Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-29

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ting with an old coquette. This portrait
model is considered the best specimen
of Madam rs talent in the collection.
Washington was excellent, taken from
one of the best paintings, his hand ex-
tended as if speaking. Mary Queen Of
Scots, John Knox, Livingstone,
MARTIN LUTHER,
Stanley, the Shah of Persia, and all the
British kings and queens from William
the Conqueror to Victoria. Every
one is arranged in an easy position.
whether sitting or standing. The golden
chamber contains the relics of Napoleon
|. The room is fitted up in the style of
that time. The camp bed used by him
during his seven years at ST. Helena is
included. He is represented as lying in
state in his Chasseur uniform, covered
with the cloak he wore at Marengo. The
likeness OF the Emperor is from the orig
inal cast from his face by Antomarchi,
his surgeon. His coronation robe is here
as is that of Empress Josephine, the era
die of his son, the king, and in it is his
model taken from the eel ebrated picture
by the Baron Gerard. The walls are
hung with fine paintings of the different
members of his family: Napoleon, jose
phine, Marie, Louise, Madam Mere (his
mother), Prince Lucion, Princess Caro-
line, Jerome, Louis and Princess Paul
inc, who Canova chose as the most
PEERLESS MODEL OF BEAUTY
in face and form in all Europe. His
military carriage taken ut Waterloo--
f2,500 was paid for it. Everything he
had ever used seemed to be treasured
there The chamber of horrors was full
of dreadful murderers and assassins and
their wives. all looking as life-like as if
there in person. No one would wish to
enter that room but once. In small
room was a model of the Bastile in Par
is, the key of which now hangs in the
hall at Mt. Vernon, presented to Wash
ington by Lafayette. A model of the
gulllotine and the original knife that de-
capitated y, 000persons, among them the
unfortunate Louis XVI, Marie Antoin-
cite and much of the best blood of
France. There are more than two humid
red iigures.i
Madam Tussard was native of the
city Of Berne, in Switzerland. AT the age
of six she was sent to Paris and placed
under the care of NJ. Curtis, the artist to
Louis XVI, by whom she was instructed
in the fine arts, of which he was an en-
inent professor. In 1902 she left France
and exhibited her collection of figures
in the principal towns of Great Britain
and Ireland, and for more than twenty
years in London. She died in 1850.
PARLIAMENT AND WESTMINSTER.
Nov. S-Went with DIR. Thompson
and Miss Root to the houses of Parlia-
ment and Westminster. This splendid
building must be seen to be appreciated.
We enter through the new yard and
Westminster Hall. 1t is the largest
hall in the world not supported by pill
lars except the Hall of Reason at Padua.
1t is 300 feet long and 6S feet wide. The
roof is the best piece of scientific carpen-
terry known. Here are still held the four
courts-Chancery Queens Bench, Ex-
chequer and Common Pleas. Here also
the ancient Kings of England held their
Parliament A stairway leads down to the
Crypt, where st. Stephens Chapel still
remains perfect. The church above was
destroyed in 1912. 1t had been used for
various purposes till the new parliament
houses were erected and was then re-
stored TO its former glory. What must
it have been six hundred years ago, as
judged from what it is now. The beau
tiful painted windows are illustrative of
the life and death of St. Stephen. tits
ninety feet long and twenty feet high.
Where window used to be in the east
end is now paneled with full length fg-
ures on gold ground, The floor is
PAVED WITH MINTURN TILES
and ma bile, and The designs increase in
richness and elaboration toward the west
end. The altar cloth is very beautiful.
At the south end is the baptistry octapor
in shape and decorated in harmon, with
the chapel. Upon the threshold is an
inciSed plan of Noah's ark with figures
on the sides. The pavementis laid with
tiles and marbles having eight inciseG
heads of the persons who were in the
ark. The bowl of the font is of alabas
ter, the shaft of different marbles. and
the base of wood, stone md PurbeC
marble. Having already procured oul
tickets (gratis) ut the Lord Chamber.
lain's office, we assembled long flight
of stairs into the lobby, corridors and
ante-rooms of the House of Lords and
House of Commons, which strike YOU as
small and crowded from the height and
immensely ofthe building on the outside.
Every room is beautiful with paintings
and statuary and quantities of gliding.
THE ROYAL GALLERY,
where visitors are admitted to see the
Queen and royal procession pass from
the robing room to the house of peers is
lined the entire length Nth seats and
the walls decorated with a chronology
eally arranged series of subjects from
English history. At the princes cham