The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-18

entering the nearest cottage, called fo
 food. Bread and garlic, all the peasan
 l possessed, were set before him; and af
 ter the king had eaten he laid gold
 piece upon the bench and remarked
 Ben dnet--"I have dined we'll" To
 day the site of the cottage is occupied
 by a magnificent mansion named Der 1 Dinet.' It was built by the Marquis dt
 la Romany, and ater passed to the
 Marquis of Butte; but Is now owned by
 the Montenegro family.
 | At first sight Palma town is very striking, with it's ancient castles and
 innumerable wind mills; its narrow winding streets, cool, cltan and shady; it's many churches, and noble cathedral with flying buttresses and pinnacled towers. The cathedral was begun by
 Don Jamie, immediatel ly after the vic- tory, in gratitude to the saints who
 helped him; but 1t was not finished till
 1601-nearly four centuries later. In
 deed, 1t was never fully completed, and
 all the windows of one end are yet
 bricked up. Its Capilla (Real Royal
 chapeD, in the oldest part of the build-
 ing, is very fine. It was intended as
 the burial-place of the Kings of Mallor-
 ca. In the center Is a great sarcopha-
 gus of yellow marble, supporting a
 crown and cushion; and within 1t is the
 body of Don Jamie himself. If you
 have a fancy for gruesome sights, bit
 of silver will induce the sacristan to pull out the royal mummy, which is in- closed in a coffin with glass cover. It is clad in robes of state, which, so an inscription informs us, were provided by Queen Isabel, in 1852, from her privy purse; but 1t does not state how she to put them on him. after he had slumbered in his grave more than five hundred years. The "ermine' cape is made of black and white cotton, and the rest is equally tawdry--but quite good enough for mummy, which is kept as a show, for revenue It is worth another coin to be shown the rich contents of the cathedral treasury. There is pair of superb candelabra, sixteen thousand ounces of pure silver, and many other nagniff- cent altar and processional ornaments. Among them Is an immense monstrance of gold and silver, and fragment of the true cross" studded with thou sands of diamonds, rubies and emsralds, md an arm of Saint Sebastian, brought rom Rhodes. in 1873, to save Majorca rom the plague.
 Close to the cathedral is the ancient Moorish palace, now the residence of the 'aptain- general and the Audencia. One might spend profitable week here yislting old churches and palaces. The ,aso Consistorial. or Town Hall, is of l he sixteenth century, with heavy fla | ade and projecting cave of richly | culptured wood, which was once no | Ioubt painted and gilded. It Is divided | nto compartments by immense hori- | ontal carytides, which seem to sup | ort the roof. The building contains l ome extremely rare and valuable
 aintings; among them Vandyck, of Fhich only one other example is known Q exist-the original study, which was reasured in the national gallery at ,dinburg, Scotland.
 The Lonja, or Exchange, Is the most eautiful building in the island, and the nly one of architectural pretensions uilt for a purely civil purpose The
 te was given by Don Jamie, in 1233, ut the building was not finished for No hundred years It is rectangular in Ian, divided by rows of fluted columns, le convolutions of which are continued 5 groins on the vaulted roof, suggest lg a palm tree. Outside, lofty tower -naments each of the angles. Between le towers, at equal distances, rise two ender turrets at the level of the roof. hle the crowning feature Is series of luare windows, ornamented with in- ented battlements. At the base of lch tower is the colossal statue of a
 int. covered with a Gothic canopy. Few cities in Europe Aconsider them Ives more aristocratic than Palma. he nobility of the island consists of of the nine great families nong whom the Conqueror partitioned
 and a few other nobles come over om Spain. By the common people, ho are very proud of them and willing
 work hard for their support, these e popularly called Butifarras "big usages," much as we speak of "bloat- bond holders" In the Rue de Pal 8 is the Casa de Buonaparte"---a autiful building, which in its prime II uet have resembled Florentine pal ' e. with its triple-light windows and T. e richly sculptured capitals of it's Y ,nder marble pillars. The tradition is II at Hugo Bonapart, grandfather of F lpoleon, lived here until the year Ill, ' len he went to Corsica (which then V med part of the kingdom of Aragon), /.
 governor af that island. In Another ~' eet is the house where Charles V. ed during his visit here in 1541, be- :, e setting out on his disastrous expe- |, < ion to Algiers. Above one of the ~ ~ ndows is his ugly portrait carved in 1' ne which is not harder than was his <, rciless heart There are many other =. gant private houses, all of by-gone ', The finest are in the l.. He (streeD, de San Jamie. the espec- rr,, ltain marvellous treasures in paint T, s and works of art, tapestries, an- ,,t ue furniture, etc, which their own-
 guard with jealous care. Art Is sa d in great esteem in these forgotten s,, nds, though learning does not four w
 as 1t should. The work of some of se
 native artists is said to be really re- re rkable, and it Is a great surprise to th n that the Palma Accademia de las so les Artes ranks third in importance
 the long list of similar establish mi It's throughout the whole of Europe! ,h l. q -n