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heard from all the departing guests.
The pen and ink sketches were beauti
fully executed and credit id due MisBeB
Fellows and Unruls.
ART HISTORY.
Outline ot Work Prepared by Mrs. F. M.
Hall, Chairman of he Art Committee of
the N. F. W. C
(a) Architecture.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Painting.
A.
ANCIKNT AUT.
I. Egyptian art.
II. Babylonian and Assyrian art.
III. Persian, Phoenican, Palestine and
art of Asia Minor.
IV. Greek art.
V. Etruscan and Komau art.
B.
Christian art to the Renaissance.
C.
Modern art from the Renaissance to
the present.
I. In Italy. II. In Germany. III. In
France. IV. In Holland. V. In Bel
gium. VI. In Spain. VII. In Eng
land. GENERAL REMAKKS.
In ancient art architecture and sculp
ture predominated.
In early Christian art architecture
and painting predominated.
In modern art painting predominates.
Architecture and sculpture take second
place.
LESSON VII.
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART-
1. Causes that led to the great decline
in art.
Barbaric invasion; new religion, sim
plicity of living; abhorrence of idolatry
and luxury.
2. Sculpture.
For many centuries nothing was done.
Heathen gods and heroes were abhorred
by early Christians, and their temples
were destroyed. First illustrations were
statuettes of the Good Shepheid and St.
Hippolitus ot the 5:h century. Bronze
statue in St. Peter's at Rome ie supposed
to be of the same date, and relkfs on
the early sarcophagi.
3. Painting was scarcely more than
crude symbolism 6een in the catacombs,
chapels and early places of worship.
4. In architecture the Roman Bacilica
gave way to the cathedral, and Roman
esque, Bzantine, Gothic and Renais
sance styles are the products of this
change.
SeeReber's History of Mediaeval Art;
Perkin's Historical Handbook of Italian
Sculpture; Luebke's Historj of Sculp
ture (university library;. Mrs. Jame
son's Legends of the Mi-donna (city
library). DeForest's Short History of
Art
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last spring. This tabluation makes the
showing that under the democratic
times the amount of farm mortgages
filed far exceeded the amount ot those
released, while in 1897 and 1898 the con
ditions were the reverse, and the re
leases exceeded the filings by over six
million dollars for each year. The east
ern papers are making many comments
on the good condition of affairs and aro
anxious to see what the figures of 1899
will show.
Nebraskana in Washington are con
gratulating Senator Allen on his selec
tion of a private secretary. They be
lieve that he has used good judgment in
the appointmtnt ot a man of sterling
ability and honesty, and one who haB
never made any pretense of being either
a democrat or a populist. The new ap
pointee was formerly a Kentuckian,
where he held a federal office under the
republican administration. He will be
a great help to Allen, as he is a born
rustler, but it is hard to see where the
Jacksonian democrats of Nebraska can
get any comfort out ot the appointment.
The treasury bureau of statistics has
just made a report showing the exports
of breadstuffs for the eleven months
ending with November, 1899, and the
figures Bho-w that the amount of corn
shipped to other countries was larger
than for any previous year, and that the
shipments were constantly increasing.
It seems that the popularity of the great
American product is growing abroad,
and that under the present supremacy
of American trade the exports will grow
so large as to permanently raise the
price of the article. This is news that
cannot but be welcome in Nebraska.
The report shows that for the eleven
months ending with November this
country has shipped out 183,832,059
bushels of corn, valued at 547,742,127.
The average export price was forty
cents per bushel. In 1898 it was thirty
seven cents and in 1S97 it was thirty-one
cents. In the exports of corn meal there
is also a large increase in quantity, with
higher prices. The amount for 1899 is
793,111 barrels, as compared with 237,093
barrels in 1874. Most ot the corn pro
duct shipped goes to Europe, and over
one-third of it is sold to England.
The news that Andrew Carnegie has
made a gift ot seventy-five thousand
dollars for the establishment ot a library
at the etate capital of Nebraska, along
with his other gr at gifts, will cause
general rejoicing when it is realized
that the money thus being given away
is not causing a hardship to the thou
sands of men employed by Mr. Carnegie.
On the contrary, notices have been
posted up at the various works of the
Carnegie Steel Company here in the
east announcing another increase in
wages of 7.11 per cent, making a total
raise of twenty five per cent since the
return of general prosperity. The in
crease in wages effects ten thousand
men. This is a pretty good way to
"press down the crown of thorns on
the brow of labor."
F. A. Harrison.
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Washington Letter.
(Special Correspondence.)
Washington, D. C, Dec. 30, '99.
Holiday week in the national capital
was almost devoid of politics, or of news.
ot any national importance. Many of
the congressmen went home, or took
holiday junketp', while thoso who re
mained here spent the time in the social
whirl. The Nebraska members im
proved the time by catching up in their
correspondence, and by visiting the de
partment in interests of constituents
who aro anxious about pension claims
and other matters.
One ot the items that is going the
rounds of the eastern papers tells the
story of the release of mortgages in Ne
braska, and contains the tabulation
which was printed by Nebraska papers
Nothing lo Him.
Watts I want to say that magician
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Lushforth Once I got a snake eight
een feet long, with a lighted gas jet in
his mouth, out of a quart bottle. In
dianapolis Journal.
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