The Greensboro patriot [February 5, 1879]

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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
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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
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,,,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*.
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