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VOL XII.
DOMES OF GOLD.
The Wonderful City of Moscow
and Its 400 Churches.
Czar’s Gorgeous Palaces
—How One was Gold Plated.
Moscow is still the capital of Rus
*i*, says Frank G. Carpenter iu the
Washington Star. The czar lives at
St Petersburg during a part of the
year, but the centre of Russian politi¬
cal and religious thought is Moscow,
$nd It i* now the centre of commer¬
cial Russia as well. The greatest
railroads of the empire come to it, the
biggest of the Russian factories send
their smoke iuto the hi tie sky above it
and its busincs blocks are among the
largest of the world. It lias the finesc
churches of Russia, and (lie people
tonsider it so holy that they mako pil¬
grimages even from the borders of
the Black Sea aud from the edges of
Siberia to pray at its slirines. The
mightiest citadel in the world is the
Kremlin, which stands in Us centre,
and the treasures of its churches are
Unsurpassed by the cathedrals of
&oma or the mosques of Constanti¬
nople.
We hear but little of the Greek
Catholic Church, but it has one of tho
taost active religions iu the world to¬
day, and the holy synod of Russia has
$ capital of $25,000,000 which It can
use as it pleases, and its income is
something like $ 6 , 000,000 a year. I
visited this morning the Church of
|Our Savior, which was completed
•nly a few years ago and which sur¬
passes in beauty any church of mod¬
ern times. It was built to commemo¬
rate the deliverance of Moscow from
the French, and it has cost about $40,-
600 , 000 ,jqr three times as much all
told as wo have spent on the Capitol
jftt Washington. This church stands
Ion the banks of (he Moscow river just
jOutside the Kremlin, and its great
Vfold dome xaay he seen blazing out
[Under the sun from any part of Mos¬
cow.
j It covers almost two acres and it is
fyuilt of a clear, white stone in the
'Shape of a Greek cross. It has golden
Cupolas at its corners aud a Russian
dome in it* center, and these cupolas
And this dome are covered with cop¬
per and plated with polished gold. It
took 900 pounds of gold to plato this
dome and there is more than a million
dollars worth of gold upon it. This
dome is iu the shape of an inverted
Bermuda onion, and if you can
Imagine an onion of gold, tho top of
which it jnst 100 feet in diameter, you
may get some idea of this million dol¬
lar golden onion which crowns this
temple of tho Savior. The cupolas
cost $800,000 to gild, aud there are
bells within this church which have
cost nearly a million dollars. The
biggest one here cost $300,000, and it
weighs jnst 13 tons.
I have visited the temples of India
And the interior of this new Russian
Church reminds me of the wonderful
architecture which you find at Delhi.
It is finished like a jewel and it is a
beautiful mosaic of marble, gold and
wonderful frescoes. Its altar is as
delicate in its combination of precious
Itoues and marble carvings as a lady’s
breastpin and this altar, before it was
enriched by its goideu icons, silver
ornaments and sacred pictures, cost
nearly $500,000. The marble in the
building cost almost $ 2 , 000,000 and (lie
floor and walls are of wonderful
marble of malachite and of lapis lazuli.
From tho floor, running around the
entire clmrch, there is first a dado of
Jasper. Above thia runs a panel of
white alabaster and marbles of differ¬
ent colors succeed one another until
they lose themselves in a great frieze
of carvings and frescoes by the most
noted of the Russian painters. Every¬
where there is gold and gold carving.
Golden pictures hang upon the walls.
Twelve hundred goideu candelabra
bold as many candles under the cu¬
polas, and all the vessels used by the
priests are of solid gold. Upon the
walls are golden texts from the scrip¬
tures shining out of the white marble
and the church is lighted by thirty-six
windows of stained glass, each of
which is uiuety feet high. This
ehureh will accommodate 10,000 peo.
pie, and when I entered it this Sunday
it was packed to bursting.
Russia is more a land of the orient
than of the Occident, The?e people
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY. GA. JANUARY 26, 1893.
fil'd as food of gold and precious
■tones as are the rajahs of India or
the priests of Siam. There are 400
churches in Moscow, and nearly every
one of them has a golden dome. The ■
holy buildings of the Kremlin are ,
crowned with gold and there is enough
gold plating in Russia to carpet Broad¬
way or to gild the public buildings of
Washington. The czar lias a palace
just outside of St, Petersburg knowu
as Tsarskoe Selo, which was built by
Catharine the Great. It is of vast ex¬
tent and it was plated wi ll gold. It
took nearly a million dollars’ worth
of bullion to do the work, and when,
owing to the dampness of the climate,
it began to peel off, Catharine ordered
it to bo painted over. Some Russian
speculators wanted to scrapo off the
old gold and melt it over again and
they offered Catharine $500,000 for
the job. She sent them to prison for
insulting her with tils proposition and
covered the palace with yellow paint.
This palace has rooms walled with
amber.
It has a parlor covored with lapuR
lazuli and the walls and ceilings of
one drawing room are of the finest tor¬
toise shell. There are 600 apartments
ia the palace and the bail room covers
nearly half an acre. Its floor is of
wooden mosaic and there aro rooms
in which (ho finishing is in ivory,
bamboo and in bronze. The palace
must have cost millions and it is only
one of a dozen which bolongs to the
Czar. I have written you of the won¬
derful cathedrals of St. Petersburg
and the riches stowed away witbiu
them. St. Isaac’s Cathedral cost
$16,000,000, and there is $600,000
worth of gold upon its dome. Single
columns within it cost $30,000, and
the cheapest candle sticks in the
Cathedral of Kazan are of solid silver.
The richest churches, however, are
those of Moscow, and I have wandered
about through golden ornaments here
during the past week until my eye*
are tired of the yellow metal and I
long for a change.
The Latest Arithmetical Prodigy.
Jacques Inaudi was born at Ono.
rato, iu Piedmont, on October 18,
1868, of a family in modest circum¬
stances. He passed his earlier years
in tending sheep. At the ago of six
years lie was taken with a passion for
figures, and began to combine num
hers in his head while at watch over
his flock. He did not try to give hit
calculations a materia! form by count,
iug on his fingers, or with stones, but
the whole operation was mental. He
conceived numbers by the names
which his elder brother had recited to
him. Neither he nor his brother
could read then. He learned by ear
the n ambers to hundreds, and exer¬
cised himself iu calculating with what
lie knew. When he had done his best
with these numbers he asked to bo
taught those above a hundred so that
he might exteud the sphere of his
operations.
He has no reeoliection of his brother
teaching him the multiplication table.
At seven years of age lie was capable
of performing in his head multiplica¬
tions of five figures. In a little while
he started with his brother to wander
through Provence, the brother playing
the organ ami Jaques exhibiting a
marmoset and holding out his hand.
To increase his receipts he proposed
to the people he met to perform men¬
tal calculations for them; at the mar¬
kets lie assisted the peasants In mak¬
ing up their accounts, and performed
difficult arithmetical operations In the
cafes. A manager engaged him to
give representations in the cities. He
came to Paris for the first time in
1880, and was presented to the An¬
thropological Society by Broca, who
wrote a brief note on the oase.—[Pop¬
ular Science Monthly.
Crape.
Crape is a light, transparent fabric,
composed of silk from which all the
gloss has been taken, When dyed,
as it usually is, of a black color, it is
used in mourning, ehiefly to trim
ladies’ dresses, also at veils and around
men’s hats. In the naval and military
service, when officers wear mourning,
it is simply represented by a four-inch
band of bjack crape around the left
arm and a bow of the same tied to the
sword hilt.—[Detroit Free Press.
The rubber and elastic goods Indus¬
try in Boston in 1890 turned out pro*
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