Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-12-07

twenty four hours. a liter among the
sNatchmen.) | take it as a tonic, Sir.
to strengthen my stomach.
.Nayor-And how does it answer the
purpose?
Lrael-Oh beautiful! Pm getting as
fat as a hog on it. See here. (Unbut-
tonlng his coat and laying his hand on his
stomach, which was rather protaberant. }
Sarah, Israe's sister, who was present
here interposed and stated that physi-
can had ascribed israel's supposed fat
ness to the dropsy.
Israeli WI It'll an lncredulous smile. J
Yes Sir. he said was chock full of wa
ter; but heaven knows how it got there,
as never drinks any. Besides, Sir,
can feel the solid fat three inches anG
more on the ribs. Just put your hand
there and Try. (To enc of the watch
men,
4IIayor-No matter about that. Let
us come to the poisoning.
IsraeJ-Here it is Sir. Yesterday
morning before breakfast, says to my
self, you must take good duse Of that
phySic. old fellow, as | poured out the
big tumbler full and swallowed it with
out making mere than o.wry faces,
for take medicine first rate. Then |
was tuck deadly sick, like I'd been Ia
king lie, and know'd something was in
the phiysic. Then Sal, she begun to
laugh and saw the very ID looking
out of her ewes. Then emptied out the
medicine jug and, what DO you suppose |
found?
.Gayor- How should know: What
was ii?
Iuoez-Here It is, Sir, drawing a
sizeabIe eel from his pocket and holding
it up.l A sarpent. Sir; and wherever
there's a sarpent you may know there's
a woman not far off. There she is, Sir.
She's the very individual that tried to 10
me with that pisen riptle.
.Aayor-It seems she wished 10 make
you sick of your 'physlc.' which YOU GER
tainly took too freely. That was all right
enough. and if you have nothing more
against her. we must let her 90.
Here the case was dismissed; Israel
grumbling his dissatisfaction all the way
out of the ottice.-Eue. Mercury.
From the Boston Transcript.
ANCIENT EGYPT-THE PYRA-
MIDS.
Mr.. Giiddon commenced his eighth
lecture Che second on the subject of lhe
Pyramids with brief apology for the
abrupt close of his last, and Immediately
proceeded with series of pyramidal sta
tistics explanatory Of these extraordinry
cdifces. We have not space for the ap-
piication of all Of these as the lecturer
presented them, and shall therefore only
give the
Eract measurement Of the Great Pyramid
Acres. Rools Poles
Former extent of base l3 q
Cubic feet.
Original amount of masonry $685. 900
Criminal weight of masonry Tons o,s4a,ooo
Present 6 IS 6,316,0O0
The space occupied by chambers and
passages being only 5000 cubic feet, Or
1880 Of the whole mass.
Remarking upon the slight reliance to
be placed upon the memory of mere
casual observer in relation to actual sta
tistics, Mr.. GIddon said, that although
residing himself for ten years in the i'm.
mediate vicinity Of the NIemphite pyra-
mids, he did not recollect their number,
and he could not find that any of tue
hundreds OF travellers who had written
on the subject had ever counted them.
On this point, the statements in his pub
lished Chapters are expressed cautious
". The Sd volume Of Colonel Vyse's
work had not appeared here at the time
of their issue. Mr.. Gliddon's memory.
however, served TO recount IS. and Col.
WISE gives 35. In relation to the diff
lerent accounts of travellers about what
they have seen, MIR. Gliddon introduced
the following opposite circumstance. \
witty Italian writer on Ancient Mem
phis, speaking Of the aceN at the Great
Pyramid, laments the discrep aacies he
meets with as to its depth, each travel
Ter giving different measurement, and
many from actual examination. He
exciaims, TO whom are we to give cred
it? I Donder IT oay one has eper get
been DOM ~
In Lower and Middle Egypt, inde-
pendent!y of those discovered by DR..
Lepsius,) there are 80 pyramids. extern
ding over space of 63 miles. from north
to south. Mr.. Gliddon named them,
stating that they were of all sizes and
shapes, from 20 feet high to $50 aver
aging, however. about $50 feet each, as
the mean height. Most of them are
built Of cut limestone from the Lybian
chain; one is erected entirely of Arabian
stone. and four Of sun burned brick.
Granite is profusely used in lining the
interiors. An idea OF the mass of ma
sonry employed in these ponderous mon
uments may be formed from the fact that
30 of these pyramids in the % miles OF
the Mempllite battle-ground consumed
above taoeafy fee million tons of st"ae'