The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-14
International Travel.
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Buucc or " ates, lFeslQent Iu'eTS1 aIe Ao bc there the 'ladike of Montenegro may l be there SO may Morodon L, the Illustrousr s beyrit by charming ladies who chew bete paint tbeir teeth black, and never quit bis royal person SO will emirs, shekhs, pashas SO will Egyptian khedive, and Turkish Sol dan--the Light of the Universe Commander of the faithrul, Refuge of the World, Sire Of all Soyereigus so will Smith, Brown, Jones, anl Robinson. Jones and Robinson, restless rovers, are ever on the wing but when Lunalilo, from his Hawaiian throne, visits the United States ito study it's institutions" when His High ness of CambOdla journeys in quest of knOwl- edge, travel mean. something. The twelve month tour of the Shah is a representative event. Though all the mollahs in Teheran howled over the sacrilege, in face of priestly prayers the sovereign set out. The voyager and his courtly train will gather new ideas at every step from London to Constantinople. Proclamations already announce that Persia, | "coyeting isolation no longer, draws near to l European science, arts, and commerce" Such | travel, l say, signifies that steam, the civili- | Ter, is opening tue world to mankind-that | nations are astr with a sense of brotherhood. | The ends of the earth assemble at this Vienna show. Macaulay's New Zealander Walpole's voyager from Lima, not waiting for St. Paul's to crumble, prematurely appear on London Bridge to sketch and critcise Sir c. Wren's architecture. In the year of grace 1871 his Majesty No. |, of Siam visited Singapore and Java; in 1872 he visited British India-frst instances in history of Siamess sovereign crossing his borders in time of peace. The monarch of Japan, sacred son of Heaven, till yesterday hardly visible to mortal eyes, now potters about his shipyards like another Peter the Great, and plans trip around the globe
 Old regions of romance are realms of won der still, only the wonder has become more stupendous-'tis the wonder of reality The genii that now infest our boyhood's fairyland are forces of science, and the prodigies they perform even blessed Queen Scheherazade never fancied. The seat of witchcraft is no longer the conjurer's cave but yonder patent office don't quite mean that patent t-ofice reports are as enchanting as fairy tales-not exactly that, if you please but only that the tools of American days eclipse the necromaI- tic engnery of Arabian Nights, and that ma chinery is magic. For, what sorcerer, pray, ever wove by black arts the webs that stream from Lowell looms7 The locomotive out strides the ogre's seven-leagued boots. Da- vy's lamp is more wonderful than Aladdn's. Vulcan forged no bolts that blast like dy- namite Steam is . stOuter porter for For tunio than Strong g-back the telegraph hears farther than Fine-ear, and takes a message more swiftly than Light-foot What goblin of old burrowed through a Mount Cenis What wizard named the metals in wonder star thousand million miles away7 What giant slaughtered his enemies like gunpow- der What enchanter brought the blessed spell to pain that ether gives The gas-sto ker is our ''slave of the lampn The sun is painter in ordinary 10 whomsoever can pay dollar. The engineer has divining-rods to tell where gold is aid. Wondrous pbilters are | brewed in the chemists pots. Jenner found l more precious fruit than Ahmed's apple. | Hersehel and Le Verrier are soothsayers, Gal | vani an exorcist the watch a taiisman, the lathe 8 wand. "Pres,o, agrimento, change {" 10, the box of ointment on my lady's dress ing-table blows the house to pieces! Cotton gin and spinning jenny, printing press steam engine, sewing g-macbine-such are the powers in faiydom, endlessly romantic if not so real i Yesterday read that "the Grand Vizier has | planed railroad from Tripoli, on the Syrian | coast, running five hundred and fifty miles by way of Palmyra across MesOpotamia and the Tigris to Bagdad,n there connecting with the Persian gulfline To Palmyra Ghost of Ze- nobia! And Gall aboard for Bagdad 7" Shade of Ali Baba! So, this is what Grand Vziers are made for w-adays
 Sacred and classic lands are invaded by new Goliatbs and CyclOps, just as a new race of kobolds overrun fairy book soil. The steam whistle shrieks where Demosthenes haran- gued the electric-wire winds along Judean paths which the feet of prophets trod; five lines of ounnibuses will soon take you right away now, all the way up!" from the Bos- phOpus on the Asia Minor side Cooks ex- cursionists picnic on potted meats among the Pyramids; steamers thread the Read Sea tUh aha.v | tb. Al. as telIit; 'tis the trite rehearsal of last years newspaper in guise of fresh tdings.- Wonder, in the Flowery Land, where fighting was once done with gongs, and victory crown ed the army that made the worst faces, twen- ty-ton guns roar. The Chinese have rihe-pits now and (taRt6ne in dnimis c9lestibus ire ? earthworks planted with Krupp artillery. lron-clads patrol the shores, and their arse nals turn out fixed ammunition. Drilled by the tactics of MOltke's veterans, the gallant sixty-sixth and Ninety ninth Pigtails carry not spears, but Martini and Dreyes rifles; for John Chinaman would dismiss the weapons our infantry fought with in 1851 as behind the age. In Japan the whole apparatus of Western civilization is at work-railroads, telegraphs, water works, gas lights, paved streets, thousand labor saving machines, even in the land of cheap labor--in short, ev- cry appliance of mechanism. The new mint beautifully coins gold aud silver by steam power; the paper currency is inscribed, in English, "Imperial Treasury of Japan; old laws are daily torn up; religious freedom is proclaimed; education is made compulsory New England school system is established, and ten thousand schoOl-houses, from primary to collegiate, dot the empire. Japan is the true wonder land. What Majestic progress may not those two youths live to see, who come to the thrones of China and Japan just as their realms catch the full inspiration of the age.
 While spreading knowledge, trade and acquaintanceship, railways also bind dis
 tant nations together in affliction, and make them partakers in calamity. Pestlence tray els by steam nowadays; cholera takes to the rail The lncnmntiYa eYnrcsses hisnasa hr