The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-07-28
A RIDE IN CENTRAL PARK.


visit, and as desired to show him the
Park ! took him TO Fifty-cighth street
aud hired a carriage, my own team
being at my country place, whore my
oil paltrey recently became a mother
and as there is nothing hate worse
than to drive speckled palfrey
through Central Park. with a long.
legged yellow colt squealing along be-
hind, or quenohing his never-dying
thirst at the maternal font every time
| stop to explain a statue TO anybody,
| engaged the services of dark-eyed
historical student who Is said To know
more about Central Park than any
other man in New York. having driven
through it, as he has, for years. lie
was a plain, sad man, with a mustachc
which was mostly whiskers. lie
dressed carclessly in neglige suit OF
neutral-tinted clothes, including pair
of trousers which seemed to III him IN
that Shy and reluctant manner which
characterized the iii of the late lament
ed Jumbo's clothes after he had been
indiilcrently taxidermed.
Col. Root and called him Governor
and thereby secured knowledge which
could not be obtained from books.
Can You tell me, Governor" in
quired Col. Root, GLOW in Sam Hill
the people in England ever came to
pick out Wales for a priuccg Blamed
If ! can figure ii out. Gladstone
would have made Il damsito better
Prince, according to my notion; SO
would old John Brown. or the Duke
of Maribro. Still, suppose that
Wales had Il way Of working the press
and getting into society that made
him solid with the people,
Yes, that was IT, said the Govern.
or, us he ate Glove and put out the
eye ofa seventy-llye dollar greyhound
with the cracker of his whip. WALES
has catched on better somehow than
airy Prince | ever have saw. If the
Queen was to die to-day they tell me
that Wales would be nominated by
reclamation, no matter how his health
is. There never was n Prince before
that was able TO hold his place so long
as Wales has
After a while the driver paused
Col. Root asked him why he tarried.
II wanted to call your attention,
said the Governor, 10 the Casino, q
place whore you can provide for th,
inner man or any other man. Yor
can here secure soft-shell crabs, boiled
lobster, low-neck clans, Hamburger
steaks, chicken salad, misccllancou,
soup lobster salad with machine oil OF
II. Neapolitan ice cream, Santa Cruz
rum, Cincinnati Sec, pie, toothpick'
and linger-bowls.r
"lIow far does the waiter have tc
go to get these things cookcdY7 in
quired Col. Root, looking at his valu
able watch.
That said the Governor, as h,
swung around with his feet over IN
our part Of the carriage and asked m,
for light, "depcnds on how you ap.
proach him. If you slip half dollar
up his coat sleeve without his knowl
edge he will get your twcnty-fve-cent
meal cooked somewhere near by, bur
otherwise have known him to gc
away and return with gray side
whiskers and cob-webs on the pie in
stead of the wine.'
We went in and told the proprietor
TO see that our driver had what il,
wanted. lie did not want much asid,
from a whiskey sour, a plate of terra
pin, a pint Of Mr.. Pommery's secre
tary's beverage and baked duck. w,
had little calves liver and eustard pic
Then we visited Cleopatra's Needle.
"And who in creation was Cleopal
raj" asked Col. Root.
Cleopatra was n good-looking Queer
of Egypt She was eighteen years ole
when her father left the throne. as j
was screwed down to the dais. an,
died. lie left the kingdom to Cleo
patra, in partnership with Ptolemy,wh,
in 81 B. G., deprived her Of the throne
leaving Cleopatra nothing but the tidy
She appealed TO Julius Caesar, VIII,
hired man to embalm Ptolcmy, an,
restored Egypt to his sister, who wa
as likely girl as Julius had met ~
with. She accompanied him TO Rom
in 46 u. &. and remained there a cou
pie of years IN the capacity of a sister
When Caesar was assassinated By
delegation of Roman Taxpayers VIII,
desired a change, Cleopatra went bacl
and began to reign over Egypt again
She attracted the attention of Antony
lie thought so much Of her that III
would frequently stay at home from
battle and deny himself the joys of be
ing split open with dull stab knife il
order TO stay around home and holt
Clcopatra's hand, and though she wa
widow practically, she was th,
Amelie liiyes style Of widow, and HI
said that it had to be an all-frcd goot
battle that could make him put on hi
iron ulster and fight all day on the sal
airy he was getting. She pizened her
self thirty years before Christ at th,
age of thirty-ninc years rather thar