eiffel Tower! Situated on the left bank of the Seine
River, it overlooks Paris and the country for fifty miles around.

In its construction, iron caissons were sunk to a depth of forty-six feet
on the river side, and twenty-nine and one-half on the other side. When
the water was forced out of these caissons by means of compressed air,
"concrete was poured in to form a bed for four massive foundation
piers of masonry, eighty-five feet thick, arranged in a square of 112
yards. Upon this base which covers about two and a half acres rises
the extraordinary, yet graceful structure of interlaced ironwork" to a
height of 984 feet. Eight hundred persons may be accommodated on
the top platform at once. It was completed within two years' time,
and is the highest monument in the world. Washington monument
ranks second, being 555 feet high. From the summit of Eiffel Tower
one may secure a good view of Paris, her public buildings, chief hills,
parks, and boulevards, monuments, and embankments. An imitation
of Trajan's column in Rome, is 142 feet in height, and thirteen feet in
diameter. It is constructed of masonry, encrusted with plates of bronze,
forming a spiral band nearly 300 yards in length, on which are represented
the "battle scenes of Napoleon during his campaign of 1805, and down to