New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-18
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laFc seen lrH Es4 nc -.
| s1atscl.fcc .t.~'. in tad lic1tc taauy from
the earth Ike tie im0 ming of . hsppy s.son.
| Viewed ~ a d.g.a1cs, its burAl-nei dome resem-
| ples a half disclosed balloon, as large as a ca
| 'hclral, but light, brilliant, and seemingly
| ready 10 burst it, bands and soar alpft. IN
very sense the Crystal Palace is admirable.
| 70 us On this side Of the water it is original
! Nothing Ike its shape, materials, or effect has
| aaen presented 70 ~ If it we're to contain no
hing, it would alone be an absorbing attraction,
nd lie beyond all else in New York, an arehi-
| ectural Curiosity.
The bnilding IS two stories high The first js
| n the form Of an octagon, the second of Greek
| ross. The centre Of this is dome l48 feet
| Ugh TIE four corners Of the octagon are fur
| nished each with two towers seventy feet high
| These towers support hagstaffs, adding to the
| .ightness Of their appearance The construc-
ton Of the buil1ing is similar to that Of the
riginal IN London, az far as the connection of
ron columns grders, and so forth, GO: but the
principal parts Of the rest, the dome included,
; fashioned by the architects, Messrs. Carsten-
.en and Gildermeister, who devised the plan of
the whole structure az well as the details The
main building covers l73 900 square feet, gall
] leriss included and the additional buling 33,-
lsseskeing 206 900 feet in all. The additional
| pull5tng is composed ~ first and a second
| tory gallery y feet broad and $50 feet long,
| lit from above, the sdes.being quite closed up,
anu statues This additional building is
nected with the main building by two one-story
| wings, which, contain the refrcshment rooms,
and the mincralogical department under the
charge Of Professor Silliman, Jr
| There are twelve starw vs. the tallustrades
If which are light iron tracery in accordance
with the general spirit Of the designs The
| -tairways arc at each point Of the Compass On
| the sides and under the dome The great cir
cular windows facing at four points. add much
- the charm If the effect
| Wall, properly speakjng, the building, has
not being enclosed with glass sustained by iron
pillars This vast mass If crystal occupies A.
| 900 81 4are feet
The ca.t-iron weighs l 700 tons, the wrought,
| 800 Each pane Of glasz IS IS by 3S inches
| The prevailing style Of the architecture IS
| li5Jli 4 and byzantine in its decoration The
cell = are painted in cctagons, in blue, white,
aId gream-oolor. 4 portion Of the ceiling will
not lie finished aud Will reveal the ra.ter and
| griCrs, which i a drawback on the general
effect
The decorative artist is Mr. Greenough The
offices Of the directors and artists are ia imita
ton Of satin -wood, their appearance being very
neat
The en1c.uces If the Palace are three, all
nike, one ,r,'tae sixth avenue, one on Fortieth
and one IN orty- second street Each entrance
i forty feet vide the central nave is for
| .r-Jue feet wl1e and the aisles City four feet
| within, at the entrance, the visitor sees an
| lrcled nave forty-one t,et wide, sixty-seven
feet nigh and three hundred feet long. The
dome is one hundred feet across The building,
though not nearly 70 large as that Of London,
is superior in architectural beauty. II is u.lg-
nitcent ornament to the city, and should be
purchased by the Council as a permanent pro-
perty Various orations could he ftly celebra
ted in it. The work assures q national renown
to the architects, Messrs. Christensen and Gil
dermeister
The contributors will amount to about six
thousand Fix thousand specimens Of the su-
perlatve genius and industry OF all nations.
What a world Of detail, Of division Of labor, of
thought, anxiety to !, enthusiasm, invention, is
here concentrated How many eyes have
strained. fingers Piled, muscles swelled, nerves
qrivered, TO produce this multitudinous and
mul.ifurn array oI ou-workings Whit a cor-
flaxiry Of interests is here IL te exposed What
| = Con-eries of national rlvaries, hyL rabiy uu-
lertaEei in WI os the new an b lefcent
icas of tic time in position to the Stat; IS
.!,.tics o. = gone history In this resf e
brightest conrihrticn to tie I.ystal Palace, ior
81 richer oliering Il IN gold jews i he heart
oi ll.c age tLro0iuc "lti!lv-.
INTERESTING !, ,--,E'r NY Interesting Sta
hsfics--A eentlemaH VINO keeps the run of facts,
figures and babies, has - laid tetore :
quiring world" tie .o.lowing statistics
The whole number ot languages spoken in the
world amount to 3064, viz: 5s1 in Europe, 937
in Asia. 276 in Africa, and, 1864 in America
, The inhabitants of our globe profess more than
1000 different religions. The number of men is
about equal to tile number Of women The
: AVERAGE of human life is about SO wears One
fourth die previous 10 the age of years, one
half before reaching Il wears of age, and those
who pass that age enjoy felicity y refused to
; half the human species. To every 1000
7 nersous, only one reaches one hundred years Of
, age; 10 every one hundred only six reach the
: age of Sc, and not more than one in 500 live 10
, 50 Years Of age.
. There are on the earth COO, 900 900 inhabi-
y tants and of these 333 333 ,333 die every year,
= 81 ,324 every day. $3.50 every hour, 60 every
% minute, or | every second These losses are
,, The married are lonrer.liyed than the single
y and above all. those WHO observe sober and in
! lustrious conduct Tall men live longer thar
u u short ones Women have more chances of life
y In their favor previous 10 benr 80 wears of age
- th,n mon. bnt f.war afterwards
Le Tho nurnber If marriages is in proportion of
-e 1-5 Ia everv 1000 individuals Marriages are
e mcrr frea1ant after tbe eouinoxes That is
dprinc the months of June and December
i These horn in the sprinr are generally more
N rohn.f tban others births and deaths are more
f.a',Ta,,t I,, ,irrbt tbar hvdov The number n