Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-06

buried in his tomb. On removing the
debris which covered the floor of the
tomb, a large number of flint knives
we're found, and on making excavations
at Gl]gal, the passage of the Jordan. q
number of similar knives were also
discovered. The pillars in the vesti.
bule of the tomb are surrounded bv q
fllet in the style of Egyptian monu-
ments, and this would argue a period
of about the time of Joshua. NJ. Gueriu
also believes he has found the tomb ol
the Maccabees at Medieh, which be
thinks corresponds with the Modin o1
the Book of Maccabees.
Ancient Greek Face.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Scharf, in the
account of Greek art which he prefixed
to the third edition of WORDSWORTH
Greece" remarked that eat-like ar.
rangement of the eyes was one of the
common characteristics OF all the
archaic Greek art, and the astounding
sorcophagus from the Casstellani col.
lection gives new interest to such in
quiries. At first sight it seems a very
startling hypothesis that the Greeks
could ever have been like that strange
couple with their short great toes, and
hollow chests, and retreating foreheads,
with the whole face converging to the
mouth. It is startling to think that
there ever have been such men at all.
and that if they had ever lived they
must have lived little, if any more.
than twenty-five centuries ago. If we
are to assume that the rate at which it
is possible for the prevailing type of
face to change is absolutely fxed, We
shall put the Castellani sarcophagus
oat Of court altogether. We shall say
it is impossible that the artist can have
been representing what he law. Eithe,
he was incompetent or he was not seri.
GUS. But it is certain that the rate il
anything but fixed the contrast be.
tween the first sitter of Reynolds is
decidedly less than the contrast between
the first sitter Of Lawrence and the last
sitter of MILAN and both are dwarfed
by the contrast between the first sitter
| of Lawrence and the last sitter of Rev
nolds; and this again by the contrast
between the sitters of Vandyke and the
sitters of Kneller. And we 60 back a
century from Vandyke to Holbein, we
find still greater difference of type
between the two extremes while the
we'll marked Elizabethan type which
comes between Is sharply distinguished
from both. And this is what we really
ought to expect; the rate of change
among mems habits and institutions is
liable to the most surprising variations,
and these. like their cast of c0unte-
nance, are really the expression of their
thoughts, and feelings, and wishes.
We know that between $50 and $50 B.
G. the Greeks went through the most
complete and thorough mental trana-
formation on record, and We ought not
to be startled by evidence which points
to corresponding physical notifications
of an unusually rapid kind. .-R rttolio.
Difficulties of Stoker's Wife.
A writer in Good Words tells the
following story of the difficulties some
people meet with in en1eavoring: to
lead a "religious life":
A lady had gone to visit young
couple of the better class of the poor.
They had had no children, aud the
husband being stoker on q railway,
they were above the reach of want.
Under these circumstances it seemed
to the visitor that they might have at
tended to their religious duties, at least
to the extent of going to church on
Sundays, and she ventured to intimate
as much to the young woman, who was
standing rather idly at the door. will
you please walk in till 1 show you
something2' was the woman's answer;
and sue conducted her visitor to the
little kitchen, where her husband sat
by the fire. He had just come home
for half an hour to have his tea, and
was watching the kettle with the most
absorbing interest. He was, of course,
in bis working clothes, and his face
and hands were of deep oily black,
after the manner of stokers.
"Now, ma'am," said the woman,
pointing to him, "you see that there
man; that's my husband, and I'm
bound to do part by him, amt II"
Surely" said the visitor, anxious TO
uphold the duties of nlutrimony.
every we'll, then. Would you like to
know how pass my Sundays A wash
ing of he Never blessed moment has
he to wash himself through the week
out carly and late, and half of the
night, too, and blacker nor any crow
ali the while. Well, on Sundays it is
fitting and proper that he should try
to look like Christian, if he can,
so ho sets me to it after ws
cate our breakfast, with q bucket
full of soapsuds and scrub
bling brush, and rubs at him of and
on all day, till my arms ache, and he
amt much better than he wor; and
then after we had our tea he says to
me: Come, Sally, have another try,
there's brave wench, and I goes at
him again, and sluices him down till
you think a born niger nd come out
white and, il you believe me ma'am.
when T polishes him of with dry
towel afore he goes to bed, he's only
light brown after ALL" What was to
be said to such stubborn facts: es.
pecially when the good woman finished
with the unanswerable argument $50
you see, ma'am, them as wants to live
religious has best not marry stoker.'
DURING the deliberation of the jury
on Group Nv. at the Vienna Exhibition,
as one Of the largest condensed milk
companies was about to receive medal
for the products and the invention,
Prof. Hosford of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, interposed asserting that he
was the real discoverer, as he had pro-
duced the article twenty years ago. NJ.
OFT, of Berne, one of the jurymen, who
had been a student under Prof. Hos
ford, confirmed the statement, and
proposed that the medal should be
awarded to Mr.. Hosford. This honor
was, however, declined by that gentle
man, who said that he had decided on
returning without any recompense. His
name is to be mentioned in the report
The ex-Empress Eugene is an
nounced to have written to friend a
letter, in which, speaking of the pro
posed union Of Bonapartists and Rad
icals, she says: "Such an alliance !
consider as disgrace, AMI the duty OF
every Bonapartist is to repudlate II
with contempt"
The heirs of the Trinity church prop
crty have increased by fifty IN two
years, SO that there is no hope of the
case dying out.