The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-06-16
FINEST PARKS IN THE WORLD.
Australia Can Boast Of Finer Publ,
Gardens Than Any Other Country.

Australia Can Boast of Finer Public
Gardens Than Any Other Country:
In no country in the world do people
pay so much attention to their city and
country parks as do the Australians,
says a writer in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. AS none of the large cities are
ever visited by frost or snow all have
great advantages over the cities of our
Northern states or of Northern Europe.
Adelaide, the capital of South Aus
tralia, has a park with botanical gar
dens which for beauty of situation. ar
rangement Of ground and variety of
trees and plants is unequaled by any
city in the world, unless it might be by
those Of Melbourne, Sydney and Bris-
bane in the same country. These Aus
tralian parks are not simply ornamen-
tai, they are useful; the people use
them, and they are free to all, their
one Objectionable feature is the fact
that they are made the resort of sun
dOwnerS,' or tramps, and of other dis
reputable characters. One Of the largest
of these city parks. and it promises in
time to be the most beautiful. is Cen
tennial Park of Sydney, New South
Wales. This park was purchased and
surveyed four years ago to cOmmemor-
ate the one hundredth anniversary Of
the founding of Sydney, which, at the
beginning, was a penal colony Of
England. The municipality has gone
to great expense to adorn the park
with scores Of replicas of famous
statues or the statues of famous men
from all parts Of the world.
It Is very pleasant to an American,
driving through this park, to see near
the entrance a huge marble statue of
Abraham Lincoln, whic Is a fac simile
of the n in Union Square, New York
city. One of Washington is also to be
seen. A little further on there is a
heroic figure Of Garfield, looking to-
ward that of England's grand old man,
Gladstone, across the way. There are
also busts of ~Longfellow, Bryant and
Sheridan, as well as life size copies Of
many Of the Rogers groups, such as
The Wounded Scout" The Advance
Picket Guard" and The Last Cart
ridge" But it Is not only America that
is honored in this way. In driving
through the Centennial Park one sees
Napoleon and Bismarck. the duke of
Wellington, Gen. Havelock and King
John Of Abyssinia. The Australians
have not only the parks in their large
cities. but every town and village has
its pleasure grounds, and the race
track is to be found in every settle
ment. All the colonies also have large
areas like our own Yellowstone and
Yosemite set apart as national parks.
The wisdom of course will become
evident as the population increases and
land becomes more valuable.
A writer holds that Chinese lam
guage" is q misnOmer. There is" he
says, mo such thing as a Chinese Ian
guage any more than there is a Euro
pean language. 4 Canton man cannot
understand an Annoy man, and I have
seen two Chinese sitting together with
q third one acting as interpreter.
Pidgeon English is the common Ian
guage of commerce. 1t has a vOcab-
ulary Of less than 1000 words, but Is
sufficiently flexible to answer any pur-
pose" Were China but an island, or
q series Of islands, instead Of half OF
a large continent, and were thus open
on all sides to the omnipresent Ian
guage-carrying British steamer, 1t IL
within the bounds of probability that
pidgeon English would ere now have
replaced the national tongue to such
an extent as to cause intense alarm to
reign in the Chinese Ch%auvinistic camp.
st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.