The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-21

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 tries are here in great variety. Models
 of post-offices are quite interesting,
 and one is surprised to learn how postal
 arrangements have grown all over the
 globe, especially during the past twen- l ty-tive years, The collection of stamps
 is kept firmly locked, but admission is
 readily granted to inspect them. This
 is one of the best collections to be
 found anywhere, and it's value Is very great
 After visiting the Post-office museum
 let us drive to the Photographed mu-
 scum. This is vast structure in the
 form of pentagon, enclosing a great
 court; the circular vestibule in the cor
 ner through which we enter is one hun dred feet in diameter, This beautiful
 building contains prehistoric and au-
 thropological collections Qncludlng
 those interesting remains discovered by
 Professor Schleimann at ancient Troy); l then there is vast collection of ethno-
 logical objects from every quarter Of
 the globe. Everything is systematical- 1 ly arranged in glass cases, and to study
 their contents carefully would require | almost a life time. The collections
 from Siberia, farther India, Sandwich
 and South Sea Islands, and from pre-
 historic Europe are of particularly | great interest to many.
 | Right next to the Ethnographical | museum is one of the grandest build-
 ings in Berlin, known as the Indus | trial museum" It contains a most ex- tensive and valuable collection of the products of many countries, ancient
 and modern. The architecture of this
 great building is very beautiful and the
 arrangementof the halls and stair cases
 with the courts is admirable
 There are many rooms filled with an
 cient carved furniture of unrivalled
 beauty, glass and china of ancient and
 modern manufacture, tapestries,
 stained glass jewelry of marvellous
 beauty, and Oriental work in metals
 There is a conspicuous set of stone
 ware, Wedgewood and Bottinjer porce- lain, also ancient Berlin and Nielsen
 ware, and the celebrated swan service
 of Count Bruhi, in fact everything to show the perfect development of the ceramic art. The specimens of iron work, among which are hundreds of an- cient door knockers of very fine work manship, are the finest in Europe The Medici door knockers of bronze are works Of rare beauty and show the handiwork of those old Italian workers in bronze The contents of this great museum are simply bewildering to study it intelligently one must visit 1t many times. I often went there, and every time the interest of my visit was enhanced by new items of discovery,
 Before visiting the royal museum let us stop at the 'Kreuzberg" This is a sand hill two hundred and ten feet high; from it's top there is.a fine view of Berlin and its environs; on the summit there is @ Gothic obelisk of iron sixty five feet high, which was set up there in 1920. A beautifpl verdant park has been formed about the Krenzberg called the Victoria park, and cascade has been built which leaps and rushes from the summit over great smooth boulders, a perfect sheet of white foam, which is most grateful to behold and listen to on warm summer days and nights. s8
 The Exercise Platz or drilling ground is near "Kreuzberg" and here can be seen daily large bodies of German sol- diers drilling all the day long. In Au- | gust last the emperor came here to in- spect forty thousand soldiers as they | went through their summer manoeu- vres. The emperor led his regiment or | two thousand Crenadiers, and 1t was | a inc sight to see him at their head as | they marched down Frederick strasse and mp the "Unter den Linden" to the | Schloss. The Royal museums deserve more than passing notice. The ''old | erected in 1924 is two hum dred and eighty-four feet long. one hundred and seventy-fve feet wide and is adorned with colossal bronze groups, | among which are the Horse tanners" and Pegasus" The steps are adorned | with the Amazon fighting a tiger and the "Lion fighter" In this muse- um are preserved the Gallery of Anti uuities and the Pergaminian sculp- tures; the former were purchased at Rome by Frederick the Great They are of priceless value and hours of great interest can be spent in examin- ing them.
 The Hall of the Heroes" contains many marbles anl bronzcs of great merit The medieval sculptures in marble bronze, terra-cotta and stucco are unequalled out of Italy. The In this museum are of cele- orated fame and merit; the tapestries Ire grand and the wood carvings are axquisite but there is no time to par icularize here. The Italian, French, spanish, Dutch, Flemish and German of painting are all we'll repre- tented here,
 A broad stair case leads to the new a very large and grand af- alr filled with pictures, carvings, cab nets of engravlngs, etruscan remains, ac., &c.,, Sc. Here are those famous Mural paintings of Kaulbach, repre- ienting the six great epochs of human progress, from the confusion of tongues tt the tower of Babel to the Reforma- ion. These are paintings to be long remembered. They are painted in the tides of the great stair case, which is me hundred and twenty-five feet in ength, fifty feet wide and sixty-fve eet high. The Babylonian, Assyrian and Egyp- ian rooms are filled with very inter- sting objects. The Antiquarian contains ancient 'ronzes, Etrusan relics, terra-cottas, |