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188, Story of an Emigrant.
miles beyond to two villas, as well as along the principal
streets in the city, and along all paths and roads in the
palace garden, bamboo poles forty feet long were erected 011
both sides, and about forty feet apart. These poles were all
wrapped in red and white glazed paper, and had flags at the
top. The poles were eonneetcd by lines along which colored
glass lamps were suspended six inches apart, and these were
all lighted at six o’clock. I was told that there were over
forty thousand such lamps, and that it took five hundred
COLLEGE BUILDING.
men to fill, light, and attend to them. From nine to twelve
o’clock every night an electric light was beaming from one
ot the palace towers, and Wednesday evening there was a
magnificent display of pyrotechnics around an artificial lake
about a mile from the palace. The latter cost about
twenty-five thousand dollars. Its effect 011 men, animals, and the
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