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QUEEN vICTORIA.s CROWN.
Gems by the Thousand Make 1t the
Heaviest Dindcm in Europe.

Heaviest Dindcm in Europe.
From the Manufacturing Jeweler
Queen Victoria's crown is constructed of
Jewels taken from old crowns, and other
stones provided by her majesty. 1t con-
sists of emeralds. rubies. sapphires, pearls
and diamonds. The stor es, which are SET
In gold and silver, iEcase crimson velvet
cap, with a border of ermine. the whole
of the interior being lined with the finest
white silk. Above the crimson border, on
the lower edge of the band, is a row of 100
pearls. Round the upper part of the band
is border Of 112 pearls. In the front, sta
toned between the two borders of pearls, is
huge sapphire, purchased by George ",
set in the center of valuable pearls. At the
back, in the same position, is another, but
smaller, sapphire
The sides are adorned with three sap
phires, and between these are eight emer-
aids. Above and below the sapphires, eX-
tending all around the crown, are placed
at intervals fourteen large diamonds, the
eight emeralds being encircled by a cluster
of diamonds, 12S in number. Between the
emeralds ard sapphires are sixteen orna-
ments, each consisting of eight diamonds.
Above a circular bend are eight sapphires,
set separately, encircled by eight diamonds.
Between each Of these eight sapphires are
eight festoons of eighteen diamonds each.
In front Of the crown is diamond Maltese
Gloss, III TIE center Oh WHICH SilSleHS sIc
famous ruby given to Edward 1 by Don
Pedro the Cruel. This is the stone which
adorned the helmet of Henry at the bat
tie of Agincourt. The center of the ruby
is followed out, and the space filled, in
accordance with the eastern custom, with
a smaller ruby. The Maltese cross is form
ed of saventy-five splendid diamonds At
each of the sides and at the back is a Nal
tese cross with emerald centers, contain
ing respectively 132, 124 and 100 sparkling
diamonds.
Level with the four Maltese crosses, and
stationed between them, are four orna-
ments shaped like the fleur-de-lis. with four
rubies in the center, and surrounded by dia-
and eighty-seven diamonds. From the NAL
tese crosses spring four imperial arches,
composed of oak leaves and diamonds The
leaves are formed of 72S diamonds thirty
two pearls represent the acorns and fifty
four diamonds the cups. From the upper
part of the imperial arches hang suspended
four large pendant-shaped pearls set in
diamond cups, each cupl1being formed of
twelve diamonds, the stems from each of
the four hanging PEARLS being incrusted
with twentyfour diamonds. Above the
arch is the mount, which Is made of 43S
diamonds. The zone and arc are repre-
summit Of the throne is cross, which has
for its center a rose-cut sapphire set in the
center of fourteen larger diamonds. Alto
gether the crown comprises one large ruby,
one large sapphire, twenty-sixy smaller sap
pbires, eleven emeralds -four Srubies, 1,G33
brilliants, 1878 rose diamonds, four pend
ant-shaped pearls and 2IS smaller pearls.
It is the heaviest and most uncomfortable
diadem Of any crowned head dn Europe.
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not change his ways, his habits or his
views Of life. Yet here OH this small cham
mel boat, which ploughs its way to small
as well be on the planet Mars. Here is
an Anglican bishop returning with party
or ladies' from continental outing. lie
has side whisllers, knee breeches and
short black silk apron which the wind
blows Tapping round his tanks. He sits
IN the center of the upper deck with mr.
teen pretty girls around him, putting
Jumps of sugar in his tea. Here is
pretty girl. who sprawls with the
most shocking abandon upon three chairs
and looks with frank eyes at each passer-
by. Here is a couple seated on a pile of
dirty ropes and eating bread and butter,
never minding that the lady's parasol,
used as screen. is inconveniencfng each
one who walks that way. Here is a young
man with his cane beneath his arm at a
right angle, in the middle Of the promo
made and sucking on a black and juicy
pipe. He Ia not sick, and why should any
body else be sick?
The Englishmen.
The dressing is the strangest. It was
noticeable on the train, but now. when all
are Englishmen together on the boat, it
strikes with new force. The strong and
careless hefty men look like the creatures
of another world in their loose tweeds, rich
Yet so rough; In heavy tan shoes, so well
made and yet SO clumsy They have the
healthiest faces in the world, strong, clear
cut, fresh. unspoiled, and yet because they
all are Of exactly the same type, the came
Greek profile, with the same smooth chins
and dropping brown mustaches, rather
stumpy, with the same powerful, lazy
negligence. silent, contemplative, pulling
rather bent, with no Irritation in their
eyes, they cannot but cause laughter in
continental. AS for the Frenchman, he
RACES inwardly with envy: with such
DhvSiOla what might Ia do9 fbar
they sit, these Englishmen, not knowing
how to talk, unanimated, unimaginative,
unambitious like so many Illuminating buff
faloes, a-sucking on their pipes, while their
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maid with formal justice. child the pretty,
bouncing one for cruelty, received the COM
pliments of table neighbors, drunk the last
glass of unauthorized wine; there is
moments pause around the table, from
which after-dinner cigarettes and lqueurs
do not drive the bright, alert and bubbling
ladies Of the land of France. "Oh madame
you know l am leaving for England in the
morning" Murmurs. Monsieur is leaving
for England" And suppose 1 shall want a
meat breakfast" Silence. Meat breakfast!
stupefied admiration. Ernestine laughs
Historically Certainly says madame,
the patronne, ''you shall have a meat
breakfast, omelette, beefsteak, ham, pota-
toes, Worcestershire sauce-everything!"
More murmurs.
Meat breakfast. age.....epatant!
In France they only give meat breakfasts
to travellers to England. And you will
eat meat breakfasts for the next five
weeks, monsieur ?'-"Dame, / suppose So"
General discussion Of meat breakfasts
lunch?' at would swell me like bal
loon!" 1.-THE stomach should have a rest"
1.-THE servants would refuse to cook it."
TT Is that which makes the English have
such big front teeth!'
1t would be easy to imagine very different
sentiments, quite as sincere and logical,
from an English or American company.
Whether you take simply cup of coffee
and a piece of bread, after the fashion of
all Europe, a square meal, in the man.
ner of the Anglo-Saxons is a small thing
Dut II sums up ali the ullIeTeHce IN the
world. In London one is sure of lunch of
roast beef with hot sauce from a bottle,
potatoes and string beans boiled in water,
heavy bread, piece of cheese and a cup
of tea-for the beer is undrinkable to many
and the wine is dear and alcohoZed to the
point of razzle dazzle. To the Frenchman
there is no esthetic reason to save an APP
petite for such stoking-up. The delicate
and appetzng cookery of the French de-
jeuner with its mild wine and leisure, is
another story. We are bound for England,
and the meat breakfast is the sign. We'll
come sohdity. simplicity; welcome Bath
buns. tea wash and the cold joint, in the
moral world in the physical, for, like
the Scottish minister, 1 ask permission to
speak mystically.
We Are on.
The concierge has called the cab and put
the luggage on, the cab has whisked
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shilling suits of clothes! Hurrah for the
London policeman, the London hanson
cabs, the London music halls! Hurrah for
the English girls, who have the prettiest
faces in the world, for all they are so awk-
ward! Hurrah for the English language
hurrah for Tommy Atkins in his red jack
ct and his cockey little cap. hurrah for the
roast beef of old England, and God save
the queen!
The long and heavy train is numbering
through the countryside of France. 1t is
the Dieppe,New Haven route. the longest
opera-comique look, for all this part of
France is very much a summer garden for
Parisians. On the level roads, lined with
cyclists of both sexes dart; pedestrians
and tourists saunter. chatting. resting at
each village cafe and open carriages from
village livery stables roll along with dig
nifty and ease lit up with colored parasols
from Paris. Every village has it's monu-
ments. its little Gothic church. its ruined
chateau or its ruined walls. its park. its
Quaint hotels and wayside restaurants.
where one may do exactly as he pleases;
its river drives, its boating, fishing, SWIM
ming. For we never leave the Seine, but
travel down its valley. The rolling fields
are like rich-colored checker boards, cut
into funny little squares of varied cuitiva-
ton, without fences, with the boundaries
of the roads and properties marked off by
rows of trees. 1t is very playground for
Parisians. with nothing lacking in the local
color The villagers and peasants Look
like real ones as they should, not dressed
In rusty city clothes. The peasant girls
sing in the fields, the goose-maid tends her
birds down by the water.
Through Normandy to the Sea.
On. on through the sweet. fertile land of
Normandy, rich in its oats and apples, milk
and honey. In the meadows canter troops
of splendid horses, tender colts and fair
young mothers; or it Is a herd of blooded
COWS, short-horned, sleek-sided, sweet
breathed and tender-eyed, as beautiful and
peaceful as an English country girl Oh,
on to England! Take one last glimpse of
the fair Norman landscape and the new,
the UNEMPLOYED begins
You have already smelled the sea affair."
And 1t Is now Dieppe-not the Dieppe we
knew as seaside loungers. but a terminus
where French things end and English
things begin. The train maneuvering slow
pending that she shall be married, and it
is supposed that men and women may lead
their own lives.
1t is an easy thing to say but now the
changing atmosphere chokes the words in
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ly to the steamboat landing, after it has
given up its proper Dieppe passengers,
French life on the beach, where ladies
dress SO delicately, men so fancffully,
where little children dressed like dolls are
always guarded by young nurses dressed
like angels, where the smell OF absinthe
and the fresh ink of the Figaro, the aroma
of the universal cigarette does for the nose
what clicking roulette, the whirl of little
horses" faint caterwauling from the cafes
concerts do for the ear, while for the eye
are there not bathing costumes strange
beyond the dreams Of Black Crook ballets:
A poet, in a frock coat, straw hat and an
1880 dickie stands by the strand snd
''breathes out his soul to the splendors of
nature" knowing that he is known, and
pleased with the regards of every one. A
celebrated actress sits beneath a tent UNI
brella III the full promenade, costumed
as from a fashion plate. And madame,
rich. aristocratic madame. stands in char
ity beside the bath house in her revealing
costume of the waves. that all may pass
and worship. They are as playful as 50
tumbling in the clover fields at evening,
these Parisians by the sea. The neon
venient young miss of fifteen is locked ZIP.
one's breast. Already We have set a seal
upon our lips and made a covenant with
our eyes; already We have trembled when
gawky, red-faced, English school girl
tourist, thrust by her own wish into the
smoking carriage, lifts her voice against
the smoke. New country, new ways. We
have left the train; we are on the dancing
cl arnel steamer The smell of the salt
water, of fresh paint of pipes and bitter
beer, the accents of the good old English
language, tell their tale, and all Is changed.
For an American who has lived years in
France, and yet is on his first real trip to
England, the shock of the channel boat is
strong. The English are as strange to me
as they are to any Frenchman, yet I'M
oerstand their language In the American
colony at Paris 1t is a standing joke that
you must not forget the English language
Until you have learned French" but 1t is
much more genuine and unaffected mis-
take to lose American habits of thought
as one unconsciously absorbs the French.
Such a man will view the English with
French eyes, and have an added thrill IN
knowing what the people say. At the same
time his English reading and his memories
of home will put him on his guard against
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fair sisters sit around them, trained to the
same self-repression, contented-patient-
waiting.
anarchist. Beside the most appropriate
costumes you will see the most outrageous
oddities, and this in the same party, as
with sisters. II girl is we'll dressed she
has hit on a lucky combination If she is
i'll dressed she has been unlucky simply.
They are at one upon one single point-at
one against the world, and have been so for
two full years. This Is the chignon, now
in vogue in all degrees from barmaid to
bun-shaped mass In a coarse net. almost as
large as the girls head itself Sometimes
it Is knot of natural hair, and only am
pliied by a small rat. But it is always
there, a sinker. keeping the head well
thrown back and the face up, accentua ting
the frank, unaffected gaze which Is the
torment Of the continental European until
he comes to understand that it means moth
ing. Again. they all wear very funny hats,
by sea and land. All these upon the deck
are travellers. and so boys straws pre-
dominate. The great majority wear cloth
skirts of most beautiful material, well
hung. Up to the waist they are superior
to their French sisters-but the corsage
universally refuses to go" right! The
whole concern is crooked: 1t Is never right
about the shoulders; it is always full to
bursting or hangs moodily. Perhaps a
great deal of this effect is due to the
sprawling awkwardness of these SO Won
derfully pretty-faced English girls Even
where they are to most advantage in the
simple. rough gowns made for travel, they
appear not to know how to hold them
selves. Indeed, they are like boys in girls
clothes, If you will imagine cherub-faced
English boys grown to a larger size IN
changed.
Down in the cabin they have spread a
prix fixe table d. hote, three shillings six
pence, not including drink. 1t seems dear
four francs fifty-and there are some who
try the bar room sandwiches! Four sand
witches? Two shillings, sir. And a bottle
of bitter? sixpence. Thank you" Now
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From Harper's Rornd Table.

From Harper S RoCnd IaDle.
Some time ago the labor Of deepening the
i,arbor of Ciotat was completed. To cele-
brate the completion of his labor, and to
mako the occasion memorable, the contrac-
tor gave to the members of his staff and
the representatives of the press banquet
unprecedented for its originality. The table
was set eight meters below the level Of the
sea, at .fe very bottom of the harbor, in
side the ''caisson" in which the eXcavators
had been at work, and only the narrow
alls of this caisson separated the guests
from the enormous mass of water around
ana above their heads. The new-fashfoned
lanqueting hall was splendidly decorated
and lighted, and but for certain buzzing
in the ears. caused by tie pressure Of air
kept up in the chamber in order to prevent
sthe thrush of water, nobody would have
suspected that the slightest interruption in
the working of the airpuirp would have
sufficed to asphyxiate the whole party. At
ter the banquet an improvised concert pro-
loI ged the festivity for several hours, after
which the guests reascended into the open
air.
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Continuing the War I'M Stories.

From the Westminster Gazette.
An endless number of Franco-German
war stories is going the rounds Of the con-
tinentai press, the occasion being, of course,
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the war.
Almost wsr is just now being waged over
one of these stories, which is as energeti-
cally defended as gospel truth in Asa
tia as it Is denounced for "scandalous
invention" in France. According to this
story a number of French officers went
across the frontier In 1870 and demanded
from village schoolmaster map Of the
district, the Palatinate. map was quietly
torn, by the owner, from an atlas, and
handed to the military gentlemen, who
looked at it most carefully, and then went
the map was of Palestine instead of the
Palatinate, and none of the officers ever
suspected the fact.
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fnen and women all intent on doing moth
ing. unreserved, justified, frank and free?
Where are the street sights? Where is the
sunshine? Where is beauty? Where is
anything? Anything to see do, to have
or try for or regret? There is no exterior
London has No profile. no unity, either ar
chitectural or living. You go along the
streets of mingled monuments and squat
shops or dwellings,, and see nothing except
now and then an oddi.y. There are mil
lion well-dressed people hurrying past
million addressed people. All is heavy,
dark, forbidding, hurried, chopped up,
jangling. cruel, Impractical, dangerous, 10
the man from Paris.
1 need not say that this impression
The tenderfoot from Paris-a real country
man in London-learns to breathe
stronger air, to plunge with pleasure in
tide more furious than the gentle flowing
of the Boulevard, to be a man and hunt for
pleasure, rather than sit on chair and
wait fer it to come. But the first week is
hard-hard as the trip is easy. From Paris
to London is not far, and yet it is the most
momentous journey ir all Europe. No
short trip in the world contains such hustle,
such excitement, such exhilarating
changes.
Leaving Paris.
The keynote of the Transformation is
struck the night before. in Paris. You
have bought your ticket, changed your
money into English. Yet these actions do
rot really rouse the mind. At the boarding
house your trunk is packed, your bill is
paid you have wept on the mature should
ers of madames maiden sister, have tipped
the concierge and listened for the last time
to the tale of woe about his wife who left
him. tipped the sad-eyed, sickly chamber
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule in effect July %. 1885.

Schedule in effect July %, 1885,
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania
Passenger Station.
500 A.M-Daily-Local for Danville. Connects at
Manassas for Straslurg. daily, except Sunday, and
at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western daily,
and with c. & o. daily for Natural Bridge and
1l:l5 AM.-DaiIy-The UNITED STATES FAST
NAIL carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York
and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char
iotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta also Pull
man Sleeper New York TO Montgomery, with con-
nec,ion for New Orleans; connects at Atlanta with
Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Memphis and st.
Louis.
4:OI PM.-Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sun:
day.
i:45 P.M.-Dafly-Local for Charlottesville.
1913 y-WASHTNGTON AND SOUTH
WESTERN vESTTBCI.ED LIMITED, composed Of
Pullman Vestihuled Sleepers and Dining Cars, Pull
man Slcepers Washington TO Chattanooga: via Sails
bury, Asheville and Knoxville New York to MeIn-
phis via Birmingham New York to New Orleans via
Atlanta and Montgomery, and New York to Tampa
via Charlotte. Columbia and Jacksonville ycstbu!ed
Day Coach Washington to Atlanta. Parlor Car Co.
TRAINS PErwEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND
HILL leave Washington 9:o1 AM. daily. 1:0Q
PM. sundays only. for Round Hill and 4 :s2 T. NJ.
daily. except Sunday, for Leesburg; 625 NJ. daily
for HerIdon Returning; arrive at Washington s:28
cept Sunday from Round hin. s:si AN. daily eI-
cept Sunday from Leesburg and 7:06 AN daily,
except Sunday. from Herndon only.
ION i trains r9@ re Pm s0n ana s p
Manassas Division. Gas A. NJ. daily except Sunday,
and $40 AN. daily from Charlottesville.
Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information
nue.. und.at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
W. H. GRFEN, General Superintendent
]. NJ. Ct1LP. Traffic Manager.
w. A. TURK. General Passenger Agent.
myoO l.. s. Brown, Gen. Ast. Pass Dept.
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the more stupendous of French errors
With all this, the first impressions are most
complicated.
Was there ever such another race CT
people? The English stand apart from
all the nations. They are white. they are
they read languages and speak them, they
travel always, everywhere; and yet they
never yield an inch. They dress like no
one else, they walk like no one else, their
food is different from every other, their
rules of life are mysteries to their CONT
mental neighbors; while they play, drink
rest, take exercise, work, court and marry
in a manner all their own. There are no
essential differences between the ways Of
Paris, Berlin, Rome or Vienna. The trav-
eler glides comfortably enough from one
capital to the ether, finds the changing
local color pleasing. .stumbles through the
languages which he can always exc out
with his French and Englishj but he does
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First Sight of England.

Half of the passengers sleep on these
hunks in the large cabin. To them three
hours pass as nothing, while above, on
deck in the pure air, the great majority
have spent the time in fighting illness off.
All rise with enthusiasm at the sight Of
land, the pink chalk cliffs of England,
shining in glorious sunset. That point is
Beachy-Head. on which SO many vessels
have been wrecked. There are the fortifica-
tons built into the rock. Here is the steam
ers pier, with fifty waiting young men, I'M
uniformed, with no official place, mere vol
unteers, prepared to jump the rail before
We touch, to get shilling job at carrying
luggage to the custom house. They board
the boat like pirates, though good natured
and obliging. But 1t is a strange sight to a
Frenchman or a German, habituated to
seemly routine uniforms, delay and order.
English freedom is begun. Henceforth
every man must fight his way, protect him
self, hunt his own goods. and hasten to be
first. Look out for your own luggage, see
that you take the right train, forethere is
no one to answer your questions, no one to
prevent your going wrong.
Along the Newhaven pier the seaside
cottagers have gathered in some force,
consisting principally Of ten thousand
well-dressed little boys and girls, all Of the
same age. i.e;, nine to twelve. You
Where do ali the children come
from? Who ever saw SO many children
Who ever saw SO many men smoking pipes,
SO many pretty girls without their moth
ers, so many advertising signs, SO many
dogs, so many comfortable cottages?
The treeless, rolling fields beside the sea
are hideous with great advertising board
ings, some a hundred feet in length. In
France there is no law against such de-
yastation. the French peasant may be
asked for advertising space to rent in his
fair fields. he wants the money, he is
greedy, there are English advertising firms
who would buy up the track from sDieppe
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY.

Schedule in effect July I. 1895.
Trains leave daily from Union Station B. and
P), 9Th and SITS.
Through the grandest scenery in America, with
the handsorlest and most complete solid train
ice west from Washington.
2:25 PM DAILY.-"Cincinnat and st. Louis
special'-Solid vestibuled. Newly Equipped, Elec.
tric-lighted, Steam-heated Train. Pumans finest
sleeping cars Washington to louisville. CINCINNATI.
Car from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati 500
am; indianapolis; Il: 80 an, and Chicago. $50
pm; ST. Louis. Gas pm; Lexington. s:35 am;
lilo PM DAIY.-The famous "F.F.v. Linn
tied" A solid vestibuled train, with dining car
and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington apd
Louisville without change; Pullman Sleeper Wash
week days Observation car from Hinton. Arrive
Cincinnati. $50 pm; lexington 500 p m, LOUIS
VILE $40 p. m indianapolis, II :05 PM; Chicago.
f:so am, and ST. Louis 1880 am; connects "a
Io:57 NJ, EXCEPT SUNDAY.-For Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. Only rail lipe.
BPS PM. DAHY.,E1press for Gordonsville.
Charlottesville Waynesboro', Staunton and princi-
pal Virginia points, daily; for Richmond, daily. ex-
cept Sunday.
fees, 5l3 and 1921 Pennsylvania avenue.
~ II. W. FULLER,
mh4 General Passenger Agent.