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Show city; care to visit her notwithstanding she is still a beautiful mistress with, her hundreds of turrets and spires and mementos, and a manufacturing place of the very first order. It deserves with character! of brass A fortod re.-Menc 'gainst tha toots of time And nmire of ob.lvlon. IlEIt CiLOIiV DEPARTED. How vain is glory; now empty is fame! Here is a oily of full 250,000 peoplo so ancieut that her early history is lost in myth; so great in the past that notwithstanding her decline for centuries cen-turies a halo of splendor still surrounds her; so learned that she reared tho first university on tho Kuropean continent, furnished a pulpit to Johu Huss, the reformer, and a sepulchre to Tycho du Braho, tho astronomer; so powerful that long before tho oldest now reigning reign-ing dynasty annexed tho kingdom of which she is still the proud capital she had haughty vassals kuoeking humbly at her gates. And yet when the cable reported tho disaster that befell Prague through the rising floods of the river Moldau, nnd located tho city in Poland, how few of us detected the mistake and placed her properly in the center of Hohomia, in Austria. Tho very bridge that was torn away was a triumph of ancient engineering, and had withstood for many centuries not only the torrents of tho same water, but tho impetuous assaults of many an enemy, including Gustavo Adolphus and Frederick the Great. There isn't an inch of ground in and about Prague but what is steeped with human blood. From Libussa and her aniazons of folk loro memory to the chivalrio Ottokar, and from him throughout more than 700 years to tho war of 1800 the grim old city witnessed many a sanguinary coulliet. Here Ziska and the two Prokops carried on a desultory warfare to avenge the martyr mar-tyr death of Huss: here tho devastating thirty years' war began; here the ridiculous ridic-ulous Frederick, tho "wuiter king." was beaten aud the restoration of the crown of iH. Venceslaus frustrated, and hero the red terror of revolution dwelt for many ages. And yet how few of us knew Prague when her latest calamity made her tho subject of au extensive telegraphic mention. How few Americans traveling travel-ing abroad care to visit the interesting |