Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-02-20

bed in for the third time His workmen wer
now engaged in clearing away the sand from tn,
chamber OF some old Memphan, aud he intend
ed spreading bis roof over the massive walls
and making his residence in the exhumed city
The mans appearance showed what he haC
| undergone, and gave me the idea Of TIE extraoy
binary zeal and patience required to make a sue
cessfuI antiquarian. His face was brown as ar
ARABS, his eyes severely infamed, and his hanC
as rough a a brcklayer's. His manner with the
Arab workmen was admirable, and they laboreC
with hearty good-w which almost supplied
the want OF the needtnl implements. Ali they
had were straw baskets, which they filed with 4
sort OF rude shovel, and then handed ND to be
carried off on the heads of others. One of the
principal Workmen was deaf and dumb, but the
funniest Arab ever saw. lie was constantly
playing off his Jokes on those who were too SLOW
or too negligent. An unlucky girl, STOPPING dowr
al the wrong time TO lit a basket of sand re.
celved the contents of another on her head and
her indignant out cry was hailed by the rest
with screams OF laughter. | saw the same
man pick out Of the sand glazed tile contain
ing hieroglyphic characters The gravity with
which he held it before him, feigning to peruse
it, occasionally noddng his head, as if TO say
"well done for old Pharaoh" conld not have been
cxcellod BY Burton himself.
Strabo says that Memphis had circumference
Of seventeen miles, and therefore both NJ. Mari.
cite and the antiquarians are right. The mounds
ofMitrahenny probably mark the eastern portion
of the city, while its western limit extended be-
yond the Pyramids Of Sakoara, and included in
its suburbs those of Abousir and Dashour. The
space explored by NJ Maricttc, is about mile
and half in length and somewhat moro than a
half mile in breadth. He is still continu.
ing his excavations westward, and has almost
reached the first ridge of the Iibyan Hills with
out finding the termination of the ruins. The
magnitude of his discovery will be best known
when his drawings and descriptions are given
to the world From the little ! saw | have
no hesitation in pronouncng it equal in historical
importance, to that Of Petra and Nineyeh
GOODNESS Jake was a little negro who be-
longed 10 DR.. TalIiaferro, and was said to have
in his little frame heart as bio as General
Jackson's--to say nothing Of Napoleon Bona
parte or Jack Taylor. He didn't fear even our
respectable fellow citizen, Old Nick and as for
GOODNESS he was cool as the tip top the North
pole.
One day, DR.. Taliiaferro, upon occasion ofthe
commencement of a Medical College of which
he held the chair Of Anatomy, gave dinner
Among his guests was we'll known ventrIlo-
quist. Late in the evening, after the bottle had
done its work the conversation turned upon cour-
are and the Doctor boosted considerably about
the lion heart of his favorite man, Jake. He Of
iered to bet that nothing could scare him; and
this bet the venriloquist took up, naming the test
he imposed. Jake was sent for and came.
Jake said the Doctor; Il have bet large sum
of money on your head, and you must win it
Do you think you can ?
Berry we'll mnrster,' replied Jake, Jest tell
dis nggar what he's 20 DO, and he'll do ii sarlin
shure.
i want you to 90 to the dsspctinc ROOM
Your find two dead bodies there. Cut off the
head OF one with large knife which you will
find there, and brngit tou You must not take
a light, however; and take care that you don't
get trgJhcncdI
Oats all, is it 2 inquired Jake 'Oh' berry
well iii DO that SHIRE Cor Sartin, and as he bcin
frightened, debbel herself ANITA gwGne 20 frigl I
en- me-
Jake accordingly set off, and reached the dis
sectjng room, groping about until he found the
knife and the bodies. He had Just applied the
former to the neck of one Of the latter, when
from the body he was about to decaptatc, a hol-
low and sepulchrai voice exclaimed,
let MY head alone
yes, sab, replied Jake, Il amt 'ticulor, and
tudde: hcadl 90 st IS we'll
lie according put the knife to the neck ofthe
other corpse, when another voice equally un-
earthly in lis tone shrieked odt.
Let my head alone
Jake was puzzled at first, but answered pre-
sonrIy.
Look yah Master Tollivcr scd must bring
one OF De heads, and you isn't gwine to fool me,
no how and Jake hacked away until he sppa-
rated tho head from the body Thereupon half
a dozen voices screamed out .
Bring i, back = Bring it back =
Jake had reached the door, bDt on hearing this
turned round, and said
'Now--uow, see yah Jes you keep quiet, you
fool, and don't wake up the women folks. Mas
ter's only gwine TO look at the bumps
Bring back my head at once! cried the voice.
as he marched Of with the head and in the next
minute deposited it before the Doctor.
80 you We got il sec, said his master
Yes, sah,' replied the unmoyed Jake, 'but
please be done looking at him soon, kase the
gemplin tod me to bring him back right away
THE BIRTH PLACE OF LIGHT.-Profcssor
Mitchell, ina recent lecture on astronomy ex-
planned the singular propriety Of thequeston as
to the birth place oflght. How is it that the sun
flashes forever, such flood ofiight clothing oil
the planets with glory? He spoke of the i'm
mensisy of the universe, as developed BY the We
locity of light. Attwelye millions of miles in
minute, we may be ten gears in reaching the
nearest fixed star. But we should then see the
same universe, as much as one would see the
same audience here, were he to change places
with the person that sets neZt 10 him. Let US
travel at the speed of light five thousand years,
and arrive at the verge Of our own universe ;
let Us plunge through the abyss which separat
ours from the next universe; and we may 90 on
al this raniI pace, for hundreds Of thousands Of