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looking the city of Raugoon. It consists of
two terraces, and the upper is paved with
flags Of stone, This is 166 feet above the
level of the ground, and it covers about lax
acres. The great pyramid near Cairo has
base of 13 acres, but the base of this monu-
ment is bigger. It is 900 feet long by about
700 feet wide, and this IA acres is covered.
with little temples with hundreds Of Budd-
has of all shapes and sizes, some of which
are of gold and others of which have been
gilded again and again until the layers of
gold upon them are in places as thick as
wedding rings. 1t is impossible to estimate
the wealth that stands upon this platform.
The shrine has been a noted one as far back
as 500 years before Christ was born, and
during % centuries the Buddhists have been
laying their offerings upon it. They have
added to it all these years until 1t has risen
from 20 even feet to its present height.
During the last century one of the Kings
of Burmah vowed he would give his own
weight in gold to this smonument. He hopped
upon the imperial scales and pulled the
beam at 170 pounds. The VOW cost him S45,-
600 worth of gold leaf. and it all went into
this monument. The monument was regilded
in 1871, and it is now being again polished.
It Is all told mass of brick and mortar
mixed with gold, and its outside plated with
gold. It has no interior chambers, and it is
as solid as gravestone.
Its surroundings are those Of worship, and
you may any dav see dozens of women clad
in bright silk gowns and white vests kneel-
Ing and bowing before it. They bring Of
ferlngs of rice and flowers to it and the air
is filed with the perfume of the roses which
lie at its base. This base is surrounded by
stone figures of kneeling elephants, each Of
which is the size Of the baby elephant in the
circus. These have fat places upon their
backs and it is upon these that the offerings
are often laid. Here and there are little
dove, cote-like shrines, before which incense
always burns and the roofs of which have
been turned by Its aromatic smoke into SCOT.
No matter how hot the day, these women
and men here kneel and under the blazing
sun PROSTATE themselves before this golden
mountain and before what they imagine
constitutes its elements of sanctity. These
are four hairs from the head of the great
Buddha himself
FRANK g. CARPENTER,
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a line with the navel to the knee cap, and
you often see in addition to this specimens
of tattooing on other parts of the body.
Tbs people are superstitious about it and
certain kinds of tattooing are surprised to
ward of disease. One kind wards off the
snake bite and another prevents q man from
drowning. In 1881 man so tattooed tested
the efficacy of his tattooing by allowing his
hands and feet to be tied and himself to be
thrown into the river. It is needless to say
that the current carried him away, and
neither tattoo. nor man was ever again seen.
The only tattooing affected by women is
that which produce love in the heart of the
desired one of the other sex. This is a
triangle of peculiar color, which is put on
between the eyes, upon the lip. or upon the
tongue, as the tattooer prescribes. It's color
is made of mixture called by the Burmese
''the drug of tenderness" and it is COM
pound not much different from the hell
broth brewed by the witches in Macbeth.
Another kind of tattooing is affected by
schoolboys. 1t prevents, It is said. the boy
feeling the whip when he is punished at
school, and it is universally affected by the
bold bad boys of every Burmese town.
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A PAYING Poeseasiou.

OF the whole peninsula, however, the
Empire of Burmah is perhaps the best part.
and it is, am told, one of the best paving
of England's lately acquired possessions.
AT the beginning of the present century 1t
was by far the strongest Empire in farther
India, and it is now equal to six States as
big as Ohio. Mandalav, which until about
three years ago was the capital, is a CITY of
several hundred thousand people and
Rangoon, where I write this letter. has
lao, 900. 1t is the capital of lower Burmab.
which has belonged to England since the
days of President Pierce, and General
Grant, when he stopped here on his way
around the world, predicted that it would
be as big as Calcutta in ten years. 1t is
growing fast and it will, without doubt. be
the great city of Indo-China. 1t is about
% miles from the sea on one of the mapy
rivers which form the delta of the great
Iriwaddy river.
The river is navigable for the largest
ocean steamers to Rangoon, and boats
of five feet draft can sail up
it for 900 miles. Mandalay is
situated on il about 800 miles from the sea
and it forms the great means of interior
communication for Burmah. 1t is one of
the greatest rivers in the world in its volume
of water and il discolors the sea at points
out OF sight of land for distance of 150
miles along its delta. The rainfall of some
parts Of the interior Of Burmah ranges from
oO0 70 600 inches of water year, and In July
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The Chinese Are There to Stay.

These roads will open up one of the rich
est countries OF the East Indo-China is
practically undeveloped and uncultivated.
Its people are lazy, easy-gOing, half-savage
races, from the Burmese to the Siamese and
the Malays, and they have in the past lived
from hand to mouth. They are not aceumu-
latos nor investors and their rich soil, for
ests and minerals are awaiting the advent of
the immigrant. The immigrant is already
upon the ground in the person of the Euro
peanS and the Chinese, and within gener-
alton or so new race will inhabit it. This
race will be the Chinese crossed with the
natives. Everywhere 1 go 1 find that the
'Chinamen are doing the business of the Pc
ninsUla. They are marrying with the ma
tives, and old English residents tell me they
are producing a race that is better than
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sink where he washes his hands, wiping
them on some clean cotton waste. He then
goes home and eats a hearty meal Of
victuals. At night he slides into his swal-
low tail coat, puts Sunday paper between
his shirt bosom and his manly ditto, so as to
ward off pneumonia, and goes to some
boiled dinners, where he speaks a few
thoughtful words which the papers greedilv
print in their columns the next morning.
Mr.. Depew may be frequently seen in the
early gray of the morning, showing some
prominent New Yorkers how to get home.
He eats very little at these great banquets,
combining himself mostly to the relieves or
the jowI and greens, but rarely eating
sweet cake or cookies at night Neither
does he drink much, though often requested
to: He could, at slight cost to him.
self, if he wished to do so,
continue in pleasant state of ex-
filtration all the time, but he SAYS no,
even when the wine cup is presented to him
by fair hands. That is why his speeches
read so much better than Mr.. Riddleber-
gers of Virginia. This should teach us a
valuable lesson. Had Mr.. Depew, when he
first began to run on the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad, eaten pie and
rich victuals at night, or taken brandy
and soda before morning prayers, to-day his
name would have begun with the same let
ter, but it would not have been Depew.
Number Three was 20 minutes late yes
terday, owing to washOut at Point Isabel.
A few good seed potatoes are still left at
the Washington Market
Mr.. W. McAllister is entertaining friends
from Trask. BILL NYE.
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of the box, but It had been chopped,
and so he could not recover 1t. be
then tried to cross the track, but was re-
pulsed with great loss Of life by the chop.
per. 1t was finally arranged by code OF
signals between the two ticket jibletlers
that the man could be permitted to cross
over by going down stairs on the west side
and climbing UP on the east side without
again putting up his cents. The gentle
man was Mr.. Russell Sage, Of this place.
Almost every day rosy-faeed woman, in
the prime of life, with large, full, protub-
Grant, translucent eyes, and quick, elastic
step, gets of at Park place. and goes to her
Office. She is Mrs. Frank Leslie. Her
housework is done by hired help while she
goes to the office and works. She earns
enough at the case to keep all the help she
needs, and she says she has not washed
dish for over two years. When she was lefta
widow she did not say alas, and present the
whole business to the Probate. Court. She
simply turned over the column rules of the
paper, and hanging her shawl on the copy
hook. set up a brief, pungent editorial in
which she stated that she had come to stay,
or words to that effect, and at once began to
extend her circulation. So she now finds
herself able to- hire much of her drudgery
done by other hands, while she signs checks
in large, trenchant hand.
FRIEND OF THE FAIR SEX.
Governor William b. Hoard, of Wiscon-
sin, was registered at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel not long ago. He is great hand for
stock, especially cows, and has compelled
the cow OF Wisconsin, as one might say, to
come out and take higher ground. 1 hon
estly think that Governor Hoard has done
more to ameliorate the condition of the COW
of his own State than any other man. Gov
ernor Hoard is plain man. He and I ap-
peared together once and spoke to the State
Press Association. People still look back
upon the scene with horror. Governor
Hoard runs paper at Fort Atkinson, called
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golden rim and let the slope of the terraces
20 upward in bell-like stories to the distance
of 100 feet from the ground. There is not
block in your city as large as the,
base of this monument and its top is
higher than any building in America,
save the monument at Washington. Its
splre is taller than that of st. Paul's Cathe-
dral at London, and the whole glistens
under the blazing sunlight as though itwere
solid gold.
AT its top THERE'S now q scafolding for
the great golden umbrella, which the last
King Of Burmah before Thebaw gave to it,
is being restored to its place, and the jewel
ers are working upon this in the sheds at its
base. This umbrella is great circular
piece ofgold, which is'studded with jewels,
any one Of which would be fit wedding
present for princess. It cost more than
200, 900 gold dollars when it was made 18
years ago. But not long since the winds
shook it from its moorings, and jewels and
gold came down to the ground. This
mighty pagoda has cost millions of dollars.
1t is of brick and stucco covered with gold
leaf as fine as that ever put into an Ameri-
can tooth and as costly as that which covers
the new gold frame which surrounds Mrs.
Hayes picture in one of the White House
parlors. 1t has been regilded again and
again, and if its tons of material could be
put through one of the great quartz mills of
Denver it would yield as much good ore as
a California mine.
A Golden Mountain.
The base of this pagoda is on hill over
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this river brings down to the sea the incon-
oeiyable sd, amount of o. lOOO, ,ooO, 600 tons Of
billion people in the world and that these
billion of men, women and children have an
average weight of "a pounds each, all of the
worlds aggregate humanity would be out
weighed BY one days flow of this rivers
water. The Washington monument weighs,
if l remember correctly, $4,000 tons. 1t
would take 1,175,000 such monuments to
weigh as much as the daily discharge of this
river in July. 1t is the fourth river In
volume in the world, and its source is yet to
be discovered. 1t rises somewhere in the
Himalsyas or Thibet and has a wide and
fertile valley. The branch on which
Rangoon is situated is nearly mile wide
at this point and its waters are almost
liquid mud.
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Burn1ese Courf of .L,lstice-

either. At Singapore and in the southern
part Of the Malay peninsula they are crowd
ing the English merchants out of business,
and they own grand residences and work
with large capital.
Here at Rangoon none Of the Chinese do
coolie labor and in Siam they form already
nearly one-hslf of the population. The En-
glish employ them largely, and they engage
in all trades and in all kinds OF business.
They are, so Europeans think, a necessity
to the development of a tropical country,
and the prospect is that they will event.
TALLY own the larger part of farther India.
They will not do laundry work here as they
do with us, and the lowest grade of work
at which you find them employed is car
pentering.
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it stands up for all the world like the ban
dana of the black auntie of slavery days.
They wear a white linen or cotton jacket,
which reaches little below the waist, and
below this shines out the bright silk or cot
ton cloth which is wound tightly about the
loins and is twisted there into a knot at the
front, SO that its folds hang down between
the legs.
The women dress in much the same way
their skirt being the American pullback
reversed-binding the bare limbs tightly
and falling to the ground about their feet.
The women wear nothing on their heads and
both sexes go barefooted. Both men and
women pierce their ears, and the men tattoo
their bodies from the waist to below the
knees,
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Fan Palm line the Paclnc. Ine
English have now fast grip on Burmah,
and Siam, lying between, awaits only
great European war to fall into the hands OF
one or the other The day will soon come
when this great territory, equal in size to
one-third of the whole United States, will
be governed from Europe. Its interior Will
be penetrated by railroads and its immense
resources will be thrown open to the world.
As write this letter a corps of engineers
are at work surveying a railroad from
Bangkok, the capital of Siam, to Mandalay,
the great city of upper Burmah, and before
this letter is published the English railroad,
which now runs from this city of Rangoon,
16S miles to the city Of Prone in the In
terror, will have been extended TO Mandalay
and will be open to traffic. This will give
Burmah between 400 and 500 miles of rail-
way and the day will come when the line
viii be extended to Canton, in China.
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Beautiful Barefoo,ed Women.

Burmah has altogether a population OF
about I, 5,OOO, 900. The majority of these are the
Burmese, and they are a different people
from any that have yet seen: The women
are beautiful and the men are straight,
proud and 6ne-looking. They have olive
brown compilations, straight eyes of dark
brown, fat noses and lips a little thicker
than those of the average Caucasian. They
have no boards, but in some cases have
downy mustaches of black. Their hair is
Jet black and they wear it long, rolling it
up in bright red or yellow handkerchief
and wrapping this around the head so that
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A Wonderful Temple.

The Burmese are Buddhists and every
Burmese man is supposed at some time in
his life to be priest. The education of the
children is by the priests, and the bulk of
the population get their education in the
monastic schools. You find Buddhist mon
asteries and Buddhist temples everywhere
and there is here at Rangoon the finest
Buddhist monument in the world. franks
with the Tai Mahal as one of the great
curiosities of India, and it is the oldest and
finest place of worship in Indo-C China. It
is the Shway Dagohn psgoda or "the golden
pagoda" Imagine a mountain of gold
rising terrace after terrace from a mighty
platform and growing smaller as it goes up
ward until it at last pierces the skies in a
golden spire, the top of which is $40 feet
from the ground. Make the base 80 large
that is quarter Of mile around its outer
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PUT THE BEANS TO SOAK.

A Message Tint An Editor Mistook for n
White Cap Notice.
Kearney (Neb.) Eeterprtse.l
An editor wandered toward home the
other morning about 4:3O O'Clock, and as he
neared the house he was alarmed to see a
light brightly burning IN the lower apart
ments. Thoughts Of sickness in the family
made his footsteps hasten. He entered the
hall with anxiety stamped upon his coun-
tenance. All was silent; sleep reigned in
the household. but near the electric light
was huge block of paper
"What! notice from the White Caps?''
he said to himself With trembling hands
he picked up the paper. It read: Don't
forget to put the Deans to soak" He went
to bed.
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BUDDHA In BURMAH.
The Shway DagOhn PagOda, or the
Golden PagOda, at RangOOn.
A NATION OF TATTOOED PEOPLE.
How TattOOing is Done and the Queer Fea-
lures of the Art.
TIE LAST JEWEL IN ENGLANDS CROWN
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,

II "a N W. " ~
Burmsh, March %.
The great south
eastern peninsula of
Asia, known as
Indo-China, or far
ther India, is fast
m aking history.
The French are de-
Veloping the eastern
provinces of Ton
quin, AMMAN and
Cambodia, which
mi
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NYE AS A REPORTER.
He Gathers Some New Facts About
Prominent Men and Women.
DEPEW AS A SUCCESSFUL DINER.
A Fair Widow With Plenty of Courage
and Trenchant Hand.
BILLS DISPUTE WITH sIGNOR VROURKE
rwR1rrzx FOR THE D1srArcH.l

A@S@ ASW OAbACo bAAC
size of New York can
produce more men whose
faces are made familiar
to the world through
the pages of the illus
trated papers. A day
on the horse cars, ferries
and elevated trains will
convince the careful
observer t b at N ew
York is full of men
who are so well known
that it has become
something of q burden
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MEN HE HAS MET.

CT look back with genuine pleasure upon
my experience as a publisher. was more
than prosperous in acquiring the friendship
of SO many worthy men among the publish
ers, booksellers and authors with whom
came in contact. I'll were to enumerate
them their names would fill page of Lip
piReott's Magazine.
81 have personally known and CORE
sponded with Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell,
Holmes, Whittier, John LOthrop Motley,
William Cullen Bryant. George Bancroft,
w. H. Prescott, Fitz-Greene Halleck,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving
and score of other writers who have given
us an American literature.
washington Irving remember well.
His was not face one readily forgot. A
kindly, humorous man, of big brain and
heart visited him several times at Sun
nyside;' he would go to sleep at dinner, but
his guests understood his physical weak
ness and respected it. He was a very sensi-
tive and nervous man. 1 saw his desk piled
up with papers, the last time was there,
and remarked that he seemed to have q
heavy mail. II was shortly after the publi-
cation of the first volume of his Life of
Washington Yes he said, ] haven't
the courage to look at it. I'm afraid to
learn what the critics are saying Of my
book
~HawthOrne was another sensitive man and
extremely shy. The last time we met was
under very distressing circumstances. He
was travelling South for the benefit Of his
health, accompanied by his friend, W. D.
Ticknor, the publisher. They stopped at the
Continental Hotel in Philadelphia, and both
come down to the Ledger Office to call on
me. They were in excellent spirits, and
that was on Friday. 1t was agreed that
they should attend party to be given the
next evening by Mr.. Joseph Harrison.
These Saturday evening parties were then a
feature OF social life in Philadelphia.
Neither Ticknor nor Hawthorne came.
greatly to our disappointment. As no ex.
PLANTATION of their absence was sent me. I
called on Sunday morning at the hotel and
went directly to their rooms. Knocked on
the door, and, receiving no answer, opened
it and walked in. There found Hawthorne
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sAGE's MISTAKE.

Yesterday quite a rumpus was created at
the elevated depot on Park place, where an
elderly man went up and put his ticket on
the west side when he really wanted
to go uptown. He soon saw his mis-
take and tried to get his ticket out
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Hodrd's Ddirynldn. It frequently refers to
man. It has large circulation, but to one
who has never made the cause of the COW his
own, it is too subtle for him. The. Governor
early gave his attention to the COW, and saw,
when young, that she had been made tool
of, as one might say. That she was not
encouraged to think for herself, and that
her sex seemed to handicap her through
life. He spoke to her words Of encourage
ment, and told her that through the columns
of his paper he would advance her interests,
and he has. The Governor is also humorist.
But he does not allow the two things to inter-
fere with each other. He never tries to squirt
humor into veto, or executive sadness into
his humor. He can write good article on
ensilage among cows, and then before the
ink is dry, he can dash off a thanksgiving
proclamation that would make ones heart
bleed. am especially fond OF Governor
Hoard and Governor Fitzhugh Lee. They
are quite different, and, during the war,
were quite rude to each other for time, but
they are over it now, and what like about
them especially is, that they are not AFRO
CANT. When man gets arrogant 1t is gen.
erally because he is afraid that If he con-
verses freely he may be detected in the act
of not knowing anything.
Governor Hill was also on our streets the
other day. He says thaterops are generally
good throughout the State and feneesin good
repair. he is another of our rising bald
headed men. He is reported to be about to
become engaged to a very beautiful young
lady of our city Even if this be true, it
would be difficult for me to point her out
He would make some woman q real good
husband. His place at Albany is far more
magnificent than the White House, there
being no ants, coekroaches or deceased rats
in it as yet.
KNOWS HOW TO DINE.
Russell B. Harrison occasionally goes to
his room at the Gilsey House to write an
editorial for his Montana paper and likes it
first rate. If could have arranged it to
edit nv Wyoming paper and take my meals
at the Gilsey House, would have been a
better and .fatter man to-day. But did not
think of it at the time.
Mr.. Depew's leg is again almost sound,
though it bothers him a little to go down
stairs as rapidly as he could before the in
jury. In this respect he has rather beaten
Mr.. Curtis, who had a similar experience.
Mr.. Depew comes down to the Office at |
the depot in good season and works |
hard till the whistle blows. Then he |
takes off his overalIa and 0oea tn tha |