St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-07-30

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Of the throngs Of men, women and eb,l-
dren. But now come the maRysls, - You
live in Egypt and walk ih templea, XsS
stand in Greek halls. You sse the altars
and statues, the Pantheon, the ftieses, the
gods You enter Roman dwelling. l2AH
q reproduced in the days Of Aagu..aiis
You stand in the gorgeous "A Alhamb,a,t in
= Pompsiian house, in the Byzantine court,
in the Norman, the early Ebglish, the full
Gothic buildings Or courts. The illusion
IS complete. Time il dead. The old HIS
come back, end is new. My, distanoszis
ended. You seem to be in different ages
and widely different countries all At The
very same time. You lose your, identity,
whether you, are ancient or modern
whether you are At Athens, or Rome, or
BJsantium,I you cannot tell. Or 10 1T 4
gorgeous dream? Is this some sorceress
kaleidoscope, whose every turn rattles Tie
clements Of various ages and countries
into strange copjpnctions? :,., 'ssss''4a
The illusion is increased BY the unity
Of all climates I'M the vegetable kingdom.
Under this glass hemisphere, the temper
ate and torrid zones Dwell together, il
peace. There Is room for every hing. -
As you stand ut one end, you look down
thrcugha chrJstal aisle more than sixteen
hundred feot, snd over this long, lumin,
ous path there is no roof until. you rise .
hundred and seventy -four feet ia, the cen.
ter, aud hundred and ten On either side
Of it. Along this vast track are gathered
the .rarest vegetable productions of the
globe. growing in soil, or air, or water
Vines cover the iron columns, and spread
out their 6lmy branches along the con-
Meeting rods: Huge pendant baskets
filed with trailing plants, swing in the
air at heights that hide their support, and
cause them to seem selfsupported. Mar:
bic lined reservoirs Of water, arti6cially
heated, are covered with aquatic lilies -!
From step to step, all the way down, you
come upor the most n,sgni6eently grown,
s:.rubs aud plants and trees. !, They line
the whole long interior, 50 that you ima5-
inc yourself looking down an avenue vf
:dergrowth, shrubs, Vines, and tttosses.-
Out Of these green moses, at every step,
peep the most exquisite creations Of ait
There are casts Of almost every renowned
or beautiful statue in Europe, arranged in
long sequence. All the sculpture that
you have ever seen in engrav,ngs, read in
books, heard Of in conversation, meets you
in this palace Of miracles The treasures
are endless. You cannot in = day even
glance Ut them. You leave more things
unseen than you look upon. Every step
opens recesses full Of wonders. Picture
galleries flow along the sides as If they
would never end. The portrait gallery
presents you with almost every historic
face: Do you need to read Of these
things? Turn aside into the library with
thousands of volumes. Sit down in the
Reading Room, which, though severn
thousand people are threading the build
ing, is as quiet as if it were lonesome
bower in the woods Or are you tired il
eve and foot? Sit down and listen to I
vtry noble band that yonder is renderin,
classic music skillfully, This marvelou
variety gives you rest by change. /
sculpture fails. there is architecture; ant
, Of that variety running through all tn
8, hools Of time. Are you weary Of this
Try color on the canvass. d. you wear
Of this? Will you take walk aroun
marblc-bound lakes, or among palms an
gigantic ferns, or among Glove and cinnl
s; mon, pepper and ginger, tea and cotfe
! plants Or v w>uld you rid yourself {
! company? Go out into the ground. +
!, some one Of the walks you can in MI
! ment be hidden in secluded, leafy cover
or you nay seek the lake and arti6ci'
; island, and see the geologic periods repr
! scuted in strata, aud the ante-diluvian a,
imals reproduced in form if not in life
From some such stroll I. returned an
), dined. I could not make up my min
whether I was an Egyptian dining at Cal
~ with. the old Copts, or Greek, or q Il
man, or Goth. l never once suspcct'
;, that l was Yankee, eating stout En-
. . lish beef and pastry.
VI War AND PEAcE.-The last number
$; the London Army and Many Gazette,
=, speaking of the war in America, says:
a .,.trWar, like IN iron band, birds the d
~ cordant factions of the North-aye, a
;, =, tie jealous State autonomies Of the Sou
;s together now, and, It, Is, only 'ohen
c;e clasp may Be bosed BY q decettful ern,
or tice, called peace, The ,corM ca" inat
he see The furie. at ,eork readi.g ecery me
q! Der Of fMe Great Repn1lic."'H .s:v'
a The Gaxe"e hits upon the truth m :
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