Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-30

London hospital, tells me one murder &C
CURED Immediately under his window.
| went into q spacious shop IN this 10.
cality, and was tempted by goods rs fine
as Oxford street could boast. ut about
half the price
We have spent cur DAYS as pruftably
as we could " lille IN London. some IN
South Kcnsiugton. The permanent
exhibition of the British Colonies is hold
en- in a magnificent building known as
the Imperial Institute which, besides de
voting many spacious rooms TO colonial
products at every sort, finds also place
Tor an exhibit of the latest improvements
in small mechanical devices, auentire and
enormous building which we did not en-
ter being entirely appropriated to ma-
chinery of thc largest size. Another
building only a little smaller, contains
nothing but Indian Art in its highest and
most wonderful form. the most elaborate
carvings in wood and ivory TO the won
dcrful weavcs of silks and lace. Beetle
wings, aud gold and silver, and precious
stones, are all interviewer into fabrics
that makes spiders webs look coarse
and gross, and the tints and shades and
combinations of these gossamcr textures
are more wonderful than their fneness
and Transparency. There we saw sedan
chairs, and canopys and armours, and
weapons, and girdles and necklets, and
bracelets, and rings, all alike, one blaze
work of the precious metals At the
same time an Indian Exhibition of almost
equal beauty and merit was drawing
thousands every day a few streets OFF.
The second exhibition of Empire of India
is private enterprise, planned and carried
out by Imry kiraliy who organized the
grand spectacular play of columbus
and America" for the Chicago Worlds
fair, a play we afterwards saw repro
duced in Boston. His Indian Exhibition
represents a great white civ with
mosques and palms and oriental sur
roundngs The exhibition is beautiful
collection only second to the permanent
one of South kensington and is supple
mcnted by Juggling exhibits, elephant
camel and bullock drives, natives ieasts
served by natives in oriental costume,
and accompanied by the best orchestral
music. 1t is like 4 dream of fairy land to
sit in one of its beautiful strawberries
watching the lazy glide of fanciful boats
on the sparkling water, that is spanned
by quantity beautiful bridges, while the
surrounding turretS and towers, mosques
| and minarctS, rising in a snowy Geam
are lit with myr,adS OF small gas jets
with their many colored globes, and their
| pickering light, giving them the appear.
ance of numberleSs jewels. In this spot
under these circumstances, we have list
ened to the music Of the Bands OF the
| Grenadier and Coldstream Guards. In
gardens of the Imperial Institute, an al
most equally beautiful scene, we heard
Strauss divine orchestra, under his own
baton, and when the beautiful BLUE
! Danube Waltzes" were suddenly and UNI
eXpectedly introduced between two mum.
bers of the programme, Herr Strauss laid
down his baton, seized his violin, and
turning his back to the orchestra began
| to play and dance, dancing till the last
note of the immortal melody died away
and the audience felt willing to break the
stiffness by a breath Another enormous
building of this exhibition is devoted to
natural history. The Gould collection Of
hunming birds, numbering, | should
enough to enChain one a long time; and
the exhibit of stuffed animals of all sizes
and from all climes made a much greater
impression upon me than the few living
beasts saw in the far famed Zoo. \ few
words are all can spare for my OWL
special hobby. the needle work exhibit
Not even in the converts OF our owl
Province of Quebec have seen such beau
titul art needle work as is shown in TIL,
museum of South Kensington, and wher
we realize that this special branch of in
dustry is livelihood to many thousands
OF impoverished gcntlewomen, devoid o
other means, we can but be sufficiently
grateful to those good prncesses who
have made this special industry their
own special care. The exhibit contained
much beautiful hand painting, cerami,
work, and hammered brass, but dare
not today impose upon your time ant
space to describe anything more.
L. c. r.