Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-10
SOME woNpERFuL THINGS.

~ ue 'dliOdu de AVlue, WHICH has DeUu
called the Pope's toy house, has between
1000 and 5000 rooms. and takes a
travel of about fourteen miles to 60
through all the rooms, which are adorn-
ed with costly works of art throughout.
st. Peters Church at Rome is about
500 feet high and covers nearly eight
acres of ground. Its cost has been over
S60,00o,000. Such buildings as this
and the Vatican and the vast expenses
of the Papal Church. have SO exhausted
Italy that half of its people are lazzar-
oni and banditti.
The Palace of Versailles near Paris,
took me whole day to walk slowly
through, there being eight and One-half
miles of gorgeous halls aad rooms paint
ed in splendid style. l told my guide
that such a building with its park and
fountains must have exhausted all
France at the time Louis XIV built it.
He said it did and that it cost 100, ,00o,-
900 francs besides the vast expense of
the paintings and the park and foun-
tains, which latter are the largest in
the world. thought the Galleries of
the Louvre, which were then four and
one-half miles through them, were large
enough in all conscience, but 1t seems
that even that did not satisfy human
ambition, especially the extravaganza
of royalty.
London is the largest of all cities,
having population of three and quar-
ter millions.
The Geological Gardens of London
are the largest N the world. | noticed
a single bird cage there which covered
about half an acre of ground.
The Kew Gardens of London are the
largest botanical display in the world.
The Yo Semitic Valley of California
/ pronounced Yo-Sem-i-ta) is admitted
by tie best travellers to be the finest
landscape in the world.
The Russian Government covers near
ly 100000 of square miles. The next
to the largest government in the world
is that of the United States which now
covers nearly 100000 square miles.
The United States though having
nothing worth speaking of in the way
of museums and galleries of art in COM
parison with Europe, yet has its share
of superiority, besides having the freest
of all governments.
The Central Park of New York, is adj
mitted by al travellers to be the finest
public park IN the world
The Colosseum of New York surpasses
the European exhibitions of that kind.
shows the amazing advance that human
art has attained to. When / went there
| expected to see nothing but fine
stereoscopic picture, but what was my
astonishment when l reached the dome
to find myself, as it were. in new
world, almost on a new planet. Almost
any one at first thought would say that
he was out of door, and standing on a
great dome, that of st. Paul's London,
for one can walk around on all sides Of
! it, and find the blue sky above and
around him, with the stars twinkline
| in their infinite distances, the moon
shining and casting its shadows. while
hundreds of feet below lies the worlds
metropolis with thousand streets, q
million gas lights, and countless build
ings standing up as large as life. Il
has no resemblance to mere picture,
but seems to be London itself They
say it has cost quarter Of million
dollars. but that is cheap enough to pay
for the building Of such great city
right on the top ofNew York.
Barnum's Roman Hippodrome is the
finest exhibition Of the kind Of modern
ages Having surpassed the world as a
show, there was no need Of publishing
the lie that be has a collection of ami.
mails as large as the Geological Gardens
of London. If multiplied by ten the
assertion might be true.
The new Grand Opera House in Paris
is the finest temple Of amusement in the
world The next to the grandest oi
theatrical buildings is Booths Of New
York. The theaters Of New York are
handsomer and more convenient than
they generally are in Europe, and ]
will venture the assertion that there are
more grand residences in New York than
in London or Paris. This comes from
the fact that in Europe the upper ten
are higher than in America, but from
our institutions which allow all to rise.
the upper ten thousand are higher in
America than II Europe.
The growth Of Chicago is about a.
much Of wonder as any have men
toned. 10 sweep into the city on one
Of the fne railroads, emerging suddenly