The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-26

uIuef or NlnB William Ill. two hundred years ago, and then the broad levels covered with green grass and inter
 sectcd with bubbling brooks are most
 delightful to behold.
 Thousands of tame deer are to be
 seen scattered through this beautiful
 park and many of these are so tame as
 to feed from the hand. Tho broad
 walk leading through Bushy Park
 from Hampton Court to Teddiugton is
 little over one mile in length, At
 this latter place we entered the cars
 for Richmond three miles distant.
 This is charmingly situated on the
 Thames, a faVorite summer resort with
 a park of two thousand acres in area
 and nearly ten miles in circumferen2e
 The "Star and Garter Inn is a famous
 GOstelry and so is the lion of fRichmond.
 The view to be enjoyed here is a very
 lovely one. Richmond was so~called by
 Henry Nu., who named the place after
 his own title; previously it was called
 Sheen" or beautiful Edward l, built
 a grand palace here, and in this palace
 Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth ire quently held their courts, and the lat ter died here nearly three hundred
 years ago. From Richmond we drove over to Kew Green and inspected the Botanic Gardens, a large tract of ground laid out most superbly, where there are hot-houses, with ferns, palms, orchids and numerous tropical plants.
 The Palm House in these gardens is four hundred feet long, one hundred feet broad and siXty-siX feet high. Then there is a great house called the Water Lily House." in which the 'Victora Regina grows to such as founding proportions,
 In these gardens are four Botanic l Museums; then there is Q tract of ground of three hundred acres extend ing down to the Thames, with shady walks and avenues in every direction; this is called the Pleasure Ground"
 In these grounds we see the "Temple of
 Minden," built in 1759 to commemorate the victory at 1Iinden by the Duke of l Brunswick The Winter Garden cost one hundred and seventy-dve thousand dollars to construct; the length is six hundred feet, width one hundred and forty feet, and height sixty feet
 The Pagoda is one hundred and six ty-five feet high, with ten stories, and 1 from its summit one can look to q dis
 tance of thirty miles
 One could finger long at beautiful Kew, but we had not the time to re-
 main, so we proceeded to Hammer
 smith, four miles distant on our way to London, where there are many Roman 1 Catholic inhabitants and institutions. i The great number of outlying towns which daily send forth their inhabi-
 tants to London is astounding. In the direction of Hammersmith are Chis- wick, Barnes, NOrtlock, Brentford
 Islesworth. Twickenham, Kingston
 and many others; these are localities of historic interest, and very many pos 1 sess great natural beauty; as We pass | over the hill at Hammersmith We catch
 a view of London environed midst fogs
 and grmy smoke, with many towers and church spires, and scores of domes | of immense public Buildings. There 1 she sits a queen surrounded by a nun dred towns, which gather about her skirts like satellites revolving about 1 : anu NtLtSL LLdl IitLlitt. 14D1iN'll Slt L-l | all is the greatest enigma of the age; her existence is quite as enigmatical as | the great Pyramid Cheops itself, as
 mysterious as the gigantic monolith 1 Sphynx, which with strong lips and sightless eyes peers forth to-day upon 1 the Libyan sand waste, enshrouded in mysterious silence in the same peace l ful quiet as in the centuries before the | Persian Cambyses spitted and speared
 the Egyptians, driving them to perish
 in the gray Sahara London with its
 area of one hundred and twenty-five square miles, with over eight thousand
 streets which extend over three thou sand miles, with more than one million street gas lamps, with nearly one mil 1 lion buildings, of which there are ftf- teen hundred churches. eight thousand public houses, two thousand coffee
 houses, and eighteen hundred inns, with a Metropolitan city police district l embracing an area of seven hundred square miles, with streets stretching
 seven thousand miles, with rents which
 amount annually to more than two | hundred million dollars, with more | than three thousand m@fcnanl tallQGS, 1 three thousand bakers, twenty-five | hundred butchers (besides thousands in their employ) with over three hundred 1 thousand domestic servants and one hundred and fifty thousand paupers London, l say, with this great array | forms a. riddle which none can solve Will London increase until it absoTbs 1 the whole of Great Britain. or will it at
 last fold it's arms, weariod disgusted
 with it's astounding immensty and 1 dwnde and disintegrate and in the | ages to come disappear entirely? Bab- ylon the Great did this: even Tyre | ceased to rejoice" and other grand 1 Oriental cities grew to large propor- l tions and silently disappeared. It is a
 matter of surprise to think that there are in London more Scotchmen than in l Edinburgh, more Irish than in Dublin,
 more Jews than in the whole of Pales-
 tine, and more Roman Catholics than
 in Rome itself. Let me for a moment | give few statistics as to the cOnsump- 1 ton of food ill this great city of Lon | don. There are annually consumed ] here Dypr, fftV-SiX million uOundg of