Do not undervalue the headache.

While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
A comfortable railway journey of seventeen and a half hours brought us to the capital of India, which is likewise the capital of Bengal--Calcutta.
Like Bombay, it has a population of nearly a million natives and a small gathering of white people.

It is a huge city and fine, and is called the City of Palaces.

It is rich in historical memories; rich in British achievement--military, political, commercial; rich in the results of the miracles done by that brace of mighty magicians, Clive and Hastings.

And has a cloud kissing monument to one Ochterlony.
It is a fluted candlestick 250 feet high.