The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15

practical appointments of house IN
Grosvenor Square.
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One would as soon think OF gabbiing
about the FORCES in Vuican's doIninlcns
/ or explaining the mysteries OF Panelo-
ra's box, as to attempt description
i of Prince Alberts exhibition hail. nFl-
scum, etc. Herein are represented the
manufactures. the inventions, the pre-
gressive sciences, the antiquities and
] the arts, from an economizer convert
ling smoke into gas, TO the manufacture
of a needle with eyes warranted not
to cut. which IS more than could be
said Of the young ladies who vended
/ them behind the counter Every day
I they pump music from the immense
organ in the concert hall for the aInuse-
| n1ent of the visitors, and once Or Twice
/ a week somebody sings. A young lady
t performed very credibly on mighty
j pens,'' though / once heard 1t greatly
excel5ed at Manchester, New Hamp-
| shire, by little New England amateur,
unknown then. and never heard of since
to my knowledge. How many such
| come to the surface once, float for
| brief moment, and sink from sight for
! ever. / feel conlpunctions about touch
| ing lightly this miniature world they
/ call Albert Hall and computations are
not common with me. To describe it
in detail is impossible.
The monument which the Queen caus-
ed to be erected in Hyde Park in memo
ny of the Prince Consort, was worthy
] of a noble woman \ a noble cause.
/ About the base there are groups and
rtlultitrdes of classical figures. the four
| III, hcf1
Africa and America. The figure which
surmourits the memorial is said TO be
| heavily covered. with pure gold. and
therefore liable to the process of the
demonstrating quite exposed. The
English people were for some years not
in a good hunlor with their Queen, be-
cause she quite preferred staying at
| home, and court Anery therefore was
q drug on the market, and laid mould
| ering on the shelves Edward the
Seventh has changed all that, and the
| splendors of ancient courts have been
revived.
And now with London only half look
ed at, or not looked at at all, without
visiting ST. Giles or ST. James. without.
listening to Balfour. or iunching with
Edward the Seventh, must bid fare.
well to the 'nnother-land."
| 1t is worth while to visit London, If
only for the luxury of leaving it. It's
| whirl perturbs you, it's vastness OPP
presses you, it's dampness chiils you,
and we went out of its gray nlists
without regret.
There was nothing in the country be-
| tween London and Dover to keep one
awake, and sixty miles an hour afford
small opportunity to view scenery.
Alas for the air castles of our early
youth! Another of mine lies prostrate
| In the dust looked to see the famous
cliffs of chalk, towering above the vex-
ed waters of the channel. expected
to behold the dreadful spot where the
Duke of Gloster didn't jump Off. after
his cruel son had given him occasion
to consult an oculist (yide King Lear.
/ hoped to observe the samphire gather
ers dangling in midair, and above all,
Tennysons eagle, who
'sGrasps the crag with hooked hands,
Hinged with the azure world he stands,
The wrinkled sea beneath him era wis. :
But the eagle had retired from the
scene and grasped only horse meat in
| the Regents Park aviary. making coca
sional excursions into Consular Fourth
of July speeches, and the samphire
/
sweethearts, or other peoples sweet
hearts, or elsewhere than over the
! boiling surf, and the famous chalk cliffs
were not as white as a Nevada alkali
fiat, and as for height, why compared
with the Sierras. or the Alieghanies, or
| even the Catskills, the cliffs Of Dover
are mere holes in the beach.
! The little miserable, unkempt steam
boat, which carried US across the cham
mel in an hour and twenty minutes was
! powerful and fast, but it was as dirty,
as contracted and as confortless a
4 specimen of marine architecture as I
ever had the ill-luck to encounter. The
sea was smooth, and the boat did not
roll, but by diligent 1ourishing of long
handled slop basins, and persistent
thrusting of the same under the noses
of unoffending passengers. the sections
| of the sea--to wit: the steward and his
minions-succeeded in collecting some
contributions for Neptune.
A a
Calais, with its long, tunnel-like
artificial harbor, it's stone quay, it's
quaint medieval, red-tiles. queer ga
bled houses. its crunbling castle, its
gendarmes, its dogs and its jabher, de-
tanned us for nearly an hour on our
journey to the continent, the while we
!, wrestled with the garcons of the rail-
road house for our share of WELL
cooked and observed dinner. and then
we were safely seated in a comfort
able coupe, and whirled along over the
II salt meadows and peat-bogs Of that
5 part of France which borders the sea
Z near Calais.
In going from Calais to Paris, which
journey takes ten hours. you are locked
in when the train starts, and you feel
that this is neither so safe nor so pleas
i ant as the American plan of a saloon
/ car. and perambulating grievance-re-
dressing conductor. But you are not
; without the means of invoking the aid
OF the train officials. for over the center
of the front seat of the coupe you will
| notice q little niche covered with sIass