Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-22
OSTRICH EGGS AND PIPES.
Some OF the Curious Exhibits TO be
Seen in the Shop Windows.

Any one who keeps his eyes open can
learn good deal, especially if he keeps
them directly toward the shop Windows
of the principal business streets of
great city. Shop windows and show
cases contain nearly all the materials
(which make up the worlds fairs and
industrial expositiOns. and they are to
be seen at all times and without admiS-
sion fee.
4 section of this permanent eXhibi-
ton. which is just now of more than
ordinary interest, is contained in the
windows of mineralogist and dealer in
precious stones and curiOS on IRE
mont street. In the midst of an at
tractlve array of Brazilian agates, Bur
mese amber, set stones, antique earth
enware, ivory carvings from India and
vases from Japan, is to be found
large ana elaborately carved pipe, which
was to have been presented to the poet
Longfellow, but which was not finished
until after his death.
4 German residing in Illinois, and
named Hermann, was the artist who
designed and carved the bowl, employ
ing for the purpose red Indian pipe
stone, such as Longfellow referred to In
his poem of ''Hiawatha," from which
poem the carver is supposed to have
drawn the inspiration for his task. As
"Gitche Manito, the mighty" descended
On the Mountains of the prairie,
ON n. great Red Pipes,one Quarry.
so descended Mr.. Hermann, and
From the red stone OF the quarry
With his hand he broke fragment,
Moulded IL into pipehs ad,
Shaped and fashioned II with figures;
From the margin of the river
Took long reed for aplpestem,
With its dark green leaves upon II.
The bowl of the pipe is five inches
long, and it is carved to represent the
face of an Indian with closed eyes, sur
rounded by leaves and ferns. The pipe
has a long stem of wood, covered with
the bark and trimmed with feathers.
Another exhibit in this section OF the
permanent worlds fair of Boston is a
collection of ostrich eggs, each of which
is covered with pictures executed by
native South African artists.
Upon one of the eggs pictures oil va
rious animals and birds are drawn IN
style showing no influence OF foreign or
civilized tuition. The figures are shaded
with scratches in the surface OF the
egg shell, filled in with some black sub
stance. The scratches in the drawings
are crude and painfully regular, al
lowing only guess at the creature Ill.
tended to be represented. No attempt
is made at grouping or systematic ar
raDgement of the pictures in any way,
hut each seems to have been drawn
fnrtnd for another
effigy. This decoration was the work
of a Bushman, belonging to one OF the
savage tribes in the remote interior oil
Africa.
The illustrations upon another OF the
eggs show the influence Of a civillzatioh
a Stage further advanced than that Oh
the preceding. Alternating with groups
of strange flowers strangely colored are
fipures of natives of South Africa
nainted in crude colors and in more or
less stiff and artificial attitudes. a
Zulu warrior, who would be recogniza-
HE from his shield and spears without
tbe title lettered underneath, stands IN
photograph-gallery pose upon one
side, while Malay frult-seller, IN an
eccentric suit of clothes, stands upon
the other. The pictures executed IN
colors are from the hands of kafflrs,
semi-ciyilized natives, who live In the
vicinity of the South African towns;
a salesman in the store was asked
regarding the various exhibits.
sThe ostrich eggs" he said, were
sept 10 ms from South Africa with an
invoice of ostrich feathers. We are
selling them at $3.50 each though PLAIN
eggs. without pictures, generally sell az
onjy Sl.5O. The Longfellow pipe is
marked at S25, and experts say 1t Is py
no no means dear. at that price, in view OF
the quality of the workmanship"