Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14

NAMED for mind hundred years. : At
length Jewish merchant bought the.
brass and loaded nine hundred cathels
with IL ac.es ,<s--7 4s,ss.-s--u.,s =
-ssThe value of the brasswas estimated
at $3.50, COO At the present time the
harbor of Rhodes Is nearly spoiled, and
the island has many times suffered
from earthquakes. 1865 xFe -
|. "Do you know. my SON. what the
word mausoleum came fromfns -. -
II don't know that do,.", replied
Irwin.
We'll, Mausolus was king Of Cafia. !
and, after his death. his widow, Aftcmi-
sia, erected o magnificent tomb 10 his
memory. Indeed, it was SO wonderful
and surpassed all other structures so
much in its appearance and grandeur,
that the name Mausoleum came to be,
the generic term for costly. tomb. 1t
remained standing for . number of
centuries, and then was destroyed by
an earthquake. In 1404 the Knights of
Rhodes built a castle from fragments Of
the mausoleum, and as late as 1856 Mr..
Newton, under the auspices Of the En-
glish Government, found the site OF
the ancient tomb, aud the fundamental
outlines OF the building. According To
tradition, Artemisia mingled the ashes
of Mauselus with her wine, and died OF
grief" %" sl 5aa ,sssi Is
There is but one more wonder,
grandpa, TO tell me about, and know
that must be the Pyramids, for our
teacher said they were the rl1ost mar
Vicious of the Seven Wonders and
you have not spoken of them yet. ~
Yes. you are right The Pyramids
required the labor of thousands of men
for many years. It Is supposed that
they were the sepulchres OF the Kings.
They are in several groups, some dis :
tance from each other, on the banks of
the Nile. There nre about forty OF
them. many being small and in ruined
condition. The great Pyramid of
Gizeh, or Jeezeh, is four hundred and
fifty feet high, and covers an nFee of
thirteen acres. Some of the huge stones /,
weigh sixteen hundred tons each. and
We're dragged hundreds of miles from
the quarry. 1t is estimated that it
would take two Thousand men, three
years to bring one of these stones to the
Pyramid, and it must have required
much mechanical knowledge and great
power to lift such enormous stones to-
their places in the Pyramid.
"Thesc stones rise stepciike above
each other, and are rather hard to.
climb, but with the assistance of two or
three Arabs many travellers clim5 to the
top of the Gizeh Pyramid. A few days
ago heard a minister say that, as he
stood on its topmost stone with hts
companions, they sung the old DoXolol
gy, Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow,' and he never felt 50 much
like singing it in spirit and truth as
when standing there" afa ,.'os'
II wish / could see some of the won
ders of the world said Irwin.
my son, do not think because YOU
have not travelled far from homo that
you have never seen anything wonder
full. The seven wonders of the world
were the work of mems hands; but you
can not look out upon this beautiful
] world, or up to the sun, moon and stars.
without seeing works which are far
grander than anything which man has
ever made" sf
II have always seen these things,
grandpa, and they do not seem SO very
wonderful" - - -
True, but could you and look out
tonight tor the first time st the full
moon, which is shining so brightly. and
at the many stars that sparkle in the
clear sky, we could but fall down in
alteration of the Maker of them,s and
say with the Psalmist: When ! consid-
er Thy heavens, the work of Thy fin
gers, the moon and the stars, which
Thou hast ordained: what is man that
Thou art mindful of himp and the son
of man that Thou visiteth him?' ~.
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