Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-02
Gladstone's Birthday.

London Cable: Mr.. Gladstone passed his
seventy fifth birthday Monday at Hawarden
castle, five miles from Chester, the quaintest
old city in England The festivities of the
day were strictly of a family nature with
the exception in favor of forty old women of
the parish, who were invited to tea at the
castle in honor of the day by the premier's
son, the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector Of
the little Hawarden church that shows its
Gothic tower from behind the trees adjoining
his fathers estate. Perhaps the most inter
esting person in the little family gathering
was the lady whom the young rector is
daughter of Liverpool doctor Of
large practice and means but a savage
Tory But Mr.. Gladstone forgives her here
sizes. remembering that he was born in Liver
pool. was educated in the Tory faith, and for
some time practicedi it The marriage prom
Uses to be happy one in all respects, even
as regards money. for young Mr. Gladstone
draws over s {, 900 year from his church
work-not a bad beginning for young
bridegroom of promise. The road from
Hawarden castle to Chester was alive from
morning till night with special messengers
to the prime minister, who received no less
than l 80 kilograms, from every point of the
compass, from the Cape of Good Hope
to the Rocky mountains. His c9n&Tatula-
tions came from all conditions of mankind,
from che prince OF W;,.es to the dock labor
ers ut Hollyhead The greater part came
from the political clubs and reform organiZa-
tions of all kinds He had his rooms lit
tered with birthday gifts of every descrip-
tion, from some two hundred correspond
ents, from penwiper to silver AK. Every
country of the world seemed to have chosen
q representative article as q tribute to his
genius and courage. His daughter, who re-
1ieved the venerable premier of the chief
work of entertaining the callers, referred
with pardonable pride to the striking evi-
dence of the peoples love for him. Mr..
Gladstone, in spite of his seventy-tive years,
looked a younger man than most hard
worked New Workers at fifty. He has his
slight stoop, and his hair is fast turning
firm and his hand, whether with pen or ak,
as steady as ever His conversation, which
in copiousness resembles that of Charles
Sumner and in critical nicely that of Roscoe
Conkling, shows not the faintest trace of
senility He was, of course, unwilling to
have any subject preached that in any way
resembled politics.
The Tower of Babel.
Paris Cable One of the most striking
features of the exhibition in 1889 will be the
great tower of Babel, which is now In course
of erection 1t will be 1000 feet high
NEARLY the fifth of a mile) $50 feet wide at
the base and gradually tapering to 80 feet
at the summit The whole structure will be
by glass pavilion, serving for
an electric lighthouse and observatory. The
height of this structure can be
better appreciated by comparison. The Mil
an cathedral to the top of the statue of the
is $50 feet; St Paul's, London, to
the top of the cross. 404 feet; st. Peters,
Rome, to the top of the cross AS feet, and
Strasburg cathedral, to the top of its wonder
.ul fret-work spire, 1853 feet, or not one hale
rs high as the projected tower