Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-05-11

before. The clerks fingers flew ashley,
counted and sorted them into years then
months and so on tall all were IN their
proper packages, when they are put
away for seven years, then burned No
bank note is ever sent out twice. In
small room with glass on every side is a
man making bills. There are ingenious
steam machines for printing the bank
notes and marking them in microscopic
writings. In the Bullion Office is an in
genious apparatus orweighing the gold
end silver, and in the weighing office is
machine for
WEIGHING soyEREIGNs
by which $4,000 separate coins can be
weighed in day by a single machine.
A trough is filed with gold that came in
the day before; as each piece is weighed
the gold falls into drawer on the righ
the light ones rise and then fall at the
left. These latter are sold back to the
mint to be coined over. The good ones
are then put in f10O0 bags ready for
use. In another room the silver that
had come in the previous day was shak-
en- in basket with holes large enough
for slX-pences 10 fall in, each is then
weighed and put in bags. Every bank
in London has an account there. We
passed through the room where the bust
ness Is done. This apartment is very
large, looking in court filed with flow
ers and shrubbcry and fountain in the
center Over the drawing office is a
clock having l6 dials. Here we separ-
ated, DIR. L. and l.. going to Greenwich
Hospital, to attend a surgical operation
Miss R--to give three singing lessons,
| for which she received one guinea for
three hours work. On my way home
| went into
ST. PAULS CATHEDRAL,
between Cheapside and Lindgate Hill.
1t is the finest building in the city. The
western front has a very imposing APP
pearance, towering proudly above the
loftiest dwellings of London's thriving
traders" In the front stands marble
statue of Queen Anne; on the base of
which are figures representing Britain
MIA with her spear, Gallia with her
crown, Hibernia with her harp, America
with her bow. The church covers up
wards Of two acres. 1t was built by Sir
Christopher Wren. Having removed
| 1900 loads of rubbish, the old walls
being demolished with the battering
ram, the first stone of the present cath
edral was laid. at the north end of the
choir, June n, 1915. 1t was built in
the form of Latin cross. There are
POO steps to
THE WHISPERING GALLERY,
which runs entirely round the base of
the cupola, and is 40 yards in circum-
ference, having an elegant iron railing
in front of it. 1t is so constructed, that
the least whisper is heard on the oppos-
lite side, u distance of 40 feet as if it
We're loud voice close to the ear. ''The
shutting of the door, which resounds
like the discharge of artillery, if allowed
TO fall by its own weight, is now discon-
tinued, from a fear, that the vibration
would in time injure the building"
About half way up to the Whispering
Gallery, is door leading to the library,
the flooring of which consists of 1876
pieces of oak, skillfully inlaid without a
single nail or peg. The library con
tains about 700 volumes, including the
first book of Common Prayer, ever print
| ed, and few ancient manuscripts, said
to be the remains of the monastic library
which was dispersed at the Reformation.
Here too is the flight of steps, known as
| the Geometrical Stairs-the first ever
made in England, which are so ingeni-
ously constructed that all the ninety
hang together
WITHOUT ANY VISIBLE SUPPORT.
resting on the bottom step. They seem
to have been meant for Il private way to
the Library. The great Bell, suspend
ed forty feet from the floor, is ten feet
in diameter; the metal is ten inches
thick, and it weighs 11,474 lbs. The
tone is very fine, and is the musical note
A, concert pitch, The hour is struck
upon the bell by n hammer, weighing
l45 lbs, which is drawn by wire in the
clock-works, and then falls by its own
weight. The clapper, which weighs $50
lbs, is only used to toll the bell, on the
death of one of the royal family, or of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bish-
op of London, the Dean of st. Pauls,
or the Lord Mayor Fromthe stone gal
lery which surrounds the Dome, one has
fine view Of London. The bridges being
particularly striking. The ball to which
we finally ascend, is six feet in diameter
and will hold twelve persons. Thirty
feet above it is the cross, ID feet high.
The paintings in the eight compart-
ments of the dome, represent the lead
ing events in the life of st. Paul. to
whom the church is dedicated 1t is
said, that
SIR JAMES THORSHILL,
who painted this series, and was paid
forty shilliDgs per square yard, retiring
gradually y few steps to mark the effect
of the finishing touches he had just
given to the head of one of the apostles,
had unconsciously reached the extremity
Nof the scaffolding and would by the
next step have fallen to the floor below,
when Il bystander observing that there
was no time to explain his danger
snatched brush full of paint and
dashed it at the picture on the wall; Sill
james rushing forward to save his paint
ing, saved his life. In the body of the
building are many monuments of illus.
trious dead. The Duke of Wellington
He is buried in the Crypt The Sarco.
phagus is of Cornwall Periphery in two
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