Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-02
From our Regular Correspondent.
Paris. July 8, 1873.


PARIS, July 9, 1878.
Much interest now centers in the Retro
spectiYe Exhibition at the Trocadero, and
to-day we will visit it to make brief ex
animation of the antique and medieaval
displays of Portugal, before we pass to
the detached and interesting shows facing
the hull opposite the Champ de Mars. In
Portugal we have people whose history is
greater than their map. 1t was one of the
most glorious of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. There are before us memorials
of its great poets, Of its bold nsvigators,
of its venturesome eonquestadOrs, of its
chiTalrous heroes, and enlightened princes
of the olden time. The eclipse came with
the denomination Of Phillip IL, Of the
House of Austria, which was elected by
revolutionary movement in the time of
Cromwell. Dom Pedro of Brazil is the
heir, according to the spirit Of those
princes, and he is splendid living illustra-
ton of the Atirist theory-qualities Of
the race which had given it peculiar lustre,
after lying cryptic for ages, reappeared in
him, and in tropical atmosphere not pro-
pitious to mental or moral Yigor. On the
missal OF one of these Portuguese princes,
eotemporary of Henry VIII, we find
brought into the ornamentation of the
borders, mathematical instruments, charts
and nautical appliances. In the cathedral
of Coimbra, am told that statues of men
distinguished in literature, science and
craftsmanship, are fitted in the inches.
Portugal is in the path of steady progress.
Her primary schools are as good as those
OF any other European people; the maps
executed by their pupils are very meritori-
GUS. In this collection is bed made by
a Lisbon artisan and decorated by the pen
ell Of RapheaI, Its estimated value is S00,-
900 fr. but it is not for sale. Here also is
a desk veneered with sandal wood. 1t is
unique in its kind, and at the fall of No
rocco in 1911 was taken out of the palace
Of Mulay Mahomed, by Nuno Voz de Cas-
tile, Spanish knight in the Portuguese
service. From desk of this shape and
height, long-legged stools and literary hab-
its are to be inferred. Next let US glance
at the elegantly shaped faienes vessels, the
rich old Indian carpets and shawls sent
from Portuguese merchants at Genoa to |
lady chapees in their own country, and ct
the filigree jewels worn by sister of the
Charles the fifth. Genoa may
haYe borrowed her manufacture of fligree
ornaments from Lisbon.
In the Spanish, Portuguese, Egyptian,
and other foreign exhibitions of retrespec.
tive industrial art. visitors are allowed to
make sketches in their note books. They
have not the same liberty in the French
sections. There is there strict rule for
bidding them 70 reproduce what they see
in any manner or form, and pains are
taken to keep out these persons who appear
to have serious or absorbing work to attend
to. 1t is to be regretted that NJ. Krantz,
who has charge Of this department, should
have allowed the noble exhibitors to make
their own terms. The market value of
most Of the things in the left wing Of the
frocaderO has been enhanced by admission
70 1t. The public pays fer the building in
which they are exhibited, and care is taken
Inat the public shall reap no benefit from
tne outlay. Twenty-Five visitors at time
are admitted, and only from noon till 4
O'Clock.
Among the isolated buildings ON the
Trocadero side Of the Seine, we find an
Algerian and Tuniscian palace, a jan
snese peasants house and garden, a Chi.
nese bazaar and wealthy merchants res
idenoe, Norwegian country residence,
built of woods pattern of excellent car
pentry. The Anthropological museum
showing how the human skull has devel-
oped since the age Of stone, and the Pa
vilion of the Shah Of Persia. There are
N the anthrOpOlogical collection skulls and