Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the Crystal Palace, the wonderful city of glass and iron, now at Sydenham.It was first erected at Hyde Park to serve as an exhibition building whenPrince Albert, husband of Queen Yictoria, instituted there the first worldsfair held in Great Britain. Afterwards it was sold to a company, takendown and re-erected at Sydenham, where it now stands. The building is four or five stories high, built entirely of strong ironframes, into which are set long, narrow plates of glass. Two towers, seyenor eight stories high, contain reservoirs of water which supply the foun-tains in all parts of the palace and in the gardens surrounding it. Inside of this great palace, which covers twenty acres, one seems to bewalking through a street in Paris or Brussels. There are shops whereporcelain, jewelry, pictures and all kinds of industrial products are dis-played ; there are places of amusement, theatres, concerts, restaurants, andvast hot-houses containing almost every kind of rare and strange plant in the
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HAMPTON COURT. 126 Persons and Places in Europe. world, lovely flowers,,and giant trees with birds sporting and singing amongthe branches. There is also a large aquarium containing many strangecreatures from the water world, among which is a number of sea-anemones,helpless flower-like creatures that have to be waited on by an attendant,whose sole business is to place small shrimps, crabs, oysters and fish withinreach of their waving tentacula. Many rare works of art, paintings, pieces of sculpture, adorn the differentparts of the building, good music may almost always be heard in some part,and altogether it is a most attractive place of resort, as is proved by thecrowds of ladies and gentlemen by whom it is frequented. Tin Mines.—There is no other country in the world that can betterafford fine castles, palaces and costly public works than England. Eng-lish gold is a familiar expression all over the world, and it has had muchto do with the worlds history. Large sums of money have be

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