The Eugene weekly guard., January 03, 1903, Image 9

ARE GOING TO DECAY. FIRST CABLE MESSAGE IS SFAI WOUND THE WORLD
POETRY VERSUS SCIENCE.
Naturalist Bore Silenced by Sidney
Smith's Quotation.
WORLD’S REVERED LANDMARKS
PASSING AWAY.
n.totii of the Gre.it Sphinx Ila* Caused
Much Sorrow in the W orld of Arch.vo-
louicul Research St. I’uul'aCathedral
Crumbling Ancient I diUcea Fulling.
irrigate THE arid lands .
moral and social qualities should always be gained even
from the very earliest years.
,
At the time the Civil War closed we had a population of
In rbe physical training of the child, ns in all education,
Some writers l ave said that the re­
34tKiO,UUO, and have been increasing at the rate of 1.600.000 the two ¡tersons most concerned are the mother and the cent fall of the beautiful Canipaulle
rate the —
gain
every year sluee. At
“ that
•*'“.................
- in twenty-two teacher. The proper physical training of the child can in Venice has set tlie pace for other
years will equal the entire population only be accomplished where the school is concerned with
landmarks w li 1 c h
in 1865. The census reports since 1790 all of the influences which affect the child at home, aud
are equally revered
show that we double our population the hotne Is also intelligently concerned with all the influ­
and that a conta­
every thirty years.
ences which affect the child at school.
gion of decay has
At the close of the Civil War all th,
struck them which
land in Northern Wisconsin. Western CLRB, DON’T DESTROY IRISES.
Is sure to result in
Iowa. Western Minnesota and west of
further disaster
0» Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
the Mississippi River to the Pacific
within a very short
I would curb the trusts aud make the people safe with­
Ocean w.as practically vacant. To-day. in them. But I would not destroy them. We inu require
time. This Is true
JAMM J- HILI*
speaking generally, there is no arable
in the sense that
great or small, to do the bidding of
Und to be had anywhere upon the public domain. There
our most precious
Congress at the peril of exposing Its
Is not an acre of public land where a man can raise a crop
m o n u m e u ts are
members to individual liability for all
of potatoes or grain without irrigation. If that change has
crumbling, but tills
its debts and obligations and of being
taken place within the last thirty-seven years what shal
process of decay is
prohibited from doing interstate busi­ L htU’AloAB NkLUL
we expect in the next thirty-seven years? Where are the
ness. I see no necessity for any con­ no new tiling. The fall of the Cam­
people to live who come to us from foreign countries at the
stitutional amendment. If. as I be­ panile lias only called attention to the
rate of half a million a year and what are we going to do
lieve. Congress may rightfully prohibit conditions tlie presence of which lias
with the natural Increase of our own people?
any corporation or joint stock company been vaguely realized for many years.
The Northwest is already getting so crowded that more
from engaging In Interstate or interna­ The destruction of this magnificent
than 25.000 farmers have gone over the line Into British
tional commerce at all. it can prescribe tower lias caused such a distinct loss
Columbia. They were good farmers, industrious, intelli­
the conditions on which it can so en­ to the world of ert that people liegln
gent and well-to-do, and had the capital to buy outright
gage. It can declare that it shall sub­ to realize how precious are those which
from 1,000 to 2.000 acres of land from the dominion govern
mit its affairs to the Inspection of gov­ are left.
went, "'e could have kept them on our own side of the ernment, as in Massachusetts railroad and savings banks
It is gratifying to note that most
border if we could have given them irrigated lands.
and insurance companies submit theirs to government In­ strenuous efforts are now being made
One thousand acres with irrigation is as good ns 5.000 spection. It can require their accounts to be made public. for the preservation of some of these
seres without; that Is, as many people can be maintained It can prohibit the stock watering. It can prohibit every structures. And in the case of many
upon a thousand acres under Irrigation as upon 5,000 acres form of combination which shall prevent competition.
it is full time. The Ixmdoner has long
of fertile soil depending upon natural rainfall. Therefore
We are dependent on these great combinations of capital scouted the Idea that bls own greatest
If we can make one acre of land do the work of five it is to do all things for which individual strength is totally monument. St. Paul's Cathedral, was
worth while trying it. Irrigated land sells for $15 and $20 inadequate. We are dependent upon them to take great in peril, but recent examinations show
an acre. Arid land without Irrigation is practically worth­ risk which Individuals ought not to be asked to take and it to be In tuost dangerous condition.
less and I can think of no better Investment for the gov­ cannot take without liability to ruin. Above all. we are The world at large la perhaps more
ernment; no more profitable speculation, so to speak, than dependent on them largely to succeed In the great struggle interested in St. Paul's than In any
to build a few reservoirs and irrigating ditches In favorable for the markets and the carrying trade of the world.
districts where it can be done at a small cost aud thus
convert worthless land into $20-an-acre farms.
■y James J. Hill. President great Northern Railroad
DANGER OF WEALTH SHOWN.
PHYSICAL TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
By Dr. T. D. Wood, Director Physical Culture, hew York.
Physical training should always aim at im­
proved courage, self-control and will power, and
it should from the very beginning strive to de­
velop other social instincts and the better nature
of the child, so that he will be unselfish, helpful
to those about him and ready always to co-oper­
ate, and thus be prepared for the larger work in
the world after he Is mature. The first factor
necessary for the proper physical training of the
child is the full appreciation by the mother of the Impor­
tance of that phase of the child’s training. The second fac­
tor Is the knowledge of bis organic physical condition.
It is folly to suppose that so delicate a machine as the
human body will take care of Itself, will keep in perfect
condition without attention. There should, accordingly,
also be a properly educated teacher.
If physical training is to prepare the child better for his
life In human society, for his work in the great world, it
must help toward the attainment not only of physical
health, but of every desirable characteristic and quality
which the child should have.
Physical training should counteract every tendency to
bad position and posture in order that the body may be
kept and grow straight and symmetrical.
Physical training should make possible a more perfect
mental development, that will power, courage, self-control
ahould be effective and In a very beneficial way; that the
By John J. B. Johnson.
Possessions have value only as they may give
pleasure or prevent pain. It is hardly necessary
to enumerate .how and in how many ways they
are supposed to be capable of giving pleasure and
preventing pain; each one knows for himself, and
it matters not that the knowing is so different.
Nothing is surer, however, than that possessions
do not always give pleasure nor prevent pain.
In many. If not the large majority of eases,
neither of these ends is attained. In sixty years I have
known many rich, some very rich and a few ultra-rich,
and my memory and impression of the lot is that they
average up on the wrong side of the ledger of happiness
compared with the mass, most of them having nothing of
value, unless perchance it be a good name.
In the doctrines of the orthodox, of all creeds and na­
tions and in all times, professing to deal with eternity,
souls exist forever In happiness and In misery. One soul
in the lapse of unending eternity will enjoy more or suffer
more than all mortal beings that may live on earth or
earths, planets or stars, no matter how many there may
lie nor how long they may live, provided only that the suc­
cession end. The logical conclusion is that one soul Is of
greater value than all the possessions of all mortal beings.
The point I have to make is whether it is reasonable to
suppose so weak a vessel could be loaded with so weighty
a cargo on so dangerous a sea? It would look, having ref­
erence to the eternal verities, like the shipper was lacking
common sense and common prudence.
Tin: ghiiat sriiixx.
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other of the famous landmarks now
standing, simply because it is better
known. Others are of much greater
age ami perhaps of greater sentimental
architectural value, but the circle of
those who know them is comparatively
small. Decay touches all things and
the wonder is. not that the relics we
so long have revered are going to ruin,
but that they have withstood the rav-
i ages of time as long as they have.
How long they will stand when they
are "restored” as far as it is in the
power of man to restore them. Is a
| “Ye gods!” said Jack, tragically, beth’s tragic declaration: "Behold the question that nobody cares to attempt
MY LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.
to answer.
"and does niy adorable sister-in-law as­ future Mrs. Arthur Shirley. Jr.”
Look at his pretty face for just one min­ pire so high?”
But Elizabeth made no reply.
Tootli of Time.
ute!
"Stop your nonsense, Jack, and tell
Unpleasant
though the realization
His braided frock and daiuty buttoned us who he is?" commanded Ills wife.
THOMAS W RUSSELL.
may be. there Is no longer use In try­
shoes;
“I obey, as usual. lie Is Arthur Shir­
His firm shut hand, the favorite play­
Man Who Was Stoned by a Mob in Ire­ ing to conceal the fact that the ancient
ley, Jr., who was my college chum and
thing in it—
landmarks of the world are going to
land at a Political Meeting.
Then tell me, mothers, was't not hard a crack athlete. After leaving college
Thomas W. Itussell, the member of ruin. Some indeed linve already suc­
to lose
lie made a name for himself by devoting
Parliament who was stoned by a mob cumbed to the destroying hand of time
And miss him from my side—•
j his time to writing under the pen name
political meeting In and others are rapidly following. When
My little boy that died?
of ’Don James,’ which I see Is familiar after addressing
Ireland. Is a Lib­ Romers Clark, architect of the mighty
to you. He Inherited the Shirley for­
eral Unionist, who St. I’aul's Cathedral In London, ad­
How many another boy, as dear and tune some two years ago. and Is at
eharming,
has sat for Tyrone mitted the fact that the venerable edi­
His father’s hope, his mother's one de­ present abroad, and when he returns to
since
1890.
Mr. fice was fast falling to pieces, he re­
! town you will see him often. But. listen
light,
Russell has his ceived a sharp reprimand from the
Slips through strange sicknesses, all fear and heed my warning, fair sister. He
own ideas about worthy dean for having thus spoken.
| has never seen a woman he cared to
disarming.
There is something sacred about the
reform In Ireland.
And lives a loug, long life in parents’ ' marry, although designing mammas
very
name of ancient monuments aud
While
aggressively
sight!
have forced their daughters upon him
opposed to home public buildings. Alsmt each dings
Mine was so short a pride!
with great diligence. He Is a catch.
rule he has consist­ remembrances of days long past—days
And then—my poor boy died.
Elizabeth, a great catch, with a capi­
ently
advocated the of which we might know little were It
I see him rocking on his wooden charger; tal C."
purchase of land not for thorn. Aud the news that the
“Thank you. Jack. I should say he
1 hear him pattering through the house
for the benefit of historic old structures are all at last
was just the man I have been looking
al! day;
T. W. Ht S8ELL.
tenants with an In­ giving evidence that the burden of
1 watch his great blue eyes grow large for. Behold the future Mrs. Arthur
demnification of something like $700,- years cannot much longer be borne Is
and larger.
I Shirley. Jr.,” and Elizabeth swept trag­
000.000 tor the landlords. During the received all over tlie world with sor­
Listening to stories, whether grave or ically from the room.
borne rule agitation, when Gladstone's row. St. I'aul's must at once lie
gay.
“I'll be hanged!" ejaculated her broth­ bill was before Parliament, he was an patched up. or It will soon share the
Told at the bright fireside.
er-in-law. ntid straightway he turned bls ardent anti-home ruler, and threw bls fate of the Campanile of St. Mark's.
So dark now, since he died.
attention to Ids wife.
The general uneasiness over St.
influence in the landlord party. Since
But yet I often think my boy is living.
Six months later Arthur Shirley, Jr., then he has changed his face, and. Paul's Cathedral «as for a time quiet
As living as my other children are.
was seated in Jack’s study, smoking
ed l>.v Canon Newbold. He declared
When giwxi night kisses I all around am anil waiting for Jack, and when that in- while still opposed to home rule, he is
that it was positively wicked to sug­
the
vowed
enemy
of
the
landlord
class,
giving,
I dividual entered the room be put down and the most persistent advocate of gest even tlie Immediate probability of
I keep one for him, though he is so far.
bis cigar and said:
the land for the people by government danger befalling the artistic church
Can a mere grave divide
"See here, old boy, I wish you would , purchase. Mr. Russell Is a native of which Sir Christopher Wren, the skill
Me from him—though he died?
tell me why Mis« Martyn dislikes me I Fife, a graduate of Madras Academy. fu! architect. l>egan In 1675.
So, while I come and plant it o'er with so Intensely. She Is the most unaffect­ I and an unusually vigorous, powerful
But the opinions of the eijierts can
daisies
ed. interesting, vivacious girl Imagin­ and original statesman.
not be gainsaid. St. Paul's Cathedral
(Nothing but childish daisies all year able with anyone else, and If I appear
Is In a decidedly dangerous condition.
round >
Ought to Be a Good Cake.
It took thirty five year« to build this
Continually God's hand the curtain raises. she stiffens Into a regular puritanical
There was a church bazaar in the old landmark, tlie cost of it being paid
And I can hear bis merry voice’s Bostonian.”
"What do you care?” asked Jack, village of Comrle, St rat beam, Scotland. by a tax on coal. Sir Christopher
sound.
Aug. 31 aud a novelty at one of the Wren himself was contented with a
And feel him at mt side—
slowly.
My little boy that died.
"A great deal." replied his friend. stalls was a sale of what was called salary of (1,000 a year. He was the
—Miss Mulock.
“Hang It all. you must see that I love “scripture cake.” which was In great only architect employed. It Is no fault
demand. It was made according to of bls that the cathedral Is now In
♦♦Oi i Haaa a aa ea aaiHt»»* her. Never saw a girl before that I the following recipe: Take four and danger of tumbling over. He could
wanted to marry, and now. when I do
THE FLTLRF MRS. SHIRLEY
1 really love one, what does she do? one half cups of I Kings, lv. 22 (first not foresee what would happen.
A century after this church was
Snubs me so we can’t even tie decent clause); two and one-half cups of
friends. What is the matter with me. Judge*. v. 25 (last clause); two cups of built, a sewer was run through near
anyhow?" and be looked so downheart­ Jeremiah, v. 20; two cups of I Samuel, enough to drnw tlie moisture from the
ed that Jack had not the heart to laugh xxx. 12; two cups of Nahum, IIL 12; ■oil, on which the sacred edifice stands.
“I’ll tell you what to do. If you will one cup of Numbers, xvll, 18; two ta­ When he built the church, with the
ACK!” .No answer.
blespoonfuls of I Samuel xv. 25; sea­ moisture there, the ground was bard
follow my advice.”
"J-a-c-k!” with emphasis.
son to taste with II Chronicles, lx. »; enough to support so heavy a weight
"It's
a
bargain."
replied
Arthur.
“Yea, my dear sister-in-law, I
am coming.”
"Elizabeth Is down In the garden— six of Jeremiah, xvll, 11, a pinch of at St. Paul's for all time. Unless the
"When Jack has lived with you six nice, s eluded spot—you go down and Leviticus. 11. 13; half a cup of Judges, cathedral lie put on an entirely new
lv, 19 (baking powder). Finally, fol­ foundation, which would cost not less
months lopger he will learn the folly of walk right up arid ask her to marry you
low Solomon’s pr-•»•■rlptlon. Proverbs, than $2<»>,ooo. It will share the same
trying to keep you waiting,” laughed before you have time to think about
xxill. 15. for making a good child, and fate as the Campanile.
Jack’s young wife.
It. Not a word; It la the only way.
1 you w ill have a good cake.
In the western portico of St. Paul's
"'Veil, when I want things. I want
the cracks are large enough to allow
them at once," remarked Elizabeth. her she has got to marry you.”
We have long been expecting to boar
Jack," she continued, “don’t take
After a little hesitation and a great a story like this: A woman goes for a any one standing on Its roof to see
possession of your wife as If she were deal of pushing be finally w< nt down to walk to the woods. She emerges In a the people moving inside the church I
• bundle of dry goods, but sit down and th" garden, and. meeting Elizabeth sud ! few moments, her face bleeding, wild b«-low. And every day the great build
answer some questions, like a good denly. he said; "Miss Martyn. I want ' eyed aud crazed with fright; the birds Ing Is spreading wider and wider
boy."
you to become my wife. You must , bad re- ognized a former playmate In ■ part. The portico is directly over the
great entrance
to the cathedral. I
More questions.” groaned Jack.
the trimming on her hat and had through which hundreds of tourists
Questions were a mania with Kliaabeth. marry me."
She did not turn to look at hJm. but -ought revenge by clawing at her hair every day pass.
Yea." answered Elisabeth, calmly,
said, very calmly: "What I must do I and peeking at her face.
•mating herself on the study table ishe
When the cra- ks In the historic Cam­
tHd hate chairs sot, “first, wouldn’t you have learned not to try to avoid."
Occasionally you see a girl wbo l\ panile of St. Mark a, in Vetih e. lo gan
For a moment Arthur was puxzbd.
Lk» to hare me settled In a nice little
The name to show the warning was quickly heed
but be Stopped tiefore her in the path nicknamed “Sunshine.”
“ome of my own. where I would he too and said: "Elizabeth, this la a serious may sound like a compliment In bleak ed. Experts said the beautiful tower
to disturb your continuous b.n y- matter. H-ase look at me. dear. 1 December, but she baa a right to sue that Ml seen so many doges . •Woe anil
mor.n’"
i tier friends for slander If abe Is called go would surely fall. Just as experts :
a year ago said St. Paul's would col
ba Is the poor devil?” asked Ja k love you. and—”
•be name In August.
Rut he never finished the remark,
”*Iglng a penwiper and tossing ft La- k
lapse when the great cracks were first
Just ce is so busy bolding !>• scales
® Elisabeth “Now. seriously, sister, it for Elizabeth looked at him, and be
there.
that she hasn't time to give s->me peo­
knew be bad won bls caae.
"J1.®* ,o
Out with it.”
The authorities went to work upon
ple
w
bat
is
coming
to
them.
Some time later Jack and bla wife
'Well, who Is thia man?" And
the Campanile. But the pat, hing np
•be passed him the picture of a band- came slowly down the garden path, and
It Is reported that boy ate so much process was taken too leisurely. While
they drew near a certain
they were going ->n with It. down came
honey be was attack« by hives.
21®* gthletlc-looklng chap Which she as
nook Jack exclaimed. mocking Mixa
found la an old desk of Jack's.
1
1
For Sidney Smith to joke was no
great effort, but not even be could al-
ways joke so effectively as In the In-
stance mentioned In "Memories of Half
a Century.” He was the guest at din­
ner of an archdeacon at «'hose table
there were others of the cloth, among
them one who was greatly interested
in natural history. As the man rods
Ills hobby to death, be was the prince
of bores, and bis entrance was there­
fore view -d with something like con­
sternation. He was unknown to Syd­
The twentieth century, as foretold by the mechanical prophets, lias sent ney Smith, but bis peculiarity was soon
laid bare.
a telegraph message around the world. The message was started from
"There’ll be no talk at all unless you
Boston and In thirty-eight hours and twenty minutes was delivered at the
can manage to floor him," said one of
point from which It had started.
the men to Smith. “Can't you managa
The message around the world by cable was made possible by ttie com­
It?”
pletion of the British line from Vancouver. B. C., to Brisbane In Australia.
“I can try,” he returned gallantly,
The last gap had been filled In on the evening of Oct 30, and the next day
although with some doubt, for there
the
the British officials «ere content to send messages of congratulation to
was not telliug to what branch of his
new stations across the Pacific Ocean, but to none of them did the idea oc-
crotchet the bore would turn.
cur to try for a world girdling word.
The dinner began. The one or two
Charles J. Glidden, ii Boston business man in no way connected with the
customary toasts such as "The Queen,"
cable company, was deeply Interested In this latest achievement of modern
[ "The Church,” hail been honored, and
engineering skill, and decided to put it to a practical test, He wrote out the
there came a lull which was the bore's
messa ge: "Mass, via Vancouver, British cable, Australia, Glidden. Boston,
opportunity.
around the world.”
"Mr. Archdeacon.” said he, "have
The dispatch was filed In the Boston office of the cable company and «'lien
the rest of the business ahead of It waa sent off tlie operator put It on the you seen the pamphlet written by my
«•¡re for Vancouver. Wliat the operators along the line thought of It Is a friend. Professor Dickenson, on the
mutter for surmise, as It was all new business to them, and they knew there remarkable size of the eyes of a com­
was a shorter way to Boston than by way of the other side of the world. mon house-fly?”
The archdeacon courteously said lie
The message went to Fanning Island In the Pacific, where It waa relayed.
There It was taken by an operator in light summer costume and ticked ahead had not had the privilege, nud Iu spite
to the next touching point iu the Fiji group, aud from there to Norfolk of the discouraging looks ou the faces
of the guests, the bore pursued his ad-
Island aud on to Brisbane.
After Brisbane It was pretty clear sailing, ns the line lay straight to India, I vantage:
“I can assure you It Is a most In­
across tlie Red Sen. the Mediterranean, through France, England ami then
on the old established Atlantic cable to Canada, and down to Boston. The teresting pamphlet, setting forth par­
message handed Mr. (Hidden had met with a few mishaps on Its tour of ticulars. hitherto unobserved, as to the
the world, but was still recognizable as the one originally sent. Mr. Glid­ unusual size of that eye.”
"I deny the fact!" said a voice from
den's name bad been changed to "Gleddon" and "Around the world” rend
the
other end of the table.
“Armund the world." An extra "Boston" had been inserted, but In nil other
All smiled save the bore.
respects the message was the same.
“You deny the fact, sir?" said he.
Tlie time It took to get around wns due In part to the relays needed In
the transmission and partly because there was nothing on the message to ' “May I ask on what authority you
show that any haste was desired. It wus, in fact, only au Idle experiment. cotidemn the fnvestlgatlous of my most
learned friend?”
with no idea of making a record.
"I deny the fact,” replied the voice,
Mr. Glidden, after a few hours, had given up all Idea of ever hearing
from his message again, and was a bit surprised when It did turn up at his which waa Sydney Smith's; “and I
base my denial oil evidence wedded to
office more than three days later.
The cost was only a little over $12 for the first six words of the message immortal verse well known to every
and a proportionate sum for the others. Mr. Glidden thinks he secured a scholar, at least, at this table.”
The emphasis laid ou scholar nettled
bargain at that price.
the naturalist by Its Implication,
"Well, sir,” he said, as calmly as he
tlie tower Into the square of San storied window, through which the was able, “will you have the kindness
Marco.
light used to stream in softened splen­ to quote your authority?”
dor on the long array of sculptured
Tlie Bruae» Belfry.
“I will sir. The evidence Is those
The celebrated "Belfry Bruges." In tombs of the dead doges.
well-known. I may say Immortal, lines;
Belgium, Is likewise fast crumbling to
Tlie Parthenon.
" 'Who saw him die?'
decay. The tower on which I.ongfel
Most strenuous efforts are new being
‘I,’ said the fly,
low stood when lie wrote one of his made to save the Parthenon or Temple
‘With my little eye!' ”
most beautiful short poems threatens of Athena, that most perfect specimen
The guests roared, and during the
to fall just as the Campanile did. For of Greek architecture. Tourists arriv­ rest of the dinner nothing further was
500 years this great cathedral towel- ing iu Athens are In a perfect state of beard on the subject of uaturnl history.
lias stood without having shown any exultation over wliat Is hoped to be
signs of weakness. But "going to ruin” the recovery of this proudest posses
appears to be coataglous amongst the slon of Greece. Great praise Is due to
aneieut landmarks of the world ami the Archaeological Society of Athens
the contagion Is fast spreading. The for this. Tlie work of saving the clas­
Belfry of Bruges has attracted pll- sic pile from destruction was com­
grlms from all over the world. In it menced In 1896, but since the fall of
Thunder Is rarely. If ever, heard at
bang« a celebrated chime of bells of the Campanile greater alarm was felt
which poets for centuries have sung for the safety of the Parthenon, so the a greater distance than eighteen miles.
It la one of the best kno«u landmarks society pusheil the work to a finish.
The wife of the Governor of New
of the Middle Ages. The Order of tlie
All these years the view has been Borneo lias a baby rhinoceros for a
Golden Fleece wns founded In Its shad­ hidden by its surrounding scaffolding. pet.
ow, and many famous battles have Now its face Is again revealed. The ! There are but nine subscribers to the
been fought near where it stands, But Parthenon Is a great Doric temple
post office telephone iu Swansea,
unless the efforts of engineers and erected under the superintendence of
, Wales.
architects can prevail. It. too must sue- Plildlas, by Ictinus and Callicrates.
I
The moose deer hns the largest horns
cumb to the ravages of time.
It is built of Pentellc marble. Eight
Tlie Sphinx, too. Is fast growing pillars mark the width of the struc­ of any animal. They often weigh from
weary. For 3,900 years tills Egyptian ture. On each side there are 15, not - fifty to sixty p< Minds.
Beetles In tlie East and West Indies
mystery with the body of a lion ami counting those on the corners. The
the fnce of a woman has remained at total length Is 228 feet, the height at are so brilliant In coloring that they
the bordera of the Libyan desert.
the top of the pediment is 64 feet. Un­ are lieautlful as gems.
But she, too. is beginning to show til it was used as a Turkish magazine
Denmark has the largest army la
this magnificent relic of Perlclean proportion to her size, She has 187
times stood tittle Injured by the weath­ soldiers to every 10,000 of her popula-
er or war. That was In 1687, when a ' tlon.
bomb from a Venetian mortar burst
The largest butterflies are the “bird-
within, the explosion breaking the wlnged” of the Moluccas. Their wings
building practically In two. It was are sometimes twelve Inches In ex-
the time of the siege of the Acropolis pause.
by the Venetians under Moroslui. By
A person usually begins to lose
order of Lord Elgin of England many
height at the age of fifty, and at the
of Its remaining glories were subse­
age of ninety lias lust at least one aud
quently removed, bringing Its final de­
u half Inches.
struction all tin* closer.
A wall thirty feet high and thirteen
Nothing was done to render the safe­
ty of what was left more secure until feet broad could lie built all round
1895, when tlie Archaeological Society Englnnd with the coal annually raised
of Athens took an Interest In the mat- i In that country.
ter and experts were engaged to In | Malta Is the most thickly populated
signs of age. having at last grown spect the venerable ruins. The result Island In the world. It has 1.3<>0 peo-
weary of propounding her riddle to the of these deliberations was to strength­ ple to the square mile. Barlaidoes has
sands of the desert and the vast mul­ en, but not restore, the facade of the 1,054 people to the square mile.
titudes who dally visit her, coming by Parthenon which was must threatened
The reindeer can endure more than
trolley from Cairo. The Sphinx lias —the western.
any other draft animal except the
seen ninny empires rise and flourish
The design of the repairs was well camel. A reindeer has t>een known to
ami decay, but uuless rejuvenation, ns conceived, and Is lielng wisely carried
mysterious as her own origin and ex­ out. Wherever the heavy stones of the pull 200 pounds at ten miles au hour
istence. soon sots 111, she, too, will ills architecture had not support sufficient for twelve hours.
The world now consumes fl.300.000,-
solve in broken fragments nnd with they were strengthened by the Inser­
her will be gone forever the only tion of maintaining pieces, by clamps 000 pounds of tobacco yearly, or 2.812,-
chance of ever obtaining an answer to and other contrivances that, while not 500 tons. This Is worth $200.000,000.
the riddle which no one has yet been changing the facade In the least de­ In other words, the world's smoke bill
Is just $5,000,000 a week.
able to find out.
gree, made It absolutely safe against
A Berlin periodical, Der Welukenner,
Church of St. John.
tlie chances of further destruction.
This work of precaution will be con­ relates that when Bismarck died about
Like St. Paul's Cathedral, In London,
10,000 bottles of the choicest wines
tlie Church of St. John Lateran, In tinued. There are other monuments
were found In his cellars, mostly gifts
Rome. Is In danger of fnlllng to pieces. on the Ai rojwdls that demand equal at­
The carved and gilded roof is liable nt tention. Alongside the Parthenon the from friends and admirers. They came
from all countries.
any time to tumble down upon the Erechtheion and the little Temple of
But eight States do not now require
Wingless
Victory
are
sources
of
j
heads of the worshipers. St. John's Is
the mother and head of all the church archaeological anxiety. The columns examination by a State Board of those
es Of all the original churches built of that part of the Erechtheion known who wish to practice medicine. They
by Constantine In 8| m I, the baptistry of ns the Pandroalon have In-i-orne very are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky,
St. John's Is the only piece of archi­ weak. The scaffolding, when removed Michigan, Nebraska. Nevada, South
tecture that «till remains, The chtiri h from the finished Parthenon, will t>« Dakota and Tennessee.
itself has had a career of many dlsas re erected around the Erechtheion and I Prizes of $1.200, $750 and $500 fol
ters. But the calainatles which have the m>ed<-d support and strengthening tlie best instruments to measure wind
hitherto befallen It have been due to will be provided there.
pressure are offered by the Hamburg
As to the little Temple of Wingless Marine Observatory to German and
fire, earthquake and war. It Is ready
now to drop with old age. The part Victory. It Is the bastion supporting It foreign Inventors. The plans must ba
threatening collapse Is the flat Wooden which gives rise to moat apprehension. sent In by April 1. 1903.
large fissures have shown
roof which Is richly ornamented with Several
The New York City Record, an offl-
ornate sunken panels In the style themselves In the masonry.
clal publication, os tied and Issued by
known as coffered. Both on account
the municipality. Is the biggest news­
B.IÌ' n < ÌLim ?.
of Its antiquity and Its beauty Its fall
paper In the world. It appears every
would lie a loss to the whole world.
The dally grind of toll blunts the finer day In the year. Sundays and legal
To make the roof safe would coat $40.- feelings; but for the sake of humanity holidays excepted, and sometimes con­
000, and the Pope has ordered a sub­ It Is to tie hoped that this grimly hutnor- tains as many as 383 pages.
scription to raise the required amount ous story from "Memories of Half ■
Five of the twenty fellowships re­
Cleopatra's Needle, like the Sphinx. Century" cites an exceptional case of
cently swarded In the department of
Is a monument of the «lead past. No callousness;
philosophy. University of Pennsylva­
one likes to lie told that It Is falling to
A Yorkshire doctor was summoned to nia, were given to women. Most of
pieces. But this ancient landmark la a man w
casa he could only pro- these fellowship«) carry with then« an
not withstanding the rigors of the notince not bo;>*-less. He gave Instruc-
Income during the academic year of
Western climate. There In Central lions as to the medicines that would at
$500 and free tuition, with an addition­
Park. New York. like the Sphinx on least give relief, and said that he would
al $1<S) for particular research work.
the Egyptian desert. It Is beginning to observe the result on his next visit. The
Houesty la a prevailing virtue among
show marked signs of falling age. The wife of the aick man Inquired, quite
fate of the transplanted relic of the properly, alsmt whqt the charge would most Chinamen. Some of them, la
their native towns and cities ofteu
Nile Is assuredly the same as that of be, arid If It Included the medicine.
leave their places of business unguard­
the native and undisturbed relic of the
“No," replied the physician; "that you
ed while they go off for half an hour
sands save for Its foreign surtwund must buy at the chemist's.
or more. Should customers arrive In
Ings.
“And If you come
will you
the meantime, they find the prices of
The bell tower of Ran Rtefnno. In charge?"
goods plainly marked, select what they
Venice, la threatening to fall, after
"Yeii, certainly.* *
want and leave the money for them.
having stood for more than SOO years,
The woman turned to the suffering
and a portion of the front of the nun. "Do you bear that. Bill?" she
Church of Raints John and Paul bas demanded. "Dee like a mon; never
tumbled bodily outward, with Ita wear thy brass that way.'
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