Siberia and the exile system . ole railroad property seemed to be inthe most perfect possible order. Unusual attention had beenpaid evidently to the ornamentation of the giounds lyingadjacent to the stations and the track. Even the verst-posts were set in neatly fitted mosaics three or four feet indiameter of colored Ural stones. The station of NizhniTagil, on the Asiatic slope of the mountains, where westopped half an hourfor dinner, would havebeen in the highest de-gree creditable to thebest railroad in theUnited States. Thesubstantial stationbuilding, which wasa hundredf eet or morein lengt
Siberia and the exile system . ole railroad property seemed to be inthe most perfect possible order. Unusual attention had beenpaid evidently to the ornamentation of the giounds lyingadjacent to the stations and the track. Even the verst-posts were set in neatly fitted mosaics three or four feet indiameter of colored Ural stones. The station of NizhniTagil, on the Asiatic slope of the mountains, where westopped half an hourfor dinner, would havebeen in the highest de-gree creditable to thebest railroad in theUnited States. Thesubstantial stationbuilding, which wasa hundredf eet or morein length, with a cov-ered platform twentyfeet wide extending along the whole front, was tastefullypainted in shades of brown and had a red sheet-iron stood in the middle of a large, artistically planned parkor garden, whose smooth, velvety greensward was brokenby beds of blossoming flowers and shaded by the featheryfoliage of graceful white-stemmed birches; whose windingwalks were bordered by neatly trimmed hedges; and whose3. A 1;A1LKAD \ Eli!: plash of falling water from the slender jet of asparkling fountain. The dining-room of the station had afloor of polished oak inlaid in geometiieal patterns, a highdado of dark carved wood, walls covered with oak-grainpaper, and a stucco cornice in relief. Down the center ofthe room ran a long dining-table, beautifully set with taste-ful china, snowy napkins, high glass epergnes and crystalcandelabra, and ornamented with potted plants, little cedartrees in green tubs, bouquets of cut flowers, artistic pyramidsof polished wine-bottles, druggists jars of colored water,and an aquarium full of fish, plants, and artificial rock-work. The chairs around the table were of dark hardwood, elaborately turned and carved; at one end of theroom was a costly clock, as large as an American jewelersregulator, and at the other end stood a huge bronzedoven, by which the apartment was
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