Middletown transcript., 1893-09-30

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w A picturesque fea
1RS ture of the cele
SAS bration was th
49, giving away o
carloads of golden rod by Iowans to visitor
A reception was held in the evening at th'
Iowa state building attended by Coy
Boies and his entire staff
Director General Davis orderes to stol
the parking Of Piaisance fakes was pro
life of many humorous incidents, but th'
shouting has been stopped. At first th
"barker" were inclined to rebel, also th
concessionaries, but they were called down
One Of the men thought that If his barker
couldn't talk outside their show they woult
inside and he started him at it. but |
Columbian guard came along and took tn
orator to the station, where he was lecturet
and let 60. After that lesson the new
spread among the side-show men that j
would not be safe to talk out loud, so theJ
started in on new tack. Mounting I
chair outside they began to go through
series Of gesticulations that would do vel
to Dutch wind mill ii gale. Arms were
flung around, canes waved, umbrellas
opened, but not a word was spoken. The
crowd did not know what to mske of It,
The silence order was unknown to them
They gazed on the men and wondered i
they were Iunatics Or wild men Many
comments were made. and the Columbian
guards were pestered with questions. They
became the advertises themselves, for every
second man asked them what allied the
gesticulating individuals and, according tc
their instructions tof answer all questions
civilly, they had to tell. A Plaisance crowd
soon accommodates itself to anything new
and the gesticulators became as successful
as the deposed shouters.
A collection Of musical instruments said
to bespeak the origin and the gradual de-
velopment Of the modern musical instru-
ments is encased in long row Of cabinets
in q little room to the left of the south
entrance to the government building. In
this room and the one across the yestibule,
neglected by most sightseers, are some o.
the rarest treasures Of the Smithsonian
institute. Trophies Of science. literature
and the arts are mingled together.
The little room on the left, beside the
collection Of instruments typifying the
development Of music, contains an exhibit
illustrating the progress Of the graphic arts
from the fifteenth to the nineteenth CEN
tury.
From a musical standpoint the babies
of to-day rate with old and hoary Egyp-
tian dervishes, who took delight in the
rattle. The ancient Hindoos had rattles
made Of gourds, fantastically decorated
with NEUROLOGICAL Hindoo beings. The
cultured Syrians made theirs of wood
and so did the African tribes Of the lower
Congo. Gourds were used by the Mojaves
and the other tribes of American Indians
from the Haidas Of British Columbia to the
Mokis, who lived in the adobe pueblo Of
Tesuque in sNew Mexico. Some of the
6oudanese made rattles of bones, and after
awhile some of the tribes Of Mexico learned
from the Aztecs tomake them Of metals.
And from this lesson the bell was evolved.
About the time Of the italian inquisition
a widely known instrument Of music was
the capello, dubbed the singing Jchanssi
by the English. This was a curious affair
and was many stages advanced over the
rattIes of the unciyilized tribes Of Indians
and the ancient Hindoos The first forms
of the instruments in the Classification are
the self.yibrating instruments. Under this
head came with the ratiles, drums, tam
bourines, cymbals. gongs, castanets and
s'bones In the rafting" epoch gongs
added to the din. Rubber rattles, made
for easy mastifcation by infant prodigies,
are later day Improvements on the old-time
musical instruments. The Nubrons in
their professions changed iron gongs and
sounded their triumph. The Hindoos in
their religious rites used the mandria--
cymbals in the form Of metal cups. The
oriental trophies in the exhibit were pre-
sented to the government BY the Rajah
Sourindo Mohnn.
Along with the cymbals came the i'm
proYement of the rattles-strings bells.
The cymbals Of the Chinese were larger
than those Of the other orientals and made
of thin sheets of brass Castanets foundtheir
way into Spain through the Moorish hosts
and came from Syria. The Chinese evi
IDENTIFY had d monopoly on gongs. The pang.
the ia ting and the 10 were different styles
of the gong. The conch Of Africa and q
Maylayan gong made Of metal and shaped
like an hour glass with heads on both ends
were seemingly fererunners Of the drum.
The 10 looks like and is worked on the
same principle as..dinner-gong of railway
eating station. The baz Of the oriental der
wishes was probably the Oldest form of
drum. Some of the African drums looked
liked the barrel Of an old-fashioned blum
derbuss.
Chimes followed cymbals aud came just
before the drum and the tambourine. The
yun-io of China was set of chimes, and
made of nine metal pans set in wooden
frame and bent with slender, bamboo
stick tipped with iron. The beautiful
women Of Georgia in the Caucasus played
the daira, an early form of tambourine
and the Chinese made their kous. sho-
shone Indian, siamese, Chinese. Malayan
and all sorts Of drums are played together
near the center Of the cabinet. Some are
long and thin, and some are short and
thick, and they all have heads made Of the
skins, of animals. The xylophone was
long ago used by the Zulu tribes, and the
was an instrument of the same
same kind used by eastern African tribes.
The Indians OF Guatemala played the
marimba centuries ago. This instrument
is very much like that used by the Gaute-
mslians at the fair. Wooden kegs and
eourds Of varying sizes were used in the
Of the marimba, The broad
sst keg and with the longest attached gourd
sounded the lowest pitch, and to the highest
pitch the size Of the gourd and the width
pf the key gradually decreased.
Most Of women who come to the fair are
pretty well posted on American history,
,ut not all Of them are acquainted with the
of the prehistoric races Of
mound builders and cliff dwellers
The other day party EMERGED from the