The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-27
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
ment at Washington, Writes EntertaninsIy
Of this Great National Institution. 4:

presented to General Grant by the
citizens of Pueblo, Mexico.
Here's something interesting-the
death mask of President Lincoln. Know
what death mask is? Well, after the
death of great man they often put
soft plaster of paris around his face and
when the plaster hardens it is removed
and there they have an exact reproduc-
tion of the face in every particular.
From these metal casts are made, and
thus we have preserved in monuments
and statues the familiar likenesses of
our great. Here also are casts of Lin
coins hands and articles of clothing
worn by him, and these big old-fas hioned
keys are keys to the prison where the
Lincoln conspirators were confined.
Here is the cast Of face you all
know well-th good Mckinley, This
was taken Immediately after his death
and is the only one in existence.
This writing desk is from the Mclean
house sat Appomatox, where Lee sur
rendered to Grant, and there is the
chair in which Grant sat while signing
the papers of surrender. There is a
section of the original flagstaff at Fort
MauItrie and section of large oak
tree which was cut down by bullets at
Spottsylvania, and here are lot of
battle flags captured from the Con-
federates.
These things here are relics of the
war with Spain. This is a Filipino
cannon, this is the searchlight from a
Spanish vessel destroyed by Dewey at
Manila, and there are the arms and
scroll of the Cristobal Colon, one of the
Spanish ships destroyed at Santiago by
Schley.
This is grand pulpit and front of red
terra Gotta and stoneware. 1t was ex-
hibited at the Centennial at Philadelphia
in '76. | was too young to go there
but Mrs. Wood can tell you all about it
There is model of the Monitor that
licked the stuffin' out of the Rebel
Merrimac March s, 1862.
These cases around the walls are
filed with every known musical in.
strument of every kind from every
country.
Here is a printing press worked ir
London in 1925 by Benjamin Franklin
1t isn't quite the press that the Repor.
ter is printed Oh, but it is the Repor
ter press great grand daddy, so you
mustn't laugh at it.
These are school books used by the
children of the Colonial period.
That's bust of Doctor Walter Reed
Major in the United States Army
He was president Of the board thai
discovered the germs of yellow fever
are scattered by mosquitoes. MARI
Twain has mortgage on the only rea
bright remark to make about the bust
of man, so I'm silent.
This case contains a. collect ion q
coins of the Japanese Empire and These
others here show the history of thu
Mexican war.
This is the Rotunda, the center of the
building, from which the differen
wings radiate.
No, no, no, dear, that's not a petrifiet
lady giant-it's only copy of the
Statue of Liberty you saw back yondel
on the top of the Capitol. I'll bet
though, if Bert Tullis had her out il
. Leon, he could work the dear people t.
pay ten cents head to look at 9TH,
petriled body of Pocahontas." Leonite
are SO easy that they'd swallow her al
right. She didn't look so very tai
away up there on the dome Of thu
Capitol, but you can see now that sh'
is nineteen and a half feet high ant
broad in proportion.
See those two big vases on eithe
side as we pass through? They wer
made by Haviland & Company, o
Limoges, France, and are worth SS,75
, each.
This case contains collection O
historical ornaments of personal wear
articles of the toilet used by the Masol
and Myers families from 1872 to 1896
So, there are diamonds and costly laces
silverware, fans thimbles, rings, cameo
and swords. These women are mucl
, interested in the du-dads, but we kid
will pass on.
Here are some relics of the Battle
ship "Maine," which was blown up il
Havana harbor February Is, 1898, an,
led up to the war with Spain.
There's an Armstrong rapid-fire gul
from the "Maria Teresa" destroyed Of
Santiago.
Now, here is something that is rea
interesting, even if it isn't pretty. It'
stone image of the kind worshiped b,
the people of Easter Island, which il
, located in the Pacific Ocean. You SCI
, it is about as high ss two men or thre
kids. Here's an image Of Vishnu, of tn
{ Island of Ceylon. don't know exactl.
who Vishnu was, but she sure wouldn'
, take the beauty prize. Also here ar
!, some images of the Aztecs, who in
, habited Mexico hundreds of years age
Look at that big yellow thing Their
supposed to be girD sitting tailor
fashion, with the bottom of her fee
turned up to the sun. How in tn,
world anyone could worship that ugl.
thing gets me. But then some men will
worship any old thing that wears skirts
| Well turn to the left here and go int,
! the section marked Machinery" wher,
no doubt we shall find something inter
esting. Here's whole big case full o
watches of all kinds, from the ancien
, affair of wood down to the very lates
} thirty seven jewelled patent pinion
? screw bezzle compromising balance
observation-disclosures California
/ bumped back open face hunter case
, guaranteed run forty years without
, winding kind sold by Loten Gasset.
These cases over here illustrate tn
development of telegraphy. Here ar
) spinning wheels, lighting devices
: vessels for storing beverages, stoves
etc.