The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-07-28

cross, with tho motto "ln hoe siylao
oi"ces." Then there is great storo
OF cross-bows and bolts, shields,
maces and doublo-handed swords,
all with historic associations. Aud
''bombards,"' or
MoRTARs OF LEATHER,
lined inside with tightly plated COR
dage ahd leather bands, and which
actually threw shelly with effect at
the siege of Tunis. Then como q
row of great crescent topped LAM
terms that used to blaze over tho
Stems Of Turkish flag ships, troph:
los that even England, Quccn of tho
ocean, mi ight well be proud Of. And
next helmet with perforated nosoA
piece for breathing Through, said to
have belonged to Attilat tho Hun
(Which I doubt), and the full suit Of
armor and helmet and rnR glorious
white plume which Henry of Ma
varre mado the Orihamme of France
at Ivry, Of which there is no doubt,
because he presented it himself to
the Venetian Republic.' Around
these hang many Turkish banners
and Pashas' horse tails, taken in
Fenico's constant wars with that
power. And here aro most interS
csting collection of revolving mus
kets, pistols and cannon of the tif>
teenth and sixteenth centuries, in
cludng the particular one from
which Colt, in this very museum, is
said to have taken his iden, and GER
talnly was seen to take elaborate
drawings, before tho weapon boarl
ing his name ever became known to
the world An intorcstin g souvenir
IS the model Of -, ....,
a FLOATING BATTERY,
invented and built by Admiral Angelo
Emo vt the siege of Tunis, whom,
his own fleet being wrecked and
entirely destroyed in u great storm,
he, undcspairing, made Of its frag-
ments this raft of barrels, covered
with q platform, with projections
.traYerses of sandbags for the gum
ncrs, behind which he planted the
leathern mortar" T have 'described
(hls own guns wero all ut tho bot
tolW ana thus compelled surrender
and made himself famous and got q
glorious monument from Conova's
chiscl with these doughty deeds III
0as relief. And here are the silver
keys of the arsenal on a golden sal
vcr, by which possession of the city
was sadly turned over to Napoleon,
and long afterwards, joyfully, by
these very omblems, to Victor En-
manuel. But I fear that in this
chorming museum I am gctting into
the bad: habit of descriptive cata-
loguing. .""''r/ - .->
HISTORY AND ROMANCE OF THE PLACE
What q flood of associations;
mingled from history and romance,
Pours upon the fancy as one wanders
through the streets and paddles
around tho CANALS of the proud,
sorrowful Qucello of tho Adriatic, tho
city Of g thousand years! Can you
not SEQ in yonder' coffee house,
Marco Polo and his brother telling
of their wonderful wanderings in
distant unknown lands, of the riches
of tho Court. Of Moguls, ind the
mighty Tartar empire, and the great
countries of China and Japan, where
they had printing and gunpowder.
which they try to describe to their
incredulous' audiences, and got set
down as liars I35or cncelloasce for
centuries, except by a few" whose
minds become SO influenced by their
stories that they try to find watory
way to those Indies by sailing west
ward, and find q new world instoadl
And Dandolo, sitting in tho perch of
the palace, tells how ho stormod the
byzantine Emperor's palace from
the yard-arrn Of his galley. And
Moronzi and Carlo Zeno relate of
victories over the Turks in the IPelo-
ponessus or in the distant "Crimoa,
and of thousands of Christian Cap
tiyes released from tho oar: And
.thht wretch just escaped from cdp,
tivivity tells to tho Horror stricken
crowd how brave Bragadino was
faycd alive; and beautiful Cathe-
rino Conaro, who has given Up her
realm of Cyprus to,become Vene-
tian citizen, pauscs compassionately