The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-08

Treasures of the Trocadero Palace.
To analyze in detail this admirable
museum is impossible; all thGt l will
pretend to is q bird 's-eye view of its
treasures, the most worthy of attention.
First on the list is the collection of arms
and medals belonging to Mr.. Caroponos,
dating back to the utmost limits of his
toric times. Here are Epirote auto
graphs on lead and copper, found in the
temple of Dodona, acts for the purchase
and acknowledgements of slaves, DEGREES
of the Molossi, etc., all traced with q
stylus, and legible only to professors OF
hieroglyphics. M. Alphonse de Roths-
child has 40 pieces of Italian faience,
estimated at over 100000 francs.
Adolphe de Rothschild shows two Ven
etian bronzes that cost over 800, 700
francs, and an enamel, not larger than
a silver dollar, valued at $4,000 francs.
A magnificent casket in the collection
of Gustave de Rothschild was purchased
from a Spanish grandee, the Duke de
X, who had offered it for 10000 francs
to that great antiquarian, Strauss, by
whom it had been refused on the ground
that the owner, being minor, had no
right to sell. "Buy my watch, then"
said the impecunious nobleman; 81
have not louis in my pocket" But
MIR. Strauss was obdurate, although he
is moved to tears now when he sees the
coveted treasure in the possession of a
rival. Eighteen marble bas-reliefs,
bought by Mr.. Splitter for 100000
francs, were for years in the back shop
of a dealer in bric-a-brac, in the Rue
| Lepeltier, named Couvreur who only by
accident discovered their value. NJ
Strauss. even if he did miss the Spanish
casket, has one of the most curious collec-
tons; his particular hobby is in objects
connected with the Jewish faith. Some
of these are of great antiquity; one, a
tabernacle, dates from the year 5000, q
marriage contract from the year 1900,
and with them collection of Candida
bra with seven and eight branches, ia
bles of the law, wedding and betrothal
rings, etc. By a strange coincidence
if IL was not an intentional courtesy to
this learned Israelite-the Gobelins
tapestry above M. Strauss's exhibition is
q picture Of the passage of the Red Sea
by the Hebrews. To use the conse-
Grated phrase of the enthusiastic French
man: " You can mount the stream of
timen in this strange gallery-not al
ways, though, with the same interest in
every case. The age of stone is curious
but not amusing, with its flint arrow
heads and bits OF bone and fragments of
chariot wheels, supposed to have belong
ed to Gallo warriors at an epoch ante
rior to the Roman conquest, and few
incredulous souls ask whether it is be-
yond doubt that the distinguished anna
teur from the provinces who shows a
case, Z" Objects having belonged to a
soldier''-a skull and a high-bone-
perfectly justified in assigning them to
! the same individual, or whether this in
dividual might not have been a respect
able farmer of the time, instead of, as
he says, man of WARP have not space
to describe Mr.. Riggs's collection Of ar
NOR, and of the Basilewski contribution
will only notice his recent acquisition of
china plate, with portrait of Charles
| ", for the modest trifle of &c, 900 francs.
DIR. Mandi exhibits 500 pieces of delft !;
among these is an immense plate
representing Chinese fair with all
the tricks of modern Japanese Jug
glery-the wrestler the man with
the bamboo, the child in a basket, all
of which, it seems, were practiced in
the Empire of the Celestials $50 wears
ago. The case of musical instruments is
extremely curious, and amateurs of vio-
Inns linger around specimens of Stradi-
varius and Guarnerius--three of these
are Waived at $4,000 francs. Mr.. Bena-
yet shows bass-viol which he could sell
tomorrow for 10000 francs, and Mr..
Jaques Herr is kind enough to delight
the ears of all particularly distinguished
visitors by an air of Roccherini, played
upon a harpsichord from the ancient
royal chateau of Blois. Nine. Louis
! Viardot is the proud owner of the origin
al manuscript score of s'Don Giovanni, -
entirely written by Mozart himself, and
Nine. Pauline Viardot, not to be out
done by any of her family, calls your at
tention to carefully sealed packet in
closing a lock of Mozart's hair. Let
us nope that the lock is really there,
but certain skeptics would prefer, if they
can not handle, at least to be able to see
this precious relic. As statistics are al
ways good as proofs of the interest of
the public in any thing, l need only say
that in spite of the pouring rain On Sun
day and Monday, over $4,000 visitors
were admitted to this gallery each day,
and as only 25were allowed in at time
there was crowd waiting their turn at
the doors such is seen at the great thea
tiers for the first performance of some
attractive spectacle.-NeW York Times
Paris Letter.