Fifty Years A Queen

On the 28th of June, 1837, Victoria was crowned queen of England. If she lives until the same date thU year there will be an extensive celebration of the event of her golden jubilee as queen. Preparations for this event have already begun, and it ia expected the demonstrations throughout Oreat Britain and the colonies will be very grand and imposing. It is proposed that there shall be erected in London, besides other monuments to mark the event, a giant tower, to b nsed as an observatory, where natives and visitors can getabird's cye view of the greatest city in the world. The tower ia to be erected on ground belonging to the Marquis of Salisbury, near Trafalgar square. But the object of its construction is not altogether the glory of the queen, for it is proposed to charge adraission to it, and it is expected it will be a very profltable enterprise. The iflustrations give at a glance the appearanee and plan of the structure. The height o) the tower will be 420 feet above the pavement. It will be circular in form, constructed of red and white brick and stone. The outer wall will be Beven feet thick at the bottom and two feet thick at the top. The diameter of the tower will be sixty feet at the bottom and one-half taat diameter at the top. There will be elevators to raise passengere to the summit, and tor those who will not trost these mechanica! contrivanees there will be two sets of stone steps provided between the outer and inner walls whereoo they can ascend or descend on f oot. Outside gallerie will be constructed half way up the structure and around the top. Eere will be a restaurant and smoking room with accommodation f or about 000 people at onO time. There was a tower of observation somswhat on the same plan at the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. Now Paris is about oonstructing a similar tower to be nearly 1,000 feet high, but both Paris and London possess a drawback to the use of such a tower, and that is f og. Unless they can abolish London fog by on act of parliament the proposed Victoria Memorial tower will be useless mucb of the time.