Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-05-05

wound with the hide, to lay on a plaster
of mud.
Of the 10000 shopmen in Paris, not
more than hundred earn 81 900 q year,
| though they work from twelve to seven
! teen hours day.
| There is truth in the remark, that
| ''there is no such thingas originality"
I in literature. The best of it is a reflec-
/ ton of actual life, and the emotions, pas
siOns, and experiences incident to it, lust
/ as the perfection of art is the nearest ap-
| prOach to nature. As Dickens took his
! characters from the police courts, Thack-
| cray from his friends, Hawthorne from
/ the people he met, Poe from his dreams
| or Authorizations. Eugene Sue from the
| Paris cellars, Victor Hugo from French
| history, Dumas fills from the dCRli-nlOH-
| dc, and Dumas pCrC from all the world,
| so the dramatiSts make plays of ''what
/ is going On.n
| The glittering opal, which beauty wears
| as an ornament, is only flint and wa
| ter.
| The air we breathe contains five grains
| of water to each cubic foot of its bulk
COarsely ground gentian root, chew
ed instead of Tobacco, the cheWer swaI-
| lowing the saliva, will destroy all desire
for "plug7 or fine cut"
Chicago got her first oysters, price 81,
per dozen, in January, 1886.
The spider sometimes gets very hun
gry. One was confined several months
under a glass, and then another spider
was put under it. The hungry spider
ate the legs of her neighbOr, then her
head, and lastly her body, and became
as fat as ever. The spider kills for food,
like the honest human hunter.
The husbandmen of the United States
rejoice in the ownership of 100000
horses, $1,000, 600 net cattle, 25.OOO,OOO
sheep, 100000 swine, and 100000
mules. At a low estimate we may reck-
on them worth S60O,0O0,O0O.
All the gold that exists in the United
States to day, says an exchange, could
be placed in a square box Of less than
fifteen t15) feet in length, width and
depth. A room 100 feet long, 100 feet
wide, and ten (1O) feet high, would hold !
eight (S) times the total amount of gold
in the known world.
In pegging boots by steam, twenty
cases, or 240 pairs of boots, are a usual |
days work. One man in HOpkintOn, |
Mass, has pegged eighty-three cases, 1 |
$50 boots, in two days,
Nearly everything that grows has a !
medicinal value.
There was recently a discovery made |
in Prussia of an immense deposit of ma !
tive sulphate of potash found at the |
depth of 500 feet in sinking a shaft to ex- !
plOre for rock salt-the bed is 100 feet |
deep and appears to be almost inexhaus- |
tible. The mining is conducted on a |
large scale. Three years ago 125, 600 tons |
were disposed otto the various factories, |
and is now found in the market in de- /
r,fr -
cent of pure potash salts.
Some of the Australian banks have be- |
come shippers and importers of wool, |
thus competing, it would appear, with |
merchants both in the colonies and in |
London.
JOseph's Well, so named after the Ca |
liph YOOsef, is an ancient Egyptian work |
the date of its construction being un- !
known. 1t was probably constructed for |
the purpose of supplying water to the |
troops; the same use to which it is now
put. 1t is $50 feet deep, and twenty feet |
square, and for the most of the way is |
cut in the solid rock. The water is Tais- !
ed from it by oxen; a winding passage |
leads to the.bOttOm of it; we descended a |
portion Of the way, and looking through |
a window like opening in the rOck-cUrb- /
ing could see the water at the bottom, |
by the light let in at the top. From one f.
part of the citadel is q magnificent !
view of Cairo, with the green and fertile
valley of the Nile, stretching away to
the north and south; its six pyramids
standing like watch towers on its bOr-
der; while beyond all, the red sand hills
of the Libyan desert seem to hold the
horizon in their warm embrace and
make a union of the earth and sky.
Set against the Tower of London
ait 70, ,F L
900 years of traditional fame-alI other
palaces and prisons appear like things of
an hour. The oldest bit of palace in Eu-
rope, that Ofthe west front of the Burg,
in Vienna, is one of the time of Henry
III. The KTemlin in Moscow, the
DOge's PalaZzO in Venice, are of the 18th
century. The SeTagliO in StambOuI was
built by MOhammed II. The oldest part
of the Vatican was commenced by BOr-
gia, whose name it bears. The old Lou
Vre was commenced in the reign Hen
ry VIII: the TUileries in that of Eliza
beth. In the time of the Civil War Yer
sailles was yet q swamp. Sans SOuci
and the EscUrial belong to the 18th CEN
tUTy. The Serial of JeruTalem is a Turk
ish edifice. The Palaces of Athens, of
Cairo, of Sehan are all of modern date.
Neither the prisons which remain in
fact as well as in history and drama
with one exception of st. Angelo in
ROme-cOmpare against the Tower; The
Bastile isgOne; the BargellO has become
a museum; the PiOmbi are removed
from the DOge's roof. Vincennes, Spill
berg, MagdebuTg, are all modern in COM
paTisOn with q gaOl from which Ralph
ElambaTd escaped so long ago as the
year 100, the date of the first Crusade. |