Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

is the Royal on Kongen's Nytory, a
beautiful edifce of modern erection.
Statues of the dramatists Holberg and
Oehlenschlager keep watch on either
side of the entrance and the front is
crowned by a group representing APP
ollo and Pegasus and the fountain OF
Hippocrene.
Returning to the island" in the
center of the city one comes to the
great gaping ruin of the royal palace
OF Christiansborg which was destroyed
by fire in 1884, with it's court theater,
stables and riding house. Great stat
ues by Thorwaldsen adorn the yard
and over it's spectral-like entrances
from the heroic ages. In connection
with the palace is the royal library
with about 600, 900 volumes and 10000
manuscripts.
Almost adjoining the ruined palace
is the Thorwaldsen museum, built ac-
ccrding to the will of the great sculp-
tor, who, after his twenty years of
triumph at Rome, came home and
gathered together here all his works,
library, paintings and relics for the
adornment of his native city 1t is a
combination of the. Egyptian ana
Etruscan styles, 230 feet in length, 125
feet in breadth and 46 feet high, con-
tanning two stories. In the center is
an open court 116 feet long and so feet
broad containing the artists tomb in
the center and which is unmarked save
for growth of ivy over it. The mu-
scum contains 800 of Thorwaldsens
works alone, forcing upon the beholder
the thought that a characteristic or
genius is its fecundity. Besides the
characters from mythology, there are
great lions, mOnstrOus equestrian
statues, relief friezes from the ages OF
Love, statues of Bryon, etc.
Behind the Thorwaldsen museum is
the national museum. In the an
| tiquities department are many Greek
and Roman remains, and the ethno-
graphic collection is an excellent one.
| 1t includes a large amount of Indian
| relics from America, in which nearly
every state is represented. The collec-
ton of Danish antiquities is revela-
| ton. This far exceeds in interest and
extent the similar collection in the
British museum and points to an ex-
| IRENE antiquity for Denmark. It is
generally supposed by westerners that
the making of arrow and spear heads
/ ord cipoiIom STONE i'm NJ oroon+c roaohnd
it's highest state of perfection in
America, but here are shelves upon
shelves of the most perfect and varied
kind dug up in Denmark. Besides
there are worked metal collars, great
swords and shields, beautiful gilded
wagons, pottery, great carved winding
horns, and drinking cups. However,
the wood carving and beaten metal
work of the 18th and 10th centuries
are the marvel of it all Those
heaven BEDS" with canopies, sides
and supports all writhing, SO to speak,
with angels, satyrs, cupids, dragons and
saints, are indeed wonderful to behold.
Evidently there was much genius rife
in the days of simple methods and
| plenty of time.
Other buildings Of more than pass
ing interest are the Russian church or
Alexander Newsty, with it's three
gilded pear-shaped domes, the bourse,
surmounted by four doWn-sliding
dragons whose tails intertwine to a
point at the top, the new city hall,
containing the highest spire in north
ern Europe, the Kunst museum, or
art gallery, rich in paintings from the
sombre moorlands of Jutland, the
Tivoli where Copenhagen drinks the
most of it's beer at night and hears it's
best music, and the royal palace OF
Rosenberg, near which the great story
teller, Hans Christian Andersen, sits
in bronze with an inspired look upon
his kindly Lincoln-like face. "A. B.