Of but seven storeys, the lowest number permissible if it is to yank as a pagoda, this stately like a. pen. is to say, it is of the slender type, the top ending in a graceful point, like the point of the Chinese writing brush, On this account there is a local legend concerning this pagoda to the effect that whenever it is put in repair there is a great recrudescence of learning in the district and many eminent scholars appear.
The pagoda stands at some little distance from the temple. It is not very tall one, as pagoda go, nor is its shape of the most picturesque type. Its height is about 100 feet. In this connexion it may be noted that the tallest pagoda in China measures 360 feet in height, and is situated at Ting Chou in Chibli province.
The Lunghua Pagoda may be as-conded by the visitor, and from its topmost storey a fine view of the surrounding country may be had.
Reoret will be felt by Britons lehroughout the world at the disappearance vf Madame Tussaud'e famous collection of waxworks which was destroyed by fire last week? In 1801, part of the collection was also lost, in a fire which broke out at a subsidiary exbition, of which Mr. John Tussaud iwas manager, at 207 Regent Street, the total losses to the company which took over this and the Marylebone lcallection being £10,000. Mme. Tus. sand was " skilful modeller" who exhibited her remarkable collection fof models and casts of eminent per-ons with costumes and other esting relies inthe Bouleva Temple, Paris, In she exhibited her collection at the Lyceum, Strand, London, and afterwards at other places. The inter-Jes, of the exhibition had for many years been energetically sustained fat Baker Street, London, W., and of ate years in Marylebone Road, by Mme, Tussaud and her family. She died in 1850 at the axe of 90, In reminding, Shanghai of "the the exhibition, recalled the face that certain authors had sought to pass off Mme, Tussaud as a former femme de chambre of Marie-Antomotte, and published memoirs that were in' reality those of, Mmes ICampan.
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