The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08
A BRIGHT LETTER.


 I. Minor Griswold. The Fat Con-
 ta:or," IS in Europe. The following
 -.eres,ing letter from him. written for
 -e Cincinnati SatHraey .N,y4k. Is
 A,acteris,ic ofthe man:
 .Ar.emus Ward relates in one of his Esaers how he was once showing his |Eaow in Utica, when an unpnneipled |~Ye:ch who was looking al his wax figure I adas Iscario,, suddenly bounced upon the effigy of that historic traitor and be- ran 10 mop the floor with il. He said no .das lscariot could exhibit himself in uca. It seemed like an exaggerated ,c,ure when ii was written, bu, it had its oan,erpart the other day in Liverpool |when l was there. At museum of wax |sares near my hotel the assassination T phcenix park was one of the chief features. and the portraits of the actors inc tragic scene were said 10 be quite |ai:hful 10 life. It drew largely for a atime, u. the exhibition was brought to a ..dden close one evening. Among the .s.,ors were a couple of Englishmen |soiaewha, under the influence of liquor Sho were unable to restrain their lndis- sa,on against the murderers of Caven- a sh and Burke. They leaped over the .eosure and made an assault upon the sax images of the assassins tha, quite es,royed their identity before the as |;onished snowman and his assistants .oald interfere. The assailan;s were ar rested and imprisoned, bu, the show was ] compelled to close for repairs. sb-
 served in the police reports day o. two
 Afterwards that the culprits were sem
 eneed to four months imprisonment for
 rhe.r display of indignation.
 E'eVbody who goes to Liverpool vis- $ :he famous docks, and | formed no exception. In fact. they constitute the nos, important portion of the city. Llv- |eroool lives on these docks, as it were 'or without them the town might as well |elt up the shutters and retire from busi- hess. These docks, as you may have read, are the fines, in the world, and ex- end nearly seven miles along the river, shile they have linear frontage Of qlays of about twenty miles. They are separated from the river by d sea wall |ior,y feet high and eleven feet thick whose gates, one hundred Tn number. are s.de enough to admit the largest ships and steamers. The area enclosed is more than i've hundred acres. Birken- head. on the opposite side of the Mersey. las similar docks, but they are not SO arge and extensive. \ stree, railway ailed tramway in England-runs along |. he land side of the docks, and the touris, xho takes an outside seat can obtain q good view of them. was told that there are huge casks in the vaults of the Liver
 cool docks, of whose ownership all re- ord has been lost, they have reposed
 here so long. Rents in the city are un
 -sually low, a sure indication that busi-
 ress is in depressed condition.
 Aweeks soJourn in London afforded
 le an opportunity 10 visit the most fA-
 nous of the London sights. discovered
 'sa. the interiors of St. Paul's and Of
 Hemins&eT Abbey appear much more
 1szac;iye in pictures than in reality.
 The maguitude and vaseness and elabo-
 ;aion of architecture and adornment are
 hen, however. The tombs and effigies l a kings and queens failed to impress me cry much. 1t is the fault of my demo-
 ratic raising, | suppose. spent an esening ia viewing the wax works of aadame Tassand. The madame herself aas been done in wax since her death, and sands near the entrance of the auseum clothed in a sombre habit of black which she wore in her last days She was very little old woman, quite iaprefentious in appearance, according 10 her efigy. She was shre~d in busi- Tess, however, as her two sons arc said to oe who succeed her. There are several Amesiczn notabiiifies among the WAX agureA Washingtun, lincoln, Grant and oshen. Put figure in q cus-aSay coat aad knee brooches, with a benign and cignifed expression of countenance, and yoa always have some resemblance to WsshiaGtcn. but she images labeled lincoln and Gsant would never be taken
 for thoss wosshies- Guitean, in the chamher q hoeFors, is exhibited with
 noTe 6deiisy. 1.-the visitor wishes to sup a hofrnn and have enough left to warm Her fog hseAkfasA let him enter thsk dis nal cAnmber. The most celebszted nuu3essrs, male and female, dressed ia ne clofhes they wore in Efsy lave . niehe 'hee, pgesher with the aefnal wenpOas shey employed in their diahoiic1l vo<i
 nd coanferparss of their victin& 4 suil1nine that did bloody suvice iA Easis 1iag 6Ae Reign of Tez1ur is shoWn. Ana1g SAe moss inssEesling things saw nU0nnseum were the relics of Nspo-
 con. FAe carriage in which he rode
 1uring his campaigns, equipped 0 saeep
 n, is among them, also the hat and swoed
 ae wore af Wafeioo, and the bedssead sad pattrass on which The died at St. Helesa.
 l spent day nearly at the Crystal aalace, whick contains wonderful va aesy of interesting sights. The repre-