Show INGERSOLL IN PURGATORY A fantastic idea has bag occurred to a brooklyn artist arniat mr Pero Per hace chace he hab ha nearly completed a painting representing the place of torment as aa depicted in the imagination of the people of the middle ugee ages he has baa painted it as a vast chasm surrounded by mountains between the peaks of which stretches a pale sky eky in contrast to the fiery depths below tuen there are angels armed with bows whose duty la Is to drive back the souls in torment that may endeavor to rise from the boiling and seething deep A soul pierced by an arrow and tumbling back into the gulf represents the inevitable fate of those who attempt to escape allover all over the rocks are demons demone with pitchforks delighted in the work of their companions below belew so bo far the idea is as an old as B the lamentable men table ignorance to which the antiquated idea of a future life owes its origin but Butt the artist has bas endeavored to give his bis work a realistic air by introducing in it modern figu figurer rep he has paid out to people willing to pope poe a as models to in abil crea tini of 0 hip b ohp result is that tai aher abir are peon a society frelly a w woman aman vt pt the street a typical aluia clubman i u aar others here bore Is also one figure said to his ble james J corbett shaking his bis fist at empty space and the picture will be finished with the introduction of colonel ingersoll standing at the entrance of this infernal region and surveying the of horror the painting is IN valued at and it is said to be the intention of the artist to exhibit it in various of the country the picture possibly if a great piece of 0 art and as such may attract lp but the entire conception cap hardly fall to strike one who reflects on it as ridiculous in the highest degree it to is in line 11 oe with a cartoon we have seen somewhere illustrating the be alleged idea of the heaver heaven of the ancient as aa a place where id an unlimited quantity of beer was waa consumed the effect of treating grave subjects to in this thia manner to ie never nelver commendable it can do no good but 1 la certain to do harm in the minds minda of some it will shake the foundations for belief in those v caples which remain eternally true notwithstanding all that may have bave been gathered round them ink ID the course of ages |