Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-23


them, save that we can call them VEN
cradle relics from Somewhere.
Here is a cage of birds that some
body's careful hand must have fitted
up a score and half of years ago
Decentralization in all, of all sizes
and hues of plumage from the parrot
and the dove to the sparrow and the
humming bird. Poor things! taken
from their native perches, stuffed, and
boxed together for show; destined to
sit and stare with their mindless glass
eyes at their somber surroundings in
the room till decay mingles them
with the other beautiful dust on the
floor. But they won't have much
longer to wait.
This is an Indian paddle, beautiful
ly carved, probably once the property
of a chief Here is squirrel skin
money purse, also from Indiandom,
the skin of a grey squirrel entire,
ornamented with beads of divers
colors, with the bones of the head and
neck retained, the jaws of the animal
forming the mouth and clasp of the
purse. Close by is quadrant used
by some of the first voyagers to this
country: probably modern captains
would be puzzled to take an accurate
observation with it.
Specimens of cloth from nobody
knows where adorn the walls of one
part of the room, the coarse, fibrous
cloth, made from wood. In another
part are an ostrich's egg, saw fsh's
snout, an orioles nest two feet deep,
aamingo's bill, some beautiful pieces
of coral, from one ounce to twenty
pounds in weight, a porcupine, a young
crocodile, dried rat, two porcupine
fishes fully inflated, showing that they
died on duty, seal, an armadillo, a
chameleon, that mysterious compound
of lizard, frog, and snake, and many
other animals that have lost their
identity through the agency of time
d the aforementioned naughty
boys. Overhead, stretched on row
of supporters, are two sharks, one a
hammer head" the other apparent
ly white shark, both yonng ones
probably, being not more than six feet
in length, and yet having enough of
the terrific in their appearance tc
make one feel uncomfortable at the
thought of being cast into the sea
among them. Also the rib of whale
that drifted ashore on one of thu
Massachusetts, Islands, some othel
unnamable things, and last, though no
least, the shell of big tortoise of
the terrapin species, more than
yard in length. Preserved reptiles
fish, and insects from all parts of thu
world adorn one shelf, while dozel
| hideous Chinese idols call the atten
ton to another. Here is a Turkisl
pipe, there an Indian head-dress, Will
! on the floor below are a half dozel
pairs of foreign looking boots an
shoes, one pair with leathern top
t and thick wooden soles which cam
: over in the Mayhower, and other pair
of the old wooden shoes or sabots,
) a look at which seems almost equivs
!, lent to an introduction to some of th
peasantry of Europe.
h There are literary curiosities, to,
a Books in the Hawaiian language,
T geography and chronology, a Bible,
e tract on intemperance, &c. A Lati
t prayer book more than century oil
+ Two manuscripts in Spanish, old an
e faded, one dated in 100, the othe
It bearing the date of September i
e 1853. And besides all these, the
e lies pamphlet whose pages are prin
J. ed over with the most unpronounce
d BILE words, many of them containir
re thirty letters and occupying tire
i fourths of line. This would +
n main mystery were it not for no
e, printed in English on the cover, tt
lie object of which is to inform the rea
N er that this pamphlet contains Il
lie Assembly's Shorter Catechism in t
" Moheakunnuck or Stockbridge Indi'
ne language. To read this note almc
ID starts tear as one thinks of th
fly sanity man, dear old John Eliot.
th But perhaps the most valuable pa
is of the Cabinet is the box of coins.
w There are three hundred and sevt
- teen of these, representing the CT
tie rency of natives in all parts of t
H. world, and it must have required mu
es labor to collect them. The old
H. one on which the date is legible rea
bic 1907, but there are others VIC
er smooth and apparently older th
ne this. There are among them all so
by of American, as we'll as EngE
ng French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dut
ry German, Prussian, Russian, DAM
nd Italians, Greek, Chinese, and Jaw