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Show Aril. I. AiisrlirnnUms. Two .tenia ago tlmiv was exhibited In Lou, Ion a biantiful plelnro of nil eighteenth cenlnry Interior, perfect In every detail but one, for on a wall of the Intel ior wns a sinnll picture of n very up-to ilnto locomotive; nnd In tho snuip year the writer saw ninoiig the Academy pictures a presentment of a cnvnller, evidently woltlug Impatiently Impatient-ly for hla lady to keep the tryst, consulting con-sulting a watch which would have done credit lo a twentieth conlury watchmaker: while on another canvas a Peninsular veteran, w-ho was lighting light-ing bis battles over ngnln for the ben-ellt ben-ellt of n, linking rustics nt the village tun. was w-enrlng nil unmUt.iknblo Victoria Vic-toria Cross about forty years before this badge of valor came lulo exist-once. exist-once. In Ida magnificent picture In the rtoynl Fxchniigo of scared I.nudnners escaping In boats from the horrors of the great lire of Stnnbnpe Forbes hns Introduced vessels of a typo which, It Is snld. Hie Ttinmes baa never known, nml another nrtlst nf repute nriiied Hip children nf Israel with guns, presumably for self protection, while they were occupied lu gathering manna. man-na. lu n recent Fnlon picture Louis XVI. la equipped wllh 11 revnlver modern enough lo have served In the lloer war. Stray Slorles. |