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tages are attracting the attention and commanding the admiration 

 of medical and scientific men. 



We refer to the new edifice of the ' Ohio Female College,' located 

 in the vicinity of the ' Farmers' College,' at College Hill, six miles 

 from Cincinnati. To secure perfect ventilation, and supply every 

 apartment with pure fresh air, a tower has been erected, some two 

 hundred feet from the building, into which a current of pure fresh 

 air is constantly pouring,- and thence passes by a subterranean pas- 

 sage under the building. From this passage there are openings into 

 the basement, where the pure air conies in contact with extensive 

 coils of steampipe, and thence rises by means of separate flues into 

 every hall and room above, filling them in the coldest weather with 

 a soft summer air, fully charged with the great supporter of life, ox- 

 ygen. From every apartment there are other flues, terminating in 

 the cupola, which carry off" all impure air. By these means the en- 

 tire atmosphere is changed twice every hour, night and day, summer 

 and winter. The steam used for warming and motive power, is gen- 

 erated in a separate fire-proof building, two hundred feet distant 

 from the college; and in case of fire, which is hardly possible, no 

 less than one hundred and ten jets of water, and the whole power of 

 the engine, can be put in instant requisition to extinguish it. 



The entire edifice is admired by all who have given it an examin- 

 ation. It is three stories high, besides the basement; contains 

 ninety-seven apartments, eleven spacious halls, seventy-seven closets, 

 and eight bath-rooms supplied with warm and cold water. Each 

 story is supplied with beautiful iron verandas or promenades, and 

 the approaches to the building, front and rear, are of iron. Every 

 room and hall, by a complete system of plumbing, is furnished with 

 an abundance of pure, filtered rain-water, and the waste water is re- 

 moved by the same means. The whole premises are lighted with 

 gas manufactured of rosin on the premises. 



As a whole, this College may well challenge the Union to present 

 an equal. Other Seminaries of a high order are scattered over the 

 country in healthy localities, and more or less adapted to the wants 

 of the mighty West, so that parents are without excuse who permit 

 their daughters to grow up in ignorance, and live and die in ob- 

 scurity. 



