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,
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rikd, retime lullllout et iltilr. tu t sunt
uy m tww hum pwiiljr liUd loiiu,
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ml llu una uMpftlaM Bu tul Imw
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