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THE PATHIOT. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO, N. C. „-»<.* FMnblithed in Wl/^ D last, ami bMt N*wip»ptn Is. the Suw : p. F. DUFFY, Publisher and Proprietor. TERMS <1*hl mrta :y iimlTaiin: ■ t: : ... - SiinK.nthiii.f*. ling i'<>st»gr. • sf-.v HOC/W tul«rrlh«ri will rev yrmtU. I.-i free. The Greensboro Patriot. OTTR COriTTBT-yiBST A1TD ALWjLY8i" Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1879. New Series No. 664. ANOTHER YEAR. n> ther \<;.r ■ | .. ,r- ■ ■ ■ Mil I rime, pain, MXI ari.-r ■ bold lo drops* ■ ■ i -.i. r ■ ■ e tMrt ■ ■ ...... il i-niinU , ■ IIK ii:nl« li' . . Tha III Irni/Tli . ■ ■ Mrengtl . . i W !.• : 1 ear. 1 1 - u fear? • 1 -: ". ml f.-i ■ *" 'i1" ■ naj - on . . • 1 » ■l ■ 1 f II.... 1*1 ■ ■ r reai SOMEHOW OR OTHER. tab ii -! -... 1.1.- ..W.T. I f garment! ire wear. I led, MUreHOr Ming ; I lll.-!..|.|,||.. Ht, .h„|,|,.|. .kl-.ll,,-. easing, LIKII rust «.• in..) abaro; untol .an ftmalng. it In itreugthMMNl uf ■] gri *- were n>>u< iHiruMi M gel tu u,..< Iltflitrr ! I,, lighter. ELISHA KENT KANE. Ill" II. -hi n II IIK i in: OBEAT KXPI . .111.11. Kent Kmnc wss born in i "ii ihr tl.ii,l day ii| r, bruary, Blight, frail child, quick, '! restraint, and greatly was and gular Btml i -. 'I trkahle in liis boyhood -. ii «i ems, ili.l not anticipate their eldest child. He -i, .1 a love of enterprise, and rnplishing lea's of diffl-ii -•■ r for tin- mere pleasure uf ing them His biographer says 1 I. irai ■' : of a bad boy," ■ was a brave one, and would aflrunl from any body. » I. . ii se, nnil to i uievements, was a |>i to make the ascent ofa chimney, which arose tempt the riM.f sixteen feet high. |> his mind that he would I »i "ii the lop pi this towering i coniplish his pur il liia younger brother, A : ■ r ill- family |i, he L'"I out upon uid I... Hi. aid ill ii i l.iilns line, I for the purpose, rnplishing the aim of ion, HI id,. imminent ii-k of m eki mid hai ing seated • ■II ii... riiimii. _i top, be went buck II. w i- il„ n ten years old, and. relati 'I "I Lord Ncl-tetl "nly a boldness of might uStime ripen into Up in Ids thir . i •■ was nn unpromising nrtling to the testf i IJ -ii inn. "he mani ■;, loveof learning " in in love for learn » i- nut noticed, in u direction ii- teachen cut ahen lie did ••) Ii.' »" lid only study > n im linations; and iven where he did not fond of i hemistry, routine .>f s physician's life would be fatal in his son's constitution, obtained lor him, without Ids knowledge, nn appointment as a Surgeon in the Navy. He was greatly Indisposed to the place, and the position lie held on ship-board wus always odious to him. His aversion to a sen lite amounted t" detestation; but he again yielded lo his father's wishes, and after bis examination preiiared himself cheer-fully for his new duties. Now commences the actual career of this remarkable man; and henceforth his life is a succession of wild and romantic adventures, which sound more like the creations of some highly imaginative fictiouist than the actual exploits of a slight youth, who, with •mortal disease iu his system, has quietly schooled him sell to the determination lo "die in har-ness.'' His first appointment to active ser-vice »as us physician to our Chinese Embassy, when Mr. Cashing was sent out us Commissioner to China. The Commissioner went out over-land, with the design of meeting the frigate at Bom-bay that was to carry him lo Canton, and Doctor Kane embarked in the "Uraudv-wine," expecting to join him at that port. He sailed in May, 1B43. and hail the ad-vantage of stopping at Mudeira and Rio de Janeiro. At Ihe latter place he im-proved his lime by making mi asceul of the Kustern Andes, which rear their fan tastic forms on the Coast ol Brazil. The notes which he nude of this exploration were unhappily lost while he was travelling on ihe Nile. On the voyage from Bio lo Bombay he employed himself assiduously in the study of navigation and modern languages, and Mr. Cashing not having arrived wa^en the "Brandy wine" reached the latter port, he directly" began to visit the caves of Elephants, and every other object of interest iu the neighborhood, and then started on an elephant hum in the island of Ceylon, The frigate, with the Commissioner and his suite, arrived ai Canton in July, 1S44: and impatient at the tedious progress of Chinese diplo-macy, he obtained leave of absence from Mr. rushing, and started to make an ex-ploration ol the Philippine Islands. He traversed the largest of the group, l.uconia, from Manila across to its Pacific coast, and. at great hazards and imminent perils, he made the descent of ihe crater of the Tail, a feat which but one European had ever attempted, and he without success. This feat very nearly cost him his life: first, by the poisonons gases he inhaled; and secondly, from the attacks of the wild natives, who were 0 traged by hissacrile gious invasion of the residence of their Deity. After the departure of the embassy, be remained at (union to establish him-self as a physician; hut. at the end of si\ months, he was struck down with Ihe rice fever, and came, near dying; but he recovered after a long il'ncss, and left Whampoa for Singapore, in company with a young Englishman, intending tn.nmke the overland journey for Europe; and while en route, he visited Borneo and Sumatra, and • rossing over to the Indian Peninsula, he made the ascent of ihe Himalaya Mountains. Arriving in Cal-cutta about the time the great Dwakanoth Tagorc wss preparing to start on his visit to England, he joined the milt of the princely East Indian, and having visited !, Persia and Syria, parted from him at Alexandria, whence he visited Thebes and the Pyramids, and, in the course of his wanderings, lormed the acquaintance of Professor Lepsius. Here again he twice narrowly escaped with his hie; once in askirmish with the Bedouins, in which he was wounded in the leg, and then In,in an attack of the plague. After six months of travel, he determined to return to Manila, and establish himselfasa phy-sician; but tailing to obtain permission Irani ihe Spanish authorities, he benl his steps homeward through Italy, France, and England. At home once more, in is hi he hired a house, and made prepara-tions for tettlmg down In his native city a- a physician. He hud never U-en com person. But there was not time, s id he made up his mind to send the feeble look-ing little Doctor back as soon as he got to Greenland, if be should hod out BO long. The Doctor was, as usual, seasick, and when they touched at Whale-fish Island, after having been thirty one davs at sea. an English I rans|mrtship was found there, and Captain De Haven benevolently pro-posed to send the Doctor home as an in-valid. The Doctor looked at the com mantling officer in blank dismay, and firmly said "1 won't go," and De Haven 8mm learned the mistake he had made in estimatingethe character of his physician. He returned from this memorable expedi-tion in May, 1851, after an absence of six-teen months, nine of which he had been ice-locked in the Arctic Ocean. Yet the hardest ard most difficult part of the ex-pedition he had to accomplish, after his return, iu writing the history of it. As Dr. Livingstone has said, he would rather make another journey across the Conti-nent of Africa than write another hook of travels, so did Dr. Kane feel when he sat down to his literary labor. There was nothing in it to brace up bis nerves, and test his powers of endurance and that in-domitable faculty of overcoming difficul-ties which seemed essential to his exist-ence. His book completed, he at once set himself to work to organize the second expedilion, which he was so eager to command, and all his energies were bent upon raising the requisite funds to pay-tor the necessary equipments. The labors and anxieties he underwent while making his preparations for his second Arctic •voyage were hardly less trying to him than the dangers he encountered while absent on thai perilous expedilion; but bis plans were at last completed, and, though he wis still suffering from debilitating illness, he was as lull of eagerness and enthusiasm when he left, on the thirty-lirst of May, 1858, on that ever-niemora ble voyage, as a young boy going on an excursion lor pleasure. We can give no word to his exploits while on his expedi-tion; he returned to New York on the eleventh of October, 185.5, after an absence of thirty months, and the news of his ar-rival caused a pulsation of delight through-out the civilized world. Honors and greetings awaited him on Inilh sides of the Atlantic, but his health was fast failing him; and when he left New York for England.hoping tube strengthened by the journey, he said lo Mrs. ISrinncll. on tak-ing leave of her. that be was not sure of soon returning to her again. He grew worse in England, and on Ihe seventeenth of November, I85«, left therefor Havana, where he arrived on the twenty fifth of the following month, grow ing all the time weaker, and on the sixteenth of February his curt lily career was closed. He was live feet six inches in height, and in his best health, weighed about one hundred and thirty five pounds. His complexion wan fair, and his hair sod and silken, of a dark chestnut color. His eyes were daik gray, but lustrous, with a wild light, when his feelings were excited, and when he was in the torrent-tide of enrap tured action, "thelight beamed from them like flashing scimctars. anil in an impas-sioned moment they gleamed frightfully," In company, when the talk run glib, and every 1HMI\ would be heard, he was silent, but terse and elastic as a steel-spring un der pressure. He had a way of looking attentive, docile, and as interested as a child's Iresh wonder; but no one would mistake the expression for the admiration of ineX|Mrience or incapacity; yet il cheated many a talker into a self complaisance that lost him the opportunity ol learning something of the man he wanted to know. Idle him fortable theory of derivation, we have it upon the authority of Pliny—which Sharpe adopts in his history—that Ihe Sebasta, or Ca-sar's temple, was fin-ished by the Alexandrians only as early as the reign of Tilierius. The "two ancient obelisks, which had been made by Thothmes III., and carved by Ra-mpant IX," were, according to this au-thority, then placed in position. Bur-ton's "Excerpta Hieroglyphics" is also cited in the same connection, thereby further accumulating most potent tes-timony to unsettle tlie former specious solution. The antiquity of the obelisk is but second to the pyramids. Like those stupendous sepulchres, its crea-tion is shrouded in the mists which yej RATES OK ADVBRTISIXQ. Trao.l»Bta^Tfrll».m*ntipaji.t.|«ln».|T.ns. ; reerO> adTartlMBiaDU quarterly In advance. i wk. 11 mo. 13mo. 1 loin. • no. | i jrr. Un. - - | i .. % ; ■- | i . • » " - - i i.ao | d.oo f ..in 1 - ' 1 11 M i " • -; i.an I •.»■ *.m 1 ' 4 •• - - j l.no ' 7.on io.»-i a " - -1 4.« a .ID 1 u.isj 1 la.ot 3'.. ■ an in Sc«M. - ( a.oo , i».«Ti - . S ■•- -loon , IVIO ■ 1 " - 1 1500 . 30.fl> ».<.. ■prclaU twenty-tire and Im-ali ifiT am hither. '"..uTtoMeri. alt vaaka, r i Naa^Btnaaa1 i four wfk*, av vimliiUirat. rv n.-ri.. - •A ■.-■* owva-n. Ik-HiliU- rat** for nVuMe aSfcUBI a.Wernerm-i.n. attempted. Although such results nave been accomplished in the quarries or New-England by the wedging pro-cess, the blocks were not woTked and transported in their entirety. Mono-liths of marble and granite, measuring respectively eighty and ninety feet in length, have been wholly severed from the virgin rock in this country but never removed from the quarries. n ith the ancient Egvptians similar and greater feats of engineering were frequent and successful. Captives of war furnished unlimited liilmr, and time was rendered subservient to the purpose. Pliny recites an instance in which 20,000 workmen were engaged the erection of a single obeli" CURIOSITIES OF CURRENCY. The bank officer who saw a compen-sating advantage from the passage of the silver dollar bill liecause payments of silver would be so bulkvas to assist in checking ruus, and in cases ol large amount would render a wheelbarrow necessary, probably based his remarks upon a knowledge of the experience of the Swedish merchants of the last cen-tury. Dining that period copper was the chief medium of exchange in Swe-den, and business men who went out to collect their bills carried wheel-barrows to contain the OMnatc dalers. The inconvenience of such a medium kept down trade—a result which the obscure early Egyptian history. Plusf ! ThoseafRaVi'iai are reputed toTiave I ; states they were dedicated to Re, the been completed In seven months and 5H5SPJ.?0"i"!1-** to "bUl" b>' *■ sun god ; and in support of Ihe idea, us each is 83feat in height, and B feet he urges that their form is in imitation square at the base, the force employed of a ray of the suu. Certain it Is that can be surmised. Immense slones'for the giant monoliths stand to-day alike the temples and colossal statues were a wonder and an unpractical, if not a { likewise dragged over the oiled ground lost art. The most ancient of all these by the absolute accumulation of physi-cal force directly applied. The re-nowned monolithic sitting statue of the Vocal Memnon. on the plain of monuments extant and intact is thit upon the site of dead Heliopolis, or Uc-ei, in the land ofGoaben, a drive of less than two hours from Cairo,through Thebes, as well as its mate, measures a country yet "the best of the land of [ nearly fifty feet in height, and is pro- Kirypt.'' ((Jen. xlvii., 0.) Ifotherobe portionately thick. Again, the broken lisks existed previous to that at Ileli- colossus of K.tmescs, near the Memno-opolis, all trace of them has disap-peared. If the presence of the ca>-(oucAe of the Theban king, Osirtnsen I., the leader of the Twelth Dynasty, can lie introduction of iron monev. Cattle were the medium of .xchange in still earlier limes. Homer frequently- valu-ing the armor of his heroes at so many-head of cattle. Indeed, it is now gen-erally conceded that our word pecuni-ary is derived from the Latin {Men*, cattle. Sir II. S. Maine, in his interest-ing £,ir'v History .,,' buUtnUomt, shows that being counted by the head, the kine were called rnpivile. whence "cap-ital." "chattel," and "cattle." Skins were early used as currency, and lea-ther money is said to have been cir-iiiiim was originally a single block of j ciliated in' Bosnia as late as the reign fSS^LSESF-8™%!? f£{?at*8\!0 ofPMertluj Great. Among the few have weighed no less than 887 tons. So " gigantic was it that it becomes a ra.it-relied upon to determine its age, the iter of speculation regarding the means obelisk in question dates from 3100 to ! employed by the mini -m- of Cainbysea 1500 B. C. Sir Gardner Wilkinson tixi s to attain its mere destruction, the reign at B. C. 2090; Shar|ie be-I Within the quarries at UyeiM there tween 1700 and 1550 11. C; Chevalier'can be seen an obelisk which has lieen Buitsen at B. C. 2781. and Mariettc [ severed from the original mass, except-ing on the lower side. If completed. Its dimensions would have been 05 feet Bey, the latest authority of high re-pule, at B. C. 30U4. The last is pro-bably the most reliable, it being baaed on studies of the New Tablet at Aby-dos, a chronological table of kings, which the conservator of Egyptian re-long and 11 feet lj inches in thickness. facts that are leR us about the laws anil usages of Carthage is the employ-ment of leather currency. Maize formerly circulated in Mexico; and in Norway corn is even now deposited in banks, and lent and borrowed. As our Indians use wampum, the natives of East Indies, or port ions of them, have resorted to covviy shells as small money, and a considerable exjiort of C0ASTIN6. The hoys were coasting down Syca-more Street Hill last evening, when John Sanscript aud his wife came along. Tbev had been upon Baltimore street visiting, and were on their way home. "Just see them bovs. now," said John, as he braced up"at the intersec-tion of Mulberry street. "It really re-minds me of the days when I was a lad. I>o you know, Jane, that I used to coast down hill on a sled that way''" "Md you, John?" "Why, yes; but that's fiftv years ago!" a Sanscript scratched his head con-templatively and then mattered, sotto roi'cr: "Dummy grnnddaddy'sbuttons it I don't try it.'' "Try what, dear?" anxiously asked Mrs. S. "I'm going to coast just once, to revive recollections of fifty years ago." "Now, John, il I were you " "But you are not me, so don't inter-fere. Here, sonny (to a lad who had just pulled up the hill with tussled) •Here, sonny, I'll give you a quarter to let me slide down on rour sled once." %';irictics. —The population of afetl has fallen off nearly one-quarter since 1871—from 51.33d to 30,000. —The Atlantic cable is being "dup-lexed," a process which will increase its working capacity 7u per cent. —It is said that 1500,000 is spent yearly upon the teaching of inu-tile elementary schools of England. —While coinbingliii hail at Trnfaut, Mich., a young man pricked a hole in his scalp with a tooth of the comb and nearly bled to death. — An "elcctrophote " it is proposed to call an alectric light, while the scl- '■' and practice of lightingb) electri-city will lie called "electrophoty." —The Marquis of Bath lias aloteil from ten to ni'tecn percent, from the rent of tenants on las estate in conse-quence of tha "hardness of the tin* —There is an association in Boston called "The Young Men's Congress, which is making preparations for The bargain was eagerly nailed and > public memorial gathering in Tremont Othersi.i,. r 5 u!,,n,,\,,l 1 ,,,lrk,«'«- them goes on from the Maid ve and rne^dnimSme^difateelTy6?aSdjdofin,\itn,3gr;taaeni*diq"U—*,a'- »«"■■*»- tatao'l*. The Fijian, eh- such eulatc whales' teeth- red teeth ex-pressing the higher denominations.— The introduction of American gold into Europe displaced silver as the common measure of value—a position it held in Queen Elizabeth's reign.— The French use the word antnt (surer) as a comprehensive term for money. a circumstance illustrating the position the metal once held. A French raroal is of the opinion that in the very earli- - desired; . missioned as a Surgeon in the Navy, and becausehe thoroughly detesting the rules of the ser- II< il exploration III held sports; skclchingandwhil liatcd by dogs and I classical studies, : ' Hilly lo Rebinton ■ ■'. At Ihe n in lie sensible of Ij. md s, t himself lo make amends lor his neeli cl - I itlier int. nded him for gineer, and he had given more inatlicui-itiestb ,n in |,is nther that when he w Is taken to . ■ n for the purpose of bein ■ ■> lie, lie was found not lo lie :,,r college, and it u lie would be < pelled 'a snot her j i ar ol pre Si ii was determined ll enter at the I'niveiMly of tier freedom was He remain, -I here a year aml- ' - uished hiin-clf by bis n. tnistry, having also ; rogrcss in Latin and »j mptoms of the disease i I lalal, and which at it New Haven, now _ a form thai his inn, home in a blan me hi- life was des- I im >. uid when he i- only toi„ informed that incnl fall a- suddenly In- was now iu anil shout to coin business of life with the he hail in his system a - iddenly ler-ireer, al a moment's H 19 -.;:,:,, lie ulwuys Biitfering. His vice, be would have resigned bis post, but the country was on the verge of war with Mexico, and he could not, in honor, aban-don it just as there was a chance of his services being needed. Three weeks before war was declared, he "as ordered to the frigate "United States," bound for Ihe coast of Africa, lie cheerfully obeyed the summons; and after visiting the King of Dahomey, he was . attacked wilh the coast-fever." and was again brought to Death's door; being com-plctelv prostrated, he returned home "in-valided." and never wholly recovered f i this di-ease. But the Mexican war was not at an end, aud he panted for an opportunity to distinguish himself in bis Country's service, still determined to "die in harness." He applied to the President ! i for an appointment as an Army-Surgeon, and was dispatched to Mexico with orders for ihe Commander-in-chief, on his pas sage to Van Cms, be narrowly escaped u watery grave on board the rickety lit le steamer "Fashion," which wasaflerwards rendered tamous by the fillibaster Walker; and alter landing al his port ofdestination, he started immediately for the capital with an escort, composed of a company- of contra guerillas, commanded by the in-famous Dominguex; and while on his journey, he distinguished himself by his valor, and chiv-alric conduct in the en-counter between bis escort and the Mexi-can guerillas, among whom were (Jen. Gaona and his son, whose lives, together with those of four other officers, he was Ihe means of saving; and. on his return, received the complimentary present ofa sword from his fellow-inwiismen. Ho suffered terribly while in Mexico, from lever, exposure, and the effects ofa lance-wound which he received in the affair with the guerillas. On his return home, after the war was ended, he was sent to the Mediterranean in the store-ship •'Supply.'' and, while on this voyage, was seized with an atlack of curiosity never nude any- thing of and he did nothing al gossip; bul inquiry with an aim was never disappoint-ed. His biographer asked him once, alter his return from his last Arctic expe-dition, "for the IM?SI proved i stance that he knew of the soul's power over the body; an instance that might push the hard-baked philosophy of materialism to he consciousness of its own idiocy.'' He paused a moment, and then said, with at spring The soul can lift the bodyout ofits boots, Sir. When our Captain wasdying— I saydying, for I have seen scurvy enough to know—every old-car in his body was a running ulcer. If conscience festers under ils wounds correspondingly, hell is not hard to understand. I never saw a case so bad that either lived or died. Men die of it usually long before they are so ill as he was. There was tro ible aboard^ there might be mutiny. So soon as the breath was out of his body we might be at each other's throats. I fell that he owed even then-pose of dying to the service. I went down lo his bunk, and shouted in his ear: •Munity, Captain, munityP He shook off tin- cadaveric stupor: 'Set me up,' he said; 'anil order these fellows before me.' He heard the complaint, ordered punishment, and from that hour convalesced. Keep that man awake with danger, and he wouldn't die of any thing until his duty was done.'1 — l)r. Elder'* Biography of Kant. ■ the nature of tlielr surroundings that mains discovered in 1865. Unfortu- ; they must have lieen Ufltd from the nately, after thus laboring to establish hollow to accomplish their removal. the age of the obelisk by its inscrip- I L'pou being dragged to the river's edge, tion, it must lie remembered that the ' Piiny states a trench was dug beneath Pharaohs not unfrequently erected or , the stone to admit two heavily-laden inscribed monuments in honor of their > boats. The weight lieing removed, the predecessors. Those at Alexandria Icraft rose and Boated the obelisk. we have already observed were quar- ' When again landed at the appointed ried by Thothmes III carved by Ram- j Place, the shaft was transported on , eses II.. and transported to the border rollers over the oUed sod to its prepared ; est ages stone Implements were used as of the Mediterranean upwards of a base. 1 here, according to Diodorus , the circulating medium between tribes. thousand years later. Again, to in- . ami oilier conjecturers, the stone was crease the doubt, there is no record of ' placed in a perpendicular position by other obelisks previous to the peliod of employing mounds of earth and in- Thothmes I., excepting one irregularly- dined planes. Such a mechanical pro-shaped needle at the Lake of Mieris. in wss is unfortunately nowhere repre-the Fycom. The interval, according IStilted among the pictorial sculptures to Mariettc, embraces a |M-rioil of about on the temples, and heuce all is mere fourteen centuries. Such is the uncer- ; "peculation. The penetration of a tiiinty of Egyptian chronology prece- j Cbampollion, or the genius of a Marl-ding the arrival of the first Ores k set- ette may yet unravel the mystery of tiers, or the reign of l'saminetichus, H. these mighty deeds iu the old House o| Bondage.—/. Jf.< Jr., in Philadelphia Bulletin, ' Klislia, if you must ; tetanus, the most terrible of all disorders, in i he resolved ly with the advice, . 'II liter Of neces injurious to re n. dangers. . n.iMo combat I. himselfinees-in.- ie is ihe best : tig to his HI,m- hail alwavs iting character of u ie. E« n wh.„ |,C :.. from the settle -older, his lloes ling wilh irritation. - nervous rioting . calm, sedate. II - friends, be • n ndercd him unfit engineer, he lions in.I began -ii lii- wenly lirst '• ■ '•' - Ii in Physician pita at I'biludel ricll) lo his duties i.' was laboring ifkof rardiardis. lo sleep in a hori-ii never closed bis ■ ing that the - hi« ever opening world The conscious al condition must have ■aim ardent nature. in the le iei ,1, .r.,,u when, to use bis own expressions, his THE EGYPTIAN OBELISKS. The recent successful removal of the so-called Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London, has awakened renewed interest in those remarkable monoliths. The skill of Mr. John llixon. the engineer of the work, will excite admiration, but not wonder. While the undertaking was in every respect a novelty for an Englishman, lie has accomplished no more than did the Egyptians, IheGreeka.the Romans, and the Byzantines of old, as well as the French of the present century. Although it was the writer's privilege to witness the operations on the Thames embankment, at intervals, from the arrival Ol the "Cleopatra'" until the Obelisk was placed in posi-tion, it is no part of the purpose of this article to otfer adeecriptiou of the machinery there employed. The intent of this pai>er is to present an outline review of the subject of WANTED TO BE AN EDITOR. "Have you had any experience in the business?" we asked ofa verdant look-ing youth who applied lor an editorial position the other day. "llavn'i I though'-" hereplied, as he shoved one foot under Ins chair to hide the unskillful patching ofa back-wood cobbler. "I should say I'd had some experience; havn't I corresponded with the I'unipkinville Screamer for six weeks? Ilaiiit thill enough experi-ence'-" "That will do very well," we replied. "hut when we take young men on our editorial stall', we generally put them liow much me" "" C. 865 The form of the obelisk has remained substantially unaltered. Ages of ex-periment have demonstrated it as un-susceptible of improvement. Compar-ison'with solitary shafts of every other design also confirms its superiority in producing imposing unity, massive ef-fect, absence of heaviness, anil symme-try of lines. A monument of the Co-rinthian or other kindred order, is both burdened anil dwarfed by its spreading capital; while the pyramidal finish of the obelisk lends to its graceful simpli-city, and assists the optical conviction of elevation. With rare exceptions, the obelisks of Egypt are tapering mon-olithic quadrilaterals crowned with a sharp pyramid. The proportions of the pyramidal apex vary to a greater ["rough an examination degree than any other feature. In the B OV'dvc 1 older models the base of this top is said to generally exceed the perpendicular height. Those of later origiu—notably the magnilicentspccimeusat Karuak— have this member perceptibly elon-gated ; thereby enhancing the beauty and harmony of the massive shaft. The most effective result appears to be at-tained when the top forms a perfect pyramid ; that is, when the height is equal to the width of the base. Accurate measurements of many ooelit-ks display the fact that the four sides are rarely of equal horizontal breadth. Commonly the two opposite surfaces measure alike, thereby making the face of the base a rectangle. The difference in the pairs ranges from one to twelve inches, according to the sum-mary of the principal shafts. A rc-mai kable characteristic of the remain-ing obelisk at Luxor or Thebes—the mate to the one in Paris—is that its sides are slightly convex. The devia-tion amounts to about three degrees lie bases his theory on the circum-stance that some of the implements arc made of materials not. to lie foun 1 in the region of their discovery. In our own colonial period, bullets and tobacco passed as currency, and, dur-ing the civil war. hotel tickets, car tickets, and even shoe-irons were ac-cepted as such. Olive-oil continues to be the medium in .some of the Mediter-ranean countries, ami large transac lions have Is-en based upon it och and Alexandria arc said to have used a wooden talent. Lead passes current iu Burmah. Tin farthings were struck by Cbarlis II. in 1080, a stud of copper being inserted in the middle ol the coin to render counter- I felling more difficult, and tin half- | pence and farthings were used as late as 11381, but never obtained a really wide circulation. Tin coins were form-erly employed ill Java and in Mexico, and the metal is said to lie slill current by weight ill the Straits of Malacca. The Russian government, which owns the piincipal platinum mines, began filly years ago to coin that metal, but after seventeen years of experiment give it up. The appearance of the metal is inferior to gold, and the fact clinched, "Be keerful, old man," urged the boy, as Sanscript squatted rather awk-wardly on the sled; "be keerful, I say, and don't let her llunk one way or 'tother till she brings up mashed." "N«ver mind, younker." assured John; "I'vebeen here afore—some years afore, but—'' But what will never be known, for just then the sled, of its own accord, started down hill, and even John him-self has not lieen able to recall what he was about to observe. The surprise at the sled's unexpected movement was general. "Look out!" yelled the hoy. "Oh, John;" screamed Sirs. San-script. "Whoa, there!" yelled John. But the sad wouldn't whoa. It seemed to have set off down that hill to bntt its best time. John bail chance only to clutch hold of both sides ami hold his breath for fear the wind would blow oil'the top of his head. The only thought hi- had time to foster was that the boy must have greased the sled's runners as a practical joke. And if this was coasting, he had never coasted, if his recollection served him right. Two-thirds way down Ihe hill Ihe sled struck an ice hut ick, and Im-mediately his course was changed to a parabolic curve. Whack! bang! crash! dink! The bringing up was awfully suddl n and uncertain. Sanscript ami the sled Antl. I disappeared as abrubtly as a shooting 1 star. The hitler lay shivered to atoms against a lamp-post, aud Sanscript lay shivering in the grocery cellar just op-posite. When the oil'runner of the sled collided wilh the lamp-post anil alop|H-d the vehicle Sanscript rose like a circus-leaper ami went right on turning twenty somersaults to the second. He went through the grocery window as the circus-leaiNT goes through a paper hoop. The grocer appeared soon alter and compromised uponJohn paying the following bill; II lll.lf.H sell. fan III CTMslnd ehei'ae, K 00 lliersbead ni"l •--M, I- -j, • hrmsaaj S-.-I-. I iu Temple, Taylor. iii honor of the late Bayard that it is seldom or never used for pur- Why any little boy ought po-,s of ornamentation is also against its use. Nevertheless, at the monetary conference at Paris, iu 18U7, the lius- Sian reprc.s. ntative proposed that plati-num should lie employed lor the coin-age of five-franc pieces. The forms i f coins are represented in almost every shape, from ihe gold button or grain of Pondicherry to the scimetar-sha|N.-d pieces once employed in Persia. Au-stria finds it profitable to continue the coining of the Maria Theresa silver dollar, with the original design and date (1780), because of its great popu-larity in Northern Africa ami the Levant. When the British govern-ment undertook the Abyssinian exi«.- dtiion, the military chest contained large quantities of these dollars, which are in great demand among the natives. In some |Kirtiiins of the Orient porcelain coins are used, and are quite in demand. —li'<Mou Jonrn'tl of Commerce. to an"— "Hold on phase; don't be too fast. Who discovered America'-" '•Klumlius. Pshaw! Them questions are just as easy as" "Who was the first man?'' "Adam, Why, Mister, I knew all" "What was his other name?" "His otlier name! Why, he didn't have none.'' "Yes, he did. You sec that's where we've got you. His other name was Ebenezer—Ebenezer Adam, Esq., late uf Paradise. Nobody knows this but editors, and see 10 it that you do not tell any one." lie said he wouldn't. "How many bones are there in tho human body?'' "Well, 1 forget now; but I did know wunst." ■'What! don't yon know that? Why-there are 7,482,054 921,444 bones in an body felt as though it were composed of | Egyptian obelisks, comprising a men-fiddle strings, and a boat of devils were ti„n ,,, al u.ast all prominently known turning him up. He had not Ine faintest to the reading public. The scow of i f .....:... f>.« lii,.. ! iiumlae KKI I .. . ' ■ . . I least degree sat r his duties. - '. being satisfied that the hope Ol recovering from this disorder, hut he did. and returned to Norfolk, not quite dead, in September. 1849. After a brief n-st at home, he was again ordered on duty nn Ihe Coast Survey; and in the Spring succeeding he was luxuriating umong Cherokee roses and blooming mag-nolias iu the perfume laden atmosphere of Florida, and on Ihe twelfth day of May, while bathing in file tepid waters of the Gulf of Mexico, he was suddenly startled by a brief missive from Washington, or-dering him to proceed at once to New York in join the Arctic Expedition in s. an Ii of the long last Franklin. In s.nn and a half days from that date he had Ii ft the |H>rl of New- York, and was proceeding on the voyage which has given immortality to his name. The rest of his story i«, t,H"i well known to need re-capitulation. The commander of the expedition, Lieutenant lie Haven, had never even heard of Doctor Kane uniil they met for the first lime in the Navy Yard at Brook-lyn, the day before ihey sel sail: and he confess) s that when he took the measure of the man iqion whom the health of himself and crew must depend, he felt a misgiving that he was not the right man for the place; and if there had been time he would have requested the Department to exchange him tor some more promising the theme implies sufficient material lor a volume, thereby necessitating the onerous work of extreme condensat ion, to preserve the limited conapaas suited to a daily journal. The lei in obclilk is of (Jreek, and not of Egyptian origin, it is derived from the word oUlos, the ini|«irt of which is a spit, a needle or sontetAino ■tarn pointed. The ancient Egyptian presents no equivalent for Ihe present ilesignalion of these monoliltis, unless it be the word ;iyrumid. In Arabic it becomesmegseiwk,a paofeiiia asstl/e, and In IJitin olnllscus. The French write it ooc/isoiie, and finally, it is obelise in Spanish and Italian. The popular ap-pellation of Cleopatra'M NeedU cannot be satisfactorily traced. Its origin is most plausibly attributed to the suppo-sition of certain Egyptologists that Cleopatra erected a temple al Alexan-dria, which was called ihe Cicsariuin. in honor of the birth of her sou by Ju-lius Canal", and before which she set up two obelisks, brought from Helinp; olis. Of these two shafts, one still re-mains erect at Alexandria, aud the otlier haa lately completed its memora-ble voyage to the Victoria Embank-ment. Unfortunately for this com-i ordinary man. A inau that snores Ihe construction of tin.i convexity is „.,, „„£ mon. bone 1|ian olh,.r attributed to a scientific, knowledge i )c ■• which prompted the artisan "to obvi- I ^ „ ate the shadow thrown by the sun, even I i when on a line with a plane surface.'' The Eeyplinns almost invariably em-ployed obelisks in pairs. One was thus placed on each side of the nropyhe, or ehief entrance to a temple. Generally a single block of stone constituted the base. Gateways within the temples were alao'occasionally flanked in a sim-ilar manner. It is true the single in-scribed granite shaft on the shore of the Lake of Mieris suggests itself as an exception to this disposition in par:., but the irregularity of the taper of its sides, as well as the rounded, notched top, indicates that it was employed in handling the sluice gate of that artifi-cial lake, and therefore served chiefly as a mechanical contrivance. The pur-pose of the obelisk, as it stood in con-nection with the temple, was three-fold, It was at once an imposing or-nameut, a chronological tablet, and an imperishable medium for egotistic roy-alty to perpetuate itatriumpbainarchl-lecture, dominion and war. The material composing the Egyp-tian ol«li-ks is the beautiful rose-col-ored granite of Syene. which is large-grained and of exceeding hardness. The main quarries are located a short distance inland from the present town of Assouan, close to the First Cataract, on the Ismler between Egypt anil Nu-bia. Biggeh. Elephantine and Philie— all in the same neighborhood—also present evidences of the stone-cutter's work. In fact, the entire country thereabout is rich in granite, syenite and porphyry. The cutting of the im-mense blocks was most probably accom-plished by driving wedges of wood into a line ol" holes, and then saturating them with water. The uniform pres-sure forced the desired partition. The Syene granite, as proved by innumer-able specimens, is susceptible of aline itnd enduring polish. What process the Egyptians employed to produce this polish can only be surmised, but its perfection is such that tnodi/rn art can suggest little improvement. The creation, transportation and •What bone is that?"' "The trombone. It is situated some-where in the nose. You won't forget that, will you?"' He said lie wouldn't. "How long would it take a mud tur-tle to cross the desert of Sahara, with a small orphan boy behind, with a red hot poker?" "Well! look here, mister, if I had a slale and |icncil I could figure I hat out. but dog my skins, ifI'm much on men-tal 'ritnmetic." "Slate and pencil! Did you ever see a slate and pencil about a sanctum? Nonsense. Well, we'll let that question slip. Have you got a good constitu-tion?" "Putty tolerable good." "How" long do you suppose you could live on raw corn and faith, and do the work ofa domesticated elephant?'" "Lord, 1 don't believe I could live more'u a week.'' "Well, that's alsmt as long as you'd want to live if you gol an editorial po-sition on this paper. You appear to be pretty well (msied: we shall ask you one more question, and if you prove equal to it, you can take off your coat and sail in." "Let's have Vr. 'squire. I didn't correspond with the Pumpkinville •Sereime'1 six weeks for nothln'. test her come! I'm on deck, I am." "Well, sir, iftwo diametrical circles, with octagonal peripheries, should col-lide with a centrifugal Idiosyncrasy, or. to put it plainer, we say a disen-franchised nonentity — what effect would the catastrophe exert on a crys-talized codliish, susjieiided by the tail, from the homogeneous rafters ol the empyrean?" As the full torcc of this ponderous problem broke upon his bewildered brain, he slowly dragged his iuartisti-cally cobbled shoe from under his chair, and started from the room. We heard him descend the stairs, go out. and close the door. We then placidly resumed oui duties, regretting that so promis-ing a youth should have been weighed iu the balance and found wanting. A CITY IN TWO STATES. Bristol Is perhaps the only city in the i world that ha- two mayors, two city governments, poMpe, Ac, and that is taxed intwoatatea, The line between Tennessee and Virginia is in the centre of Main street, and it gives rise to many funny scenes; as, for example, therun- , away couple need no coach-and-four, , but, ai'in-iu-arui. step across Main street and arc wedded. The fugitive i commits a crime in Virginia, goes to the pavement on the other side of the I street, and talks defiantly to tha officer : on the opposite side, who has a war- | rant for his arresl. A stumble or a too 1 bold disposition will sometimes, how-ever, bring him to grief. Several in-stances have occurred of fugitives l*ing \ hustled across the line by a party lire-pared while ill the act ol holding such a conversation, anil they tell ot a man who defiantly perched himself on a pile of store boxes wilhin six feet of the line, jeering the officers on the other side. but. unfortunately for him, so more law-abiding citizens tilled the boxes,and wtfien he reached the ground, to his extreme mortification, he found thai he was in the other State. —Lord Carnarvon, in his address at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu-tion, last month, said, during his own '■ four years ol office he was not aware that one unfriendly word hits passed between Britain and America. That was due lo the right intention of each T..U1 |7I Ji Then Ihe boy came in with a bill of J5 lor his sled, to say nothing of the loss of a suit of clothes, a surgeon's hill for plastering sundry skinned sur-taces, and the bill of a hackman who conveyed the fainting wile home. In the cooler moments of afterthought Sanscript reckoned it up and dis-covered that it had cost him $10:1.78 to recall recollections of fifty years ago. and required hut one minute and five seconds of old Father Time in which to do the recollecting.—-Cincinnati En-quirer. FINGER NAILS. Hardly any jiersonal peculiarity is more noticeable or more indicative of character than the linger nails. There are some who believe that palmistry, the reading of character from the band, can Is- reduced to a science, just as much as phrenology. If so it would necessarily In- an olmctire science to the majority of people, but the signs nf character indicated by the linger nails may IK- read by all with a little si inly. In the first place, theshajie of the nails is very significant. The slender, ta|>er-ing nail of a rose-pink hue, with a shell like, transparent edge, is always the accompaniment of a refined nature. Broad, stubby nails, of a yellowish-white color, and with opaque, muddy-looking edges;, indicate natural coarse-ness, though they often accompany great good nature, while the other variety as frequently goes with a shaip, slsrewish temper. The care of the nails is one of the most revealing marks «f jiersonal habits, and one of the most Important of the minor operations of the toilets. Nails may 1-- greatly improved, both iu shape and color, by proper attention. The best appliance is a nail-brush used in wafer, softened by the addition ofa little liorax and really line toilet soap. In well-brushed and wcll-oarcd-for nails the little Curtain-like rim which sin-rounds them is well pushed or rolled back,displaying generally a delicate lit-tle crescent at the root. The-kin of the linger should never l»- allowed to grow-up on the nail. In paring and trim-ming the slia|s: should always be us long and oval as possible. To cut a nail square off gives a finger end a stubby look. The corners shoubi be carefully and closely cur, and the cen-ter left rather long, so as to give the long oval shape. In cleaning the naiis the knife should never scrape off the inner substance of the nail, a- tins renders the edge ojiaque and muddy in appearance, whereas it should lie trans-parent. The nail is susceptible of a —In a court at Bennlngton, Vt.the defendant asked permission to pray before opening his case, The Judge ■ yew " gu , mid that it wss not customary, but as the plaintiff did not object the prayer was made, —A brown Wallachian mare, belong-ing to a lieutenant of the Prussian Guard, has trotted from Nassau to Potsdam, twenty-tour miles, iu an hour and twenty minutes, carry ing-a weight of 900 pounds. —Roast monkey is the Libsrian dish on Thanksgiving aud Christinas day. A resident of the African lb-public Bays that "It's might) dry eating ami m ids lard, but that can't lie got lor love or money." —The arms and banners of the Earl of Beacoiistield and the Marquis of Salisbury have been hung in the choir oi St, George's Chapel at Windsor i as-tle. The Premier's insignia were hung on the right or Sovereign's side of thy chapel. —In an advertiseructit offering llm Wooili-hcster Park estate, Worcester-shire, England, for sale, ihe auctin announces, iu a line ol capital letters, as one of tin- tempting Inducements to purchasers, " Political Influence over 1,900 honest yeomen I*1 —By eating old Straw of bailey or wheat grown over with bunt and green clover with rust, a peculiar disease in cattle was de/eloped recently in Ba-varia. The effected animals were,1iuw-ever, entirely Cured by taking from them the UIHIVH named substances. —The growing sentimenl in favor of recognizing woman's ability t>, practice medicine successfully is at tested m the action of Cincinnati Academy of Medi-cine, which lias just admitted Mr-, lii Julia Carpenter to full membership, sin- is the lirst of lu-r s,-x to receive this mark of appreciation. —While guarding a gang of negro coinacts employed on a job oi railroad consti uction near Natchiti clie«,ayoung man was killed by the falling upon bun of a tree. The prisoners puked him up ami when tlu-y found that he .was dead earned him to the camp, n - of them attempting to escape. — A Kentuckian, believing thai i life is conducive ot longevity, has fitted up a cave for bis residence. Thegrouud is floored over, anil comfortable furni-ture has been put in. but the rot k walls and roof have not Ucn covered,the occupant's idea being that thej impart a good influence on his health. Government, to the mutual good will ' »igh degree of polish by rubbing with of the two p« good feeling of pies, and the lan: ird Dufferin. aud erection of the obelisks excite unlim- ; " m " ited wonder and admiration. The de- | —Strike from mankind tha principle tacbing of a monolith from fifty to a of faith, and men would have no more hundred feel in length is to-day rarely I history than a flock of sheep. —A letterfiom Iceland avers that an earthquake was felt in Keikjavik, and the same time "large fire-'' were ol-served iu the distance in the sea. sup-posed to have lieen a volcanic sub-marine eruption. The weather has been very bad. a iiumtier of vessels have is-en lost, and large flocks ol sheephave liei-n killnl by the heavy snow storms. or literally blown from the cliffs into the sea. —What is the use of sailing the lit-tle comfort one has by remembering the comfort one has not ? —Every prisoner in the Covington (Ky.) jail got a Christmas present. the towel when drying the hands. The habit of biting the nails is one , against which children should be care-fully guarded. It is ruinous to the | very structure of the nail, and ones acquired is one of the most difficult habits to break. This is evidenced by the fact that some men and women, but more especially men, have a habit ol biting their nails when reading or studying, of which they are perfectly unconscious. Not a lew lawyers and clergymen occur to mind whose nails ' are almost adeformity as a result of i | this habit.—SI. Louis Peat. —Two revenue officers on Imard the steamship Oceanic were carried off to Hong Kong, on Ihe last trip to the ves-sel from San Francisco, the cutter that was to take them up outside the Heads failing to appear. —A Justice of the Peace at New Hartford married a couple the other day, and the groom asked him hil : terms after tin- knot was tied. "Well,'' i said the justice, '-the code allows ins ; two dollars.'' "Then," said Ihe youm '■ man, "here's a dollar; that will make t you three."—t'e<Uir t\d'» '»" —The value of land in Melbourne, Australia, has increased somewhat : since the city was founded. A Ii i feet wide and 32U feet deep, which >%.,. I bought from the Crown in the early days of lb.- colony, for «W0 by Mr. I Michael Pander, and remained in his I ssioii until hisdeath, was recently sold by his heirs for $l05,0ufl --A Mrs. Boss threatened to ihool Judge Mover, in (Tearfleld, Penna., last week, because the Overseers of tin- Poor Iniund one of bei children to a farmer. Her husband haddi lerted and the poor creature's reason b el fled. She set in lourt with a loaded revolver in her lap, waiting for tlie judge, but was disarmed by the Hherlfl before she had done any damage. —The long tunnel through solid rock to catty water to Baltimore is U'ltig cut in nineteen sections, tin- plan adopt-ed Jls-ing to sink shafts lo the p level, ami tbi-ti work iu both directions. The calculations must be verj exact in order to make the leadings mi,! pie-cisely. Thus far the engineers been remarkably successful, live lions being j "I without a I deviation from straightnesa —A quiet-looking man, with a | ant lace, iron-graj whiskers ami hair, and the plainest attire—that i- Mr. .1.lines IJ. 1'aii. of Sevada, tin- p' sor of an agreeable income ol $5n0.i«»l a month. He superintends the work-ing of the three Bonanza mines, while bis partners, I'l laiiirMackej it to finance, lie ha.- jusl been takings month's vacation in tin- Last —the l:i i sevnteen years that In- hi-stayed away from tin- mines so long. M. d. I. --i; - has from a trip to T . r lie went to invi-tigate the possibility and ad-visability of letting tin- waters of the Mediterranean into the desert of Sahara, so a- t,, convert a great por-tion of tint desolate expanse inl inland sea. M. de L>nsc; - says that the Arab chieftana of tin-south of the Anns keep up the tradition of : having existed in former times a sea in that neighborhood from five to six hun-dred leagues iu circumference. He also has been enabled to disprove tlie idea that the formation of a new lake would doaway with the oases, for In- has dis-covered that these are all from fifteen to forty metres above the level ol the sea, whereas the desert Itself is U-low that level. Traces of Roman civilisa-tion have been found in the desert, and among them the remains of an amphi-theatre like that iii Bum*. .V
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [February 5, 1879] |
Date | 1879-02-05 |
Editor(s) | Duffy, P.F. |
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THE PATHIOT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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their eldest child. He
-i, .1 a love of enterprise, and
rnplishing lea's of diffl-ii
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ing them His biographer says
1 I. irai ■' : of a bad boy,"
■ was a brave one, and would
aflrunl from any body.
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i uievements, was a
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chimney, which arose tempt
the riM.f sixteen feet high.
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il liia younger brother,
A : ■ r ill- family
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II. w i- il„ n ten years old, and.
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. i •■ was nn unpromising
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in in love for learn
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in u direction
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cut ahen lie did
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> n im linations; and
iven where he did not
fond of i hemistry,
routine .>f s physician's life would be fatal
in his son's constitution, obtained lor him,
without Ids knowledge, nn appointment
as a Surgeon in the Navy. He was
greatly Indisposed to the place, and the
position lie held on ship-board wus always
odious to him. His aversion to a sen lite
amounted t" detestation; but he again
yielded lo his father's wishes, and after
bis examination preiiared himself cheer-fully
for his new duties.
Now commences the actual career of
this remarkable man; and henceforth his
life is a succession of wild and romantic
adventures, which sound more like the
creations of some highly imaginative
fictiouist than the actual exploits of a
slight youth, who, with •mortal disease
iu his system, has quietly schooled him
sell to the determination lo "die in har-ness.''
His first appointment to active ser-vice
»as us physician to our Chinese
Embassy, when Mr. Cashing was sent
out us Commissioner to China. The
Commissioner went out over-land, with
the design of meeting the frigate at Bom-bay
that was to carry him lo Canton, and
Doctor Kane embarked in the "Uraudv-wine,"
expecting to join him at that port.
He sailed in May, 1B43. and hail the ad-vantage
of stopping at Mudeira and Rio
de Janeiro. At Ihe latter place he im-proved
his lime by making mi asceul of
the Kustern Andes, which rear their fan
tastic forms on the Coast ol Brazil. The
notes which he nude of this exploration
were unhappily lost while he was travelling
on ihe Nile. On the voyage from Bio lo
Bombay he employed himself assiduously
in the study of navigation and modern
languages, and Mr. Cashing not having
arrived wa^en the "Brandy wine" reached
the latter port, he directly" began to visit
the caves of Elephants, and every other
object of interest iu the neighborhood,
and then started on an elephant hum in
the island of Ceylon, The frigate, with
the Commissioner and his suite, arrived
ai Canton in July, 1S44: and impatient
at the tedious progress of Chinese diplo-macy,
he obtained leave of absence from
Mr. rushing, and started to make an ex-ploration
ol the Philippine Islands. He
traversed the largest of the group, l.uconia,
from Manila across to its Pacific coast,
and. at great hazards and imminent perils,
he made the descent of ihe crater of the
Tail, a feat which but one European had
ever attempted, and he without success.
This feat very nearly cost him his life:
first, by the poisonons gases he inhaled;
and secondly, from the attacks of the wild
natives, who were 0 traged by hissacrile
gious invasion of the residence of their
Deity. After the departure of the embassy,
be remained at (union to establish him-self
as a physician; hut. at the end of si\
months, he was struck down with Ihe
rice fever, and came, near dying; but he
recovered after a long il'ncss, and left
Whampoa for Singapore, in company with
a young Englishman, intending tn.nmke
the overland journey for Europe; and
while en route, he visited Borneo and
Sumatra, and • rossing over to the Indian
Peninsula, he made the ascent of ihe
Himalaya Mountains. Arriving in Cal-cutta
about the time the great Dwakanoth
Tagorc wss preparing to start on his visit
to England, he joined the milt of the
princely East Indian, and having visited
!, Persia and Syria, parted from him at
Alexandria, whence he visited Thebes
and the Pyramids, and, in the course of
his wanderings, lormed the acquaintance
of Professor Lepsius. Here again he
twice narrowly escaped with his hie; once
in askirmish with the Bedouins, in which
he was wounded in the leg, and then
In,in an attack of the plague. After six
months of travel, he determined to return
to Manila, and establish himselfasa phy-sician;
but tailing to obtain permission
Irani ihe Spanish authorities, he benl his
steps homeward through Italy, France,
and England. At home once more, in
is hi he hired a house, and made prepara-tions
for tettlmg down In his native city
a- a physician. He hud never U-en com
person. But there was not time, s id he
made up his mind to send the feeble look-ing
little Doctor back as soon as he got to
Greenland, if be should hod out BO long.
The Doctor was, as usual, seasick, and
when they touched at Whale-fish Island,
after having been thirty one davs at sea.
an English I rans|mrtship was found there,
and Captain De Haven benevolently pro-posed
to send the Doctor home as an in-valid.
The Doctor looked at the com
mantling officer in blank dismay, and
firmly said "1 won't go," and De Haven
8mm learned the mistake he had made in
estimatingethe character of his physician.
He returned from this memorable expedi-tion
in May, 1851, after an absence of six-teen
months, nine of which he had been
ice-locked in the Arctic Ocean. Yet the
hardest ard most difficult part of the ex-pedition
he had to accomplish, after his
return, iu writing the history of it. As
Dr. Livingstone has said, he would rather
make another journey across the Conti-nent
of Africa than write another hook of
travels, so did Dr. Kane feel when he sat
down to his literary labor. There was
nothing in it to brace up bis nerves, and
test his powers of endurance and that in-domitable
faculty of overcoming difficul-ties
which seemed essential to his exist-ence.
His book completed, he at once set
himself to work to organize the second
expedilion, which he was so eager to
command, and all his energies were bent
upon raising the requisite funds to pay-tor
the necessary equipments. The labors
and anxieties he underwent while making
his preparations for his second Arctic
•voyage were hardly less trying to him
than the dangers he encountered while
absent on thai perilous expedilion; but bis
plans were at last completed, and, though
he wis still suffering from debilitating
illness, he was as lull of eagerness and
enthusiasm when he left, on the thirty-lirst
of May, 1858, on that ever-niemora
ble voyage, as a young boy going on an
excursion lor pleasure. We can give no
word to his exploits while on his expedi-tion;
he returned to New York on the
eleventh of October, 185.5, after an absence
of thirty months, and the news of his ar-rival
caused a pulsation of delight through-out
the civilized world. Honors and
greetings awaited him on Inilh sides of the
Atlantic, but his health was fast failing
him; and when he left New York for
England.hoping tube strengthened by the
journey, he said lo Mrs. ISrinncll. on tak-ing
leave of her. that be was not sure of
soon returning to her again. He grew
worse in England, and on Ihe seventeenth
of November, I85«, left therefor Havana,
where he arrived on the twenty fifth of
the following month, grow ing all the time
weaker, and on the sixteenth of February
his curt lily career was closed.
He was live feet six inches in height,
and in his best health, weighed about one
hundred and thirty five pounds. His
complexion wan fair, and his hair sod and
silken, of a dark chestnut color. His eyes
were daik gray, but lustrous, with a wild
light, when his feelings were excited, and
when he was in the torrent-tide of enrap
tured action, "thelight beamed from them
like flashing scimctars. anil in an impas-sioned
moment they gleamed frightfully,"
In company, when the talk run glib, and
every 1HMI\ would be heard, he was silent,
but terse and elastic as a steel-spring un
der pressure. He had a way of looking
attentive, docile, and as interested as a
child's Iresh wonder; but no one would
mistake the expression for the admiration
of ineX|Mrience or incapacity; yet il cheated
many a talker into a self complaisance
that lost him the opportunity ol learning
something of the man he wanted to know.
Idle
him
fortable theory of derivation, we have
it upon the authority of Pliny—which
Sharpe adopts in his history—that Ihe
Sebasta, or Ca-sar's temple, was fin-ished
by the Alexandrians only as early
as the reign of Tilierius. The "two
ancient obelisks, which had been made
by Thothmes III., and carved by Ra-mpant
IX," were, according to this au-thority,
then placed in position. Bur-ton's
"Excerpta Hieroglyphics" is also
cited in the same connection, thereby
further accumulating most potent tes-timony
to unsettle tlie former specious
solution. The antiquity of the obelisk
is but second to the pyramids. Like
those stupendous sepulchres, its crea-tion
is shrouded in the mists which yej
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attempted. Although such results
nave been accomplished in the quarries
or New-England by the wedging pro-cess,
the blocks were not woTked and
transported in their entirety. Mono-liths
of marble and granite, measuring
respectively eighty and ninety feet in
length, have been wholly severed from
the virgin rock in this country but
never removed from the quarries.
n ith the ancient Egvptians similar
and greater feats of engineering were
frequent and successful. Captives of
war furnished unlimited liilmr, and
time was rendered subservient to the
purpose. Pliny recites an instance in
which 20,000 workmen were engaged
the erection of a single obeli"
CURIOSITIES OF CURRENCY.
The bank officer who saw a compen-sating
advantage from the passage of
the silver dollar bill liecause payments
of silver would be so bulkvas to assist
in checking ruus, and in cases ol large
amount would render a wheelbarrow
necessary, probably based his remarks
upon a knowledge of the experience of
the Swedish merchants of the last cen-tury.
Dining that period copper was
the chief medium of exchange in Swe-den,
and business men who went out
to collect their bills carried wheel-barrows
to contain the OMnatc dalers.
The inconvenience of such a medium
kept down trade—a result which the
obscure early Egyptian history. Plusf ! ThoseafRaVi'iai are reputed toTiave I ;
states they were dedicated to Re, the been completed In seven months and 5H5SPJ.?0"i"!1-** to "bUl" b>' *■
sun god ; and in support of Ihe idea, us each is 83feat in height, and B feet
he urges that their form is in imitation square at the base, the force employed
of a ray of the suu. Certain it Is that can be surmised. Immense slones'for
the giant monoliths stand to-day alike the temples and colossal statues were
a wonder and an unpractical, if not a { likewise dragged over the oiled ground
lost art. The most ancient of all these by the absolute accumulation of physi-cal
force directly applied. The re-nowned
monolithic sitting statue of
the Vocal Memnon. on the plain of
monuments extant and intact is thit
upon the site of dead Heliopolis, or
Uc-ei, in the land ofGoaben, a drive of
less than two hours from Cairo,through Thebes, as well as its mate, measures
a country yet "the best of the land of [ nearly fifty feet in height, and is pro-
Kirypt.'' ((Jen. xlvii., 0.) Ifotherobe portionately thick. Again, the broken
lisks existed previous to that at Ileli- colossus of K.tmescs, near the Memno-opolis,
all trace of them has disap-peared.
If the presence of the ca>-(oucAe
of the Theban king, Osirtnsen I., the
leader of the Twelth Dynasty, can lie
introduction of iron monev. Cattle
were the medium of .xchange in still
earlier limes. Homer frequently- valu-ing
the armor of his heroes at so many-head
of cattle. Indeed, it is now gen-erally
conceded that our word pecuni-ary
is derived from the Latin {Men*,
cattle. Sir II. S. Maine, in his interest-ing
£,ir'v History .,,' buUtnUomt, shows
that being counted by the head, the
kine were called rnpivile. whence "cap-ital."
"chattel," and "cattle." Skins
were early used as currency, and lea-ther
money is said to have been cir-iiiiim
was originally a single block of j ciliated in' Bosnia as late as the reign
fSS^LSESF-8™%!? f£{?at*8\!0 ofPMertluj Great. Among the few
have weighed no less than 887 tons. So "
gigantic was it that it becomes a ra.it-relied
upon to determine its age, the iter of speculation regarding the means
obelisk in question dates from 3100 to ! employed by the mini -m- of Cainbysea
1500 B. C. Sir Gardner Wilkinson tixi s to attain its mere destruction,
the reign at B. C. 2090; Shar|ie be-I Within the quarries at UyeiM there
tween 1700 and 1550 11. C; Chevalier'can be seen an obelisk which has lieen
Buitsen at B. C. 2781. and Mariettc [ severed from the original mass, except-ing
on the lower side. If completed.
Its dimensions would have been 05 feet
Bey, the latest authority of high re-pule,
at B. C. 30U4. The last is pro-bably
the most reliable, it being baaed
on studies of the New Tablet at Aby-dos,
a chronological table of kings,
which the conservator of Egyptian re-long
and 11 feet lj inches in thickness.
facts that are leR us about the laws
anil usages of Carthage is the employ-ment
of leather currency. Maize
formerly circulated in Mexico; and in
Norway corn is even now deposited in
banks, and lent and borrowed. As our
Indians use wampum, the natives of
East Indies, or port ions of them, have
resorted to covviy shells as small
money, and a considerable exjiort of
C0ASTIN6.
The hoys were coasting down Syca-more
Street Hill last evening, when
John Sanscript aud his wife came along.
Tbev had been upon Baltimore street
visiting, and were on their way home.
"Just see them bovs. now," said
John, as he braced up"at the intersec-tion
of Mulberry street. "It really re-minds
me of the days when I was a lad.
I>o you know, Jane, that I used to
coast down hill on a sled that way''"
"Md you, John?"
"Why, yes; but that's fiftv years
ago!"
a Sanscript scratched his head con-templatively
and then mattered, sotto
roi'cr: "Dummy grnnddaddy'sbuttons
it I don't try it.''
"Try what, dear?" anxiously asked
Mrs. S.
"I'm going to coast just once, to
revive recollections of fifty years ago."
"Now, John, il I were you "
"But you are not me, so don't inter-fere.
Here, sonny (to a lad who had
just pulled up the hill with tussled)
•Here, sonny, I'll give you a quarter
to let me slide down on rour sled once."
%';irictics.
—The population of afetl has fallen
off nearly one-quarter since 1871—from
51.33d to 30,000.
—The Atlantic cable is being "dup-lexed,"
a process which will increase
its working capacity 7u per cent.
—It is said that 1500,000 is spent
yearly upon the teaching of inu-tile
elementary schools of England.
—While coinbingliii hail at Trnfaut,
Mich., a young man pricked a hole in
his scalp with a tooth of the comb and
nearly bled to death.
— An "elcctrophote " it is proposed
to call an alectric light, while the scl-
'■' and practice of lightingb) electri-city
will lie called "electrophoty."
—The Marquis of Bath lias aloteil
from ten to ni'tecn percent, from the
rent of tenants on las estate in conse-quence
of tha "hardness of the tin*
—There is an association in Boston
called "The Young Men's Congress,
which is making preparations for
The bargain was eagerly nailed and > public memorial gathering in Tremont
Othersi.i,. r 5 u!,,n,,\,,l
1
,,,lrk,«'«- them goes on from the Maid ve and
rne^dnimSme^difateelTy6?aSdjdofin,\itn,3gr;taaeni*diq"U—*,a'- »«"■■*»- tatao'l*. The Fijian, eh- such eulatc whales' teeth- red teeth ex-pressing
the higher denominations.—
The introduction of American gold
into Europe displaced silver as the
common measure of value—a position
it held in Queen Elizabeth's reign.—
The French use the word antnt (surer)
as a comprehensive term for money. a
circumstance illustrating the position
the metal once held. A French raroal
is of the opinion that in the very earli-
- desired; . missioned as a Surgeon in the Navy, and
becausehe thoroughly detesting the rules of the ser-
II<
il exploration
III held sports;
skclchingandwhil
liatcd by dogs and
I classical studies,
: ' Hilly lo Rebinton
■ ■'. At Ihe
n in lie sensible of
Ij. md s, t himself
lo make amends lor his neeli cl
- I itlier int. nded him for
gineer, and he had given more
inatlicui-itiestb ,n in |,is nther
that when he w Is taken to
. ■ n for the purpose of bein
■ ■> lie, lie was found not lo lie
:,,r college, and it
u lie would be < pelled
'a snot her j i ar ol pre
Si ii was determined
ll enter at the I'niveiMly of
tier freedom was
He remain, -I here a year aml-
' - uished hiin-clf by bis
n. tnistry, having also
; rogrcss in Latin and
»j mptoms of the disease
i I lalal, and which at
it New Haven, now
_ a form thai his
inn, home in a blan
me hi- life was des-
I im >. uid when he
i- only toi„ informed that
incnl fall a- suddenly
In- was now iu
anil shout to coin
business of life with the
he hail in his system a
- iddenly ler-ireer,
al a moment's
H 19 -.;:,:,, lie ulwuys
Biitfering. His
vice, be would have resigned bis post, but
the country was on the verge of war with
Mexico, and he could not, in honor, aban-don
it just as there was a chance of his
services being needed.
Three weeks before war was declared,
he "as ordered to the frigate "United
States," bound for Ihe coast of Africa, lie
cheerfully obeyed the summons; and after
visiting the King of Dahomey, he was
. attacked wilh the coast-fever." and was
again brought to Death's door; being com-plctelv
prostrated, he returned home "in-valided."
and never wholly recovered
f i this di-ease. But the Mexican war
was not at an end, aud he panted for an
opportunity to distinguish himself in bis
Country's service, still determined to "die
in harness." He applied to the President
! i for an appointment as an Army-Surgeon,
and was dispatched to Mexico with orders
for ihe Commander-in-chief, on his pas
sage to Van Cms, be narrowly escaped u
watery grave on board the rickety lit le
steamer "Fashion," which wasaflerwards
rendered tamous by the fillibaster Walker;
and alter landing al his port ofdestination,
he started immediately for the capital
with an escort, composed of a company- of
contra guerillas, commanded by the in-famous
Dominguex; and while on his
journey, he distinguished himself by his
valor, and chiv-alric conduct in the en-counter
between bis escort and the Mexi-can
guerillas, among whom were (Jen.
Gaona and his son, whose lives, together
with those of four other officers, he was
Ihe means of saving; and. on his return,
received the complimentary present ofa
sword from his fellow-inwiismen. Ho
suffered terribly while in Mexico, from
lever, exposure, and the effects ofa lance-wound
which he received in the affair
with the guerillas.
On his return home, after the war was
ended, he was sent to the Mediterranean
in the store-ship •'Supply.'' and, while on
this voyage, was seized with an atlack of
curiosity never nude any- thing of
and he did nothing al gossip; bul
inquiry with an aim was never disappoint-ed.
His biographer asked him once,
alter his return from his last Arctic expe-dition,
"for the IM?SI proved i stance that
he knew of the soul's power over the
body; an instance that might push the
hard-baked philosophy of materialism to
he consciousness of its own idiocy.'' He
paused a moment, and then said, with at
spring The soul can lift the bodyout ofits
boots, Sir. When our Captain wasdying—
I saydying, for I have seen scurvy enough
to know—every old-car in his body was a
running ulcer. If conscience festers under
ils wounds correspondingly, hell is not
hard to understand. I never saw a case so
bad that either lived or died. Men die of
it usually long before they are so ill as he
was. There was tro ible aboard^ there
might be mutiny. So soon as the breath
was out of his body we might be at each
other's throats. I fell that he owed even
then-pose of dying to the service. I went
down lo his bunk, and shouted in his ear:
•Munity, Captain, munityP He shook off
tin- cadaveric stupor: 'Set me up,' he said;
'anil order these fellows before me.' He
heard the complaint, ordered punishment,
and from that hour convalesced. Keep
that man awake with danger, and he
wouldn't die of any thing until his duty
was done.'1 — l)r. Elder'* Biography of
Kant.
■ the nature of tlielr surroundings that
mains discovered in 1865. Unfortu- ; they must have lieen Ufltd from the
nately, after thus laboring to establish hollow to accomplish their removal.
the age of the obelisk by its inscrip- I L'pou being dragged to the river's edge,
tion, it must lie remembered that the ' Piiny states a trench was dug beneath
Pharaohs not unfrequently erected or , the stone to admit two heavily-laden
inscribed monuments in honor of their > boats. The weight lieing removed, the
predecessors. Those at Alexandria Icraft rose and Boated the obelisk.
we have already observed were quar- ' When again landed at the appointed
ried by Thothmes III carved by Ram- j Place, the shaft was transported on ,
eses II.. and transported to the border rollers over the oUed sod to its prepared ; est ages stone Implements were used as
of the Mediterranean upwards of a base. 1 here, according to Diodorus , the circulating medium between tribes.
thousand years later. Again, to in- . ami oilier conjecturers, the stone was
crease the doubt, there is no record of ' placed in a perpendicular position by
other obelisks previous to the peliod of employing mounds of earth and in-
Thothmes I., excepting one irregularly- dined planes. Such a mechanical pro-shaped
needle at the Lake of Mieris. in wss is unfortunately nowhere repre-the
Fycom. The interval, according IStilted among the pictorial sculptures
to Mariettc, embraces a |M-rioil of about on the temples, and heuce all is mere
fourteen centuries. Such is the uncer- ; "peculation. The penetration of a
tiiinty of Egyptian chronology prece- j Cbampollion, or the genius of a Marl-ding
the arrival of the first Ores k set- ette may yet unravel the mystery of
tiers, or the reign of l'saminetichus, H. these mighty deeds iu the old House o|
Bondage.—/. Jf.< Jr., in Philadelphia
Bulletin,
' Klislia, if you must ; tetanus, the most terrible of all disorders,
in i he resolved
ly with the advice,
. 'II liter Of neces
injurious to
re n. dangers.
. n.iMo combat
I. himselfinees-in.-
ie is ihe best
: tig to his
HI,m- hail alwavs
iting character of
u ie. E« n wh.„ |,C
:.. from the settle
-older, his lloes
ling wilh irritation.
- nervous rioting
. calm, sedate.
II - friends, be
• n ndercd him unfit
engineer, he
lions in.I began
-ii lii- wenly lirst
'• ■ '•' - Ii in Physician
pita at I'biludel
ricll) lo his duties
i.' was laboring
ifkof rardiardis.
lo sleep in a hori-ii
never closed bis
■ ing that the
- hi« ever opening
world The conscious
al condition must have
■aim ardent nature.
in the le iei ,1, .r.,,u
when, to use bis own expressions, his
THE EGYPTIAN OBELISKS.
The recent successful removal of the
so-called Cleopatra's Needle from
Alexandria to London, has awakened
renewed interest in those remarkable
monoliths. The skill of Mr. John
llixon. the engineer of the work, will
excite admiration, but not wonder.
While the undertaking was in every
respect a novelty for an Englishman,
lie has accomplished no more than did
the Egyptians, IheGreeka.the Romans,
and the Byzantines of old, as well as
the French of the present century.
Although it was the writer's privilege
to witness the operations on the
Thames embankment, at intervals,
from the arrival Ol the "Cleopatra'"
until the Obelisk was placed in posi-tion,
it is no part of the purpose of
this article to otfer adeecriptiou of the
machinery there employed.
The intent of this pai>er is to present
an outline review of the subject of
WANTED TO BE AN EDITOR.
"Have you had any experience in the
business?" we asked ofa verdant look-ing
youth who applied lor an editorial
position the other day.
"llavn'i I though'-" hereplied, as he
shoved one foot under Ins chair to hide
the unskillful patching ofa back-wood
cobbler. "I should say I'd had some
experience; havn't I corresponded with
the I'unipkinville Screamer for six
weeks? Ilaiiit thill enough experi-ence'-"
"That will do very well," we replied.
"hut when we take young men on our
editorial stall', we generally put them
liow much
me" ""
C. 865
The form of the obelisk has remained
substantially unaltered. Ages of ex-periment
have demonstrated it as un-susceptible
of improvement. Compar-ison'with
solitary shafts of every other
design also confirms its superiority in
producing imposing unity, massive ef-fect,
absence of heaviness, anil symme-try
of lines. A monument of the Co-rinthian
or other kindred order, is both
burdened anil dwarfed by its spreading
capital; while the pyramidal finish of
the obelisk lends to its graceful simpli-city,
and assists the optical conviction
of elevation. With rare exceptions,
the obelisks of Egypt are tapering mon-olithic
quadrilaterals crowned with a
sharp pyramid. The proportions of
the pyramidal apex vary to a greater ["rough an examination
degree than any other feature. In the B OV'dvc 1
older models the base of this top is said
to generally exceed the perpendicular
height. Those of later origiu—notably
the magnilicentspccimeusat Karuak—
have this member perceptibly elon-gated
; thereby enhancing the beauty
and harmony of the massive shaft. The
most effective result appears to be at-tained
when the top forms a perfect
pyramid ; that is, when the height is
equal to the width of the base.
Accurate measurements of many
ooelit-ks display the fact that the four
sides are rarely of equal horizontal
breadth. Commonly the two opposite
surfaces measure alike, thereby making
the face of the base a rectangle. The
difference in the pairs ranges from one
to twelve inches, according to the sum-mary
of the principal shafts. A rc-mai
kable characteristic of the remain-ing
obelisk at Luxor or Thebes—the
mate to the one in Paris—is that its
sides are slightly convex. The devia-tion
amounts to about three degrees
lie bases his theory on the circum-stance
that some of the implements
arc made of materials not. to lie foun 1
in the region of their discovery. In
our own colonial period, bullets and
tobacco passed as currency, and, dur-ing
the civil war. hotel tickets, car
tickets, and even shoe-irons were ac-cepted
as such. Olive-oil continues to
be the medium in .some of the Mediter-ranean
countries, ami large transac
lions have Is-en based upon it
och and Alexandria arc said to have
used a wooden talent. Lead passes
current iu Burmah. Tin farthings
were struck by Cbarlis II. in 1080, a
stud of copper being inserted in the
middle ol the coin to render counter- I
felling more difficult, and tin half- |
pence and farthings were used as late
as 11381, but never obtained a really
wide circulation. Tin coins were form-erly
employed ill Java and in Mexico,
and the metal is said to lie slill current
by weight ill the Straits of Malacca.
The Russian government, which owns
the piincipal platinum mines, began
filly years ago to coin that metal, but
after seventeen years of experiment
give it up. The appearance of the
metal is inferior to gold, and the fact
clinched,
"Be keerful, old man," urged the
boy, as Sanscript squatted rather awk-wardly
on the sled; "be keerful, I say,
and don't let her llunk one way or
'tother till she brings up
mashed."
"N«ver mind, younker." assured
John; "I'vebeen here afore—some years
afore, but—''
But what will never be known, for
just then the sled, of its own accord,
started down hill, and even John him-self
has not lieen able to recall what he
was about to observe. The surprise at
the sled's unexpected movement was
general.
"Look out!" yelled the hoy.
"Oh, John;" screamed Sirs. San-script.
"Whoa, there!" yelled John.
But the sad wouldn't whoa. It
seemed to have set off down that hill to
bntt its best time. John bail chance
only to clutch hold of both sides ami
hold his breath for fear the wind would
blow oil'the top of his head. The only
thought hi- had time to foster was that
the boy must have greased the sled's
runners as a practical joke. And if
this was coasting, he had never coasted,
if his recollection served him right.
Two-thirds way down Ihe hill Ihe
sled struck an ice hut ick, and Im-mediately
his course was changed to a
parabolic curve.
Whack! bang! crash! dink!
The bringing up was awfully suddl n
and uncertain. Sanscript ami the sled
Antl. I disappeared as abrubtly as a shooting
1 star. The hitler lay shivered to atoms
against a lamp-post, aud Sanscript lay
shivering in the grocery cellar just op-posite.
When the oil'runner of the sled
collided wilh the lamp-post anil alop|H-d
the vehicle Sanscript rose like a circus-leaper
ami went right on turning
twenty somersaults to the second. He
went through the grocery window as
the circus-leaiNT goes through a paper
hoop. The grocer appeared soon alter
and compromised uponJohn paying the
following bill;
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iii honor of the late Bayard
that it is seldom or never used for pur-
Why any little boy ought po-,s of ornamentation is also against
its use. Nevertheless, at the monetary
conference at Paris, iu 18U7, the lius-
Sian reprc.s. ntative proposed that plati-num
should lie employed lor the coin-age
of five-franc pieces. The forms i f
coins are represented in almost every
shape, from ihe gold button or grain of
Pondicherry to the scimetar-sha|N.-d
pieces once employed in Persia. Au-stria
finds it profitable to continue the
coining of the Maria Theresa silver
dollar, with the original design and
date (1780), because of its great popu-larity
in Northern Africa ami the
Levant. When the British govern-ment
undertook the Abyssinian exi«.-
dtiion, the military chest contained
large quantities of these dollars, which
are in great demand among the natives.
In some |Kirtiiins of the Orient porcelain
coins are used, and are quite in demand.
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