Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-01

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QUEEN ISABELLA TO CHRIsToPHER Co
LUMBUs-THE FIRST PIANo-SCENEs FROM
/ SCANDINAvIAN FOLK LIFE.
From our regular Correspondent
PARIS, July 22d, 1873.
The retrospective art gallery of the
palace of the TrOcadero is at last open to
visitors. It issa collection of about 2OO,-
600 exhibits such as has never been seen,
in so great profusiOn, on our side the wa
| ter, and will not be seen for a thousand
/ years or until the telephone, steam engine,
sewing-machtne and Gatling gun shall
have taken their places among the curl
Gus relics of a remote civilization. A Wis
itor from America, unless he has some
| special object in view, had better waste
no time waiting until his turn comes to
enter the crowded left wing of the palace,
but turn to the right, traverse the porticoI
Of the rotunda, and proceed to the right
wing. On his way he will, from the ar
cade, admire the splendid panorama
spread out before him, and stop for mo-
ment in the central balcony to look down
upon the artificial cascades. However
hot the weather, the air is freshened here
by the dense spray thrown high in air by
the fountains. On the first floor of the
left wing, Spanish retrospective exhibit
ton was inaugurated last week by Don
Francisco. de Bourbon, the husband of
Donna Isabella. The staircase leading to
it is hung with antique carpets manufac-
tured in the Low Countries, and what is
now French Flanders, for Philip the
Handsome of Austria, brother-in-law of
Catharine of dragon, for Charles the v,
and Philip the second. In the lobby to
the right there is an photographic collec-
ton showing the styles and costumes of
every province of Spain. Facing them
are the fresco pictures of Goya, transfer
red from the walls of a house in Madrid,
and brought to the Trocadero to be exhib-
tied and perhaps sold. Goya was a eote1n=
pOrary of Vatican. But what a differ
ence of style! He was one of the most
audacious colonists that ever lived and
was imbued with the spirit of the coming
revolution. When Victor Hugo was a
boy at Madrid GOya died there at the age
of SO. The Spanish painter was the pre-
cursor of the Romantic school which,
however, knew nothing about him, until
TheOphile Coulter made an artistic explo-
ration across the Pyrenees. Two dunn
mics, clad in the armor.of the sfxteenth
century, guard the door of this Spanish
museum. They are the commencement
of series of armOrs exquisitely wrought
in steel and in precious metals Charles
the Y, in the coat of mail which he wore
on the day of his victorious entrance into
Tunis, is in the center. The great EN-
peror is astride Flemish, horse with a
cross Of Arab blood, and covered, like his
rider, with steel plates in repousse work
nlanship. His charger is elevated on
square pedestal, and is modelled from an
cient medals and pictures. At the corners
of the pedestal are the efigies OF four
mailed warriors. One is that of Alva.
His armor, which can be seen at the Tro-
eadero, was sold to a French jew for
500, eco francs by the 5brother-in-lawSo of
the Empress Eugenie, to pay a gambling
debt of his wife. The second coat of
mail is of damascened metal, and was a
present to Christopher Columbus by Isa-
bella of Castillo. Boafdils silvercasque,
the sword of Charles the V, the arms of
John of Austria and Ferdando Cortes are
also in this collection. We again come to
a series of TAPESTRIES; they are French,
and were made in the 18th century when
Vandyke and Rubens painted for the
weavers of Burgess and Brussels. Those
| interested in pottery should look we'll at
the Spanish Arab ceramics, one of. which
is a &ase OF great size, enamened insthe
style of the one taken from the Alhambra.
An antique Portuguese bed,, the property
ofthe Due de Santas, is perhaps the most
valuable of any of the wonderful things
exhibited in this wing, for Rapheal de-
signed the pictorial medallions and Orna-
ments decorating it,. Among the musical
! instruments there is one made by B.
Christopher, the inventor of the instru-
ment, for Spanish Queen. She had en-
ployed (the legend says) Christopher to
quiet the melancholy spirit that troubled
her royal household. To reproduce the
musical effects of the Italian choruses, he
taxed hisingenuity and mechanical geni
US. The piano.forte rewarded the Queens
patronage and the inventors labor
| we nave no" F0dcnSO Gl0 emu OF the
gallery from which we descend by a
flight of steps to the photographic exhi-
bition of the Scandinavian peoples. We
find here skulls, skeletons, Runic inscrip-
tions, and interiors of huts, houses and
tents, with costumed figures, as large as
life, representing the inhabitants by a Sc
ries of striking tableaux, such as were
exhibited in the Swedish and Norwegian
departments at Philadelphia. IA Fair
Day at Mora" embraces a great variety of
women, girls, and children of a. remote
province, where simple ways prevail and
patriarchal customs are kept up. ssThe
Child's Last Bed is composed from a
picture of Lundgrin. The scene is in
Delacarlia. A mother is placing baby
she has just lost in acoffin. Another child
is sitting near in its cot, wondering what
it is all about, while godfather and god
mother, with neighbors and relations OF
; the little departed, are standing near a
girl of seven or eight years, who probably
minded it often, runs forward to place a
rattle and some other toys in the coffin
'sAn Offer of Marriage is also taken from
painting of Lundgrin. c. A. S.
Republican Doctrine
.at. -s.aal ~ l
Sound money, good wages for day.
r work, the prosecution of public improve