Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-08

souares contiguous it ia Impossible
to give an adequate description, yet
the parliament buildings, are over
nine hundred feet long and proper
tionately wide; two great towers,
one $40. the other 800 feet high one
with a small clock in it (the four
dials only twenty-five and half
feet wide each, and the bell thirteen
tons in weight, to he heard many
miles. The Bank of England Is quite
interesting though not the largest
building here, yet when l tell you
it covers over eight acres OF ground,
about five Of our blocks | believe.
1t will do for a bank. One Of the
hospitals l attend is over one-fourth
of n mile long. Westminster Abbey,
in which arc entombed many of Eng
lands greatest men and women,
kings, queens, clergy, scientists. poets
ETC., only to be spoken OF in the
same breath with superb st. Pauls
Cathedral with it's glittering, SHIN
mering golden cross four hundred
and four feet above the pavement.
The mystic tower with it's frown-
ing Notifications, impreguable in
medieval times; its moat, crown
jewels and regalia, some OF which
would make even an "Orientap'
green with envy. Most interesting
is it's museum of ancient and medic
val warfare. The British Museum
which is the most complete ON earth
with the largest library (nearly
three millions of books in it's shelves
and back to back they would stretch
over half round the wOrld); most
ancient and instructive curios lining
it's vast halls and galleries. South
xensington Museum and the I'm
perial In ,titute are immense build
ings of great archec tural beauty and
their contents of extraordinary in
terest and value comprising as they
do collections not only from the
| whole British empire but from the
known world, earth, sky and sea.
or the massive solid stone bridges
and great parks, gardens, etc., 1t Is
useless for me to- say anything now
as your time and patience have long
ere this doubtless been exhausted,
yet l cannot close without making
at least passing mention of the
National and Royal art galleries, so
celebrated throughout the world OF
art. The Albert memorial "erected
by the queen and her people in lov-
ing remembrance Of Albert, Prince
COnsOrt," ETC., us it reads in
great golden characters ON 1t OF
classic designs, over twice the height
Of our court house tower with its
mammoth sized bronzed cast OF the
Prince seated in a chair in the centre
Of it's hollow squares; the domes
supported upon rare marble col
umns. The whole structure built OF
the choicest and rarest stones, gran
ties, marbles, agates, lapis, lazull,
~
precious and beautiful stones from
throughout the empire. Add to all
this, artistically placed. beautiful
mosaic and gold leaf work and you
can form some idea of the upper
part of the monument. The base ia
surrounded with scores OF life sized
bas-relief sculpture in purest marble
of the most eminent men OF many
nations, situated as it is in the CEN
tire of a great quadrangle, the cor
ner of each embelished by an allie
gorical sculpture of the four con-
tinents-America, Europe, Africa
and Asia. Opposite it is the Albert
Memorial hall, of which you may
we'll imagine the size when tell you
it has seating room capacity for
5000 and standing room for easily
as many more. It's great organ has
over nine thousand pipes varying In
size from that of a straw to those the
size of a sugar barrel in diameter,
(some over three feet) and 4Ofeet long.
The organ, while not as large
as that in the Crystal
palace, has one hundred and
eleven stops and 10 blown by two
steam engines. The organist from
the rear of the hall looks like fly
stuck on lump of sugar. Yet the
acoustic proprieties of the hall
are 40 perfect that you can readily
hear a soloist or the faintest note
from the tinicst tube, and when the
organist gets his Irish up and begins
to pound the keys, it's not unlike the
coming onrush Of a thunder storm!
roll upon roll of deepest vibration
succeeded by lulls so faint and ex-
ouisite that you could almost hear
pin drop; then crash! boom and the
storm overtakes you. then gradually
breaks, the clouds part, the stars
come out and silence refgns over all.
The government buildings are, as