The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-08-26

enormous sizes were fixed round the galleries re-
fiecting everything on the sea. common
tower is now erected in its place. 9th. The
Walls Of Babylon, built by order of Semiramis
or Nebuchadnezzar, and finished in one year
by 100000 men. They were Of immense thick
ness. 9TH The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus
completed in the reign of Seryius, 9th king of
Rome. 1t was $50 feet long, 200 broad, apd
supported by % marble pillars, 20 feet high
The beams and doors were of cedar, the rest
of the timber cypress 1t was destroyed by fire,
b. c. 365.
HOME. Il know of no passage in classical
literature more beautiful or affecting than that
where Xenophon in his Anabasis, describes
the effect produced on the remnant of the ten
thousand Greeks when after passing through
dangers without number, they at length as
cended sacred mountain, and from its peak
and summit caught sight of the sea Dashing
their bucklers with hymn of joy they rushed
tumultuously forward Some wept with the
fullness of their delirious pleasure others
laughed, and more fell on their knees and
blessed that broad ocean Across its blue wa
ters little floating sea- birds, the memorials of
weary souls. All the perils they had encoun-
tered, all the companions they had lost all the
miseres they had endured, were in an instant
forgotten, and nought was with them but the
gentle phantoms of past and future joys. One
was again securing on his feet steed across the
hoof-trodden plains of Thessaly; another re-
clined beneath the hower-crowned rocks OF
Arcadia, and gazed into the dreamy eyes of
Iau g. hoftla nd bivauaa WIG
ever with him; third recalled that proud day
VIXEN, before the streaming eyes OF his over
joyed parents, and amid the reclamation Of all
Greece, he bore off from amid competitors the
laurel wreath of the Olympian victor.
Oh, home! magical spell, all-powerful home
how strong must have been thy influence, when
thy faintest memory could cause these bronzed
heroes of thousand fights to weep like tear
full women! With the cooling freshness of a
desert fountain, with the sweet fragrance of a
flower found in winter, you came across the
great waters to those wandering men, and be-
meath the peaceful shadow of your wings their
souls found rest l-Seiected.
HEALTH.-Do not be tempted to over-exer-
ton. 1t is not by a few surprising efforts that
the steam engine penetrates the solid rock, or
lifts enormous weights, but by quiet, unceasing
application; and 80 niue: tha farmer allow him.
self time-the more labor to be accomplished,
the greater the necessity for system and eau
ton. sudden effort and haste often disables
hand for whole season. Drink sparingly
of cold water when heated-drink slowly, a
swallow at time taking the glass away from
the lips at each swallow. Retire early and rise
early. Man alone perverts nature in transpo-
IL. 49, c.. u IL. 4
beasts retire and rise early.
Night is the time for rest
How sweet when labors close,
To gather round the aching breast
The curtain of repose,
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Upon ones own delightful bed
AN ENCOUNTER WITH A BoA.-Mr. Mason,
in his recently published work Pictures in
Mexico" relates the following circumstances
which occurred to him while lettering along
shady path in the forest 81 stepped aside for
a moment to admire rich tuft of purple flow
ers my mule having plodded on about eight or
ten yards ahead, when, as | turned from the
flowers towards the path, sensation as Of
flash of lightning struck my sight and saw
brilliant and powerful snake winding its coils
round the head and body of the poor mule. 1t
was a large and magnificent boa, of black
and yellow color, and it had entwined the poor
beast so firmly in its folds, that ere he had
time to utter more than one feeble cry, he was
crushed and dead. The perspiration broke
out on my forehead as thought of my narrow
escape; and only remaining moment to view
the movements of the monster as he began to
uncoil himself rushed through the brushwood,
and did not consider myself safe until | was
entirely free of the forest"