The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-01-16

IN this suite az rocmA Ths groas<st inter
ct seems % Ike N shc salon C,srre. and IN
largest groups rrc usually a,ost Nlrillo',
Assumption ~ the Virgin" and Pau
Nvgone~cs ".tArriAxc Feast NJ Cana 81
Galilcc." T.o~<'. however. who have moi
bsen educated up 70 the s'old master
s<nElafd-Slni they nre tho majority
crowd into the largest rooms. where I'm
meLse sinsis pictures cover thu entir
walls o. the smaller pictures ] sup;,ose
cren the Grief t.ths woaii Oil three such
co.umns "a THU Personally my interrSl
continue! longest IN tho antiquities and
espciniiy IN tho Egyptian gallery Il +
there. 4. anywhcre IN the world. that one
cln sec that whfch fills the irquiFing mind
with delight. namely. the whole daily life
cf an ancient pcople--tleir religion and
commerce. their love and death. their H.
fancy. manhood. marriage and burial. ell
pictured BY themselves, and often on the
very rcceatscles In which they WEN Laid -
Last
The illusion IL 1us; strong cnocgh. We
80 tl~ Egyptians at home We read their
ORA opinions ~ their orr exploits, aud
tAeir nodes apologies 90 Tho Judge Of the
dead We sce the mourning friendh In
closing the corpse IN the stone box. while
the hasT < -nc..ed s;od T,ses ahoyo we st
tie exact inscription on the to1in, and rcod
beside 10 the accurate French translation
81 LaEietto- When We uacr,y read of them
We sill :hfnk az them as people four a.
I've Thousand years removed from Us: here
We realize their actual presence. They
cca<e "a be an ancient people, they ar0
about us and address "a
An inscription on tho front of the
Louvre facing the Place du Carrousel
says that
1911 francois began the Louvre
1854 Catherine he Mcdicis b gan The Tufl~1A
lS2 s. -SGpo,e1n III joined together the Tup
er1es AMI the Lossrc.
The church % Notrc Dame b nos mr.
sway, on a SORT a. island IN tho Seine; but
tiirse hours on . Sunday suflcssl ms thera
II does not Of course. compare with Wessv
minister Abby IN historic interest, but n
pure architecture Is admitted to BE- the
finest building In Paris
IL the rel; Of Tibezius CRsar the Roman
soldiers stationed on this island set up an
altar 70 Jupiter. anil the place has ever
since been given 70 religious purposn
One point Of great interest Is that Sotre
Dame T. tplay almost exactly rs completed
IL ixS- II wasinjUred but little during the
revolutionary times. for. though the nd
republicans Of 10 ate snackerel on the
altar and cooked eg-s IN the communion
vesss's, they had too much talte to break
and destroy, a. Cromweil's men lid Ia Eng
l1nt
i semei tribe cti for great gangs OK
people, many ~ them Pedestrians. to b
trlmping round outside the rails and
Through al tn side sectsons while devout
the church and tho glorious music Of choir
and oryrn wsss eeAoing from the lofty ceiI-
INK anil sounding through the distant cor
riuots; bu- they are used 70 that In Paris
II The PaTislanS generally have any -
ligion they have succeeded admirably in
IL from one. Sunday Is 'skeptn
that j.. all hard labor ends at noon, ana
MI pieces Of amusement are unusually
In the evening. AZ the Bois de
boulogne one observes an increaae Of paint
and enamel: the Ladies look litsle rnove
''rnvissanse." the gentlemen stare little
harder. mich r,ore wine i drunk. hand.
there are more fipe carriages and
the horses 60 faster.
There L. one place In Paris. however.
where all gayrty Is subdueJ and all u,en
~ al nations uncover in a SORT q rerrr-
sntial swc. That Is at the tomb 81 Nnpo-
icon In the Hotel des Invalides. The tomb
and the adjacent altar are among the very
lew thinrs In this world which exceed al
iescriptiOn---lll that the most powerful |
had pictured The peculiarity
4 the arrange nent Il that the tomb II h. |
ow the levd on which the spectator
tands. Directly under The dome, and n |
ne center - what may he calioi the 10 |
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