The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-17


among her rivers ~ And all that is left of her lies
here. Well, the muttudes are gone, and the city
lies desoate-most desofate; but the forms of the
landscapes immovable the everlasting hills. The
multitudes gone but that circng barrier Of rock
mountain which up in the west s their prison.
house; Thebes is still populous with dead. Looking
narrowly, vague and dim, ruins shape themselves on
the plain They temples and solitary palm
shakes fceby among their pillars in the gentle hush
Of dying day.
The temple Of Amnon, at Karnac, unlike the Pyra-
mid, was not the work OF one Pharaoh or one age
successive monarchs made it great. All that art,
wealth, and supreme will could lavish were during
1000 years, allotted to it. One king added chapel,
another portico, another pylon, dromos Of
phnsixes, pllarcd hall. In its boyhood, before the
days of Joseph, it was probably an unpretentious
shrine when Ptolemy, 100 years B. c. put the last
touch to it it was very great
A iUMAN TIMEpIEcE.-A wonderful story is told Of
named J. ID. Chevalley, native of Switzerland,
who had III 1885, at the age Of sixty-sx arrived at an
astonishing degree of perfection in reckoning time BY
internal movement. He was, in fact, a human
timcpiece or living clock. In lis youth he was ac
custoned to pay great attention to the ringing of bells
and vibrations of pendulums, and by degrees he ac-
CURED the power Of counting succession Of intervals
exactly equal to those which the vibrations Of sound
produded. Being board steamboat on Lake Ge-
ncva July IA, 1882, he engaged to indicate to the
crowd around the lapse Of quarter Of hour or as
many minutes and seconds any choose name, and
this during most diversified conversation with those
standing by; and further, Indicate BY his voice the
moment when the hand passed over the quarter, min
utes or any other subdivision previously stipulated
during the whole course Of the experiment This he
did without mistake, Notwithstanding the exertions Of
those ABOUT him to distract his attention. and capped
his hands at the conclusion of the fixed time His
own account of his gift follows: II have ac-
quired by imitation, labor and patience movement
which neither thought labor anything can
stop IL is similar to that of pendulum, which at
each moment Of going and returning gives the
space of three seconds that twenty Of them made
minute, and these add to others continually"
A truly remarkable set Of chess is for sale in Lon
don of which the advertisement gives this account:
1.-THE board, most deliberately nlad in old Forentine
steel and brass on Maorca ebon wood is Of unusual
dimensions and the black and white ivory pieces,
scarcely any two alike and Of corresponding size
and beauty The chessmen Of great antiquity, as
would be selfevident, if only from the popularity of
the pieces there being none, for instance, answering
to nm usual figure Of Il Bishop The set was made as
souvenir the victor of Lepanto, Don John Of Aus
tria son of Charles v, when commanding in the low
countries of whose metal work Of the period the
is fine specimen and Of the ivory carving the quaint
pieces not less so. 1t presented Cardinal
Alberoni, and he dying exed and disgraced in Rome,
7ss1 aged 49, the chess board becawe the property
Of the last of the Stnarts, Cardinal Yak, brother of
the pretender, Charles Edward, whose widow, Count
ess Of Stolberg afterwards married to the poet Alf
eri, acquired the chessboard At her DEATH in Flor
ence, her third husband the French painter Favre,
whose fine portrait Of Alfcr sold with Lady Nor
CANS collection in London few years back, be-
queathed the chess board and men descendant of
the famous Duke of Berwick by whose representation
the articles are compnlsorily offered for sale
EMANCIPATION IN BRAzIL.-The scheme for liberat-
Ing tile slaves in Brazil does not include anything like