Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

A priest who has travled much in Europe,
said he never before seen nor heard of a
Catholic church with a Hebrew inscrip-
ton. This new cdiice will be very hand.
some and quite a relief to the tourist,
who sees old thing until, as a bright
young lady expressed it, one almost feels
the moss grow over them.
Indians are to be seen on the street
every day. Not the noble red nan Of
ones imagination, but the dirty, miser-
able specimens of real life. Few of them
speak English, but if you ask them the
price of the wares they sell, they car find
plenty of ways Of letting you know, all
about the bargain which will bring them
the wherewithal to purchase fire water
and taw dry ornaments. Their dress is
a sort of mixture. They wear pants, and
sometimes coats, but either in cap, sash
or a scarf they show that the love for
gay colors is still natural to them. They
have become civilized enough TO charge
good round prices for all their wares and
derive a close bargain. There is quite a
large Indian village about ten miles from
Santa Fe.
Fort Marcy is n of the comparatively
modern things of Santa Fe. Only one
regiment is quartered there now and
they seem to be taking life very easy.
This morning at q o'clock the cavalry
drilled, and at Q there was a dress par
ade, but it is not improbable that the
boys in blue find time hangsheavily upon
their heads and some times they so far
forget their country as to indulge in a
lively Irritation with the female tourists
who are here to-day but gone tomorrow.
For ever soldiers are only poor weak men,
and everybody knows how seductive
brass buttons always prove to romantic
young women who forgot to recall
the fact that soldiers as well as
sailors have numerous s~weethearts.
The tortio millennium is a thing of the
past and the exposition soon will be. 1t
was not a very big show. The art gal
lery was quite interesting. The pictures
were old, awfully old, and evidently took
a sort of artistic license. There was a
picture of Adam and Eve in the garden.
The father and mother of the human
race were attired in the raiment nature
had provided, but the evil one wore
boots, which would seem to indicate that
there were shoemakers at a very early
period. Another exhibition of this ar
tistic license was seen in a picture which
represented a standing upon the
ground, and her arm was around the top
of what was supposed to be a
very tall tower. Evidently the
master whose brush produced this
picture lived ut the time when giants
peopled the earth. The pictures were
old, at least they looked ancient, but
they were frightful to look upon, and we
felt very thankful that Denver was only
a quarter of a century old, and that the
art gallery at the Exposition contained
new, fresh, clean canvasses, instead of
works of masters whose antiquity dates
back nobody knows or cares how far.
Santa Fe is interesting and old, but
old age brings many disagreeable things
in its train, and while it is all very pleas
ant to linger tor a while in the grave of
the past centuries, it would be tedious
enough to drag out an existence in a place
whose past was its all. Before one had
lived twenty-five years it could not be
wondered at if one imagined Noah and
the other Biblical heroes were personal
acquaintance. l.. L.. IL.