Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-10-26

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IN the winter Of 1857, about midnight, .
passenger, with q carpet sackfin one hand
md large shawl in the other entered the
fremont House, Chicago, Walking direct.
|v to the Office, he hailed the clerk who Pre-.
Dded At the desk. It being late At night,
'lmost every one had left this popular ex-
hange ofthe great northwestern metropolis,
ID the clerk had fallen asleep. Awakened
the salutation Of the stranger he jumped
All, Mr.. Harris, glad to zee you; just ~
ID, suppose from Detroit :"
Just in very tired have not had my
hes of for two days; straight from New
rk. Can you give me room ?"
I'm afraid not; we are very full"
You must stretch point, for must have
om."
fter looking over the register some mo-
Is, the clerk said
can put you in the same room JUDGE
las occupied when he was here"
Ahv' replied Harris, "that will suit me.
born Democrat, have lived . Demo.
hn, and would greatly have preferred
! for Douglas. Send me up--f want to
and 60 to Sleep"
waiter was immediately called, who,
& the carpet sack in one hand and 9
in the other, started-Mr. Harris follow.
Tor l42. Arriving there, they entered
and handsomely furnished apartment.
four beds--one in each corner of the
1.-TWO gentlemen in each bed, except ono
there only one. The CAS- chandelier was dim.
ly burning over large square table, on which
stood, in graceful nfglige, six glasses the 70.
mains Of used up punches, two decks Of the
best eagle.backs, a large spittoon at each cor.
ner Of the table, with tobacco quids rising in
them;sugar- r-loaffashion; unmentionables every
where around. Harris looked mournfully
over the scene; the waiter started of. Har.
ris called out: .s
"stop, Mike I'll go down with you 4
mo,nentp'
Arriving at the office, Harris said: a.
See here am perfectly willing to occu.
py the same room Stephen A. Douglas occu.
pied, but I'll be burnt if l want to sleep with
the Shole Democratic party"'
GREAT WALL OF CnrNA.-This stupendous
monument of human art and industry exceeds
everything that We read Of in ancient Or
modern history. The pyramids Of Egypt arc
little when compared with the wall which il
conducted over high mountains, some Of which
rise five thousand two hundred and twenty.
five, feet across the deepest Wales, over wide
rivers by means Of arches, and in many places
it is doubled or treblcd, to command impor.
tant passes at tho distance of almost every
hundred yards is tower or massive bastion.
The extent is computed at fifteen hundred
miles, and Is of such enormous thickness.
that six horscmen can casly ride abreast up.
on it. .. :
Sir George Stanton, who accompanied Lord
Mccartney in his embassy to China, considers
this great barrier to have been erected two
thousand years. Du Haldc also says "this
prodigous work was constructed two hun.
dred and fifteen years before Christ, by tho
orders OF the first emperor Of the family Of
Tain, to protect three provinces from the ir.
| ruptions Of the Tartars" One-third part Of
the able-bodied men Of China were employed
0 construct this wall, and the workmcn
were ordered, under the pain Of death, to
place the materials Of which it is composed,
80 closely that the least entrance might not
be lett ior any instrument of pointed iron.-
lhe labor in its construction must have been
immense, as the materials must often have
been carried over desert country to eminen.
ces inaccessible to horses or carriages. This
wonder OF the world was completed in the
short space Of five years, and it is reported
that the labOrers stood so close for many
miles that they could hand the materials from
one to another.
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