Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21

water supplied by hidden fountains; an
agricultural college, with a handsome mus
cum of its own and long line of buildings
! devoted to its various Offices; an enormous
new Normal School, capable Of holding
1000 pupils, besides the teachers and their
families, who, supported By the Govern-
! ment, are all to be housed and fed under
the same roof; and a variety of other edi6ces
too numerous to mention
One of the most unique structures in the
Quinta is one contributed by Sonora Cous-
ino-half castle, half psgoda-built en-
tirely of glass bottles, bits of iron ore and
square chunks of coal, cupola, balconies
and all representing the family enterprises
the coal mines, iron foundries and bottle
factories at Zola, the wine manufactured on
their various estates and the celebrated
"Cousino beer" Besides music stands and
dancing pavilions, there is a luncheon
pavilion with open sides and awning.
shaded porticoes, where parties may be
served at little tables with ices, wines,
fruits and other Light Refreshments
In Swell Restaurant.
There Is also big restaurant, which 10
Justly famous for its breakfasts and dinners
the former served between 10 A. M and q
o'clock, and the latter from P. N. as late
as possible customer remains. Breakfast
is naturally the most popular meal, since .
whole day is hardly time enough to see all
the sights of the Quinta Normal; and there
fore it is customary to come out early, stray
about the gardens during the cool of the
morning, take midday breakfast in the
big restaurant, previously ordered in one
OF the numerous private parlors, and served
In many elaborate courses If the party ID
very swell, and then devote what remains
OF the afternoon to the museum. Though
the cooks are French, Chilean styles pre-
vail in the food and its serving. Among
other delicaeies they give you camarones, or
fresh-water crabs, shrimps with long, black
hairs on, the plumpest Of white-breasted
partridges, tiny brown birds on toast, ''sea-
urchins" steamed in their own round,
;prickly shells, strange fruits and salads
and if you don't take at least claret and
champagne with such conglomeration Of
unaccustomed viands, even the servants viii
turn up their noses at you as "a greenhorn
from away back"
Chile's National Museum Is housed in
the imposing building in which the In
ternatioHal Exhibition of 1875 was held-a
miniature copy, in stone and glass, of the
Crystal Palace in London, with q magnii-
cent entrance, long central hall, and wide
stairway in the rear, branching out both
ways to rooms above. Space will not per-
NIT any detailed description Of the wonders
collected here, where the naturalist, the
scientist and the archeologist may revel for
days without time to examine them all The
best of it, however, was stolen from Peru
during the recent war, for Chile Is not rich
in aboriginal relics like the land of the
Incas. The collection of birds is the finest
I eversaw, from tiniest humming birds hard
ly an inch long to the giant albatross and
huge -Andean condors.
Tho Exhibition of Mummies.
Perhaps the object which attracts most at
tention is one Of those horrible "pressed
heads" the work of the Jivero Indians OF
Ecuador-the flesh of human head, from
which the skull has been removed, shrunk-
en- to the size of a fist, yet the features pre-
served with Efe-like expression, eyebrows
intact, lips sewn together, gaudy feathers
pendant from the ears, and long black hair.
concealing the pike upon which this CHASTITY
trophy of savage warfare is impaled.
And then the mummiesl There are
enough Of these dried and picked folk to
populate village-those that hailed from,
Egypt stretched out at ease in their gaily-,
painted cotins, leering at the ancient Pc.
ruvisns, who are all bound up in the moss
uncomfortable posture, with knees and ears
close together. If only they could speak
what tales might they tell, of semi-barbario
nations that swarmed these coasts l, COO
years before Europeans ever dreamed of an
Americal They would speak of idols
worshiped in great temples, of people who
toiled and hoped and loved and died, as
men do now; of victory and defeat, advent
ure and conquest; of the slow upbuilding Of
mighty empire-its gradual decline and
sudden fall. There is boy mummy, still
grasping sling in his shriyelled hand; a
baby mummy, which was probably loved by
Its mummy mother a few centuries ago; and
q grandmother mummy, clinging to her
spindles and primitive weaving apparatus.
Most Of the horrible company have con-
torted necks and twisted limbs, and every
brown face wears an expression of fearful
agony, as If striving to convince beholders
that the statement of history is true to the
effect that mummifying process was begun
by their relatives before life had left the
body, it having been necessary to bind
them fast In what was considered the proper
position before death had stifened their
muscles. FANNIE 3. WARD.