Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-01-09

spear. The bride is in rustic, but gay
costume, and both are adorned Will
sunny smiles. They are very life.
like. A bible, bound in velvet aud
silver, is Of large size and worth $3.50
There are complete sets of silver Jew
elry of rare beauty. Many Of the de-
partments were hurried through by
our party. and we only glanced hasti.
~ at them. In France / saw $40
600 Diamond Necklace and a $40 O6C
Diamond CorOnet. In Spain Brocade
Woolens at $40 per metre, equivalent
to nearly four hundred dollars per
yard. In Portugal fine display OF
cuts, type and other printing material
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
/ found very rich and unexpectedly
interesting in their exhibit. 1t was
plain that higher civilization had been
stamped on the industries of those
strange people, who at first befriended
Capt Cook and then skinned him.
There are fine exhibits of Coral =; a
mosaic table, worth $3.50 J; sugars.
rice and cotfees beautifully stuffed
birds OF rare plumage grasses woven
into a net singularly covered rope g.
immense samples of sugar cane; beau
tItul wooden ware : mineral sDpci-
mems that in their variety and rich
ness astonished me +; n cloak made of
the bark of the Bread fruit tree and
trimmed profusely with sea shells 4:
handsome oil paintings of the Wailu
ku Valley and of the great crater
Halea Kala, volcanic mountain ten
thousand feet high, the crater being
twenty-seven miles in circumference.
The agricultural articles are aston
ishing. / left the Sandwich Islands
greatly astOnished at their develop
ment.
PERU.
Here we are in the Egypt of Ameri-
ca. the land of mummies in the new
world, the golden empire of the Incas,
and, next to Mexico, the seat of the
mightiest civilization which preceded
the discovery of A merica by Euro
peans. Memory and fancy, locked in
their mutual embrace, go roaming
through the ages az | pass among the
relics of this curious people. The
reader will please to note the fact that
the only two nations that ever erect
ed a civilized government in Ameri-
ca without the aid of Europeans, were
those of Mexico and Peru, and these
chose the two countries richest in gold
and silver. Copper comes next to sill
yer, and the copper mines of Lake
Superior came very near developing
civilization in the distant ages beyond
Columbus. So we had as well con-
clude that the rich metals have some
thing powerful to do with the develop
ment of man. 1t was a good thing for
Cain that he fled to the land of Nod,
for there were metals there.
| was first attracted by the head of
the Gems Book. an animal with two
very long, black and beautifully ia
pered horns running backward over
the neck, shoulders and spine of the
animal. They must be at least six
feet in length Beautiful inlaid tables
are abundant. Mummies there are
that grin and glare with their eyeless
sockets, often toothless jaws, blaeken-
ed skins and protruding bones in the
most revolving manner. Some of
them are little children, Others grown
persons, aud all are blackened as
though they had been smoked in
chimneys. If appearances are worth
any thing they must be as old as the
flood. l saw nothing like these any
where in the exhibition and a feeling
of loneliness and awe stole over me us
Rome. Their hands are crossed upon
their breasts and the hair, though
brown and dead to all appearance, was
otherwise well preserved. The skin
is drawn tightly across the skeletons.
Large quantities of gold aud silver
ores are exhibited, "a were fine spec-
mems of earthenware of the color of
iron and very finely finished.
l saw a wire bust of President
Grant, the hair and beard being of
gold and the flesh of silver, and con
strued this rs an evidence of their
modern advancement in art, without
reference to taste, as | doubted wheth-
er the royal line OF Incas, that in the
past ages adorned that country, ever
heard of our great Ulysses S. the First
There are many quaint and very
odd vessels to he seen. Some of them
were surmouuted with images and
human heads. Others represented
jugs with double mouths. and all were
rudely. but Enthusiastically ornamented.
Here l met with the finest Panama
hat | have ever seen value $500.
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