The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-14

In "TroIius and Cressida," Hector refer;
to young men whom Aristotle thought
unfit to hear moral philosophy, and one
uf the characters compares the nerves
Of Ajax to the bull-bearing Milo OF Gro
tonu, who did not flourish until centur'
les after the son OF lebanon. In the
comedy OF Errors" the scene Of which
is laid in the ancient City OF Ephesus
modern coins, clocks, and nnnnery
are introduced, In Julius Caesar" the
conspirators must have had very re-
markable foresight OF discovery, to wit
Brutus, -Peuxe; count the clock,
t'dssitS The clock has stricken three"
In the play of "King Lear" the
events OF which happened in the early
Anglo-Saxon period OF English history,
Edgar talks about the curlew, and Clos
ter commands his son to show him q
letter which he holds in his hand,
saying;
Come lets sect Hit be nothing shall no1Wan'
speclacles."
But this remarkable hlunder is even
eclipsed by the carrier in the first part
OF "Henry W." act 2, scene b, who
complains that "the turkeys in his
panniers are quite starved" Turkeys
were originally brought from America,
and the New World was not even dis
covered for century later! s
Shakespeare also antedates the use Of
cannon by more than two hundred
years, King John says;
no thop us lightning in the eyes Of France,
For ere thou canst report, VIII be there;
The thunder of my cannon stall be heard"
And Macbeth speaks OF cannon Hover-
charged with double cracks"
Hamlet was over thirty years Of age
when his mother talked OF his going
back to school, the said school being
the University OF Wittenberg, which
was not founded until 1902. The con-
temporaries and successors OF the great
bard committed such plumbers oontinu-
ally. Giles Fletcher, in his "Christes
Yictorie," Part II, makes the tempter
seem to be "a good old hermit or palm
er, travelling to see some saint and tell.
ing his beads" Beaumont and Fletch-
or in 'Fhe Humorous Lieutenant"
make Demetrius an immediate success.
or Of Alexander tho Great, enter from
his chamber with pistol in his hand,
and Dryden also speaks ofthe machines
at the theatre Of Athens, though ne
must have been aware that such things
were unknownuntil probably i've centu-
ries later.
In art, too, there are equally curious
and inexcusable blunders. The untir-
ing struggle to make ST, Patrick out oil
the prophet Jeremiah, who was the
original Ollam Follah OF Irish history,
has given rise to repeated anachroRisms
OF both writers and painters; but II the
artist wants us to believe that the saint
really did exist, he should refrain from
displaying him in the picture while in
the act OF driving tho snakes out of ire
land with an English sabre in his left
hand and straight crowned silk hat on
his sanity head. The story OF the saint
also loses the grace Of truthfulness when
we are told by an enthusiastic writer
that st. Patrick put the last OF the
snakes into an open chest, which he
threw in lake after 'sCrewing" down
the cover.
Almost everybody has heard oil the
picture OF Daniel in the lions den with
q green cotton umbrella under his arm,
and OF the disciples OF Christ, elabor-
ateiy painted with overcoats OF recent
Paris style. It is not at all likely that
Julius Cesar was in the habit OF wear
ing caltskin boots, although one painter
put them on his legs with thrilling OF.
feet. Alexander never should have
been painted on horseback with Hes.
sian boots upon his neither limbs, and
the artists idea of PLATE with n red
silk handkerchief before his face is
truly affecting to sympathizing OBJ
server, and likely to bring tears to the
eyes OF almost anybody.
In an alterpiece at Capua represent
ing the annunciation, the Virgin Mary
Is seated in rich armchair, with cup
| and n silver coffee pot standing on the
table beside her. Tintoretto, in his pic.
ture OF the mama gathering in the de.
sert, has armed the fsraefites with guns.
Another artist, i'll picture OF tho cruel.
fixion, represents priest holding up
before the eyes OF the good thief q cru
cifx. Burgoanne, in his travels in
Spain" noticed painting where Abra'
ham is preparing to shoot Isaac with
pistol, and in the church OF st. Zach.
ariah, at Venice, His a picture by Belin Of
an angel entertaining the Virgin Mary
and the infant Jesus with an air on the
violin. In the library belonging to the
university OF Aberdeen there are some
beautiful paintings on the margin of a
Dutch missai representing the angels
appearing to the shepherds one of the
latter OF whom is playing a bagpipe.
Lewis Cigoli, in his picture Of the
Circumcision, has put spectacles on the
nose Of Simeon, the high priest, and
and Nicholas Poussin introduced
Grecian architecture in the background
OF his "RebeCca at the Welln Then
there is Albert Durer's "Angel Driving
Adam and Eve from Paradise" the
angel wearing Aounced petticoat, and
"St. Peter Denying the Saviour" in
which q Roman soldier is smoking a
pipe OF tobacco. Nor must there be
forgotten Verrlo's periwigged specta.
tors OF Christ Healing the Sick" st,
Jerome with clock by his sido, and
the painting OF "Lobstera in the Sea
Listening to the Preaching Of st. An
thony OF Padua," in which the HOLSTERS
are red.
Do not be Deceived.
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