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Richmond and Hampton Court do to London, with St. Cloud Park between, on the Seine, far Sheen beside the Thames. But what difances! Hampton is lovely epitome of our Island peace and the rich homeliness of its olden rule. Versailles quas up: & quite", other alan thing Glory in its birth, efflorescence, and humiliation; and now added, as postcript the s judgement' seat upon an: is finished and done

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there, visiting various portions the country, keeping their counsel, obtaining information [ups all sortanfmattara, and, as now appears, laying the ground- work and making the plans fors systematic and comprehensive] invasion of the industrial field." The first definite announcement of the character of at least a portion of their plans has just been made..

It is announced that agents of

the largest iron and steel plants arain the Republic under ïontract- ions to purchase the leading, de- | posits of iron ore in the county and to permit no obstacles istand' in the way oĜi soqel

them, so far sa. price goes. events. The deposits: which argj mentioned "in this connectión are the famous Iron Mountain of the State of Durango, which Baron von Humboldt designated, ss one of the wonders of the. world, and which; is, m, mountain of solid iron are of great purity..

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And any freq Petroleum has been soovered recently in the State of Durango, within a comparatively short dis- tance of the iron mountain, and this may play an important pert in the development promised by TEL. the Japanese Japanese agents have been looking into the Petroleum question with especial - regard to the west coast, and it may be that they have in mind

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Versailles had slept away all ents its tragic, memories when, in the hese autumn of 1870, the conquering bles Boche appeared; and, even then, The great but for the prolongation of the finished, the siege of Paris, Bimarck and Hall King William might not have of

completa. thought of founding the German Now B draughty and un Empire and making peace, here comfortable though in posing among the dead symbols of gallery. 236ft. long and French Imperialism 42 broad, it was then much more splendid, with its 17 great mirrors and for nearly, five months lived steel, and this, in turn, they pro facing so many windows, its main the house of a Mme. Jesse, in of all kinds, especially, industrial pose to carvert into manufactors. ble panelling hung with metal the quiet Rue de Provence. It and trophies, marble pillars with bases was a three-storey, slate-roofed There is no indication from any agricultural machinery, and capitals of gilded bronze, house within a high-walled court-thing that has been done, nor is Savonnerie carpets, damask cur- tains, sparkling candelabras and yard, and as the back looked over there any intimation that the Japanese 278 seeking any, chandeliers, benches, stools, and, a small garden, in which the

Iron Chancellor used to walk for privileges in this connection that over all, Le Brun's ceiling pictur-

exercise:

are not the, common, property of ing the triomphs of the great

all, foreign or native, who seek King,

to engage in business in, this country.

says

THE DEMON CLOCK.

On the table in the Salon there was a timepiece that has become legendary. Bismarck's satellite, Busch describes it as an old-fashioned chimney clock with

AN ORGY OF EXTRAVAGANCE.

For some time a great deal has Toward the end of that decade 36,000 men were employed on the

been said about the intention or buildings and the park, and the

possibility of the Japanese ac permanent population of the

quiring a port on the west coast palace and its dependencies num-

a fiendish figure in of Mexico, and it has been report- bered 10,000. Accidents among demon, he adds, "grinned Barcas with a California land company bronze biting his thumb. This ed that they were negotiating the workmen were numerous calls at all the" negotiations for the purchase of a million Mme. de Sevigne that

which led to the treaties with the acres or thereabouts in order to cartsful... of dead- or

South German States, the pro-carry out their design. The injured men were constantly being taken away. The garden clamation of the German Em- most prominent fact is that and water festivals, for which peror and Empire, and after-the million acres involved is

wards to the

surrender of located in the heart of what was Moliere wrote and Lulli compos.

the Colorado ed, of which Mile de la Valliere, Paris and the preliminaries of once known as Mme. de Montespan, and other peace, all of which were signed Desert, in the extreme north- favourites down to the Pom-in this Salon."

eastern portion of the territory of padour, were the bright particular Thither, in fact, came kings and Lower California, and the south- stars, reached a more and more princes, ministers, ambassadors, ekstern corner of the State of prodigal scale as the terraces, deputies, and the French envoys, California, and at least 200 miles alleys and hedges were ex.ended Thiers and Favre. Upon them in a direct line from the Pacific

lesser the and

pavilions looked the figure on the clock: Ocean. How the acquisition of and then towards the last came this land would be of service to multiplied.

Jesse. Frenchmen are the "supposed Japanese ambition Mme. persuaded that Bismarck stole to acquire port facilities on the the clock; Busch said Mme.west coast does not appear. Jesse demanded £200 for it. The Chancellor, according to his henchman, afterwards remarked that she perhaps valued the "im- pish figure which made such faces-as a family portrait.”

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SOUTH AFRICAN WARNING.

LAND SETTLEMENT.

At one time the King could boast of having 1,400 fountains and 2,000 trees in the orangery. A problem comparable with that of the national finances was the Versailles water supply. It was at last imperfectly solved by the famous machinery at Marly 14 enormous waterwheels working over 200 pumps, by which Seine This story of a generation ago water was was raised 500 feet, by has a smack of parable about it. a series of stages, to a vast reser- To anquiet consciences the spirit voir. The supply being still in-of history may well seem a sufficient, 30,000 troops were en-demon grinning sarcastically." Mr. Wyndham and Sir Thomas gaged to build a long canal and The glory of Bismarck and his Smart in the Legislative As aqueduct to the River Eure; but king is as dead to-day as that ofsembly at Capetown, on April 23,] these works were not finished. Louis Quatorze. But it is no called the Government's attention

It has been reckoned that In Petty revenge that time brings to advertisemente extensively ap

with the German delegates to pearing in the overseas Press of 50 years the equivalent of £16,000,000 was spent on Ver-Versailles. If they have eyes irrigation and settlement schemes sailles, the Trianon, and lesser to see. it may be the dawn of in South Africa. While recognis palaces, and that the lives of a better age for their people, asing that many of these are ex-

well as for the rest of mankind.

thousands of labourers were sacrificed, while the Royal Majesty was being honoured, as we are told, in "the great event. of the day's ceremonial, the presentation of the shirt."

THE LESSER PALACES. At the further end of the

cellent, they urged that measures be taken to cantion intending purchasers against rushing into ventures painted in roseate colours. without consulting the Government representatives in

WOMAN STEEPLEJACK. The latest industry to be invad-London ed by woman is that of the steeplejack A soldier's wife Ver-named Annie Hirst of Linthwaite sailles grounds visitors find the near Huddersfield, has worked as two lesser palaces of Marie An- a labourer throughout the erection information and advice at the toinette, and near them a toy of a new chimney, 132ft. hizb, at dispose of such intending pur- village, where she and her friends the works of Messrs. J. Wchasers.

affected the “return to Nature, Leit according to Rousseau. It is bord-ma bred still by the high park WA

broad most desig

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Colonel Mentz, Minister of Irrigation, agreed, adding that he had notified the High Commis- ioner to place the fullest possible

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