Into these hollow posts are fitted well-seasoned cedar joists, with spikes driven through apertures made for that purpose in the casting. One-half of the length of the pillars are firmly imbedded in the ground, so that the inscriptions on their sides, in raised letters two inches high, face the north and south, the first reading, “Convention of London,” the latter “October 20th, 1818.”
Beyond the Red River, earth mounds and stone cairns, seven feet by eight, generally denote the boundary line. Whenever wooden posts are used, they are of the same height as the iron pillars and painted red above the ground.
Through forests a clearing has been made a rod wide, so that the course is plainly indicated. Where bodies of water are crossed, monuments of stone have been raised several feet above high tide.
Over the mountains, shafts of granite, like grim sentinels, guard the way. Altogether the fixing of the boundary marks was expensive, but it was well done.
WHAT IT COSTS FOR ROYALTY TO BE ILL.
PHYSICIANS CHARGE LARGE FEES.
More Than One Hundred Thousand Dollars Divided Among Medical Men Who Attended King Edward.
That old bugbear, the doctor’s bill, is really something worth while—to the doctor—when the patient happens to be a king. Of all the things a man has to pay, there is probably nothing he really grudges quite as much as this.
Let the ordinary mortal take heart, however, after reading the fees which royalty pays—and presumably pays without a murmur.
For his four weeks’ attendance at Sandringham, prior to the recovery of the king from typhoid fever, in 1871, Sir William Gull received fifty thousand dollars. Twice this amount was paid to Sir Morell Mackenzie for his treatment of the late Emperor Frederick.