Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-18

extent that, without any heed of
the effect my sudden departure
might have upon the Guicowar, |
at once withdrew. One of the
wrestlers, whom the bang had only
half intoxicated, after receiving the
first few blows made show of
wishing to escape; his antagonist
threw him, and they rolled together
on the ground before us. The vic
tor, seeing the unhappy wretch de-
mand quarter, turned to the king
to know whether he should let the
other rise; but, inAamed with the
spectacle, the monarch cried out,
"Maro marc (strikel strike ~
and the scalp of the unfortunate
fellow was torn without mercy.
When he was taken away he had
lost all consciousness, That same
day, the king distributed among
the various victorious wrestlers
necklaces and money to the amount
of more than four thousand pounds.
ROuSselet's "India and It's Princes"
A German View of Niagara Falls.
Mr.. George +. Hine, of Syracuse,
who is completing his studies in
Leipsic, met with a somewhat sim
gular description of America S great
waterfall, and communicates it to
friends at home. Mr.. Hine writes:
81 was in a book store the other
evening, and l picked up an Eng
lish Reader, which is used very ex-
tensively in the schools here for the
study Of English; and l was SO
much amused over the following
description that l copied it and
thought l would send it to you.
The Reader has passed through its
eighth stereotyped edition:
THE CATARACT OF NIAGARA.
This amazing fall of water is
made by the river st. Laurence in
its passage from lake Erie into the
lake Ontario. The river at St.
Laurence is one of the largest rivers
in the world; and yet the whole of
its waters is discharged into this
place, by a fall Of one hundred and
fifty feet perpendicular. 1t is not
easy to bring the Imagination to
correspond to the greatness of the
scene. A river, extremely deep and
rapid, and serves to drain the wa
ters almost of all North America
into the Atlantic ocean, is here
poured precipitately down a ledge
Of rocks, that rises, like a wall,
across the whole bed of its stream.
The river a little above, is near
three-quarters of a mile broad; and
the rocks where it grows narrower,
are four hundred yards over. Their
direction is not straight across, but
following inside like a horseshoe /;
SO that the cataract, which bends
to the shape of the obstacle, round
ing inwards, presents a kind of
theater, the most tremendous in
nature. Just in the middle of this
circular wall of waters. a little
island, that has brayed the fury of
the current, presents one of it's
points, and divides the stream at
top in two parts; but they unite
again before they reach the bottom.
The noise of the fall is heard at
the distance of several leagues; and
the fury of the waters at the ter
mination of their fall is inconceiv-
able. The dashing produces mist
that rises to the very clouds, and
which forms most beautiful rain
bow, when the sun shines. 1t will
be readily supposed that such a
cataract entirely destroys the navi-
cation of the stream; and yet some
Indians in their canoes, as it is said,
have ventured down it with safety.
Reservoirs for the Mississippi.
Exchanged
In order to do away with the
enormously destructive freshets
which occur every spring along the
course of the Mississippi it is pro-
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