Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
ANCIENT PERUVI1Ns.

Vaf0 university aHu LIE oHllbAsViilzA
Institution, recently arrived in this city,
say the San Francisco Chronicle. He
has spent several years in Peru. study
ing the history of the native inhabitants
of that most interesting country, and
has acquired much valuable and inter-
esting information concerning them.
The term 4Incas' as applied to the
Peruvians IS misnomer, the word Inca
meaning simply royalty. The country
was called by the inhabitants Tiahuant
in Suyo, and at the time Of the con-
quest by the Spanards contained about
twenty million inhabitants. Among
Mr.. Blanco's most valuable discoveries
are some ancient tablets, containing
hieroglyphics which are believed TO
represent the early history of the
Suyos. Some of these tablets have
been sent to Max Muller, of Oxford
University, England, who is engaged in
translating the language.
Mr.. Blanco has with him an earthen
water jug, on one side Of which is rep
resented in relief the face of an Inca.
The figures and ornamentation are al
most certainly Of Egyptian origin. AS
The architecture of the Suyos resem-
bled that Of ancient Egypt, and as the
treatment of the bodies of their dead
was the same as that practiced by the
Egyptians, there is strong reason for
concluding that the Empire of the Sun
was founded by the Egyptians. In
this connection it might be stated that
ON some of the Queen Charlotte Islands
large numbers of carvings have been
discovered that are deemed to be of
Egyptian origin and design. The
thought is thus very strongly brought
out that at different times in past ages
vessels from the north of Africa have
been cast on the eastern shores of the
Pacific, and that the designs and plans
of those who built the pyramids of the
Nile have been perpetuated on our
oIIoACo w tnO piCoOno uors .5
No other native American tribe or
people knew anything definite of as
tronomy, architecture, or grammar.
These people were handsome in form,
and the women were often very beauti-
full. The Spaniards intermarried, and
the present race is mixed one. Yet
the traveller occasionally sees face of
wonderful purity and clearness of COM
plexion.
The science of warfare was we'll UNI
derstood, and salient Notifications, built
by the Suyos, still remain, showing
that the use and benefits of projecting
angles in defensive structures for mill
tary purposes were clearly appreciated.
It is not believed that this system of sa-
ient Notifications was used by any
other people of antiquity.
Wonderful progress has been made
by this people in the useful arts. The
fact that they could harden copper by
an addition of 10 per cent. of silica mas
been mentioned. This is lost art and
would be of great value if known to-day.
The men pulled out their beard with a
pair of tweezers made of copper and
having the required elasticity. 1t has
been discovered recently that tweezers
made by bending together the ends Of
a piece of steel will have their utility
increased if there is small hole in the
center of the piece of metal where it is
bent. A pair of copper tweezers is ex-
hibited by Mr.. Blanco, which were
made on the same principle, and yet
they are doubtless thousand years old.
The dead were embalmed, wrapped in
fabrics, placed in sitting posture and in
closed in sack, about which was knot
ted network of ropes. These num-
mics have been exhumed, and in some
cases the eyes have been found to have
been preserved by some means Of en-
balming. Fabrics found about mum
mics are very similar to those found
to-day in upholsterer's shops. A piece
of cloth 1900 years old had a deep
fringe and was woven in colored de-
signs. Another sample had fringe of
tassels.
JUDGES AND THEIR CIRCUITS.
The names of the Justices of the Fed
eral Supreme Court are as follows:
Chief Justice, Melville w. Fuller, of
Illinois; Associate Justices, Samuel F.
Miller, of Iowa; Stephen J, Field, of
California; Joseph P. Bradley, Of New
Jersey. John M. Harlan. of Kentucky.