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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

brother, it seems that the two boys. i after attending to the sheejl went to look at the snow on Winstone Lee Tor. While they were looking they observed the snow slipping down upon them, and ran to get out of the way, but both were overtaken by the huge mass and buried. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and expressed their sympathy with the parents. "AN EMPRESS WORTH LOOKING AT." An American lady who is at present - in St. Petersburg thus describes a : Court reception at the Winter Palace : I— " It was a bitter cold day when we drove in a gorgeous sleigh to the Winter Palace — which was like a fairy picture in the fading light without, illumined within with the brilj liancy of thousands of candles — to I attend a Court reception. The effect I of the light on the snow and upon ! i the gay equipages of the numerous i i guests was indoseribable. Wo ap- J ; proached tho Empress through :!<)()() j j officials. We passed through superb | - state apartments, each blazing with a thousand wax tapers and gorgeous with priceless hangings, malachite I ! pillars, works of art, and tropical 1 flowers and ferns. The sight was ! worth the journey from New York j to Russia. The floors were things of i beauty, inlaid with ebony and rose- | wood and ivory. As wo waited for j ' our turn I had a good opportunity to j . see, and I made much of it. At last | jwo entered the throne room, and j i thcro, surrounded by a sea of splen- j dour, stood the Empress, herself a moving mass of diamonds. She was the most dazzliug sight of all. On her head was a crown once worn by the great Elizabeth. It was the first timo I had seen a real crown on royalty, for the diamond tiara worn i by Queen Victoria at her reception ! last summer was not a crown except in name. Mrs. Astor used to wear ■as fine a one. But this one ou tho Imperial head was worthy to adorn the Empress of All the Russias. Describe it ? No. I only saw millions of coloured rays and white sparks emitted from it at every motion of the Royal person. The necklace was made from what was loft over of the crown. It reached from her neck tv liur waist, and had rubies, sapphires, aud diamonds enough in it to have supplied a thousand ordinary royal necklaces. Tho Imperial Orders worn un her breast contained all the goms of the East. They scintillated with light, and that is all I can say . of them. The stuff of her gown was emerald velvet, with a train of whito embroidered with enough gold to stock a mine and borderod with real erold balls. The front of the gown was ornamented with ropes of linked pink coral, set in diamonds and fastened at intervals. Never saw I human beings thus arrayed. Solomon might have put on more, but I do not believe it. She was enough : of herself to take the breath out of '. " a body, but surrounded as she was by grand duchesses, each one ablaze with jewels worth a kingdom, she was the most wonderful sight I ever ■witnessed in my life. The officials ] in their semi-barbarous grandeur ( numbered hundreds upon hundreds, , but I paid no attention to them. The Empress and the palace were