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Queen Victoria.

The Prince of Wales apparently
stands little chance of being called
upon to assume tho regalia of British
rnlership for some time to come. On
Wednesday of this week Queen Vic
toria celebrated the eightieth ami
versary of her birth under circum
stances which predict for her man :,
additional leaves in the crown of her
green old age. Her health, if not
robust, is at least good for one of
her advanced years, and her spirits
are unusually cheerful. SO the
Prince must content himself with
his present lot until the fullness of
time arrives for him to inherit the
sccpter.
In some respects Queen Victoria
ls one of the most remarkable men,
bers of her sex. Few women live to
attain ripe old ago which she has
reached and to enjoy at four score
years the mental and bodily vigor
which she enjoys. This is due in
some measure to the fact that she
has never allowed her royal cares to
weigh on her perennial spirits with
undue heaviness, and that she has
faithfully endeavored to live up to
the keynote Of that declaration
which she made more than sixty-two
years ago when she said to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, on assuming
the crown of England : 81 beseech
your grace to pray for me-" Some
may imagine that Queen Victoria's
royal duties a,a light. But such is
not the case They are heavy enough
and many enough. Moreover, she
bends under the burden of manifold
griefs and sorrows; but she bears
them with that spirit of patient
resignation which is by no means the
least of her royalties.
Vast changes have come about in
tho worlds progress since Queen
Viotoria's birth. In 1910 steam
boats were still new upon the At
lantic, and locomotive engines were
yet unknown either in America or in
Europe. Since that time both of
these gigantic agents of civilization
have been brought to the highest de-
gree of perfection electricity has
performed it's manifest miracles in
speeding the human voice under
meath the waves of the sea, in light
ing cities with incandescent burners
and in operating the spindios Of
countless factories sewing machines
have saved the eyes of countless
toilers Of the needle in both hemis-
pheres, and cotton gins have become
the parents of one of the greatest
industries on the globe. OF course
these are only some of the most no.
table achievements which science has
wrought during the past eighty years.
10 enumerate the entire list is the
task of tho industrial historian. In
literature some of tho brightest in
telleots of nodern times have flour
ishod during the four score years en-
braced within the lifetime of Queen
Victoria. On this list are Byron,
Moore, Southoy, Wordsworth, Ten
nyson, Norton, Heamans, Browning,
Dickens, Carlyle, Maoaulay, Thack-
cray Huxley, Spencer, Darwin,
Mills, Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell,
Holmes, Whittier, Swinburne, Kip.
ling and countless others on both
sides of the water. Everything con-
sidcred, the reign of Victoria in
point of contemporary brilIiancy
falls little short of tho reign of Eliza
beth. In material progress tho for
mer certainly oolipses the latter.
On account Of the good will and
friendship which exists between the
two great branches of tho Anglo
Saxon race there exists in America
as we'll as in England the most cor
dial good wishes for the continued
health and prosperity of England;a
soverelgn.--The Constitution, May
l26th, ..