Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-15

victories in the Flcmish wars On the other
side Of him are flags on broken staves and
little winged boy extingushing his link All
these figures are the size Of life, of the purest
white marble, aud are grouped with such taste
as to make tabIeau Of surprising beauty
rais at least as my opinion, though mauy who
consider It mastery and original as work Of
art snll deem i as whole open to criticism
aud as Of questionable taste Il is the work |
of the sculploc Pgnlle, and the result OF
twenty years labor lna side chapel the Sa
crislan showedus lying in glass cases the EN-
balmed bodies Of a count Of Nassau -Saarbruc.
ken and his daughter who lived aud died three
or four hundred years ago. They are very
resi- ectabe mummes indeed, and curious be-.
cause Of the old time garments they wear,
Which are still in good state Of preservation.
| From st Thomas church we had no Diff.
Guilty ~ finding our way to the cathedral for
IT'S high steeple (the highest in toe world) is a
landmark visible for miles around Ii isa
noble edlhce, built, as all these grand churches
are, upon the ground plan OF "a cross The
| splre runs up from the foot Of the cross, which
IS the front OF the building Two towers or
spires were evidently designed by the archi-
tecs, but only one of them was continued
above the body Of the church The whole
irontis covered with statues, inches, canopies,
pedestais aud treted work of stone. We
stepped IN and there, looking at the pillars so
massive and yet so graceful, the windows oil
stained glass through which the suubeams
came struggling, beauuhed by their passage,
aud making Oroad paths OF richly colored
light upon The dark stone foot, we remembered
that IA this place the Almighty has been wor-
shipped SIX hundred years, and that this build
'Hgi Que OF the nobestworks that men S minds
: have ever conceived or hands erected, has
{ been standing all these es as All Offering and
prayer unto God, aud our souls were filled
with wonder, veuerauon and awe Verify
Wea have had faith in this thing of Chrsuan-
, ny for loug, long time For eighteen cen
tunes II has been IA power on the earth, in.
< creaslng every day What scheme, imposture
! or deIusOn OF man has ever had so long n
life, 50 wonderful history What other
evidence do we need OF its heavenly origin :
: The height from the floor to the cone of the
root is about one hundred aud twenty feet,
and there are no galleries TO obstruct the view.
Z We look up, and in the dim light it seems
e as II II might be heaven own concaye that is
- arching over us. The tall pillars are auted
and decked with statues from top to bottom
and the stone carving on the pulpit and the
font ls but little short of the miraculous So
delicate are ITS lines aud the fabric. One Bit
Of it is as light and fragile apparently as a
i' folded veil Of lace. After gazing for a long
while, we ran across the streetto see the house
IL which the architect lived in, and which he
erected as another specimen OF his wonderfs
10 skill a small circular stone staircase of ex
lquisite proportions, and then We hurried bach
ID to see the wonderful clock Sirty,fpe feet il
at height, which is built up against the walls o
ry that part of the church which corresponds u
a.. the upper right hand side of the short piece o
. the cross. We had time TO see it mark nearl,
Is aahour, and we seated ourselves opposite to i
I'D that we might scrutlnize it at our ease. At th
IN end of the first quartera little figure represent
- ing youth came slowly marching out from tn
central bastion, and after stopping to strike
or single blow upon q bell which figure of Tim
he holds in his hands, strobe on and disappears
or upon the other side At the half hour, an
h, other f ure came out from the same place
- struck twice upon the bell and disappeare
TO- like the first; and still another and anothe
,le when the third and fourth quarters were ii
no shed
- After the half hour had struck, people b,
gan to drop in at intervals and soon the whol
ne space in front Of the clock was crowded Th
,th most Of them were country people who ha
I'd brought in their fruits aEd vegetables TO mar
he ket, and their dress and exclamations of wor
, der aud delight we're almost as entertanin
"e as the clock Of course there was a larp
he sprinkling of tourists the English as usu,
w. being in the majority. An ll-natured pal,
,ss de place who had u party of three in charg,
turned around with a furious scowl upon
no young country-woman whose little one couI
nd not refrain from laughing aud cooling, aud III
ge poor woman shrunk from him and gathere
Ioa up her baby as if she were going The r.
e. membrance of little rosebud in an America
=" home impeled me to the rescue, aud takin
'dy the happy little one in my arms, encourage
nd it to make all the noise 1t chose, much to h
.ba delight of tho mother and the discontinue
the illnatured valet
VIC When the hands on the hour dial which
zen the smallest of all, being not more than tw
It'll feet in diameter, marked the hour of twely
est one OF the little angels which sits by its sic
-, struck his bell, and his brother opposite T
We versed his hour glass. Higher up twelve &
ION ures representing the apostles came marchu
ere out one by one, and passing in front Of Il
lo figure of our Savior, turned towards him, RI
made convusive Jerks Of their heads whit
we were to consider as obeisances while IN
no Savior raised his hand aud inclined his hes
q to each as il blessing them. While they we
ma passing, the big rooster on top raised his "
low wings two or three times, as If getting
eu' "good ready, and whistled ont crow Ia
nth could have been heard Il long distance in Il
1 Of open air on u calm morning, but unlike al
in,, barnyard performance we ever heard