Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-27

priSeu We uiu HoI see SlnSie tail cut
off. Probably there is no soup more de-
licious than that of Kangaroo, when
properly made, and It seemed lamenta-
BILE that the tails and hindquarters
should be wasted and not boiled down
the purpose and put into tins for ex-
port or home consumption. We were
astonished to see that the animals were
not even skinned, when we have seen
milar pelts realize It's dozen in the
Melbourne markets. The number of
animals destroyed at the three battues
was close upon 1000. Two kangaroos
are computed to eat as much as three
sheep; hence the necessity of their
wholesale destruction. 5,,e.. II
The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake.
The temple block is forty rods square,
and contains ten acres. The center of
the Temple is one hundred and fifty
six feet and half west of the east line
of the block. The entire length of the
building is one hundred and eighty-six
feet and a half, including towers, and
the width ninety-nine feet. On the east
of the front end there are three towers,
and corresponding to these are three
towers on the west or rear end. The
north and south walls are eight feet
! thick, clear of pedestal. They stand
upon foot wall sixteen feet wide at the
: bottom, which slopes three feet on each
side to the height of seven and half
: feet. The footings of the towers rise to
the same height as those of the sides,
and consist of solid piece of masonry
5 of rough ashlers laid in good mortar.
The basement of the main building is
divided into many apartments by walls
; resting on board footings. z 20 ~
: The line Of the basement and floor is
six inches above the top of the footings.
Of the towers named there are fonr, one
at each corner of the building, cylindri-
cal in, shape, seventeen feet in diam
eter inside, within which stairs ascend
Z five feet wide, with landings at the va
rious sections Of the building, The
i. whole house covers an 1rea Of 21,S50
square feet Freeman O. Hngell is the
& architect. The massive blocks of stone
of which the foundations of the temple
!, are built are granite, hauled, we believe,
a distance of nearly twenty miles, the
teams and the labor being furnished by
the Saints. 1t was at one time the pur-
pose of Brigham Young to turn neigh
boring river over to the, quarry and
thence build canal on which to trans
port the stone. .9idw .H"Ieo=T 2aiR9i
Quite as interesting as the temple is
the Mormon, Tabernacle, which is built
for the use of the immense Mormon con-
3 gregations which meet every Sunday to
+ hear preaching from the Prophet Brig
ham Young and his associated apostles.
It isin many. respects the most remark
able building on the Continent of
America. 1t stands on the Temple
/. Block. west Of the Temple. We may
state that it is oval in shape the in
terror being, above and below, and all
round, shaped like the inside of an egg.
1t is 2S2 feet long by 1872 wide in the
! clear. The height from floor to ceilir g
is 65 feet; running lengthwise of this
egg-shaped affair are forty-four pill
lars, averaging fourteen feet in
height, three feet thick, and
nine feet deep. Resting upon these pill
lars are arches of lattice work and rib,
and each rib requires 24,0OOieet oflum-
ber. Each rib has a rise in the center
of ffty-fve feet The entire Taberna-
Gle. consumed one and half millions
feet of lumber in the building, It will
seat ten thousand people. The stand
from which the apostles deliver them
selves is advanced about sixty-fve feet
from the westend, standing say, about in
one of the foci of the elliptical struc-
ture. This stand is divided into sec.
tions for the bishops, the President, the
twelve Apostles and the First President
81 One remarkable structure inside OF
this immense building is the grand or.
gan, standing upon a base twenty three
feet wide by thirty deep. The front Of
this organ is octagonal in form, rising to
the height of forty-fve feet. 1t con-
tains 2,20O pipes, two banks of keys
and thirty five stops on the register. 1t
contains $500 feet of lumber, which
was brought on wagons from Iron coun,
ty. distance of three hundred miles.
The longest piece of lumber used in the
pipes of the organ is thirty-fve feet in
length. The lumber of which this organ
is built has been three years in season.
ing. 1t requires four men to blow the
bellows. The builder of it is Joseph
Ridges, and every portion of it was
made by Salt Lake workmen and Nor.
mons. 1t is undoubtedly one of the
largest organs in America, surpassed
perhaps, by that in Boston only.-St
Louis Republican.