Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-20

vines and shrubs towering oaks and pines. stat
uary, shaded hooks, well-kept walks and plenty
of rustic benches and the greenest of sward.
without q single plscard $50 frequently met
with at home saying Keep of the grass and
an extensive geological park, containing all the
animals Of South America, and many Others,
conveniently arranged for observation in long
avenues-but magnificent museum; an under
ground, grotto-like structure containing
innumerable glass tanks full of fish swimming
In water supplied by hidden fountains; an agri-
cultural college, with a handsome museum OF
Its own and a long line of buildings devoted TO
Its various offices; an enormous new normal
school, capable Of holding two thousand pupils,
besides the teachers and their families, who,
supported by the government, are all to be
housed and fed under the same roof, and q
variety OF other edifces too numerous to men
ton.
THE ouIsTA NORMAL.
One OF the most unique structures IN the
ouinta is one contributed by Sonora Cousino-
half castle. half pagoda-built entirely of glass
bottles. bits of iron ore and square chunks Of
coal, cupola, balconies and all representing the
family enterprises-the coal mines, iron foun-
dries and bottle factories at Zota, the wine man
ufactured on their various estates and the cee-
brated "Cousino beer" Besides music stands
and dancing pavilions, there 10 a luncheon
pavilion, with open sides and awning shaded
porticoes, where parties may be served at lit
tie tables with ices, wines fruits and other light
Refreshments. There is also big restaurant
which is justly famous for its breakfasts and
dinners-the former served between 10 q. m.
and o'clock and the latter from b. m. as late
as a possible customer remains. Breakfast IL
naturally the most popular meal, since q whole
day is hardly time enough to see all the sights
of the Quinta Normal, and therefore il IL
customary to come out early, stray about the
gardens during the cool of the morning take q
midday breakfast in the big restaurant (pre-
viously ordered in one of the numerous private
parlors and served in many elaborate courses
If the party is very swelD and then devote what
remains Of the afternoon to the museum. Though
the cooks are French, Gillian styles prevail in the
food and Its serving. Among other delicacies
they give you camarones. or fresh-water crabs
shrimps with long, black hairs on, the plumpest
OF white-breasted partridges, tiny brown birds
round, prickly shells, strange fruits and
salads-and if you don't take at least claret and
champagne with such q conglomeration of I'M
accustomed yiands, even the servants will
turn up their noses at you as - greenhorn
from away back"
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Chili's national museum is housed in the i'm
posing building in which the international ex-
hibition of 1875 was held-a miniature copy, in
stone and glass, of the Crystal Palace in Lon
don, with magnificent entrance, long central
out both ways, to rooms above. Space will
not permit any detailed description of the
wonders collected here, where the naturalist
the scientist and the erch2ologist may revel
for days without time to examine them all
The best of it, however, stolen from
Peru during the recent war, for Chill is not
rich in aboriginal relics, like the land of the
lncas. On this subject Mr. WE. Curtis writes,
no doubt with truth: Everywhere in Santiago
and other Chilian cities are to be seen the
ornaments of which Peru was 80
mercilessly plundered-statuary, fountains,
benches OF carved stone In the parks and
alamedas, and almost everything that
beauties the streets. Transports that
were sent up to Callao with troops. brought
back cargoes Of pianos, pictures. furniture,
books and articles of household decoration.
stolen from Peruvian homes. Pretty iron
fences, ornamental lamp posts torn from their
foundations statuary from the plazas, silver
altar equipments from the churches, even mar
bic images from the cemeteries-everything
that vandal hands could reach was stolen and
carried to Chilli Clocks were taken from the
church steeples Zone of them now gives time to
the market place OF Santiago), and the efgies
OF the saints were lifted from the affairs and
stripped of the embroideries and Jewels they
had received from their devotees'' And it is
well known that the most valuable portion of
the national library, as well as the greater part
OF the museum, was acquired in this disgrace
lul manner, OF WHICH Slll1anS now begin tC
feel somewhat ashamed and make excuses fol-
by terming it ''the fortunes of war"
FINE COLLECTION OF BIRDS
The collection of birds is the finest ever
saw, from tiniest humming birds hardly ar
inch long to the giant albatross and huge
Andean condors. golden pheasalts, fan-tailed
Tyre birds, ichetrias, hooded birds of paradise
millions OF them, and a whole large room de-
voted to their nests and eggs Besides all those
things usually found in museums there is a
magnificent array of aboriginal pottery; uten-
slls and weapons of stone, bone and wood from
all parts of South America and the least-known
islands OF the Pacific; wax figures representing
all strange peoples dressed in their different
costumes, each in glass case by itself, like
Mrs. Partington's crocodile, large as life and
twice as naturar'-surrounded by its own
peculiar implements and belongings.
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 a human head, from which the
skull has been removed, shrunken to the size
of fist yet the features preserved with life.
gether. gaudy feathers pendent from the
ears and long black hair concealing the pike
upon which this CHASTITY trophy Of savage war.
fare is impaled.
DRIED AND PICKLED MUMMIEs.
And then the mummiesl There are enough
of these dried and picked folk to populate 9
village-those that hailed from Egypt
stretched out at ease in their gaily painted
collins. leering at the ancient Peruvians who
are all bound up in the most uncomfortable
posture, with knees and ears close together.
only they could speak-what tales might the,
tell OF semi-barbaric nations that swarmec
these coasts thousand years before European,
every dreamed of an America! They woule
speak of idols worshiped in great temples: o.
people who toiled and hoped and loved anc
died, as men do now, of victory and defeat ad
venture and conquests; of the slow up-buildins
OF mighty empire-its gradual decline anl
sudden fall. And may be a mummy from til,
Nile region might confide to his Peruvian
neighbor the secret of the different process b,
which he was preserved, thus enlightening thu
world on lost art-lost for all time, let u
hope, for who wants to figure in such uncann,
guise for the idle and curious of other genera
tions to stare at?
STORY OF THE CONQUEST.
In Diego's curious book called 1.-The Kingdom
Of Chilli it is gravely recorded that when Val
divias forces met the Indians near the presen
city Of Imperial they were suddenly overspreat
by great red cloud of wonderful brightness
and while the astonished armies gazed in avn
upon it an angel appeared and rolled back tn,
crimson curtain, revealing the queen of HEAVIER
In gorgeous attire. with an Indian kneelint
before her pleading for mercy. The simple
aborigines fed in dismay, and thus the battl,
was won by the Spaniards without bloodshed
An old painting of this remarkable seen,
hangs in the museum, and if not the sam,
kneeling Indian, there are scores precisely lik,
him. all in q half-kneeling, half-squatting posi-
tion-their knees on a level with their ears