Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-07-17

ture, 1t dld not oVerWnelm me, Tor l
can see its counterpart in beer drink
ing Germans any fine day on sundry
street corners. A model of the famous
Rosetta stone with its inscriptions in
three languages hung on the wall.
The original is preserved in the Brit
ish museum, and was discovered in
1899 in Lower Egypt. 1t has proved
extremely interesting to savants and
psychologists, for a study of it has
given clue to the reading of the
hieroglyphics.
| spent an hour at the Palace Hotel,
the finest on the continent, and which
cost its owner, Senator Stanford, SeUen
million dollars. 1t covers a whole
square and is very mountain Of
brick and mortar. In the center is q
large area or court, covered by sky
light, into which carriages drive.
Overlooking this court, on every
floor, are wide verandas, where the
guests promenade and look down at
the incoming and departing guests.
With this arrangement, every room
in the house is an outside room with
plenty of light and air. Although it
is called tire-proof building, watch
men patrol its corridors day and night
and every contrivance known has
been adopted for quickly eXtinguish-
ing any fire that might be started.
AT the time | was there, every one of
its 1915 rooms was full to overflow
ing, and the Grand Central Hotel,
just across the street, and connected
with it by covered bridge, was also
filled. 1t is not always so, however,
and it is said that it pays such small
per cent interest on the investment,
that the owner would dispose of it
any day for a reasonable sum. A
Chinese company, it is said, offered
him six million dollars for it, intend
ing to make of it great Chinese ba-
zaar, but public opinion would have
deferred his accepting if no other con-
sideration had. In any event he still
has the elephant on his hands, and a
most marvellous beast it is. While the
charges here are of course large, 1 I'M
derstood that, by taking a room up
in the region of the clouds, and pat
ronizing the restaurant attached, even
a poor man can stop at the Palace
and write to his friends on Palace let
ter heads.
An English man-of-war lay at an
Choir in the bay, and in the afternoon
when visitors were allowed, l went
aboard. They were getting ready to
sail in a few days, and every man
was busy setting things to rights, but
two of the sailors were detailed to
show us through the vessel, and their
courtesy and kindness dispelled at
once any impression that jolly Jack
Tar could be no gentleman. Every
thing about the vessel was bright and
clean. The guns looked more like
parlOr ornaments than instruments Of
death. Some of the men were al
work scrubbing the deck, other ar.
ranging the cordage, and some paint
ing some part of the vessel-all were
busy. Down in the hold dinner wa.
being prepared-a dinner, too, fit tt
, be set before Her Majesty, their roya
mistress, for not to mention the inev
, liable roast beefand mutton, they hat
the best the market afforded of every
, thing. / left the ship with the refec
, ton that if cold England kept he
navy in as fine condition as was tn,
Triumph, and fed and clothed he
} sailors as well as these were provided
f for, it was but right she should hav,
, the finest navy in the world.
| l Invent OUT to the Preside militar,
} reservation to see how Uncle San
l was prepared to keep off the enem,
3 at this point. The fort is situate,
/, just at the Golden Gate, and com
1 manded the bay so efectually that
S would be next to impossible for a,
J. enemy's vessel to anchor in San Fran
i cisco harbor. The fort and its SUI
S roundings were in reasonably goo
: order, but there was a striking cor
u trast in the appearance of things ther
s and on the man-of-war. No on
|. seemed to be in charge of the for
+ and we roamed at will through tn
IS building, and looked out from tn
e roof at the Gate, the bay and the We
IS sells going in and out.
Late in the afternoon l strolled O,
e on California street and Nahob Hill
Z where the nabobs live, to see VIII;
q are called their fine residences, but