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THE PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER
Ana. 6, 1687
With this brief preface, I beg to
introduce the Right Hon. Henry Cecil
Raikes as our Telegraph J ubileer. As
Chaimran, Rnlkcs read his brief well.
For so dryn speaker he displayed com-
mendable imuginntiou when he said :-
We have most of us, perhaps, read of that
tumultuous sensation which the great Wheat-
stone confesses to have experienced when the
' ll. that little journey
from Euston-sgzpinrc to Camden Town was sent
0st of the SUpCl'nutlll'l'Ll when he realised
that the great work hail been achieved. thatthe
demonstration had been reached, and that the
future of the science had been assuredlcheers).
Brayvo, Raikcs! “'0 a1l-ruddy-
faced and l’ickwickinn Sir Lyon
Playfair; massive headedJohn Ponder;
that genial scientist, Sir William
Thomson; and the jovial Admiral of
the Eastern Telegraph Fleet, Sir James
Anderson-one and all of us cheered
the foregoing earnestly delivered
sentences. For the Electric Telegraph
has grown to be an indispensable
udjunct of Civilisation, quick to speed
the messages of Government and Com-
merce, and bind heart to heart by swift
flashes of human sympathy. God speed
the Telegraph I But what marvels will
have to be related when the Jubilee
of the rest of the lustrous Electric
Family-Professor Graham Bell‘: Tele-
phone, the Swann-Edison Electric
light, fcc.-come to be celebrated by
our children! Friends, Electricity will
revolutionise the world !
Mark what Mr. John Pender,
“Napoleon of Ocean Telegraphy," as
he is rightly called, said in his terse,
clear, and ringing speech.- I should
premise that Mr. Pender merits the
gratitude of his Queen and country,
and of the “'orld at large, for his
splendid services to the cause. He has
devoted a lifetime and a large fortune
to the promotion of submarine tele-
graphy. Without his indomitable will,
without his lavish employment of
capital, the first Atlantic cable might
not have been fished up for years; and
telegraphic communications with India
and our Colonies would probably have
been retarded for a sadly long time.
Dinna forget the words of John Bright
when Old England and America. were
re-knit by the joining of the broken
cable. I refer to the eloquent sentence
inwhich Mr. Bright poctically spoke
of the warm hand of Britain descend-
ing to the bottom of the Atlantic to
grasp the hand of Brother Jonathan !
May the grip be lasting!
Friends, we have the honour of
showing Mr. Pender as he appeared
on this occasion in the rdle of Puck.
I don't know whether Mr. I’. took this
pzirtinllllrs. Henry Labouchere’s garden
performance of " A Midsummer Night‘s
Dream.” Anyway, he fairly revclled
as Puck at the Telegraph ’Jubilee.
Said he 5-
i.iTe'i%‘&3’...’;i25'ci‘fui.’S.f.T?an‘2”c’5b‘i3l’; '.?.i‘3.’3‘.i.'i’.‘.
are 115,000 miles, and it has cost something like
538,000,000 or !'.39,I')00.000 stcrlin
Amount of telegraph cable to the
. ere was a prop lon ago that the
earth was to be girded man in orty minutes.
Why we have got us much ' te
graph cable as will go round the world rive
es, and we can um! a many: raun-I the
world in mwntr minute: at the
Friends, ye will allow that Tele-
graphy is an inspiring theme, indeed,
when it impelled a practical philan-
thropist like Mr. Peuder to emulate
Dickens's “literary man with the
wooden leg,” Mr. Silas lVegg, and
induced him to “drop into poetry.”
Inspiring though the theme is, however,
I'll not trouble ye with many more
words on it. But I must, in common
fairness and justice, quote a richly-
dcserved tribute to Mr. Peuder-‘s inti-
mate associate and cc-worker in the
Atlantic and on the vast Eastern Tele-
graph Company-I refer to that fine
old mariner, Sir James Anderson, of
whom Sir ‘Villiam Thomson said in his
hearty fashion :-
I was on the Great Eastmrn. with Sir J ames
Anderson as navigator. In -1865 and 1866 he
picked up the cable, and again in 1868-in 1865,
when it was broken. and in 1366. coming back
n year after in the same place. hitting upon it
gust s gviarter of a mile away by splendid
navigational powers.
May Electrical Science flourish ! lllay
it brighten our homes, and accelerate
travelling by land and water! And
may each fresh cable bind us so firmly
to “Greater Britain” that nothing
shall sever on: United Empire! I'm
sure Lord Salisbury, for one, will join
in this toast; for there is no more
enthusiastic scientist than he is in his
secluded laboratory at Hatfield.
CODLIN.
A SHARP DOG-.
Mr. T. llusss Mscnoxun, of King's
College Hospital, writes to the Tinw: :-
“ At a quarter to nine yesterday
(Sunday) morning the porter in charge
of the entrance hall of this hospital
heard a dog barldng at the door, and
comin out to send him away found
three dogs there, two of them (white
and tar terriers) standing up on the
top of he flight of steps at the door,
while the third, a long-haired collie,
lay beside them close to the door-
scraper, ‘looking’-to quote the words
of the porter who reported the case to
me-‘very sorro l,‘ and exhausted
by loss of blood. As soon as the porter
came out, the two terriers left the collie
with him and ran off.
“ Seeing the sad plight that the dog
was in, the porter showed him to one
of the medical students who happened
to enter the hospital at the moment,
and he went into the front surgery to
get bandages and water to clean the
foot, the dog meanwhile lying quiet
and taldng not much notice of any-
body. When the surgeon returned,
the dog had moved away from the door,
across the drive to the railings of the
grass-plot opposite the hospital. On
examination it was found that the dog
had an artery cut on his right fore-leg,
with a three-inch wound. The legwas
dressed and bandaged and the humor-
rhagc arrested, and the dog lay outside
the hospital on the grass for a couple
of hours, and then went away.
“ The blood-stained footmarks of the
dog, which can still be clearly seen,
were afterwards traced baekto the spot
where he had received his injury in
Yates's-court, be ' the hospital,
where there was a pool of blood. In
the hoarding between the court and
the inclosurc of the Royal Courts of
Justice a hole just large enough to
admit a dog has been found, with a
sharp bit of glass lodgcd under it; and
it would appear that the dog cut him-
self in ancffort to force his way through
into Yatcs's-court.
“ It is clear from the marks made by
his pads that he took the shortest pos-
sible cut to the hospital, his truck being
round three sides of the building, closc
under its walls. He had made his way
up Clement's-lane, through Grange-
coiut, round Carey-street, and up
through the hospital gates to the door;
his two friends accompanied him up the
steps and barked till they attracted
attention, and secured his admission as
an out-patient.”
COUNTRY HOME FOR
HORSES. ‘
Ox Saturday last, a large number of
guests were present at a. fa. champizre
held in thclgrounds of the Neasden
Stud Farm, which has lately been
established for the reception and treat-
ment of overworked and sick horses.
The patients principally come from
the shafts of London cabs, and for a
very moderate sum proprietors may let
their animals reap the benefit of the
rest and good food that they get at
Neasdcn, while from a permanent stud
kept at the form they can hire horses
to replace those that are in hospital.
This excellent idea, which is still in
its infancy and which is capable of
great development, is mainly due to
the exertions of Miss indo, whose
love of horses and skill and success in
the treatment of apparently hopeless
cases, is well known. Miss Linda was
riding a grey horse which she had
purchased when in verypoorcondition,
and which had so far recovered under
her treatment that it had hunted for
three seasons in Warwickshire. Among
the cases mentioned by this lady was
that of a horse she had bought at 9.
public auction for 4.5 gs. It was rested
for six weeks, and then, not talnlng
kindly to harness, Miss Lindo put it to
fences, for which it showed great apti-
tude. She then sold it to a gentleman
for 10 gs., which included its original
cost and its keep. The purchaser rode
it in the Row for several weeks, and
then sent it to the Veterinary College
for an opinion. The opinion was that
the horse was in capital condition, and
could ride to hounds for three or four
more seasons. Included in the pro-
ceedings of the day were a parade of
the cab horses which, as above men-
tioned, are on hire, and an inspection
of the stables and the patients.
An address on horse training and
management was delivered by Captain
Horace Hayes, who gave practical
illustrations of the art of giving horses
good manners and curing rearcrs and
jlbbers. Mrs. llayes showed how it
was possible to ride and jump without
reins by balance, and an exhibition of
hurdle and fence jum ing was given
b ' Miss Nellie Reid on other accom-
plished horsewomcn. Among those
present were several gentlemen who
take an interest in cabmcn and their
horses, including Mr. Lindo, Mr.
H. J. R. Gaskoin, deputy chairman
of the Home, . . Stormont
Murphy, Mr. W. A. South, and Mr.
Sutherland Saiford, the secretary. An
asylum with sudicient food and shel-
ter is provided for old favourites at
the farm at Sudbury. Further par-
ticulars may be obtained of the sec-
rotary, at 13, Victoria-buildings, S.W.
MADAME TUSSAUD’S.
Tun care and attention which the
management of this popular entertain-
ment bcstow upon it always meet with
the reward deserved, and on Monda
alurge number of visitors passed the
turnstiles. Since Wliitsuntide notice-
able attractions have been added. The
Princes’ group, consisting of the
Prince and Princess of VVales, and
the Princes and Princesses of other
Royal houses, have been rcdresscd in
superb Court costumes. The grand
group representing the Pope holding a
reception in one of the corridors of the
Vatican, with Cardinals Manning and
Newman in presence, and a large sur-
rounding of the Noble and Swiss
Guards, and peasants, is also a notice-
ablo feature of recent introduction.
The new figures of Stanley and De
Lcsscps are admirable (cpl . ‘ ‘ions
of those celebrities. ’l‘o the grand
gallery of historical pcrsonages the
figure of General Doulangcr is to be
added in the course of the comin week.
Descending to the Chamber of l orrors,
Currell has already vacated his cell for
Lipski, who has been ID0llCllC(1 by Mr.
Joseph Tussaud with remarkable power
and resemblance.
BANK HOLIDAY FIGURES.
Tun August Bank Holiday was cele-
brated as a general holiday in London
on Monday. The weather was perfect.
The Brighton traffic was unpre-
cedented, the number of tickets issued
at London Bridge alone for the “ special
cheap trains ” being officially returned
at 11,108. From Victoria and other
places specials were also dispatched for
the popular watering-place with heavy
loads. Hastings, Eastbourne, Ports-
mouth, Dorking, Oroydon (for the
races), and the Crystal Palace were also
liberally patronised. On the ondou,
Chatlmm, and Dover line more than
1500 cxcursionists were conveyed to
Canterbury, Deal, and Dover; six
heavy trains were required for the
Home Buy, Margate, and Ramsgate
traffic between 8 o’clock and 8.40 am.,
and three for Sheerness. Special
arrangements were made by the Great
'estem, North - lVestern, Great
Northern, and Midland lines, and
largely taken advantage of. uring
the day and evening 45,000 visited the
Crystal Palace. The Alexandra Palace
and Albert Palace were fairly well
patronised. Hnmpstead -heath was
visited by about 80,000 holiday-makers,
between 25,000 and 30,000 went to
Finsbury Park, over‘ 7000 persons went
to the Tower, and the number at South
Kensington Museum was about 8000.
“Westminster Abbey, which was re-
opened for the first time for six weeks,
was crow c It was computed that
80,000 went to Kew Gardens, 40,000 to
Hampton Court, and 20,000 to the
Zoological Gardens.
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THE LATE CHARLES READE.
03' Tuesday afternoon, in the presence
of a number of friends, Sir Algernon
Borthwick, M.I’., unveiled Kl memorial
to the late Charles Reade, which has
been placed in the crypt of St. Paul's
Cathedral by private subscription. The
memorial, which is the work of Mr.
G. M. Curtice, consists of 3 medallion
portrait taken from 9. cast of the
features after death, beneath being the
following inscription: - “ To the
memor of Charles Reade, l).U.L.
Born 8th June, 1814; died lltli April,
1334- Alltllor, dramatist, journalist."
In close proximity to the memorial
is the bust of George Cruikshank,
and one to the memory of liaudolph
Caldccott will shortly be opened near.
IVEN GRATIS.
IVEN GRATIS.
'G,IVEN GRATIS.
GIXEN GRATIS TO ALL.rI wish
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Address, lllr. GOULD, E.B.P.,
2l,CUUUUlI-STREET,HXRCII-LAN!-Z,llRADF0llD.
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