St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-03-22

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ated by Demetrius among the crafts
men?'
Eyes, grandpa, he was afraid the
people would belief Paul's words, and
then his trade of making silver shrines
would be gone. =
And what did they ery?'
"The mob cried great is Diana of
the Ephesians. -
Eyes, the Temple of Diana was built
at the common charge of all the Asatic
States 1t was four hundred and TWEEN
ty-tive feet long, two hundred and
twenty-five broad, and was supported
by one hundred and twenty-seven col
umns of Parian marble; each col
umn was sixty feet high and each
furnished by q different King. This
temple was burned on the night
of Alexander's nativity, and was
then rebuilt. Diana was believed to
have fallen down from Heaven, and the
public games were connected with her
worship. Especially was the month of
May sacred to her, and large man
ufactory grew up at Ephesus of porta-
BILE shrines of Diana, which were sold to
strangers and carried with them on
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houses"
You have now told me about four
of the wonders grandpa. ''and if you
are not too tired / would like to hear
about the rest of them"
II am only too glad to see Won inter-
ested in your studies, and will now
speak of the Colossus of Rhodes. This
was a gigantic statue of Apollo or the
the sun-god. 1t rested on moles en- each
side of the beautiful harbor of Rhodes,
and vessels passed between its brazen
legs. 1t was over one hundred feet in
height, and there were winding stairs
by which it was assembled. The statue
held in one hand a light for the diree-
ton of mariners, and it was completed
two hundred and eighty years before
Christ. 1t was thrown down, presum-
ably by an earthquake, and never re-
built; but fragments of the statue re-
manned for nine hundred years. At
length a Jewish merchant bought the
brass and loaded nine hundred camels
with it.
s'Ehe value of the brass was estimated
at $4,000 At the present time the
harbor of Rhodes is nearly spoiled. and
the island has many times suffered
from earthquakes
''Do you know, my son, what the
word mausoleum came from?'
II don't know that | do, replied
irwin.
We'll, Mausolus was king of Caria,
and, after his death. his widow, Artemi-
STA, erected a magnificent tomb to 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. Tt
standing for a number of
centuries, and then was destroyed by
an earthquake In 1404 the Knights OF
Rhodes built 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, and the fundamental
outlines of the building. According to
Artemisia mingled the ashes
OF Mausolus with her wine, and died of
grief.
There is but one more wonder,
grandpa, to tell me about, and I know
that must be the Pyramids, for our
teacher said they were the most mar
velous of the Seven Wonders and
you have not spoken of them yet. y
Yes, you are right. The Pyramids
required the labor Of thousands of men
for many years. 1t is supposed that
they were the sepulchres OF the Kings,
They are in several groups, some dis
lance from each other, on the banks of
the Nile. There are about forty of
them, many being small and in ruined
condition. The great Pyramid of
Iizeh, or Jeezeh, is four hundred and
fifty feet high, and covers an area of
thirteen acres. Some of the huge STONES
weigh sixteen hundred tons each, and
were dragged hundreds of miles from
5he 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
heir places in the Pyramid.
"These stones rise step-like above
each other, and are rather hard to
climb, but with the assistance of two or
hree Arabs many travellers climb to the
5op of the Gizeh Pyramid. A few days
Ego heard a minister say that, as he
tood on its topmost stone with his
companions, they sung the old Doxolo-
~, Praise God from whom all blessg
ngs flow, and he never felt so much
ike singing it in spirit and truth as
when standing there
II wish could see some of the won
lers of the world, said Irwin.
my son, do not think because YOU
ave not travelled far from home that.
'ou have never seen anything wonder