The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-03
GEOGRAPHICAL INOrIRlEs.

"Where is Belgium" said /.
'Where is Belgium? ! never heard
such question:"
"That doesn't make any difference to me-
If | have got to fetch this Shah don't wish
to go to the wrong place. Where is Bel
GUM? els it a shilling fare in cab?"
lie explained that it was in foreign parts
the first place have heard of lately
which a body could not go in cab for a
shilling.
1 said could not go alone, because /
conld not speak foreign languages well,
could not get up in time for the early train
without help and could not find my way.
l said it was enough to have the Shah on
my hands; did not wish to have every
thing piled on me. Mr. Blank was then
ant as appeared, but do like to have
somebody along to talk to when I go
abroad.
THE GREAT NATIONAL CONUNDRUM.
When | got home / sat down and
thought the thing all over. wanted to go
into the enterprise Understandings. What
was the main thing? That was the question
A little reflection informed me. For two
weeks the London papers had sung just one
continual song to just one continual tune,
and the idea of it all was chow to impress
the Shah" These papers had told all
about the st. Petersburg splendors, and had
said at the end that splendors would no
longer answer; that England could not out
do Russia in that respect: therefore some
other way of impressing the Shah must be
contrived And these papers had also told
sill about the Statistic reception in Prussia
and its attendant military pageantry. Eng
La, Al,
she could not impress the Shah without sol
dicrs something'else must be tried. And
so on. Column after column, page after
page of agony about how to empress the
Shah" At last they had hit upon happy
idea--a grand naval exhibition. That was
it A man brought up in Oriental scclusion
and simplicity u man who had never seen
anything but camels and such things, could
not help being surprised and delighted
with the strange novelty of ships, The
distress was at an end. England hcavcd n
great sigh of relief; she knew ut last how
to impress the Shah.
My course was very plain, now, after
that bit of reflection All had to Ito was
to go over to Belgium and impress the Shah.
! failed to form any definite plan as to the
process, but / made up my mind to manage
it somehow. | said to myself, 81 will i'm
press this Shah or there shall be funeral
that will be worth contemplating.
MANS iNHuMANITy TO MAN, ETC.
went to bed then, but did not sleep n
great DEAL for the responsibilities were
weighing pretty heavily upon me. At ss
o'clock in the morning Mr.. Blank came
and turned me out. was surprised at this
and not gratfed, for dctest early Using.
I lilo "a, thipns but | "
good deal tried this time. | said did
not mind getting up moderately early, but
hated to be called day before yesterday
However, as l was acting in n national ca.
pacity and for country that liked,
stopped grumbling and we set out. grand
naval review is good thing to impress q
Shah with, but if he would try getting NJ
at six o'clock in the morning-but no mat
ter; we started.
THE SUMMER BEAUTY OF ENGLAND.
We took the Dover train and went wills.
Ting along over the housetops at the rate o.
and peasanfEy hSur As and T Mers in 'gSa
One never can have anything but Il yer,
vague idea of what speed is until he travel.
on an English railway. Our ''lghtnng'
expresses are sleepy and indolent in com
parison. We looked into the back wind
ows of the endless ranks of houses abreas
and below us, and saw many homelikt
little family of early birds sitting at thei
breakfasts. New views and new aspects o
London were about me; the mighty city
seemed to spread further and wider in tn,
clear N forming air than it had ever done be
fore. There is something awe-inspirnl
about the mere look of the figures that ex
press the population of London when on,
comes to set them down in Il good larg,
hand, 100000! 1t takes body's breatl
away, almost.
We presently left the city behind w,
had started drowsy, but we did not stay so
How could we, with brilliant sunshine
pouring down, the balmy wind BLOWN
through the open windows, and the Gardei
of Eden spread all abroad? We swcp
along through rolling expanscs of growing
grain-nOt Il stone or stump to mar thci
comeiness, not an unsightly fence or i'll
kept hedge; through broad meadow
covered with fresh green grass as clcai
swept as if broom had been ut work thcr,
little brooks wandering up and dow
them, noble trees here and there, cows il
the shade, groves in the distance and churcl
spires projecting out of them and Their,
were the quaintest old-fashioned house
sel III 'ns mus VI s,,,oo'l' lawns OF parsi.
niuins ,n S ,hn AIMING .no oo '1,v .'
liees anu .l'enI w"' unu s'uep.ro"i,' ~,
oi , eo..ase WIS wins a. ",ou'"' ",'
clothed in shining mail of ivy leaves !
so thoroughly, indeed, that only one it'll
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little home surrounded by Towering shrub
and bright green grass and all sorts OF oil
trees-and then go and try to imagine some
thing more bewitching
r,ynv,pxs OF THE AGES
By and by we passed Rochester, and, sur
enough, right there, on the highest groun
in the town and rising imposingly up fror
among clustering roofs, was the gay oil
castle-roohess, ruined, ragged, the SIX
beyond showing clear and blue through tn
glassless windows, the walls partly clad wit