Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-01-28

all, into it and yet have room to spare.
Thence I passed on to tue clock you
may form some idea Of its gigantic dimen'
sions from the length Of the minute hand ;
which is nearly 8 feet, moving around
a circumference Of tifty-seveu feet. Flom
the gallery on the outside looked down
on the ocean of smoke which rolled over
devoted London, dense, dismal, unpoetical,
and very disagreeable. A keen wind was
blowing, so after promonading all round
the stone gallery which was perched at so
lofty point on the dome, and striving TO
pierce little farther into the gloom that
surrounded and hemmed me in, once
more sought the interior. UpI aeut, and
still up, over long flights Of dark and we'll
worn steps, and through son,bre passages
where the sense Of feeling was far more
useful than that of sight, until at last |
emerged into light in little rotunda. l
thought I ought by this time to be near the
fifth or sixth heavcns-but no, a sentinel
babe INC 60 upward and still upward.
Now, however, l left the narrow dark
staircascs, and, grasping rope in each
hand, clambercd up several flights Of steps,
or rather ladders, placed almost perpendic-
ularly, and the last two, quite SO. At
length reached an opening whence could
look from sort of iron cage, out on the
wide air and down toward the far distant
Garth. The bars ran up aud down leaving
space enough between to put ones arm,
pcrchance one head through-though pos
sibly with some squeezing. Nobody that
had a head of ordinary Dimensions and filed
with the ordinary amount of brain would
care to try the experiment. thought
that j. was quite enough to grasp the bars
Of my elevated cage and look out on the
scene before and beneath me. But no
up, and still up. saw at first no means
to rise and no place to rise to- But the
sentinel below shouted to me to look for
ladder in the cage, and, sure enough, there
were narrow steps, about wide enough to
get ones foot into, attached to one of the
bars. The bars themselvcs-as large as
my arm-ran up into the ball, at least
part of them did. Up I went, and at last
seated myself in the ball, 400 feet and
more from the ground.
The interior of the ball is large enough
to contain six or eight persons. At this
time was its sole occupant There sat
for while dangling my feet out of the ball
and enjoying my high position. 1 never
expect to rise so high in the church again,
SO I thought it best to make most of my
temporary elevation. But like all who arc
thus favored, l felt something of the soli-
tariness and want of comfort incident to a
high position, and concluded that it would
be wise to descend to the ordinary level of
my fellow mortals. I came down slowly
and once more went without to look down
upon the city.
was far above the the colossal statues
of the Apostles which are placed on the
verge Of the main building. They seemed
to inc like recording angels looking down
with keen and eager scrutiny upon the mo-
wing mass Of human life below them
There were the little pigmies running to
and fro, full of life and Jealous in pursuit
of something, each with his own plans and
aims, and each with his own means for ac-
his object-but, pcrchancc,
not one conscious of these guardians above,
nor anxious about the kind of record they
made. So, thought L, is it with poor hu-
man nature. How busy with the lower
regardless Of the myriads of
spirits above and of that Infinite Spirit
who rules over all-how careless in regard
to the history which they are furnishing
to the busy pen of the recording angel.
But time was passing on. l was COM
PEELED therefore to cut short these mcdita-
lions, and, descending long fight Of
winding stairs to the body of the church,
soon was once more myself, minsling !
With the busy crowd. G.. w. A.
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A WILD CAT CAUGHT BY MOTIVE Pow
Perry Freeman says that on
morning week, the train of
cars from the west, while pas
sing along the foot of the Tuscarora noun
aiu, short distance above Millerstown,
in Perry county, ran over large Wild
Cat, cutting of or breaking three Of it, legs
and preventing its escape. After daylight
tho Messrs. Taylors, who have the supervi-
sion of that section of the road, found and
secured the animal, and brought it down
10 the Millcrstown station. The Cat doubt
less had been drinking out Of the Juniata
river, when scared by the fast coming train,
it attempted to retreat to the mountain,
and vas caught on the railroad track.