The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-23
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
W. c. AND L. ASSOCIATION COLUMN.
Edited In The interest of the CaIro Public Library
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS,

| pEoiuiE ELIOT Is sald 10 nave Decn DoTn
in a large brick house, IN the midst Of a
pleasant garden, that stands on the high.
way leading to Coventry, and near Bos-
worth and the ruins Of Ashley Castle, where
Lady Jane Grey once lived. Her brother
lives there now, having succeeded to his
fathers place as baihff to Lord Howe and
Sir Roger Newdegate. Her parents were
members Of the church Of England, and
many people can remember their weary
looking child in the high backed pew Of
Cotton church, who began to think for her
self at the age of twelve. Mrs. Louise
Reid Estes, Of Boston Highlands, publishes
paragraph throwing some doubt on Kate
Fields opinion that there is but one like.
ness OF the great woman, saying that she
knows her publishers have one, and that
Mr.. Lewes had shown her another hanging
over the mantcl in the library at St. Johns
Wood.
EUsrAyE DoRE is working every night,
and sometimes nearly all night, on his illus
trations Of Shakespere's plays Some of
his drawings are said tn be extraordinarily
powerful. We think that his Coriolanus
is the poets masterpiece,
THE most ancient monument Of German
learning is the translation of the Bible into
Gothic. This work was accomplished in
the fourth century by Reiilas bishop Of
the Visgoths, who wrote Greek and Latin
as we'll Us Gothic, and preached in all three
languages, 1t is supposed that he trans
lated the whole Scriptures with the ex-
ception Of the Books of Samuel and Kings,
winch he suppressed, fearing TO nourish the
already too warlike spirit Of his people,
OF this ancient Gothic version, much of the
New Testament has been discovered, but
the Old Testament only fragments Of the
Books Of Nehemiah and Ezra. This Bible
translation is interesting as being the most
ancient specimen Of the German language,
and especially as being the only remaining
specimen Of the pure Gothic tongue Of that
period
NOW THE PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT.
The Pyramids are tombs of the early
kings, Perfectly adjusted to the cardinal
points Of the horizon, they differ IN breadth
and height, as is shown by the measure
mcnt Of the three oldest, as follows l.,
The Pyramid of Khufa-height, 44O7j feet;
breadth, TAG feet. ?. Pyramid Of Khafra
height, 447,j feet; breadth, G9O7j feet,
s. Pyramid Of Mcnkara-height, ?03 feet;
breadth, 3j27s feet, The construction of
these enormous masses has long been an
iasoIuble mystery, but later generations
have succeeded in solving the problem.
As soon as the king mounted the throne,
he gave orders to nobleman, the master
Of all the buildings of his land, to plan a
tomb and cut the stone The kernel of
the future edfice was raised on the lime
stone soil Of the desert, in the form of q
small pyramid built in steps, of winch the
well constructed and finished interior form.
ed the king, eternal dwelling, with his stone
sarcophagus lying On the rocky floor 4
second covering was added, stone by stone,
on the outside Of the kernel a third to this
second, and to this even o fourth; and the
mass Of the giant building grew greater
the longer the king enjoyed existence.
And then, at last, when 1t became almost
impossible to extend the area of the
pyramid further, casing of hard stone,
polished like glass, and fitted accurately
into the angles Of the steps, covered
the vast mass of the sepucher, presenting
a gigantic triangle on each of its four
faces.
More than seventy such pyramids once
rose on the margin Of the desert, each tell
| ing OF kings of whom 1t was at once the
| tomb and monument Had not the greater
number Of these scpulchers Of the Pharaohs
been destroyed almost to the foundation,
and had the names of the builders of these
which still stand been accurately preserved,
it would have been easy tor the inquirer to
prove and make clear by calculation what
was originally, and of necessity, the pro-
portion between the masses Of the pyramids
and the years of the reigns OF their respec-
tive builders Antiquarian.