The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
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Jerusalem, no matter how few there
may be in Chicago. There are four or
or five converts, besides several hotels,
in the city which solicit patronage. One
of these converts is accredited With
having comfortable lodging room Tor
1000 travellers, and with being able to
house s 5000 people on a pinch.
OF all substances which man forms,
saws the Boston Advertiser, terra Gotta
is best fitted to be the emblem OF the
imperishable. It neither melts, burns,
decays, nor crumbles. Fire and water
alike pass it by, while air and its &C
tive gases effect it but slightly.
DIR IS. F Davenport, of Southern Cali
fornia Cat Santa Barbara), afirms that
he knows of no climate anywhere which,
the year round, equals it in sunshine,
warmth, equable temperature, little
wind, no cold winds, slight rainfall and
little dampness. 1t is especially adapt
ed to consumption in some of its forms,
chronic bronchitis in its dry form, and
all neuralgia affections. No climate
seems better fitted for the broken-down
man of business, or the nervous invalid,
to whom the slightest household care is
a burden.
The Rome of to-day is built upon the
Rome of the Middle Ages; that Rome
was built upon the Rome which Angus
tus found brick and left MARBLE" that,
in turn, upon the Rome of the Repub-
lie and of the kings. So, there are
three cities, ond upon another, which
60 to make up the Rome of Leo XIII.
and Umbroto Links of a chain unit
ing the Rome of 1853 b. G. to the Rome
of A. d. 1884. Very little of the earli-
est city can ever be recovered; a bit of
what may have been part of the wall OF
Ronlus, the Mamertine prison, the
great sewer, and, perhaps, some por-
tons of the original Forum, are about
all now recognizable, and the list is not
likely to be much heightened.
Since the installation of the metro
politan drainage for Icndnn in 1859,
says the British Medical Journal, the
level of the water in the soil has been
lowered thirty feet. tits seldom, at the
present time, an engineering difficulty
to get rid of the water III making ex-
cavatlons, and the easements at houses,
and ey EN- the foundations, in the low
er parts of London are now generally
surrounded by a comparatively dry
sofia condition of things the very
reverse of what was previously the
case, and wholly in favor Of the pub
lie health.
It is estimated that $500 people were
damaged physically on the glorious
fourth" If all the eyes, ears, fragments
of skin, nails, fingers, and even lives
that have been sacrificed during the
past century in celebrating our national
independence had been in condition to
serve under the immortal George, the
whole revolution might have been set
tied at Bunker Hill.
One of the oldest buildings in all
Germany is the house in the village of
Happenheim, on the Bergstrass, once
the f~ayorite hunting castle of Charlie
magne, later alternately used as a con
yenticle by the knights Temnlar and
by monks as well as nuns, in more
modern days as q town hall. tits now
a cigar factory. An idea of the age of
the little town (by the Romans called
Hephium) may be found from the we'll
authenticated tradition that Charlie
magne was the builder Of the Basilica
Of st. Peter, in commemoration of the
fact that there existed within its walls
a Christian community in the days of
the great apostle.
Gath: A friend said to me at Long
Branch that there were $4,000 locomo-
tives in the Union, and that they were
worth not less than $40, 600 apiece, and
more nearly $15, 900, and that we had
facilities here for turning out twenty
new locomotives a day, and that the To-
connective factories in general were run
ming strong even now If the above
figures be correct, the locomotives in
the United States have cost not far from
$500, GOO, 900.