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THE WORLD'S MOLEHILL. Interesting Dita Concerning Volcanic Ernp tlona mid the Birth of Mountains The Alps Said To Be Situated Abovo a llujre Bnlglnir Tack, "Where Dancer Ever Lnrks. Pretenders to longevity usually turn jut upon Btrint Inquiry to bo honry impostors. Tlioy aro not half so aged tl reality ns thoy mako thomsolvcs out A bo. 'i'horo are small hillocks in tlio elands of Britan that were already great mountains whiio the Alps nnd Himalayas still lay slumbering sweet ly half a milo of superincumbent )ccan. Indeed, as a genor.il rulo, it aiay bo said that tho biggest moun tains aro very now, and that tlio oldost mountains nrn small. Unless it bo a roiuano or self-made mountain, tho rocks and stones of wliicli it is com oosud havo been laid down somo tlmo r other on tho bed of somo forgotten ind primmval ocean. During tlio whole vast primary period of geology (embracing in nil probability four if t lis of tlio duration of life upon litis alanot) thuro is reason to believe that ;cntral Europo lav consistently and oorsistontly hoiiontii the depths of tho 10a. Tlio Gorman ocean was then 'cally coterminous with tho whole of jormany, and tho sea of Homo cm oraeed tho greater part of Catholic Europe Jt was only at tho opening af tho socondary ponod tho ago of ';lio great marino lizards that tho first faint ombryo of tho baby Alps began to bo formed. Now, tho arigin of a mountain chain is not really duo, as most people used to man i no, to a direct vertical up-thrust 'rom below; it is, in fact, a result of lubsidonco rather than of uphoaval a lymptom rather of gonoral shrinkago jinn of local eruption. For nothing ;an shrink without wrinking and cor rugating its surfaco; a result which mo commonly sues aliko in a witliorcd lpplo, an old man's hand, and a dry pond cracked and fissured all over by tho hot sun. Tlio Alps aro thus ultl timately duo to tlio shrinkago of tho earth upon its own contor; thoy aro llslooations of tlio crust at a woak point, whoro it finally collapsed and throw in collapsing a lingo heap of tangled and contorted rubbish. Tho beginning of tho Alps, in fact, was J no to tlio development in 1'ermiau 1.111108 ovorybody is, of courso, qulto familiarly acquainted with tho For ailaii period of a lino of woaknoss in tho earth's crust right along tho vory son tor of what is now Switzerland, but what was then probably nowhere in particular. Tho lino of weakness thus producod sliowod itsolf overtly by tho opening of a number of fissures in the solid crust, like cracks in a jo'ling not, indeed, visible to tlio naked oyo of any inquiring saurian who may havo chanced to investi gate the phenomena in person, but aianifcsllng their existence none tlio less by tho outburst along their lino of volcanic vents, hot springs, Soysors and all other outer and visi ble signs of diroot communication with tho hoatod regions beneath the aarth. From thoso fissures masses of lava, tufl. and other volcanic matori lis rapidly poured fortn, somo of which still form the core of the Alpine lystom, though most of them aro buried ut tho present day under othor layers of later deposition, The actual Alps, as wo know tliom to-day, aro of tar later and more modern date. Tho vory next thing the volcanoes did af ter bursting out frantically into notion was to disappear bodily bononth tho bed of the ocean. Year after year and ago nflor ago tho buried coro of tho future Alps wont on sinking fur ther and vol further under tho deep ening waters of an ovor profoundor and profoundor ocean. Ono kind of jodimonl after another was deposited on top of it, and these sediments, of vory diverse hardnesses and thlok uossos, form tho mass of the rooks of which the existing Alps aro now com posed. Tho lino of weakness occu pied most probably the center of the great Mediterranean thus produced, tor tho sediments lie far thicker in tho Alps themselves than around tho shal low edges of tho soa, in wlioso midst thoy wore laid down. In fact, many of tlio strata which, away from tho Alpino axis, measure only hundreds of foot thick, increase from along that central lino till that thickness may rather bo measured by thousands. With tlio sotting in of tlio tortiary pe riod tho ago of the great extinct mammals opens the third chapter in tho history of tho origin and rise of tho Alpsr Tlio trotiglidiko hollow, filled with thick layers of sediment, which thou covered tho lino of weak ness in tho earth's surface, began to bo pressed, and crushed, and pushed sideways by the lateral strain of tho BubsIdliiK crust. Naturally, as tho orust falls in by its own weight upon tho cooling contor it thrusts from oltlior side against the weakest points, nnd in so doing it twists, contorts, and crumples tho layers of rook about tho linos of weakness in the most extra ordinary and almost Incredible fash ion. To put il quite simply, if a solid shell big enough to cover a globe so many miles in diameter is compelled lo fall in, so as to accommodate itself to the shrunken oirouniforonoo of a globe so many miles less in diameter, Ft must necessarily form folds horo and there, in which the various layers of which it is composed will be doub led ovor ono another in picturesque confusion. Snob a fold or doub ling of tho layers aro tho Alps and tho Jura. Our world Is grow ing old and growing cold; and as It waxes older and colder it shrinks and shrinks and shakes and quivers, so that Its coat Is perpetually getting u little loo big for It, and has to betaken in at the sua ins from time to time. The taking in is done by the simple and primitive method of making a bulging tuok. Tho Alps aro situated just above a seam, and are themselves ono of tho huge bulging tucks in quoUiou. Aooordlug to Prof, Holm, tho folding of tho crust litis, boon so enormous that points originally far apart havo boon Lroiitrbt suvwily-four miles nearer ono another than they were ut the begin ning of Uiu movement of pressure. In fuel, KwlUorlmid mul have been orig luitllv a lnriu Oiiiiiitrv. with tmuio nil- lliruf protuntlmm bi rutfuriluil lit tho the light of it Hrtfl ruin European uowr. but 1(8 outside luu boon folded yywr mitl oyur u oftun Ibut UiPi'O ) now vory littlo of it loft upon tho nur faco. What It onco possessed in aroa it has nowadays to take out in eleva tion only.- Prof. Judd has well shown how groat is tho amount of wear nnd tear to which mountains aro thus sub jected, nnd how enormous is tlio loss of material thoy undergo, in tho caso of tho extinct volcano of Mull, which rose during tho not vory romoto Mio ccno poriod lo a height of somo ten or twolyo thousand feet abovo tho sea lovel. It had a diamotor of thirty miles at its base, and its great cono rose gigantic liko that of Etna, or of Fusi on a Japanese fan, far into tho sky, unseen by any oyo, savo that of tho half human, npeliko creatures whoso rudo, lire marked Hint fiakos tho Abbo Bourgeois has disontombed from contemporary strata in tho north of Franco. Sineo tlio Mioccno days rain and frost and wind and woathor havo wreaked their will unchecked upon tlio poor old broken down, ruined volcano, till now. in its feoblo old ago, its usoful fires longsmco extinguished, it stands a more worn stump, consist ing of a few scatlorcd hills, none of which oxecods thrco thousand foot in iiolght abovo sea lovel. All tho rest cono and ashes, lava and debris- has boon washed away by tho pitiless rain, or split and destroyed by tlio powerful ico wedges, leaving only tho central coro of hard maltor with a fow out lying, weather beaten patchos of solid basalt and volcanic conglomerate Cornhill Magazine. Soiiiorvlllo Journal Pecillngj. It is a mean girl who will glvo her faithful lovor tlio mitton in hot weath er. A man novor nppeciatcs how vor boso ho is in ordinary speeeii until ho comes to write his first dispatch in a tolograph oillce. Silk socks aro choapor than silk stockings. It scorns hardly necessary to explain that thoy como lower bo causo thoy do not como so hitih. It is said that a boo can pull moroin proportion to its size than a horso. The only thing that can bo compared with it is a Kentucky man at a jug. Of courso a wedding is nine times out of ton a miss-tako, but ho is a very crusty old bachelor who is moan ououglt to call attention to tho fact at tlio wedding broakiast. A Lowell minister is preaching a so ries of sermons Sunday mornings on Elijah. Ho thinks that this is the sea son of tho year when pooplo can ap preciate just how Elijah felt going up In tlio chariot of fire. Nothing disgusts an old proof-reader on a dally paper more than to havo tlio now exchange editor credit an Item to tho llvurboii (lu.) News. "Just as though any fool wouldn't know what stato Bourbon is in," ho grumbles. The plagiarism of tho Texas judge who delivered Washington's farewell address as his own is only equalled by that of the minister who delivered tho sermon on the mount to his congrega tion as an original production. Neither of them would havo been found out if it hadn't boon for a nowspapor man. Tlio Vonkcra Gazette illustrates ono of tho host uses of a local newspaper when it says: "If you should under take to write a letter oaoh week to an absent friend nnd tell half tho news found in tlio Uazette you would givo up in despair." No mossago is moro t woicomo man a copy oi mo nomo pa per filled with news about homo mat ters. Goorgo "No, old chappio, I lovo Clara bolter than life, but 1 am quito convinced that my attentions to hor aro not congenial." Harry "flow do you know? HaB alio told vou mP" George "No." Harrv "Has sho said anything to you about UP" liOOl'gO "XNO." Harry "Well, how do you know, thon?" lioonro-"Woll. to toll tho truth. I met the old man on tlio trout steps the other night and ho gave mo tho straight tip." Somcrvitle Journal. Ho Was Jloilol for Two Authors. Wllll.un V. Duval, who died nt Wnalilmrtmi wlnln nil a visit. Ill flnn. Jackson's last administration, was a genuine backwoodsman, wno was llie original of Washington irving's "Ralph ltlngwood" and James K. Paulding's "Nimrod Wildfire." When a boy be had gone from bis natlvo Virginia to Kentucky, wlioro ho be came ono of tho hunters wlio ranged tlio rorests ami nvoti ny uieir riuos. Studying law, ho soon acquired a lu oratlvo practice, and was ont to Con- .ri.ii.iu lii 1KIM (Inn .1 mtl.-aiiii niiitnliit. ed mm uovornor 01 norma, ami while there ho exercised a great inllu onco ovor tho Sotmnolo chiefs, whoso confidence ho gained. From Florida no wont to xoxas, ami 11 was on uusi uess connected with tlio lauds in that stato that ho came lo Washington in his 70lh year. His genial humor, his turn! ot aueeuote, ami nis spouoss in tegrity made him a favor to among viiiniir mini, who used to fill his room iit night, llstonlng lo his sp ritod ac counts ot tlio tune wnon no tousoiiis own words "could whip his weight in wildcats." Ilea: I'erley l'vore. Tlio Oracle lit tho Art (.Hilary. A local oraolo was walking through n gallery with ono of those largo-oyod, artless, simple, modest girls tho other day. Ho was enlarging on tho dill'or out schools of painting. Ho appre ciated everything; ho know every thing. Thoy came to n picture. Ho saw without looking a name In tho corner. "Now. there," ho said, "I can toll the Dutch school at a glance. That is by Kdbnkor. Edboker is a favorite of mine. There Is something so genuine In his painting, something so natural and strung in his handling of a sub ject. I think nothing is more marked or curious than the distinctions be tween painters In llie way thoy treat the Hiiino iheme The strong Dutch Individuality of Kdbokur--" "1 bmg your pardon, but It apiiuiui to imi lliU picture U painted by ).. A HaUor." "liuUurl Ah, dour mo. o It Is. JUw very Dutub bu .M kn fYwtfin'f JKMIE JUKE IN JiDBOPH. Aged and Wonderful Munich Sculp ture Taken From tlio Falaco of Sardanapalus. Paintings by Eembrandt, Raphael, Renl, Guide and Correclo The Koyal Talaco and a Cold Bed that Cost 800,000 Jrlorlns A Monarch Who ITefen Music to Men and 'Who Lives In the Country. Sptclal Corrtrpoiulcnce. Munich, Bavakia, August17. "Do not go to Munich." said ovorybody. "Hot, dreadful placo in summer, with nothing to cat or drink but bread and cheese and beer." Condemnation naturally makes a certain amount of Impression upon ignoranco nono of tho party had over been to Munich, and only ono was anxious to sco tho mother of so much of our modern art. Tho general impression was that Mu nich was musty, and smoky, and old, and genotally unfragrant, and liko tho pictures of tiio "Impressionists" of tlio Munich school which, howov er, are not old but usually very young. But wo came to Munich all the same, and wero surprised, as wo havo been nvi.ri-Mrlinro. I f find KIIrIi brb'llfc nml !opon spaces, such lovely squares, such nnnusomo uuuuiugs, uuu juutu, aucn enterpr.se, such now lifo in tho midst of the old, and in the capital of a king who is not social, docs not lovo cities; In short, separates himself from his people, though neglecting nothing that can conduco to their advantage. Munich is tho Mecca of thousands of young art students and lovers of art, or who supposo thomsolves to bo such, and imagino that tho sight of what thoy havo done will bo enough to in spire Ihem to do likewise. Especially in Munich is tho peripatetic copyist to bo found, carefully following tho let tor of tho original work, and wonder ing perhaps why it is not informed by the spirit. At least that was the at titude of ono would-bo artist, with long hair, who was diligently copy ing a Kembrandt. It was nearly fin ished; tho lines wero all there. It ought to havo been exactly liko tho original, but it was not, and witii cap Botto ono side ho stepped back from his easol aud ovidently tried to criti cally survey his work. What was tho ilillorcnco botweon his pieturo and Uembraudt's? Just tho difieronco between Kembrandt and himself, neither moro nor less. Was ho ablo to sco UP Tho male copyist is gonorally young and lias a pretty good time, oven if his commons aro short. Ho is not afraid of mounting stairs, nor of finding him self in a highly seasoned neiglibor hood; ono attic is as good as another to him, and ho has plenty of comrade ship in his daily fare which only cost him a few pfoing (it takos live for a cent)of bread and cheese and beer, or for a troat, bread and sausage and tho light wiuo common and cheap through out Germany. But with tho women it is less easy. Somo of them aro old and worn looking, and it is pitiablo to see them at a time when thoy should bo enjoying woll earned rest struggling In now and dilllcult paths to obtain a livelihood. Othors aro young, and coquetto with art, as thoy do with their rullles, willing to boliovo that thoy aro destined to bocomo groat, bo causo thoy can daub a teacup or a wooden plaque, whilo hero aud thoro aro many earnest workers striving in their own way to do good work and Btrengthon and improve tltoir own powers. Tito work is ono that tho imitators who como to tlio homes of nneient art do not turn about and go back homo again moro quickly than thoy came. The bost that can bo rtono In this field seems to havo beou done, and tho bost that wo havo to dayis but a copy aud iteration of tho past. It is practical inventions and mechanics that to-day is king, but in imaginative conceptions and tho working out of brilliant fancies in lovely aud poetio poems wo soom only to bo able to copy that which filled tho world with beauty centuries ago. Tho growth of Munich as au art coutro is uot, howovor, in tho lino of its ancient achievements. These laid a foundation of strength in truth ful drawing and graceful form. Thoy gave to Munich its beautiful speoitnons of architecture, as lino as any in mod em Europo, but tho art of tho draughtsman is little valued by tho artist of tlio modern Munich school. His aim is color a good thing in Us right quantity aud placo. Whoro to begin iu Munich is tho question. Shalt it bo with tho Maxi milian Gallery, a handsomo structure with a lino facade, witlt royal palaces, tho old and now l'inakotliok, or the Bavarian National Museum? It is difii cult to say Munich is a city of surpris es. Here a Koman arch, there a Greek gateway, everywhere sculptured fig ures, which produce in tho mind con fiuod linages of kings and poets, ho roes nud philosophers, warriors and artists, as you perhaps drive or walk past thorn with a guide, whoso German English or German French reduces tho coufusiuu to absolute chaos. Tho l'ropybroa" gateway will porhnps lid mil us us well us any other entrance., It Is on the same Mjuaru us the ' (Ihp tothek," or Hull of Sculpture mid u U au imitation of that iu the Aero polls. Its colums uro Doric oil one aide mid Ionie on (hi' other. Mbd it li Mdornod wllh b;u-ioliu( repretuuluig the lireek war of iinlupiiiduiiue iuil lio roigii oi King Who Tho "lilypto lliuk" U ui:golho of Ulnnk nit nUn, ullluiiigli the iniui'lor mldil Jio Piimpoiuu or uld Human Tlio )Iaf, yf pltlub tUuw nro Ulrteu. m iluyo ' t"' V r;.i jinr "Z SHEW r 11 J ted to ancient sculptures, aro divided into Assyrian, Egyptian. Hall of In cunabula, JErinetau Hall, Hall of Apol lo, Bacchus, Niobe, Hall of tho Gods, of Heroes, Koman Hall, Trojan Hall, Hall of Colored Sculpture and Hall of Modern Works. Tlio Halls of tho Gods, of tho Trojans aud Heroes aro ornamented with frescoes by Cornelius and with reliefs by Schwatuhalor. JEginotau Hall contains fragments from a tcmplo of Minerva found in tlio island of iEina, and which aro con sidered of great importance. Thoy consist of parts of two groups repre senting scenes in tho Trojan war. Tho faces of all antiques seem to bo vacant totally dostituto of expression tho energy aud intelligence aro ex- penueu on tlio anatomy, wnicn is splendid. Tho collections hero must bo invaluable as studies, and aro so varied as to embrace tho enliro field of plastic art. Of the gods and horoes, poets and philosophers, most of them aro familiar to us in plaster casts or copied busts in bronze or marble. Tho Hall of Colored Sculptures is interest ing, and that of Modorn Masters con tains tho "Adonis," by Thorvvaldson; "Paris," by Conova, and "A Disputed Raphael." The halls are lighted from a central court or quadrangle and tho entrance to tho Assyrian Hall is guard ed by two colossal lions with nunian heads casts from the originals in tlio Lotiyro which wero takou from tho palace of Sardanapaus. A group de signed by Wagner of Rome, and oxo cuted by Sehwanthaler, represents Minerva as tlio patron aud protectress of tho "divino" art. Each hall is doc orated in accordance with tho objects and tlio poriod they represent, with which it is lilled, and in tlio niencs on either side of tlio entrance aro marble statues of mythical or historical per sonages, and at tho sides poisons fa mous in tho history of sculpture Thorwaldson, Canova, Ghiborti. Peter Visohor, Michael Angelo. Sehwan thaler and others. Tho Maximilian Gallery occupies a commanding posi tion abovo and boyoud the Maximilian Bridge, which crosses tlio Isar, and at tho end of Maximilian Strnsse, a iino streot which tho river divides from tlio erallory and the park. Theodilico was lounded and built by Maximilian ,11. to givo a post-graduate courso to stu dents who exhibited special aptitudes for various departments of civil sor vico, and it was completed with funds which ho left for tho purpose. It is a grand monument to bis memory and contains some fine historic pic tures; among others the "Construction of tho Pyramids." by Gustav Kichtor; Kaulbaeh's "Battle of Salanns," a "Crucifixion of Christ," by Hanschild; figures and costumes painted from thoso in tlio Oborammorgau Passion Play, aud a "Nativity," tho last work of Johan Schrandolph, done when ho was soventy-niue. "Other groat pic tures aro "Luther Before the Diot at Worms," by Schnorr, Piloty'a "God froy do Bouillon," "Elizabeth of Eng land" and "Maximilian," "Peter tho Great (in a workingman's dress) Founding St. Petersburg," byKotzo bu), and others which I havo not timo or memory to enumerate Filoty is tho mastor of tlio Munich art of to-day and stands as tho exponent and repre sentative of tho now school. Of courso Uie Maximilian Gallory is only tho soup before the dinner com pared with tho "Old Pitiakotltok," which is the glory of Munich, embrac ing: the famous Dussoldorf Gallery and tlio cream of many collections. Tlio name is from the Greek and signi fies a repository of pictures. I.lko most othor important buildings iu Munich, it is modern, not having been finished till lb.'IO or M7. and U in tho Keiiiiunuuiiuo stylo, with, as bus been said, a uuggeulioii of the Vatican about it. It Is iidoiiiud with upward of twon ty ttatuti of uulobiutud paiutNrs frwu tfUlohoj by Sulnunl!ulr. Thine nro cloven largu wluu and twwnty-fuur i in il I ruoiiu or uttUinuin." hWpiuvuIuI vvlili iiieiiiHK unmixed Ml )iupitr e irviiiolugnal pivtvlV Will thu imyju n( j iu puinW ftUauhtfd to tiiiuhniutur i m ri uo fowni liiMDKuHsnn. I toy arc upon W) 1H PilrUR finest and most porfoct in the world in Us collections of the art and industry of all ages, is open free on Sunday, though with tho exception of Wednes day it charges a mark (twenty-fivo cents) on tho other days for admission. It is a curious thing that a Govern ment for the people and by the people does as littlo as possible for tho people probably on tlio priuciplo that what is everybody's business is nobody's. Whilo all ovor Europe, tho collections, tho galleries, the museums, the parks, tho palaces oven those which nomin ally belong to tho Crown aro only held to bo taken caro of for the people. Individual gifts and benefactions of this kind are subject here, as with us, to tho will of tho person who bestows them to his opinions and prejudices. What a Government does it must do for tho whole, and especially for thoso who cannot otherwise obtain what it has to give. Thus tho poor who havo thoir work every day in the week, havo free churches, froo galleries, freo museums and music in the parks in tho afternoon to brighten their work on Sunday, which is in truth a day of rest and enjovmont to them. The old kings and dukes and electors havo left a legacy to tho people, far beyond any aggrandizement power or money could bestow in these accumulated treasures, which were obtained often at much in dividual cost and sacrifice, preserved against tho will of tho turbulent who could not understand their function or value, and loft as tho most valued of all logacies to tlio whole people. Tho wonder, too, is that tlio amazing amount of work should havo boon ac complished in so brief a timo. Art in Germany in tho collective form did not begin till the sixteenth century. Albert V. was tho first royal collector, and his tasto was more for what wo should call bric-a-brac than paintings. Iu Germany, however, wo realize, moro than elsewhere, how truly uni versal art is, and in how many forms and ways it can find expression. Tho utensil is as truly a work of art as tlio picture, it ombodics form, feeling and color, and though painting is best adapted for showing lifo without movement and storios without words that is to say, is a moro fiexiblo and adaptable medium than stone, wood or motal still it is all tho moro glory to thoso who succeed in extracting from these tho vital principles thoy hold. I stop at tlio threshold of the old Rina Bother I cannot enter. It seem ed sacrilege to enter in hasto tho pre sence of Rubens aud Vandyck, of Murillo and Durer, of Holbein and Toniers, of Raphael and Rembrandt, of Guido, Rom and Corregio, of the great masters of every school, uot only in full dress tiiat is, as seen in somo ono groat painting or piece of sculp ture, but iu smaller works and sketches, en famillo, as it were so that with timo and caro ono could study not only tho historic sequence, but establish a personal friendship nnd intimacy with the illustrious dead. A short trip is well enough for a lirst bird's-eyo view of Europe, but when one has found out what there is that ono ivants, it is best to devote one's timo to this, and not wasto it or diihiso one's self ovor unimportant (to us) objects. Among the most interesting are tlio Molgoniut and Durer pictures. These aro painted mostly upon wood. Thoro are twelvo Durers, including his por traits of his master, Wolgomut, and himself. Rubens and Rembrandt are magnificently represented, tho former by seventy-six pictures, including cabinet skotches. Tlieso compriso "Tho Last Judgment," "The Massacre of the Innocents," "Tho Battle of tho Amazons," and the famous portraits of tlio artist himself witlt his first wife, Isabella Brant, nnd of his second, tlio beauty, Helena Fourment Tho Rem brandt series of Scenes from tho Lifo of Christ aro among tlio most remark able works of that groat artist tho "Entombment" being considered the finest. Tho "Now Pinakothok" con tains only modorn pictures, nnd less than half tho number iu tlio Old Pina kothok. It is, thoreforo less impor tant, yet tlio writer would mako a groat "mistako who should neglect to pay it a visit. Tlio building is in tho Byzantino style, with exterior frescoes after designs by Kaulbach. It was built out of the private purse of Lud wig I., and tho collections wero also paid for by him. In Founder's Hall on tho ground fioor is a lino portrait of tho king painted by Kaul bach; also a model in plaster ot tho Quadriga, which ornaments tho "Arab of Victory," and which was designed by Wagner iu Koine. Tlio lions nro of horoio size. Thoro is a suporb vaso of malachite in this hall, presented by tho Emperor Nicholas, und somo vory beautiful porphyry vaces. Near tho Quadriga aro doors which admit tho visitor to tho Porce lain Rooms, whoro upon porcelain aro exquisitely executed copies of thu most famous pictures in the Old Pinakothok. Tlieso allord au admirable opportunity of studying them iu detail. Vou Kaul bnclt Is the arliht best represented in pictures, ami particularly in sketches, (a this gallery ! but thorn nro omo vurv I uu nun nirikiiitr pioiuroi by Piloty mid othur urtlaU of thu Munich solimil "Tliiikuuldu in the Triumphal Pimumioii ut tiormmiluu" by pilot), "Tim Allaek lb" Hod 'Iuhwi" by ..,. ...... . . Dufroiiiier. and "I lie Dtuliutuiuii it! PuiHitMum bjr littuibil. "UwIM ' M IHU lttl wuiK (uuluiiuud) inrl Jinhuiu, uiul ibt "Uid' Ik up n uhkj nunuukbutl lb) Ui ut I huh. Il YtHJllMl tf(M UttUli u) Unit mW Kitf hi uwtfur. BiJ liivrv urcs, by Scrandolph, whoso "Ascom sion" and "Christ Healing tho Sick' nro among them. Angol.ca Kauffman i3 represented by two works "Christ and tho Woman of Samaria" and a portrait of tho hereditary-Prince Louis, nfterwards King of Bavaria, at nino toen. There aro numerous roval por traits, a scries of portraits of artists by Kaulbach, and many historic sketches in oil ornauieutal frescos employed upon palaces and public buildings. Wintorhalter, Brakelaerand Do Koysor of Antwerp. Achenback of Hesso Cassel are names which look familiar as wo tako a hurried look through tho rooms, coming back ahvays to Kaul bach and Piloty, to Schrandolph and Heinrich Von Hess. Tho "Antiqua rian" consists of five rooms, tho most attractive feature of which is the woll presorved figure ot a young girl not moro than soventccn. In our visit to tho old palaco designed by Peter Candid, wo saw not only the stato Apartments, usually shown, including the Nlobelungcn rooms, with tlio magnificent series of frescoes by Sehnorr, and tho portraits of tho tfiirty-six beauties, but the privato apartments, which contain some treasures of extraordinary value. There is ono room, a fancy of Quoen llonriotta Maria, which is finished en tirely in exquisito Mosaic, and con tains a portrait of Bcatrico Ccnci so finely executed in Mosaic that it looks liko the most delicate painting. Tho carved ivories, tho porcelain, tho rich embroideries, and tho metal work in these beautiful rooms dwarf evon tho "mirror" cabinet a boudoir lined with mirrors, and tho gold bed, which cost 800,000 liorins. Tho king does not occupy these apartments, but lives in his "Winter Garden" when ho is in Munich, which is supplied with a lake upon which he can row, a prom enade upon which ho can walk, and a band which plays for his especial ben efit. An oval roofing of metals and glass on tho top of tho original build ing between tho tower and tho colonado, is tho exterior of tho Wintor Garden, but it is dwarfed m tho picture and does not show its length or proportions. Thoro is a beautiful and woll-kopt garden be longing to tho paiaco whicli is free to tlio poor, and especially to women and children, all tho timo, and ono cannot; but feel somo admiration and sympa thy for a king who likos his lifo in tho mountains better than tho life of cit ies and prefers music to men. Tho Bavarian National Museum of Munich has a world-wide reputation which cannot be helped by any words of mine. It is Bimply incalculable in objects of arts and industry collected from and representing every part of the world, from the timo of tho Ro mans till to-day, but making a special task of presenting the development of the lifo and industries of Bavaria from works tho most minuto to thoso of largest proportions. Gointr through this museum is the work of weeks j Ono feels that to merely onumerato tho objects would bo tlio work of a lifetime. Wo envy friends who are to romain and givo timo to the examina tion of tlieso and other "Munchon" treasures, who will hear tlio grand music atthoNiebolungeu festival and tako tho beautiful citv in its galle ries, its gardous, its collodions, its in definable charm, in a satisfactory manner. Munich io said to bo averychoap city to livo in, and one could woll be lievo it af tor lunching at two or threo of tho town restaurants. Carriage hire, too, is very choap. but nothinsr is cheap to the short trip tourist, who must live in a high-priced hotel, em ploy a guide nnd keop carriages wait ing whilo tho places ho wishes to sco are visited. Moreover horo wo found tho first doliborato extortion and mis representation practiced upon us at a hotel which stands lirst upon Baedocker's list, but did notscruplo to mako a considerable overcharge for a very inferior tablo d'hoto dinner. Copyrighted 1885. A Butterily as a Jlhnlc By tlio margin of a small stream I caught "Leptocircus virescens'which derives protection from mimicking tho habits and appearances of a dragon lly, in a crowd of which it Is often to bo found. In form it rominds mo of tlio European genus uemoilera. It Hits ovor tho top of tho water fiuttor ing its tails, jerking up and down just as' dragon-Hies do when llicking the water with the tip of their abdomens. When U tottlos on the ground it Is difficult to 6co, as it vibrates, Iu con slant motion, its tall nud wings, so that a mere hazo. as it wero, oxIsU wlioro it rests. Xaturalitt't irir nigs, The deuirtu.tuinl ft thai a huge Ireu rikd, retime lullllout et iltilr. tu t sunt uy m tww hum pwiiljr liUd loiiu, bit iHrd ll Id iMtllNi: liUu Ut Uiiy ItMiutflve tulh Hie UtHiy prvti rut Imn u ml llu una uMpftlaM Bu tul Imw uniff tits tufc "f tMMwmi's. 'JIuUm mU tMifl wr tu t ( rUflitl MM uV 4tlA& itf I (ti- l"" uitW Mte pit) J Ik oj ku Uitt Ue