Richland beacon., 1882-06-24
Wonders Of Pisa.

hc iONtT Vi ISii, writes uu hu:tT-
ican cOrresl 3ndent travelling in Italy,
is made of solid white marble, as, is
almost everything else of Importance
iA Pisa f'r Pisa, Florence and other
neighbors Of Carara early availed
themselves Of this spotless building
material, and constructed their pub
lie temples Of it, while Augustus end
Tiberius were still confined to the
wretched, coarse pumice-stone and
travertine which underlie the Cam-
pagne. When the slaves of the Nes-
pasian were building the great coli.
scum of this red scoria and tricking
it out with zone of rubble and rude
conglomerate, and rearing the temple
of Mercury of the same primitive ma
terial and giving it cOInice of Stucco,
composed of brown mortar of puz-
zoula, or volcanic sand, the Pisans
were already mining the lovely mar
bles of Carara and throwing them
into countless forms of beauty.
The Bap'istry of Pisa is a notable
marble dome with vast tank of REQ
porphyrv in the center, whicl was
once bath of luxurious pagans. The
echoes of the Bap,istry are quite mar
velous-far the most remarkable that
we have ever heard. The ligbtest
word uttered upon the floor is caught
up and repeated in musical reverbera.
ton till every sentence becomes q
song. This melodious result was not
forecast by the arc6tects Dko in the
middle ages reared this thing Of beau.
ty; and they were as much atonished
as anybody at the acoustic effects of
groins and vaults and angles whose
possibilities they had not understood.
Naturally in these old times, they at-
tributed it to supernatural visitation,
and it was for two centuries believ, d
throughout Northern Italy that this
graceful bauble was the special earth.
ly headquarters of the angels.
An angel must be very fastidious,
indeed, who would find fault with such
a home The building has never been
used but once or twice during these
six hundred years. -.
When. no led nnfsned with the eli
m ate. s5il and productions Of Idaho,
One - lie group asked.
"How about the education eacul;
ties 2" g A
"rhat,s .he sly - - IscE re.
Piled the old . mournfnl
sigh" We'v~.got schools enough but
we can't keepho teachers"
whats he trouble ?"
"Well, Jake my school for instance
only .wo miles from the nearest
(',luuse eminently situated on top of a
hill, and paying the highest salary.
We can't keep a teacher over two
weeks"
"Do they die ?"
"Some do, though its no place for
diving. We had young fellow from
Ohio, and met a grizzly and whistled
for him. The grizzly cum. We had
anoi her and widder run him dow:
and married him inside month The
third one was lame, and .ne Injuns
overlook him. Then we tried women
folks. The first one got married the
fret night she lit down there f; took
the second about the middle of the third
week, and the next oae was abducted
by a stage robber."
"Why don't you get the ugliest.
homeliest woman you can fnd-some
perfect terror, like that lantered jawed,
razor faced female at the ticket win.
dow?"
"Why don't we! Stranger, you
Eastern folks will never understand
US pioneers in the world-never
That's my wife, the identical schoo
teacher l married, and she was The
handsomest one in the drove "-De
trOH Free Press.