Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-10


cnry. The excavation is recent and partial. but
enough ia brought to light to place this
among the most imposing ruins IN France
The size and form OF many chambers arc re-
stored; long galleries are unearthed, portions
Of some subterranean way; huge flights Of
steps front the sun, constructed Of massive
cubes OF hard stone fiYeor six feet il diameter,
the outer edge worn OF by the attrition OF
ages; remains OF reservoirs and aquedncts re-
appear, built without mortar, but the stones 80
stones came from and how they were got into
place--these are are among the hard nuts for
scientific men to crack. Iss=J 4. s 81. 3 .1
- 4 COLOSSAL STATUE. szH
IS Hero, upon this magnificent base, at once
temple and pedestal, stood, 2, 900 years ago.
OF commerce, seventy feet high, and second
only iii it's dimensions to the Colossus Of
Rhodes Many of the works Of anti guilty al
Jude to this statue, and Pliny the Elder wrote
of it: ..I ~..- .
The statue OF Mercury, executed by Zenodorus,
ina city in the Auvernss in Gaul, under the presi
dencv Of Vibius Avitus, surpasses, in the grandeur
gifts dimensions, all gigantic statues made in our
dav.
Piny was buried beneath the great eruption
OF Vesuvius--if my memory serves me correct
1y-about 70 Of onr era; and as the statue
seems to have been widely known then, it was
probably made considerably earlier, probably
under the Roman republic, before Julius Cse ar
y. L
added that the statue was 80 excellent that Nero
wanted it removed to Rome az a statue of him
self, but finally compromised by fetching the
artist apparently Greek) to Rome and having
another great statue made there. For centuries
1t WAS Yorshiped During all the holy days
assembled here. with great effort climbed
up to Z the mountain summit, and
there participated in the rites of q
fantastic religion When Christianity came
war between the advocates of the two
religions broke out fercely. They fought
desperately, and those dark centuries come
down to US in an unbroken chronicle Of per-
secution, blood and misery. At last the church
was triumphant, and it celebrated the victory
by destroying every relic OF the old religion 1t
could lay hand on. The statue of Mercury
was torn from its height and melted up; only
museum Of Clermont, where they
may now be seen. These were
found only recently. It was not
known thai the static of Zenodorus was located
on the Puy Dc Dome, but terrific blast Of
Lightning struck the peak few years ago, tore
of some overlying vegetation, ana brought to
light the runs OF the temple | have spoken
OF, with her great blocks bearing inscriptions
TO Mercury and locatiug the bronze colossus.
The Puy de Dome is also celebrated as the
place where Pascal "a native OF this ylilage)
discovered tho laws Of atmospheric pressure.
The view from the Dome is most Inspiring.
North and south along the spurs Of the Ceven-
nes, stretches phalanx Of twenty extinct vol
canoes, whose concave craters, now filled with
grass and flowers, are distinctly visible East
tation and starred with white villages. Be-
tween the occasional woods the whole
landscape is divided into checkers OF deep
green and light green and reddish brown; 8
lake of golden lnpn here and there, and on its
shores q loug, fry splash OF peoples, as if tho
H,.nrl ,nN Ma IF
verniion brusu across the grass. And all the
scene, visited in detail is full Of pretty brooks
and mineral eprings and ,mbling cascades
and lovely COO! grotto4s in the overLanging
crystal AID basalt. l know no peasaut"r place
in tue world to spend the early months Of
summer.
Cernont (ol which ROZat is a suburb) &C.
CURED da'establo fame by being the start
ing point Of the first crusaders. I visited tine
cathedral this morning and stood on tho plat
form where, in lO9S, Pope Urban IL stood
and haranged lis great assembly OF cardinals
and bishops AID proclaimed the first crusade
for the recovery Of Jerusalem. And just out
side is rock by the side OF the high wall
where Potter the Hermit waved his cross and
shouted his frantlu appeals to go on that wild
and foolish expetItion. From here, too, GEN.
fury later, "hcn billions Of dollars had been
spent and million. of lives laid down on that
quixotlo erranA, 1000 OF 5000 unpro-
tected children started to go to Jeru-
salem and ';rsscua the holy sepulchre"
from tbs Mobamnedans, all by themselves. 1t
guide them, feed and clothe them, arm them,
and give them victory over "the infdels;' but
they suffered fearfuny we're beses by starva-
ton. and hundreds were sold as slaves on the
African coast. Few ever returned. There is,
naturally enough, good deal OF miracle
working ali about here. There is the statue of a
black Virgin down st the cathedral t!,at works
miracles any day when il feels We'll, without
regard to race, color or .. C. Of :. Il is visited
by great crowds Of the faithful every week
Over in an adjoining VILLAGE is Oh image Of the
Virgin that was Whitfield out by the
Prophet Jereutiah in his leisure moments,
that can work sny kind Of Il miracle with neat
ness and dispatch.
TIE SPRINGS OF ROZ IT.
Still, there is dreadful amount Of incre-
dulity poisoning tue minds of even the French
peasants, ard when people are afflicted with
real bodily infir mites they skip the Virgin and
g, for mineral spring. The mineral springs
Rozat hsve been famous for 5000 years.
These waters are good for all throat diseases,
incipient mption skin diseases and rheu-
matlsm; but their specially is govt If the
dear reader has govt Let him come to Rozat
Rozat is death ON govt. Enough govt has
been left hare during the last century
to make cripples Of the Whole army OF Peter
the Hermit, If it had been absorbed uniformly.
All the peasants Of the Auyergne are noticeably
strong and agile in their legs. This is prob
ably one Of the chief reasons why it occurred
to them to walk to Jerusalem before any body
else thought Of such o Tremendous picnic. The
bathing establishment in the center Of q large
garden, is one of the finest in the world. con-
tanning lao baths, a large swimming bath, a
gymnasium, two bath rooms Of carbonic acid,
and equipments for inhalation, aspiration, pull
verization and garglug In this park is a
magnificent jet of water, the Eugenie spring,
which boils ont Of the earth at a temperature
n Ia. - -
the sprudel at Carlsbad. It produces
316, 200 gallons in twenty four hours.
running stream is turned from this
hot geyser directly through each bath room.
There are three smaller springs in the park,
one Of them cold, fenced Off like those of Sara
and somewhat resembling the Congress spring
there. These waters are arsenical, alkaline,
chalybeate and chlorinated, and are somewhat
acidulus and efferyescent. They are used for
both baths and drinking purposes.
A little ways from my hotel is a ''Grotte du
that near Naples, which is always so full Of
carbonic acid gas that a dog falls down dead
on entering It, and visitors must lift up their
small children to keep them above the poison
Gus exhalation. There is also a spring Of
water called the 'petrifying spring, " that APP
covering thickly with lime anything subject to
it's influence. These '"petrified'' men, women.
cats, dogs, horses. etc, are grouped around
the yard, quite cemeterical In their aspect
TEE AMERICANS HERE :,
Some hundreds of Americans have been here
during the last year Miss Minnie Hauk has
just left, after toning up her lsrynx and cpl
CLOTHS with sundry 1iihatons of this healing
water. Some score are here now, including
John G. Moore, president of the Mutual Union,
and family; Edward Luck, q retired banker,
and family; Miss Brewer and the families
Cola, Ney, Lynn, Kelly and Parkman, mostly
from New York, The natives here
speak OF America and New York interchange
ably as synonymogs; aud I am not certain
whether they consider New York the capital of
america, or America the capital of New York.
Boston and Chicago they have never heard OF.
Everybody here takes bath, either for health
or for fun every morning before coffee and
rolls and hour sftar starting cla laf1x