Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-08-27
Selected MiscelIany.
1eRalBLE ACHIEVEMENT.

TAXABLE achievement.
he church Of St. Paul is remarkable for
hPre, the loftiest OF st. Petersburgh.
4, .necdote connected with this church,
- not known, believe, out Of Russia, is
,ae remarkable to be omitted. The spire
MIDI rises
s'Iony, and light, and SMALL"
- II probably represented in the engraving
= hdina away almost into point in the
~, i, II reality, terminated by globe Of
esaa;derable dimensions, on which an angel
aan11 supporting a large cross. This angel
~ respected by the weather than perhaps
~ ioly character deserved, fell into disre-
~; and some suspicious were entertained
ut he designed revisiting, uninvoked, the
surface Of the earth. The affair caused
ams uneasiness, and the government at
Ugh s ssss%s SERIOUSLY 10 .1.h psF Rsss o To
esst more money than all the angels out of
haven we're worth-and in meditating fruit
haly on these circumstances, without being
able TO resolve how to act, a considerable
6ns was suffered to elapse.
Among the crowd Of gazers below, who
9aly turned their eyes and their thoughts
tsward the angel, was milk called Telouch-
kae. This man was a roOfer Of houses, "a
sates Is he would be called in countries
where states were usedO and his speculations
y degrees assumed a more practical charac-
IT man the idle wonders and conjectures Of
he rest Of the crowd. The spire was en-.
tely covered with sheets OF gilded copper
and presented a surface to the eve as smooth
I'D il had been one mass Of FURNISHED gold
hi Telouchkine knew that the sheets Of
copper were not even, or uniformly closed
4oa each other; and, above all, that there
were large nails used to fas.en them, which
projected from the side Of the spire.
Having medtated upon these circumstan
e. ill his mind was made up, the milk wen
y Ne government and offered to repair tn,
angs, without scaffolding, and without as
sstance, on condition Of being REASONABLE,
Padtor the time expended in the labor. TIL,
s1er Vas accepted; for it was made in Rus
=, and BY Russian.
q the day fixed for the adventure, Tel
sseAhne, provided with nothing but a coil Q
sepess ascended the spire in the interior, I
e Isst window. Here he looked down a
eoncourse Of the people below, and u
9e Offering ssneedle,' as it is called, t.
p@g far above his head. But his heart di
- ha HIM, and stepping bravely out upo
wmdow, he set about his task.
he cut portion of the cord in the form {
large st'rrups, with a loop at each enc
- upper loops he fastened upon two Of III
81 ct'ng nails above his head, and place
Oos IN the others. Then digging the Fl,
- q one hand into the interstices Of III
.esss q copper, he raised up one Of his sti
with the other hand. so as to make
n 'eh nad higher up. The same operatio
performed in behalf Of the other leg. ste
sep. and stirrup by stirrup, till his startin
~ was undistinguishable from the goIde
ace, and the spire had dwindled, an
nd'ed, IN his embrace, till he could elias
g iar, 20 well. But he now reached II
- globe Of between nine and ten fe,
circumference. The angel, the object ,
VISIT. was above this ball, and conceale
nom AZ view. by its smooth, round and eli
~ e1panse. Only fancy the wretch
moment, turning up his grave ewes. ar
er beard. to an obstacle tina, seemed /
ue daring and ingenuity OF man.
s0t iescuchkine was not dismayed. r