Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30
NUMBER 80.
A DARING FEAT.

| Remarkable for its spire, the loftiest of st.
Petersburg, is the church of St. Peter and St.
Paul. An anecdote connected with this church
and not known, believe, out of Russia, is worth
telling. The spire, which rises
:" Lofty and light and small'
And is propaby represented in an engraving as
fading away almost into a point in the sky, is in
reality terminated by globe of considerable
dimensions, on which angel stands support
ing large cross. This angel was out of repair,
and some suspicious were entertained that he de-
signed visiting, uninvoked, the surface of the
earth. The affair caused some uneasiness, and
the Government at length became greatly per-
picked. To raise scafolding to such hight
would cost large sum of money, and in medi-
tating fruitlessy on this circumstance, without
knowing how to act, some time suffered to
elapse.
Among the crowd of gazers below who daily
turned their eyes and thoughts toward the angel
was mujik called Telouchkne. This man was
a roofer of houses Ga slater, as he would be
called in countries where states are used) and
his specuatious by degrees assumed a more
practical character than the idle wonders aud
conjectures of the rest of the crowd. The spire
was entirely covered with sheets of gilded cop
per, and presented to the eye a surface smooth
as if it had been mass of FURNISHED gold.
But Telouchkine knew that the sheets of copper
were not even uniformly closed upon each other,
and, above all, that there were large nails used
to asten them, which projected from the sides
of the spre Having thought of these circum-
stances till his mind was made up, Telouchkine
went to the Government and offered to repair
the angel without scaffolding, and without as
sistance, on condition of being reasonably paid
for the time expended in the labor. The offer
was accepted.
The day fixed for the adventure arrives. Te-
louchkine, provided with nothing more than a
coil of ropes ascends the spire in the interior TO
the last window Here he looks down the
concourse of the people below and up at the gilt
teriug "needle,' as it is called, tapering far
above his head But his heart does not fail him,
and, stepping bravely out upon the window, he
sets about his task.
He cuts portion of the cord in the form of
two large strrups with loop at each end.
The upper loop he tastens upon two Of the pro-
jectiag nails above his head and places his feet
in the others Then digging the fingers of one
hand into the intorstces of the sheets of copper,
he raises one of the stirrups with the other hand
so as to make it catch a nail higher up. The
same operation is performed behalf of the
other leg, and so on alternately. And thus he
climbs, step by step and stirrup by stirrup, till
his starting point is undistinguished from the
golden surface and the spire dwndes in his en-
brace till he can clasp it all around.
} So far, so well. But he now reached the ball
IA globe of between nine and ten feet in circum-
! ference. The angel the object of his visit, is
above this ball, aud concealed from his view by
its smooth, round and glittering expanse. Only
fancy the wretch at this moment turning up his
grave eyes, and graver beard, to an obstacle
that seems to defy the daring and intrepidity Of
man
But Telouchkne is not dismayed. He is pre-
pared for the difficulty and the means he used
to surmount it exhibits the same remarkable
simplicity as tae rest of the feat.
Suspendng himself in his sirrups, he girds
the "needle " with a cord, the end of which he
fastens around his waist; and so supported, he
leans gradually back till the soes of his feet
planted against the spire. In this position he
throws, by strong effort, coil of cord over the
ball and so cooly and accurately is the aim
taken, that at the first trial it falls in the re-
qured direction, and he sees the end hang down
on the opposite side.
To draw himself into his original position, to
fasten the cord firmly around the glooe, and
with the assistance of this auxiliary to climb to the
summit, is now an easy part of his task, and in
few minutes more Telouchkiue stands by the
side of the angel, and listens to the shout that
bursts like sudden thunder from the concourse
, below, yet comes to his ear like faint and hol-
!, low murmur.
The cord, which he had opportunity of fas-
tening properly, enabled him to decend with
comparative facility ard the next day he
ried up with him a ladder of ropes, by of
which he found it easy to effect the necessary
pairs.
" LOVE to look upon young man. There is
a hidden potency concealed within his breast
which charms and pains re."
A daughter of clergyman happening to find
the above sentence at the close of piece of her
fathers manuscript as he had left il in the study
sat down and added:
" Thems my sentiments exactly, papa-aH
but the pains
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A CAT licked the face of a young lady in New
York and died in a few minutes thereafter from
the effects of the paint it had gathered on the
rosy cheek. Let all young men take warning by
this sad catastrophe.
THE old time bonnets were so large that
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