Richland beacon., 1877-03-24

Of It. Helena, Cal, story of won
derfu. dog in Pope valley. The owner
kep: sheep, and the dog herded them.
Finally the sheep were sold TO a Ber-
ryessa man Gan adjacent valley some ten
miles away. The owner and the dog
delivered the sheep and returned home.
Soon after the man missed his dog and
searched for him in vain. He was
valuable dog, and his loss was mourned
for couple of days, when, behold, up
he came from Berryessa with the whole
band of sheep, which he had brought
safely home again.
ENGLAND expects every policeman to
DO his duty. A fortnight ago stalwa-t
defender of the public peace marched into
the Marylebone police court leading a
child four years old, who was charged
with stealing a rasher of bacon from
shop. The child complacently sucked an
orange and winked at his mother while
the efficient officer described the shop
lifting. The magistrate refused to send
the little one to Jail, but advised the
mother to give him a good scolding.
What Jealous public officer this British
policeman would nave bsen in Herod's
day.
BLoNDIN's stay in Santiago, Chill. has
been an uninterrupted success. The
papers vie with each other in relating in.
stances of his proves, and one assures
us that in st. Petersburg on one occasion
he went through his performance on a
rope covered with ice. 1t may not he
out of place to mention a still more
remarkable exploit Of Blondin's at
Vienna. Not only was the rope covered
with ice, but the performer traversed it
on two stills twelve feet long, the ends
Of which had been sharpened and thrust
into soda water bottles; and not only
this, but he actually danced the " Liver
pool hornpipe," thus accoutred, carrying
his secretary on his shoulders, and letting
off his fireworks at the same time.
In California, horses and horned cattle
are having their comparative intelligence
discussed in the newspapers, the subject
being given nOtoriety by observations
made on the suaerings of stock on the
Laramie plains during the deep SHOWS
this winter. Cattle were reported to be
dying by thousands from starvation and
exposure, and the sheep were not much
better off. On the contrary, the horses
were regarded as likely to get through
the winter in safety. The reason of this
is said to be that the horses have sense
enough to paw away the snow with their
feet, and thus get down to the "bunch
grass" beneath, which is sufficiently
grown to give them feed. The cattle and
sheep, however. stand in the snow and
make no effort to help themselves.
1T is remarkable fact that nothing
surpasses in modern engineering, the
pyramids of Ghizeh, built some five
thousand years ago. 1t is universally |
acknowledged by the highest professional |
authorities in this line that the masonry |
could not be surpassed in these days;
and, moreover, the design is perfect for
the purpose for which they were in
tended, above all to endure. The build
ing of pyramids continued for some ten
centuries, and from sixty to seventy still I
remain; many contain enormous blocks
of granite from thirty to forty feet long,
weighing more than three hundred tons
and display the most consummate in.
genuity in their construction. A more
difficult operation than the mere trans.
port of weight-that of raising obelisks
weighing more than four hundred tons
was performed with precision by the
Egyptians, but their method of lifting
them remains unknown. The use of
large stones in Notifications was known
to the Peruvians; and in India, too,
from their repugnancc to the use of the
arch, builders have commonly used large
blocks both in bridges and buildings.
But the Romans surpassed in mechanics
the Egyptians who set up obelisks, since
they transported them from Egypt, and
aiterward erected them at Rome, where
more are now to be found than remains
in Egypt. Immense stone were used in
the temple of Baalbec; one lies ready
quarried which lis seventy feet long and
fourteen feet snuare and wa;Ohs nm |