Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-24

AUSTIN, MOWER COZ
ORIENT AND OCClDENr.
Fhc Shah's Reception In s40ntl0n-t'cr-
so"ai Sketches by Edmund Yates.
We clip the following from n Lon
don letter to the New York Herald
dated June 21st, from the pen of Ed
mund Yates, tho novelist: ,.~...
For more than four hundred and
fifty years.
| THE GUlLDlIALL
has been the scene OF events of more
or less importance in English history,
and nearly two hundred years ago II
seems to have acquired that reputation
for astronomical Indulgence for which
it is principally known in tho prese'.t
day. For in October, 1868, quaint,
gallant, gossip old Pepys records in
his diary: :-''To Giuldhall, and up and
down to see the tables, where under
every salt there was a. bill of fare, and
Mt the end of tic table tho persons
proper forsthe table. sat at tile Mer.
chant Strangers: table where were
ten good dishes to mess, with
plenty Of vine Of all soats.'''. Tie side
door through which + Ienteredis imme.
diately under the gallery, on the other
side of which are placed the enormous
wooden figures of the plants Cog and
Magog, so that I had u splendid view
of the hall from end to end, and the
sight was certainly magnificent. The
old hall was blazing with gas, covered
with admirably executed decorations
and radiant with every variety of fe.
male beauty aud gorgeous attire. AL!
til >se who possessed the right to weal
uniform or court dress had been en-
Joined to don them. To and fro
through tho crowd wandered the
hosts OF the evening; tho civic
functionarics, in their gold chains and
gowns, the stewards, to whom the ar
rangemcnt of the dances is contdetl
(for dancing is a part of the evenings
programme, and yonler magnificent
gilt throne. raised on IL high velvet dais,
is the spot from which the Shah is t.
watch the Terpsichorean evolutions).
with their wands of Office in their
hands, make the necessary prepara-
tions, and an ever increasing, gayly
dressed, laughing, chattering, whisper.
ng perf,imed crowd goes surging to
nd fro through the old hall, looking
at tue beauty of the women and the
highbred appearance of the men you
would scarcely imagine that these are,
comparatively speaking.
THE LOWER ORDERS
of those invited, for the creme de l0
creme is gathering together, not here,
but in the library, where it will await
the Shah's arrival. To get into this
library is thing to be desired, but it
seems almost an imposibility. Two
policemen guard the door; thcy are
courteous but firm. have no special
card and consequently cannot pass
them by. Just as am about to retire
arrives jolly, genial old gentleman in
Il velvet cloak, with a gold chain round
his neck, his white whiskers and hair
carefully brushed, his rubicund face
beaming with good humor and turtle
and port wine.
What. you here!" he says to me
in ! jolly :, unctuous voice. ''How are
tell him am very we'll; I do not
tell him that have not the faintest
idea who he is.
"You recollect, he continued, "ycu
sat down to me last year ut the dinner
of the Leather Stocking Makers Com.
pany, when you made that speech and
told that story 1 often laugh now
when I think of it. Want to get in
here Certainly. Pass this gentle
man." And at his potent word the
policemen withdraw their opposition,
and / enter
THE LIBRARY.
Yes, this is unquesticnably the place
for observation within the whole
building. Here the prettiest women
are gathered together, all seated in o
long, uDbroken limo. Here, standing
about among them, and Whispering
pleasant nothings, are men whose name
and fame are world wide. On another
occasion one might like to poke about
in the library itself, to take down some
of the rare books, to look through
the large collection Of early printed
plays and pageants connected with
the city to examine in its appropriate
glass-case Shakspearc's own signature
attached to deed Of: conveyance,
bought at n public sale by the corpora
ton of London; but at present we
have enough to do in looking Mt what
Lady Mary Wortley Montague called
the "bumans, and watching their
movements. The short, stout individ-
ual. who stands at the door and rOars
forth III sonorous tones the name of
each incoming visitor, is Mr.. Harker,
| THE CITY ToAsTslAsTDR,
and powerful as are his lungs they will
scarcely last him through the evening
unless he modifies the tone of triumph
with which he has just announced
"The Right Honorable Mr.. Gladstone
and Mrs. Gladstone" The Premier
looks haggard and worn as usual. his
thin, sallow cheeks, la:lk hair and
tightly pursed mouth giving him the
mir of IL discontepted dissenting minis
ter, on whom the Court custom. sits
with absurd incongr,,ity. The
genial looking man, with u blaz-
ing red beard, which spreads fan-like
over his chest, hiding everything be-
tween his nose and the top button Of
his waistcoat, is Earl Spencer, the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. What can
lie have to say to tho big, heavy man
with whom he is in converse ?-the
man with the big Magellan skull; the
half closed, sleepy eye; the sallow
checks; the coarsc: mean, common
features-what can there be in common
between them2 One cannot imag
inc, for Lord Spencer is gentleman,
and his interlocutor is-Mr. Ayrton.
Look now at another tall and portly
gentleman, bending, with somewhat
affected grace, over the chair of the
lady with whom he was conversing, and
mark hlm well, for he is II character in
English social life. Not Mr. Surrogate
Hutchings himself has more ambrosial
curls, not Mr.. A. Il. Stewart or Com
modore Vanderbilt has much more
money, for tins is Earl Dudley, who
has never taken any Fart in political
life or i'll any of the stirring questions
of the day, but who is notable for his
ecccntricity, his wealth and the beauty
of his wife.
THE LORD MAYOR AND THE MAYoREss
are just now pointing out the beauties
of the golden throne ON the raised
dais to some friends, and if New
Yorker wantcl al Introduction to his
host of the evening he cuuld not do
| better than avail himself of tho sc,vicna