Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-25
THE LOAN EXHIBITION.
The Museum Association hecei'es %
Cpast i'm tl,e Form of Mummy.


new exhibits Yesterday Those OF Mrs.
Vivian are of exceedingly deep historic ili-
terest New cases were again ordered IN yes
terday to accommodate articles constantly
arriving There was good attendance
Yesterday and fine audience last night
when Miss Nellie Holbrook, OF San fran
cisco, one of the most accomplished O
dramatic readers, and who has national
renutation as an elocutionist, gave
one pathetic. one sentimental and
two humorous selections. The lady
won the audience completely ana
received the heartiest applause. ehe redos
| with remarkable distinctness, with great
yiaor and force. or exceeding gentleness, as
demanded. her voice having great power
and broad range, but being unueT adiillI-
able control. Miss Holbrook pieased SO
greatly that she has been lmportuned 10
remain over one evening more anu slNe
another example of her art tonight at Inc
exhibition. Prof. Emil Dreyfus played a
violin solo last evening that testlned III q
| strong manner to his musical ability ana
| taste and it was received by the audience
with every mark of approval The orcheS-
| ira now at the gallery Is exciting
much complimentary remark 1or us excel
| lence J. S. Swain, of Jan Francisco,
| fine inimitable mimic and impersonator,
comes up this evening and will appear III
humorous character acts III costume y; a.
Neale will play flute solo fantasia on ADJ
"Sleep Well" He will be accompanied
| by Mrs. Neale on the piano, and by the or
chestra. This is special music number as
| is also clarionet solo by Il. ). Grant.
| Grand Fantasia" The orchestra, Prof.
| Drevfi1s leader will play in additions; Pol
| onaise Meteor" Ross; overture, Eure,
| ka." Boettger; waltz, Pirates OF Penzance,"
sullivan overture, Tonight We
Say Farewell" Schleppergrewi waltz, - Re
membrance of Calsbad," Labitzky; schot-
tische. Happiest When l Dance Catlin;
| Galop de Concert, Bellini. Mrs. Neale and
Miss Gertie Gerrish will play selections upon
| the piano this afternoon i'll the main hall.
| Such a programme, added to the free
entry to the Croker Art Gallery and the
view of all the beautiful and strange ex-
hibits of the Loan Exhibition and the
great pictures by Gerard and by ROsenthal,
| for such a sum as twenty-five cents, is I'M
precedented for the high character and eX-
| ceeding cheapness of the exhibition. Last
| evening Alex. Badlam, of San Francisco,
who has manifested a warm interest in the
| Museum Association and its success, came
up from the Bay to pay the Exhibition
second visit. He was warmly greeted by
the officers. The Association will this
morning place on exhibition mumified
human body; one it received too late yes
terday to prepare for exposure; a genuine
mummy; representing one of the many
| kinds of embalmed or dried forms of pre-
serving the human body from decay. How
old this mummy it, no one knows, but
| that it is of exceeding great age is beyond
all doubt say the society advlces- Com
paratively few people have ever seen
mummy, and this will be the
first time one has ever been exhibited in
Sacramento. 1t will certainly draw hun
dreds of people to see it. The mummy to
be exposed is no~gyptian, though the
drying process appears to have been the
same practiced by the Egyptians while it
has the advantage of exposure of all the
body being free from wrappings and resin
Gus packings usual with the mummies of
Egypt Mrs. Z. B. Croker supplied two
Young women of her household with bou
| quets to dispose of to whomsoever wished
| a knot of flowers, and the proceeds, some
! 50 were turned over TO the Museum Asso-
citation, the Directors thanking the flower
girls heartily for their efforts and Mrs.
Croker for her thoughttulness. 1t Is I'M
| derStoud that n movement IS on foot among
citizens for meeting of business men and
|
Mrs Crocker's endowment, to meet to-
morrow afternoon at clock, at Mr.. Cole
mans Office, to consider plans OF action to
raise the necessary fund.
Among exhibits not before noticed are
these, some of which were entered yester-
dav: Samples made by Miss Lorinda Wash
burn in 1928 old style lady's dress, mitts
over 100 years old, baby's cap and dress.
collar (old Style, parasol brought to Amer
lea in 1S2S-all from Mrs. H. WEIGH; 10
year-Old carving-knite and fork, in constant
use for 70 years medal 20 years old cuff
button and marriage pin, 1928; collection
of Sandwich Island relics and curiosities,
| Mrs. NJ. B. Horne; old copy OF Declaration
Of Independence, and old papers, Mrs. J.
H. Parnell spoons that belonged to the
family of John Hancock, who signed the
| Declaration of Independence; English
penny, 1907; dish that belonged to Mrs.
| Ruth Hancock, and brought from Virginia
in 1907 to Missouri-all the property of
Mrs. y. B. Vivian, whose grandmother was
the niece of John Hancock; badge worn at
the funeral of Lafayette cloth woven in
1850; part of quilt commenced in fT2;
belt worn in 1882; cloth, the cotton of
| which was raised on the Potomac and spun
and woven in 1850; collar over 100
years old old bead collars; booll-mark,
made bv little girl in 1872;
old spool used in weaving petritied rein
deer horn; butter dish eighty five years
old: part of a table set used in 1896 in the
family of John Hancock old hemstitched
collar; hundred-year- sleeves; moccas-
ms given to Mrs. Vivian by her uncle,
Kit Carson; reticuie over 100 years old /;
platter over 100 years old; collar knitted
on two broom straws by an idiot enid in
1854: cotton as growing in Dixie; spoon
L of pIK
bowl owned by the mother of Daniel
/ Boone: wing of hying-fish-all the fore
going by Mrs. n. b. Vivian; cut quartz
pin, with messy negotiations (rare), G. f..
Elliott: collection of lava minerals etc,
Mrs VIM Beckman, and donated to the
Museum Association for its permanent
cabinets; sharks teeth; knife South Sea
Islanders, James Parsons; ninety-yeaT-
cup and saucer, Mrs. W. ". Anderson :
first piece of music published in California,
r. Dale; handwork by an Egyptian lady,
y. Lubin; reptilian bird-track of the sec
oudary geological epoch, an especially
remarkably fine specimen, Mrs. D. S.
Ross; fine specimen of porcelain painting,
Mrs. Horatio Hurd; souvenir of the Alps,
Mrs d. ). Ro S beaut,fu iioly miniatures,
Mrs. u. S Ross: rare old coins, Mrs H.
Hurd; spoon of 18th century, Mrs. d. S.
| Ross; Venetian champagne glasses, Mrs.
+. b. Croker; Australian bird, Miss
: Crouch; letter from Princess Charlotte to
the Princess of Wales, 1916, J. NJ. Houston;
"Hemers Odyssea' 1864, from State liz
brary carving made in French prison
200 years ago, George BOyne; wild flowers,
Mrs. f. b. Croker; china, style of fifty
years ago Mrs. Mary Bell; ear pendants,
California Indians, Mr. r. +. Gogings;
tarantula and its nest from San Bernardino,
Mrs. w. NJ. Lyon; Chinese knife Jas Far
ris. .Jr.; hand fire SC cen 60 years old, Mrs.
Southworth; pillow cases go years old, Mrs.
Davis. Dutch Flat; Union army candle
stick and Confederate army buckle 1861
, Mrs. Chas. McCreary; knapsack. pillow
belt. saber. etc, nth y. Y. Volunteers
civil war 1861, Mrs. S. S. Nixon; fire bel,
1888: ice skates, teakettle 80 years old
vertebre of whale, Mrs. S. S
Nixon; mosaic from Mosque o.
St Sophia, Mrs. Chas. McCreary
, saber worn by HusSar in the seven-years
+ war-l756- 63-donated to the museum by
Lieutenant Shoemaker, of the Sacramento
HusSars; Connecticut paper shilling, 1776
Dr. G. L. Simmons; kensington picture o
eighty years ago, by Mrs. II. {. Kirk
mother. now 80 years of age; General SUIT
tiers sight draft for the last money eyel
paid to him by the State of California, ex
hibitcd by Frank Miller, of ID. o. Mills
Bank original silver certificate, l7I9 franz