The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-18
OSTRICH EGGS AND PIPES.
Some of the Curious Exhibits to d
Seen in the Shop Windows.

Any one who keeps his eyes open can
learn a good deal, especially If he keeps
them directly toward the shop windows
of the principal business streets of a
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 G at all times and without admls-
sion fee.
A section of this permanent exhibit
ton, which is just now Of more than
| ordinary interest, is contained in the
windows of a mineralogist and dealer in
precious stones and curios on Ire
mont street. In the midst of an at
tractIve array of Brazilian agates, Bur
mese amber, set stones, antique earth
enware, ivory carvings from India and
vases from Japan, is to be found a
large AMI deliberately carved pipe, which
was to have been presented to the poet
Longfellow, but which was not finished
until after his death.
A 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 Mantle, the mighty" descended
on the Mountains OF the prairie,
on thu great Red Pipestone Quarry.
SO descended Mr.. Hermann, and
From the red stone OF the quarry
With his hand he broke a fragment,
Ngo,LAaA IL iufn q ninRh nd
Shaped and fashioned II with ngureSi
From the margin OF the river
Took a long reed for a pipestem,
With It's dark green leaves upon l..
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 10y
native South African artists.
Upon one of the eggs pictures OF va
rious animals and birds are drawn in a
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 a guess at the creature In
tended to be represented. No attempt
is made at grouping OF systematic ar
rangement of the pictures in any way,
but each seems to have been drawn
wherever room was found for another
efigy. This decoration was the work
of a Bushman, belonging to n of the
savage tribes in the remote interior oil
Africa.
The illustrations upon another OF the
eggs show the influence Of a civilization
a stage further advanced than that oil
the preceding. Alternating with groups
of strange flowers strangely colored are
figures of natives Of South Africa
painted in crude colors and in more OF
less stiff and artificial attitudes. A
Zulu warrior, who would be recogniza'
BILE from his shield and spears without
the title lettered underneath, stands II
a photograph-gallery pose upon one
side. while a Malay frult-seller, in al
eccentric suit of clothes, stands upon
the other. The pictures executed IL
colors are from the hands of Kaffirs.
semi-civilized natives, who live in the
vicinity of the South African towns.
A salesman in the store was asked
regarding the various exhibits.
1.-THE ostrich eggs" he said, ''were
sent to us from South Africa with al
invoice of ostrich feathers. We are
selling them at $50 each though plain
eggs, without pictures, generally sell a
only $3.50. The Longfellow pipe Ii
marked at S25, and experts say it is by
no means dear at that price, in view o
the quality of the Workmanship"