Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — MEMORIALS OF THE PAST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEMORIALS OF THE PAST.

The Fantbus Structures ot Delhi and Agra, India. The city of Delhi, India, has been called the Rome of India, and its memorials of the past dot all the years from 300 B. U. till the begin-

ning of the present century, when it became a British, possession. Scattered through the city are upward of forty mosques and the tombs of Mussulman saints and emperors. A pillar (known as Kutub Mlnar or column of victory was ( built 700 years ago, and though shorn of some of its

height by an earthquake has still an altitude of 250 feet Its architecture is Imposing, and the work is worthy of any age or country. In the city of Agra, 115 miles from Delhi, is the most famous mausoleum in the world. It is called the Taj Mahal. It was built by the monarch Jehan in memory of his wife, Noor Mahal, whose death he deeply mourned. It is said that 20,000 men were engaged for twenty-two years in its construction, and that upward of $4,000,000 was expended in the work. It is erf white marble, 100 feet in diameter and 200

feet high, built in the form of an irregular octagon, and rising from a high marble terrace which rests upon a terrace of red sandstone. From the corners of the marble terrace rise minarets and in the center rises a dome flanked by cupolas. Inside and without it is decorated with mosaics of precious stones. The whole of the Koran is inlaid in b;ack ; marble and precious stones on the walls within.

THE KUTUB MINAR.

TAJ MAHAL. AGRA.