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

we cup the lOilOwlnS from Lon
; don letter to the New York Hcralt
dated June Dist, from the pen Of Ed
mund Yates, tho novelist:
For more than four hundred an.
fifty years
THE GlILDIIALL
has been the S.'nre OF events Of NOR
or less Importance in English history
and nearly two hundred years ago i
seems to have acquired that reputation
Tor gastronon,ical Indulgence for whicl
it is principally known in tho prcsc',
day. For in October, 1868, quaint
gallant, gossiping old Pepys records il
his diary: --@'Io Ginldhail, and up an.
down to see the tables, where nnde
every salt there was bill of fare, ant
ut the end Of tho table tho persons
proper for the table. sal q: the Mcr
chant Strangers table where wcr'
ten good dishes to mess, will
plenty of wine of all so,ts." Tie sid,
door through which I entered is imme
diatcly under tue gallery, on the otlle
side Of which are placed the enormous
wooden figures of the plants Cog ant
Magogg, SO that I had Il splendid view
of tho hall from end to end, and tn.
; sight was certainly magnificent. Th<
old hall was blazing with gas, covered
with admirably executed decoration.
and radiant with every variety Of fe
male beauty and gorgeous attire. AL
til ose who possessed the right to we:al
uniform or court dress had been en-
Joined to don them. 10 and frt
through tho crowd wandered the
hosts OF the evening; tho civic
functionaries, in their gold chains anu
gowns, the stewards. to whom the al
rangcment of the dances is contide.1
(for dancing is Il part of the evenings
programme, and yOnler magnificent
gilt throne. raised on !. high velvet lais
is the spot from which the Shah is t.,
watch the Terpsichorean evolutions)
with their wantls of office in theil
hands, make the necessary prepare
tions, and an ever increasing, gayly
dressed, laughing, chattering, whisper.
ng perf;;med crowd goes surging to
nd fro through tine old hall, looking
ut tue beauty of tho women and the
highbred appearance of the men you
would scarcely imagine that these are,
|OOHPd1NClSclf SpcihlNB.
| THE LOWER ORDERS
of those invited, for the creme clc Il,
creme is gathering together, not here,
but i'll the library, where it will await
the Shah's arrival. To get into this
library is Il thing to be desired, but it
seems almost an imposibility. Two
policemen guard the door; they arc
courteous but firm. I 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 gold chain round
his neck, his white whiskers and hair
carefully brushed, his rubicund face
bcaming with good humor and turtle
and port wine.
"W!'st. you, herc!" he says to me
you Z"
tell him / am very well; I do not
tell him that [ have not the faintcst
idea who lie is.
."You recollect," he continued, "ycu
sat down to me last year 1T the dinner
Of the Leather Stocking Makers Com
pany, when You made that speech and
told that story? I often laugh now
when I think of it. Want to get in
here Certainly. Pass this gentle
man." And ut his potent word the
policemen withdraw their opposition,
and enter
THE LIBRARY.
Yes, this is 1nquesticnably the place
for observation within the whole
building. Here the prettiest women
are gathered together, Ill seated in a
long, unbrokcn limo. Here, standing
about among them, and whispering
pleasant nothings, are mell whose hume
and fame are world wide. On another
occasion one might like to poke about
in the library itself, to take down some
of tho rare books, to look through
the large collection of early printed
plays and pageants connected with
the city: to examine in its appropriate
glass-casc Shakspearc's own signature
attached to IL deed Of: conveyance,
bought at Il public sale by tho corpora
ton Of london; but at present we
have enough to do in looking Mt what
Lady Mary Wortlcy Montague called
the ''humans,' and Watching their
movements. The short, stout individ-
ual. who stands ut the door aud roars
forth III sonorous tones the name of
each incoming visitor, is Mr.. Harker,
THE CITY roAsrMAsrr1:,
and powerful as arc his lungs they will
scarcely last him through the evening
unless he motlitics the tone of triumpI
with which he has just announced
"The Right Honorable Mr.. Gladstone
and Mrs. Gladstone" The Premier
looks haggggard and worn as usual, his
thin, sallow cheeks, laak hair and
tightly purscd mouth giving him the
air of !. discontented dissenting minis
ter, Oh whom the Court custom sits
with absurd incongruity. The
genial looking man, with 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
he have to say to the big, hcnvy man
with whom he is in converse ?-thc
man will the big Magellan skull; the
half closed, sleepy eye; the sa]low
checks; the coarse: mean, common
features-what can there bc in common
between thenl2 Ono 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 ctnlvcrsing, and
mark HIM well, for he is - character in
English social lite. Not Mr.. Surrogate
Hutcliings himself has more amIrosiul
cnr)s, not Mr.. A. Il. Stewart or Com
M0dore Vanderbilt has much more
money, for this is Earl Dudley, who
has never taken any Tart in political
life or in any Of the stirring questions
of the day, but who is notable for his
ccccntricity, his wealth and the beauty
OF his wife.
THE LORD MAYOR AND THE MAYONEss
are just now pointing ont the beauties
Of the golden throne on the raised
dais to some friends, and if a New
Yorker wanted an Introduction to his
host OF the evening he could not do
better than avail himself of the services
OF the ever.pnpuIar Secretary Of the
American Legation, Mr.. l>cni. Moran.
whose keen, honest face is scon among
the crowd. This tall, thoroughly Eng
fish looking gentleman, with the high
forehead, wcll-cut features and grand
expand of chest, is Mr.. Ward Hunt,
VIII" was u prominent mcmbcr of Mr..
Di%raclis Cabinet His ''s,uau' turned
joints and strength Of limb seem to
make even less the slight proportions
of the Asiatic who stai,ls next to him.
~; an! VIII" is one mass of hIaz'"g jewels.
This is 1,t, Persian ht,wry,r Inf :, ,,,,n