Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-30
ABBEY OF KLo8rERNEuBERe.
Tho Treasure Room and Imperial Apart
 ments-Seated on the Throne,

The Treasure Room and Imperial Apart
 ments-seated on the Throne.
 Finally after much waiting and wander ing up and down along chilly corridors and great strong staircases worn with the
 nonastic tread of long ages, it occurred to some of the more commercial menials that they turn an honest kreutzer. So one of the more enterprising waylaid brother little more profusely covered with gold than his fellows, and obtained permission to show me the objects of greatest interest. Several servants ar- ranged among themselves to pass me from hand to hand, to extract and sub divide the greatest amount of fee. Of what I saw I will speak briefly of only the treasure room and imperial apart ments rarely visited. These treasure rooms of conventS, churches and abbeys contain objects of greater or less sim ilarity. There are usually among them the appliances of Catholic church worship richly adorned with precious stones, the skull of some saint blazing with jewels. In this case 1t was that of St. Leopold, the founder of the abbey. The collection is worth many millions of forins, the principal value being in great diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires, many of them embroidered on priestly robes, themselves precious on account of the sanctity of those who once wore them. These treasure rooms are jealously guarded. You enter by ponderous door which yields unwillingly to a key as large as that of the gate of medieval city. The treasure is ranged round the room in great cases, each closed with doors .almosf as heavy, which, thrown open, disclose the objects, the most pre- cious in show cases covered with thick glass.
 was shown the imperial apartments by an aged damel, whose soiled apparel did not correspond with the enormous striking feature of her face were two teeth, which, descending from beneath the upper lip, projected over the neither like the trlsks of a walrUs. They were two of the ''pearls that one time had been stamens 'twixt the pouted petals of her hps," as now forgotten American poet has sung. There was nothing unusually remarkable in connection with the apart ments, except the view across the Dan ube through the long series of windows that lighted them. The polished floors were more slippery than skating rink, and the walls were o1nan1ented with paper or with frescoes or pictures of in- different merit.
 At the corner, at the farther end of the long suit, was the throneroom, circular, lofty and imposing. Its decorations were of a higher order. The view from the windows was superb. seated my self on the vacant throne. The witch smiled approval. Then, quite unex- pectedly, she emitted a series of shrill shrieks, that came back in an alarming volley of echoes from walls and ceilings. One would have thought it was the cave of a sorceress and al the demons were bowling in chorus. Before had fairly recovered from my astonishment she turned toward the windows, and, eX- tending her skinny hand, executed the gyratory movement of a dervish as she pointed through each, and repeated me chanically and simply the words: Weld ling, Leopoldsberg, Florisdorf, Iedlersdorf, Jedlersee, Stammersdorf, Bisambergan- genbrum. They were the names of the hills or towns that were in sight or in the direction indicated. looked back after I had parted from her in the corridor. Her tusks were saving the air as she dropped the keutzers had given her slowly from one wrinkled palm into the other. took a draught of the excellent Khreterneuberger wine in the abbey eel lars in an adjoining street, and taking a last look at the huge imperial crown of shining copper that surmounts the chapel tower, descended the hill and made my way as hastily as possible across the broad grassy plain to the landing of the Dan- ube boat.-Austria Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.