Show ov V A I 1 The Ancient palace of the dhans khans i i ce celebrate lebrat d forthe for fon the number of ka is fiu fig fountains 1 taik talk and the purity of its water w which me fine writer r pretends ends is ia the lightest in in all and turkey y there are no less than I 1 to fountains of inhabitants al at the end enda oi th the long street dust just across the hit fit little tle tie river ryer ryen is 13 the great sight of the the khans khang which aich all travelers stop to visit now that turkey is is becoming so lucli europeanized this palace as a specimen of inthe the old architecture of the turk race croes goes on increasing tir in interest the great men rt at constantinople stantin ople are sacrificing the ancient peculiarities of or palaces to modern conveniences but this venerable veni vent frAle rable rabie monument ment is kept up by the s of Russia precisely irl iri irl lit its ancient condition I 1 was wa much struck with it when the brightly pain painted gateway first opened upon me this twid a long line lirie of of only one aty aa int ini ift haight the windows filled up lith with kith daivd carved woodwork and add ornamented with budeta rude arab hiques ques painted in in bright colors right and fi left t olt on entering are ranges of apartments which air open on a 4 long gallery whence there isa isz 13 ak good view of the interior court and the groups of fantastic buildings raised irregularly brou around nd ii it at uie ule entrance of the second court on the left let ia is the tile g gite gile ake called the iron gate leading to the principal princia on which is an inscription declaring it to have been built by geray khan who conquered the crimea in 1480 1490 and was acknowledged as its sovereign by the tire turks A staircase uge eada leads into the richly orna merited hall in which there arp are two fountain fountains sr one of which is called Sel sibil or th fountain of 4 diary mary on which the russian poet kin hai written some beautiful verses beyond this hall hill is that of the divan the gr great council room placed in in the midst of a terraced garden this la is afie one of those magic buildings in in which the climate of the feast east can really le be i enjoyed its flor hoor as is of pi qia 1 able and its fre fretted eted ceiling tastefully gilt while wh ile the centa is occupied by y a e bal bai barrito basing rito antt which the water is perpetually I 1 I 1 foin a I 1 pun buntain cun t tain i 4 with willi fifteen jets the on TY ligh ahli th this ts adap ed is t fined pined awn through digh ann tea glass 99 and the tire softest divans i corinthe comm corn the heats hafs of summer the terraces of the h e ga garden raen outside are planted with rose roses and the clearest streams stream of water fall all in small cascades from one marble marbie basin to another the first hall is a doorway r leadin leading cr to the principal apartments of the khan himself him sef wl where ere I 1 is is the inal of ot audience and a iono iona long iong guile ruile of rooms lead ing down to the he banks of the rivea river whence the great man inan behind a lattice could unperceived see what wa passing in the tile town I 1 I 1 f behind the pavilion odthe waters carefully hid denby high trees is a little secluded court urt where tle the sacred precincts of the hareem te rm i bated with nith a high tower or kiosk whence 1 the ille iddles ladies used to witness the fetes arid and ni martial artial games that were celebrated cele bated baled ini int the great court eburt ad and whence there is is a most charming view of the town a d a all ail 11 the surrounding adin countr country Y Mi while letke lethe the right side of bf the palace was de devoted v id to all that could to td the sensual al en enjoy ment of life I 1 on n ifie the left lefi ros rose e the nio moque lue and andlee ille I 1 ce cemetery tery die HIP former buat bunt ina lna in a good style and aad completed by two tall minarets mina min pires rees ot of fine workman a ship the k khan hah ascended ascended to his tri trl tribune bine hine b bya ita f staircase a rease shaded by bya a poplar tree trie tree and altre here stran persape ger per sare abet taken alken to bitnes the ahe blus Alus sulman service and the dance d nce of tile the dervishes the cemetery adjei adjoins ns it in which two large domes contain the monuments af pf nearly all ali aleithe the khans chans since the pardons gardens and the reservoirs that feed th the e fount fountains alos aids eit fit thel thet pallice pal pai kice fice cb extend behind it an and above these on one of the sides ot of the thil harra narrow valle vaile valley vailey 0 lis is seen a part oart odthe of the town and an I 1 imi menie mense cemetery which is approached from the court of the palace by an allee dilee of monuments one graceful dome just without the prec pree precinct inett of the hie palace garden immediately imme dWely attracts attention ion iob below an octagonal build ing wiVi interlacing arelies arelius and sien glen riender det dei pilasters pi lasters I 1 supports it and ri rich ch ara arabesques decoi decol decorate ate every part inthe midst oi which the flie crass cross is is wn seen rnest conspicuous thesis the tomb ot a 4 beautiful G georgian called dilara dilar a bitel bikel bakeh who wis was th the wife wide of krim dera Gera geray ceray yand and greatly great beloved loved by b y her huband husband who was one of the best ahans khans that ever eve r governed crimea the fhe georgians are au kli christians of the greek church and dilara bakeh steadily refused to change ker ier her religion ign ibn and anil reposes ho here re on sufferance at the edge edae of the Mus sidman cemetery as she was not n admit mit tee tec ta finto into the burial ground of the house of gera many a a pilgrimage is made to thia tomb is as t to hat that Po another beautiful christian who gained the hearton beart heart of a prince f t she was a pole afan of an illustrious family and inspired inspire done one of the last khans ahans of crimea aimea with BO so violent n passion tha filId canted carried her kofl off and married her neither the splendor of her position and the tenderness lend erness of her husband co could uld however boweter reconcile her to being the wife of or an infidel and she died prematurely horii worn out by remorse 11 II il D seymour M ISIT P tiie THE NEW EW FRENCH SILVER the public have hive been interested lately by statements slate ments respecting spec ting A new method of obtaining in large quantities from that most abundant of deposits commora common clay a metal which rivals in in beauty with silver and surpasses it in durability not to mention other qualities Tild the discoverer for forso so we must call him bita is mr sainte ciaire claire deville aluminium Alti which hitherto existed only in ve very ry small quantities and arid esteemed rather as a curio curlo curiosity ity call can now he be prepared in masses summa sum cie cje chent t and cheap enough to replace copper and even iron in many respects add thus place the new silver superior in some paints inthe real a article articie into info such common iye lye ise 96 as to sull suil sui sul the mearis means of the poorest persons we learn from hrom paris that the members othe academy of science sciences and the numerous auditor auditory wire were loud in their admiration admira fi llon lion arid arld surprise at t the he beauty and brilliancy of ru many liny ingots ingols of alu alm min am present edby me mr dumas the celebrated chemist e etwas it was impossible to believe they thit were not silver sliver until take minto tire tiie hand when their extraordinary lightness at once proved the cont cort contrary iary fary that a metal should weigh ligh so little seemed arnatt omo t incredible the price of aluminium a short time since in france wag was about the rate 4 of gold mr dumas assured lle ile ahe lie academy that owing to recent discoveries reducing the expense of extrac extracting extraction tin it the tire cost aa of production was now about one orie hundred times less and mr ballard billard another member stated that there was little doubt that the effect of competition in its manufacture id td gether with the advantage nf f ti throwing rowing it open to the industrial resources tat lat of the h e world would be tore toren Aluce nee nce the theorice price as low as biye fly 9 francs frants the thi kilogramme kilo klio gramme or forty cents a pound po u nd this important result is mainly attributable to tile the facility with which we are now able to pro cure pure sodium in abundance which is the life active agent for the revivification of aluminium and whish was at it one onetime time vely very expensive sodium is obtained by the decomposition of laar ar soda by charcoal by the aid ald of a alit allt lit tie tle lime limp it has beel found easier to separate it from oxygen the tire conversion of aluminous alu minus earth or clay in to chloride of aluminum takes place so easily that the price of the chloride only comes to about ted teri cents a pound mr dumas observed that the generalization of tham the procedure of mr deville the application of chlorine to the extraction of metals forms a new era in metallurgy A aang m ng the many remarkable qualities of aluminium such as its rosl rosi resistance to oxidation either in the tile air or by acid acids its ila hardness its won its the ficili facility ty of it ac mr dumas dumis mentions an otherl othe rits its sonority ah ingot in t was suspended by a string and being lightly littly struck tr u k emitt emitted id th the finest tones such as a s are obtained only by a acom combination of the best metai metal lix fix rix |