Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-27

GnaG Sixty centuries Will make sad
havoc with mans most enduring
monuments. On the walls near BY
are many excellent photographs of
Cairo, and the pyramidal group,
showing their symmetry and the ac-
curate knowledge of engineering
necessary for their construction.
In the center before the portal is
stretched out one of the Niles larg-
est crocodiles, so nicely mounted,
that at one end the spectator in
stinctiyely keeps q respectable DIS
tance from the wide spreading jaws
of the monster, while at the other
many a visitor has quickly turned
aside to avoid what seemed an i'm
mediately impending stroke of heavy
cased tail.
On the other side stands the door
of the inner sanctuary of an ancient
Mosque carved and inlaid with ivory,
pearl and ebony in the most antique
patterns, so indicative of religious
sentiment that the plain English let
ters at its base seem sacreligious in
the highest degree. Beyond on the
same side are arrayed wind and
string instruments and drums of the
most ancient forms which are known
to have been used, old coats of mail
not stiff and heavy such as the cru
saders wore, but woven in the form
Of shirts of links of finest steel, ele-
plants tusks and oriental woods.
The center space is filled with plain
cases of royal equestrian parapher
MALTA, heavy with gold thread, silks,
red pottery from upper Egypt, books
printed in the modern Egyptian, to-
bacco, raw silk and large variety of
cocoons, the translation of the Egyp
tian word for cocoon being "the sep
ulchre of the silk worm,' and nu-
merouS ornamental and useful arti-
cleS in horn, tortoise shell and ivory.
The Khcdive has sent an exhibition
of salt, showing how that most use
full product is obtained within his !
realms, by allowing brakish water to
drip slowly upon inverted tufts of
coarse grass or millet, upon the !
branches of which by evaporation of
the water, salt crystals are formed. |
The finest specimens of this collec-
ton are two elaborately carved and
inlaid armories of pearl, sandlewood,
ivory, and having stelacite dOmes Of
the blackest ebony as side pieces to
them are numerous inlaid chairs,
racks and boxes, and two Arabian
doors inlaid with light triangular fig
ures upon dark back ground, pat
tern totally unique.
or course the Turkish area, which |
is the next has for its walls, ceiling
and carpeting rugs and mats of every
variety of color and quality, from the
coarse straw mats fit only for the
humblest cot, to the finest and most
beautiful, fit for u palace.
Tobacco demands the next largest
OF space, and is there in every
natural and manufactured from the
genuine Turkish, being on sale at
eight and ten dollars pound.
The Turks seem very fond of all
filagree work as well as the Sclaves
and the Italians, but their use of
gold instead of silver, and their work
is not as airy or their designs so at
tractive as those of their western
insignificant trinkets
and beads appear to occupy an i'm
portant in Turkish industry, judging
from the large cases of those wares,
from Abraham's oak,
olive, cedar and other woods
which readers of scripture alone are
familiar with. In their pottery they
have chosen most grotesque and un-
calmly forms and for coloring en-
ploy green and black almost en-
tirely. Il,
There is rich exhibit of Turkish
leather and perhaps the finest part Of
the collection are the silk grenadines,
gauzes and heavy stufls, the coloring
md the patterns Of which are inter
between the Chinese and
,he French, and in effect is far infe-
'ior to either.