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

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waving down over his 4 1loulaers, the
brightness Of whose eyes can bo seen
even through his spectacles, and
an enormous amount of play
and humor, and fancy, lurking in the
mobile, muscles Of the mouth. This is
Mr.. Scudamore, the Second Secretary
Of the Post Office, the man who
induced the government to undertake
the purchase of the telegraphs, and
under whose direction they have been
marvellously amplified and improved {;
a man of extraordinary powers of Or
ganization and official aptitude, Joined
with the pleasantest fancy and the
brightest wit; man vino, in his early
days has written magazine papers and
stories without end, who has contrib
uted some of the ncatest and most
humorous verses to be found in the
pages of Punch, and who, with the cx-
ception of Dickens, is the best after
dinner orator I ever heard in my life.
The telegraph apparatus against which
he leans is in ..
DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH rEHERAN.
and already the Minister left by the
Shah in charge of his capital is reused
up-it is three O'Clock in the morning
with hlm-to read the address of con-
graduation which the city is about to
offer its guest, and which has been
sent nearly four thousand miles over
the wire. Near to Mr.. Scudamore
stands his chief, the Postmaster Gen.
eral, Mr.. Mansell, man with soft,
shaven face, stealthy glance and a
general Jesuitical as pect, and near him
tall, pompous, bald-headed person,
"empty and tine," as Mr.. Browning
has it-consequeDtial. it fussy and insane
in the highest degree. This is Viscount
Sydney, the Lord Chamberlain, the
man who ordered
THE BALLET GIRLS TO 1ENaruEN THEIR
SKIRTS,
and who, in his character of censor of
our plays, forbids "Patrie and only
just permits i" Frou. Frou," while he
licenses the grossest indecensies of the
Palais Royal. He moves now, as do
all the rest, at the sound of the blare
Of trumpets which announces the ap-
proach of the Shah. The Lord Mayor
and the Corporation have long since
hustled away to the ancient porch of
the Hall to welcome their visitors, and
to the sound OF martial music the pro-
cession enters.
FIRST COMES THE SHAH,
leading the Princess of Wales. 1 have
already described the Persian monarch
as l saw him. at the Brussels Railway
station Oh the occasion of his departure,
and there is nothing to add to that de-
scription. He is still dressed in the
black tunic, this time covered with u
dark green riband across his breast,
bordered by rows of priceless jewels.
His bands Of diamonds he had left at
home, but retains his jewelled scimetcr
and his block pointed cap within: it. on
this occasion, the "Sea of Light" q
diamond which Mr.. Moses Isaacs would
exactly appreciate and envy. The sol.
emnity of his face is rather detracted
from by the pair of gold spectacles,
which gave him q somewhat comic ap-
pearance; and by his side walks the
Princess of Wales. perhaps, strictly
speaking, not The lovcliest, but with
her tall, graceful figure, her sweet.
earnest face ana her thoroughly high
bred air, certainly the most attractive
woman in our land. She has her hair
rather tightly knotted in coronet on
the top of her head, thus, let us hope.
setting the fashion for llle abolition of
thoso onormouo hi1oouo b;rnoro.
which so disfgure our English women,
and she is dressed in
TIE QU1ErEsr AND MOST PERFECT TASTE.
in blue and white satin, ornamented
with diamonds. Led by the Shah and
the Princess, the procession, composed
of royalties and other notabilities nd
vances to the dais, and after the great
creatures have seated themselves on
their golden chairs, the one notable
and impossible to be avoided English
affliction-the presentation of an ad-
dress. The Corporation gathering
themselves in front of their visitors,
a dried, withered up chip of little
man, who is Sir Thomas Chambers,
the Deputy Recorder of London, in a
hard, grating voice proceeds to read
out prepOsterOus composition of COM
pimentary jar rgon. This is translated
by the interpreter into Persian and re.
piled to in Il few short and decisive
sentences by the Shah, which sentences
are again translated into English by
Sir Henry Rawlinson, of whom I have
already made mention. Then occurs
another never failing civic institution
on such occasions the presentation to
the visitor OF the freedom of the city, OF
which he will no doubt make a great
deal of use. The casket in which this
document was enclosed was however
very handsome, being a huge gold box,
enamelled on all sides and supported
on each corner by a kneeling camel.
THE FIRST QuADR1L1E.
Time was getting ON, ana if the King
OF Kings was to be introduced to any
more Of the customs Of the West, the
ceremony must begin at once. So,
evidently, the Princess thought. After
a look around she gave the signal for
retiring to the body Of the hall, where,
after the Shah had taken up his posi-
tion, a quadrille was commenced,
the Prince and Princess of Wales,
the Lord and Lady Mayoress,
the Czarowitch and the Princess
Dagmar and the Duke and Duchess of
Teck being among the dancers. Settling
his spectacles firmly on his nose, the
Eastern potcntate reclipcd comfortably
back on his seat and watched the per-
formancc with half shut eyes. What,
wondered as gazcl ut him, were his
thoughts as lie looked on itY Did they
go buck to his native land and the last
Terpsichorcan evolutions he had wit
messed there2
There the harcn,'s inmates smile,
Maids from the West with sun bright hair
And from the gardens of the Nile,
Delicate as the roses there,
Daughters OF love from Cyprus rocks,
With Partllan diamonds in their locks,
Light Peri forms such as there arc
On the gold nicatls of CantlaiIar,
Aud they before whose sleepy eyes,
In thcir own bright Kati,ain towers,
Sparkle such rainbow butterflies
That they might fancy the rich flowers
That round them IN the sun lay slghing
Then been by magic al! set flying.
Or was he thinking that he had had
very long day, that he was extremely
tired, and would like to 60 to bed2
Probably the latter, for, after wit.
Messing one or two dances, the Shal,
intimatcd his desire for supper, and,
after taking very slight rcfreshment,
retired from the Guildhall about mid