The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-26


the mysteries of the Paris wonder. He
SAYS:
The workmen have nearly compile.
| ted the decorations of the three inner
apartments, by which l mean the
adOrnments received from the hands oi
the painters and upholsterers. The car
penters also, are just bestowing the
last touches upon the counters and
shelves designed for the display of the
goods. The embellishments for the
most part are simple and inexpensive.
They are subdued i'll color, the princi-
pal tones being UudemOnstrative red
and green. They are, however, enli-
vened at intervals by the seals of the
different States in all their classic and
artistic outlines, and several American
eagles on the scream, with their backs
to the field and their feet to the foe, the
latter bTistling into endless arrows and
thunderbOlts. ......
The entrances are draped with green
curtains, not over prononceS, drawn
back with cord and tassels, The whole
of this is in striking contrast with the
elaborate and infinite designs OF Japan
ese decorators at the next remove.
These are gorgeous and bewildering in
their hues and minuteness and strike
one as the very fneSSe of art. They Of
fer au excellent type of tho Oriental
mind which ever fritters itself away in
thousand inutilities. Red triangles
and green lOZenges, blue circles and
golden balls, scarlet scroll work and
purple abaresques, all whirl round be-
fore the eye in COnglomerated jHnEle
like the Pleiades run mad.
Turn now to the interior of our com.
partmentS and their "three removes are
as bad as fire. condition. Over the
NF . a..
State seal of Indiana, representing u
bull, bison, or gingerbread horse
l could not make out precisely which
running away from Pnwnee, or
some other fUrked radish in red skin,
with the rising sun in the background
watching the result. Within is an in
verted billiard-table, with its legs
stretched out in an attitude of supplIca-
ton, like dying bear; "A score of thick
volumes for the use OF the blind piled
up in Il heap, and looking like heavy
and dyspeptic reading; long. row OF
photographs tilted up against the wall,
and one OF them badly broken; vast
frnme ten feet high, gilt and barbAric,
inclosing Il printers card from New
York, with n condensed view of Print
ing House Square in the center, and
the bird OF freedom over all, as usual.
About are scattered few tables, and
Just outside in the aisle is Il stack OF
six or eight boxes labeled "Standard
Weights and Measures of the Treas
ury Department" and tumbled togeth-
er cOnfusedly. Over this much does
the rising sun of Indiana predominant
in addition to the bull and the savage.
In the next room on the other side of
the narrow passage is Il still more COM
pleX and varied collection, only, if
possible, little more riOtous. Over
the first door is the seal OF Ohio, the
rising sun rampant and gliding most
prosaic canal boat-the Polly Ann,
very probably, on its famous cruise
and over the second is the emblem OF
Minnesota with another rising sun,
another red man apparently running to
escape n coup de Soiiet, and another
Quadruped avoiding him.
With all these solar speCters l was
not surprised, on further examination,
to perceive large placard in the center
of the room containing the advertise
ment of the New York HeliOtype Com
pany, and voluminous examples of
their works. a description of the heter-
Ogeneous insides of this room would
surpasS the best land pilots art. 1t
would pass for a veritable segment of
the United States cut out at random
after new deluge, a layer taken from
the euonomic drift, if there be any such
geological stratum.
Counters here and there, and tables
in angular demonstration and every
possible nttitude of antipathy; packages
of Mr.. Rogers patriotic groups in
brown paper, suffering from a hemor-
rhage of saw-dust, and looking like
Lazarus just emerging from the grave;
a minuet of pianos in the center, with
their limbs-I say it with modesty-
delicately concealed in Whitish dra-
perry; a box of lead pipes; u do. of arLi-
ticial legs; big cooking stove, looking
like a steam engine captured young
and tanned, but suggestive in its pres
ent state oflminte pies in future, when
the great y shall have got its mad up;
photographs of the moon as she ap-
peared when'contsmplating Boston; a
statue of Columbus pointing in the
same direction before he began his
great water-works, like the equestrian
image which Chactas saw on the beach
OF that desolate and lonely island; a
turmoil of brass musical instruments
thrown down pell NELL in a corner, a
most dissolute orchestra on strike, or
a band of serenaders after they had
been "entertained" by the victim; all
these and a" thousand more, amid
papers and dirt, shavings and chips,
hammers and nails, and other diSjectG
1nembrd scattered diffusely about, as if
somebody. had ''goue and done It,"
In the next division of this compart-
ment, for being the largest, it is separa-
ted in the middle, is another array sim
iIarly "disposed." Here are three "last
arguments of kings" and may add of
Republics also, in the shape of two can
nous and mortar of terrific pOrtent
that ends frowning. Near it, like the
sheep looking into the mouth of the big
gun in Landseers 8 famous painting of
"Peace," stands a large tin stove boiler,
such as the 6tdMchisSenSeS of Yankee
dom, "the Wards and Peaseleys," are
prone to use for the weekly washing
when they turn the whole household
upside down, "and with the center mix
the pole" sa,-
On table, consorting with dozen
empty jars, and two cases Of skeleton
leaves, mere anatomies and labored
nothlnES, then row of photographs,
then wall of "huge asppct terrific. u
with divers specimens OF house-paper.
and beneath and OH every hand n nul.
titude of other bits of slirewd iurenui-
ty and American thrift wasting their
sweetness, as yet, in multiplicity of
arrangements. In the middle, and u
great deal larger and rOunder than the
shield of my fathers, or exc that OF
Achilles, stood an orrery with vast
gilt ball in the center, representing the
U(pfsing) Sum. 81
AS 1 looked, Sol was Just being put in
position and told to stand round by a
bona fde Yankee Josh in solemn swal-
low-tail and wide-awake, with an uir ol
absorption and sagacity like that OF Mr..
Oldbuck, when he was studying the
principles of Julius Ctesar's castreme-
tatlon: 1t struck me that he regarded
himselfas the original proprietor of that
lumlnary, or had at least n vested in
tcrest in 1t; Perhaps he had discovered
q new wash for removing the spots from
its face that no respectable solar system
should be without.
At his left were no.end camp.stools
| of a nav natthrn. ON their nnn,n nndS