The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-24
LONDON LETTER.
From our Wheeling Correspond.
ent,
LONDON, Augp 4th, 1915.

10 see London critically WOUlu Wke
months Of time, and yet to the casual OBJ.
server II does not differ much from other
cities in It's characteristic features. There
Is the same hurry and hustle in the streets
that Characterizes our own New York
and other great American cities. The
voice Of the street peddlers calling cut
their wares, il heard on the highways.
The immortal aud inevitable organ
grinder plies his trade with even more
persistence than his American kindred.
| have seen them stand before q store or
dwelling house and ring all the changes
of their machine for an hour at Il time
without receiving single penny, but
they never seem to be discouraged, and
having set the machine before house
will grind something out Of the occupants
II it takes all day.
There are, Of course, the distinctions Of
class, visible in the street life OF London,
which are not seen in American cities.
But these are not the things that make
London attractive to the sight seers.
They are the mere incidents, the daily
shifting OF the scenes Of the City's multi
tudinOus life. l will not attempt de.
sCription OF 81. Pauls, Of which 20 much
has been so often and so well said its
hoary grandeur overawes me.
The parks Of London, which are nu-
merOus, are beautiful beyond desert tiOn.
The Botanical gardens are filled with the
rarest specimens Of plants from all the
known world, but one has to study them
rs he would book, In n consecutive, or.
derry way, in order to be able to describe
them, and | shall not attempt it now.
The Geological gardens are located in
Regents, the largest Of all the metrOpol.
itan parks, and cover an area Of four
hundred and seventy.two acres, including
considerable lake.
On Mondays the entrance fee to the
gardens Is sixpence and on all other days
d shilling, but at either price the visitor
is well repaid. The garden contains the
largest collection Of animals in the world,
and there are specimens Of every kind al.
most that walks or Crawls upon the ground
or that flies in the air or swims in the
waters. The Darwinian prOjenitOrs are
here in great numbers and infinite variety,
and in size from the gorilla down to the
liminitive specimen not larger than rat.
The genealogical rangeis wide. Nothing
il more surprising than the wonderful
perfection Of the training and the cOnse.
1uent docility OF the animals in these
gardens. Even the nnwieldy Sea Lions
perform some incredible ieals, such for
instance MS climbing on to chair or on
to the lap Of their keeper, for whom they
also display their affection by kissing
him,
In the geological gardens we find OF
course only specimens Of the living
species that form earths tenantry to-day,
and the interest we feel in contemplating
them is connected with the present. Pro.
found as is that interest, II Is something
different from that feeling Of awe that
falls upon us when we enter the most in
tereSting Of all Englands public resorts,
the British Museum. There are the relics Of
uncounted ages; the giOnts among animals
beneath whose footsteps the solid earth tire
mbled in the days Of la youth. Specimens
Of the race that built the pyramids; mum.
my forms crumbliDg in their cases. Cur.
iosilies in Roman and Egyptian Antique;
statuary from the Parthenon Of glOri.
Gus Athens, together with wonderful geo.
logical specimens, concerning which ]
hope to write In the future.
Last but not least nj interest among The
places which have visited are the cele.
brntCd Kew Gardens. No where else in
the vicinity Of London can q more de.
lightful day he spent. Floral treasures,
exotics from every cline form wilder.
ness Of beauty and Gil the air with n fra.
GRANGE that almost intOxicates. Along
pathways artisticNlly disposed and sCru.
pulonsly clean and neat the visitor may
stroll amidst the luXuriNnt beauty Of the
tropics or beneath the stately trees from
American forests. Passing beyond these
we come to the great Palm House,
stately building Of iron and glass, three
hundred and sixty feet in length and
seventy feet in height This vast house
is filled with palm trees, the loitiest of all
vegetable forms and one ia really lost in
wonder while contemplating these strange
exotics from beneath the equator lie.
You'd this again IL the Victoria, an i'm.
nense green house whose space is largely
devoted to the rarest specimens Of the
Lily, some from the silvery lakeleIs Of
America, others from streams that wash
the golden sands Of India. But time
fails me to enumernte in one letter a
1.-THE OF the rarest and largest collection
Of floral specimens ever brought together
in one place. Amos.