St. Paul daily globe., 1894-05-06
Australian Parks.

In no country in the world do people pay
SO much attention to their city and country
parks, as do the Australians AS none of
their large cities are ever visited by frost or
snow, they have great advantages over the
cities of our northern states, or of northern
Europe.
Adelaide, the capital of South Australia,
has park with botanical gardens, which, for
beauty of situation, arrangement OF grounds,
and variety of trees and plants, is uneeualed
by any city in the world, unless it might be
by those of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane,
in the same country. These Australian
parks are not simply ornamental, they are
useful; the people use them, and regret to
say, as they are free to all, their one objection
able feature is the fact that they are made the
resort of 'sun-downers,' - or tramps, and of
other disreputable characters.
One OF the largest of these city parks, and it
promises in time to be the most beautiful, is
the Centennial Park, of Sydney, New South
Wales. This park was purchased and sur
veyed four years ago, to commemorate the
one hundredth anniversary of the founding
ofSydney, which, at the beginning, was penal
colony of England. The municipality has
gone to great expense to adorn the park with
scores OF repEcas 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,
hugh marble statue of Abraham Lincoln,
which is fac-simile Of the one in Union
Square, New York City. A little further on
there is heroic figure of the martyred presi-
dent, Garfield, looking towards that of Eng
lands grand old man, Gladstone, across the
way. There are also busts of Longfellow.
Bryant and Sheridan, as well as ife-size
copies of many of the Rogers groups, such as
"The Wounded Scout, % 'sThe Advance Picket
Guard" and "The Last Cartridge"
But it is not only America that is honored
in this way. In driving through the Centen-
NAL Park one sees Napoleon the First, and
Bismarck, the Duke of Wellington and George
Washington, General Havelock and King
John, of Abysisnia.
The Australians have not only fine parks
in their large cities, but every town and vii
lage has its pleasure grounds, and need
not edd, the race-track is to be found in every
settlement. All the colonies have also large
areas, like our own Yellowstone and Yose-
mite, set apart as National parks. The wis
dom of this course will become evident as
the population increases and land becomes
more valuable. We Americans who think
ourselves leaders in the forefront of civiliza-
ton, can learn many valuable lessons from
our cousins, the Australians.
Joseph James Cheeseman, the President of
Liberia, was born in that country. His
parents were sent to Liberia by the American
Colonization Society and were among its early
founders.
The name Of the celebrated prina donna.
Madam Calye, has perplexed many Ameri-
cans. Most call it 'Kah," some s.Kaly," and
not one in hundred pronounces the name as
she does herself, '.Kalvay." which, after all,
doesn't look very much like "Calve."
Many Of the water mains Of Denver, Colo.
are made of California redwood, and are said
to be very effective The capital city of the
Centennial State has more wooden water
pipes than any other town in the union.
England is excited over Henry Labou-
chere's assertion that Henry of Battenburg
doesn't even know how to play tennis.