Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-05-04

where the jewellers, knowing
them to be sapphires, gave him their
full value.
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE
WORLD.
This new Wonder of the World,
which is now being loaded on the
French transport Isere for shipment
to this country, is the largest statue
in the world. Some idea of it's mag
nitude may be obtained from the fact
that forty persons found standing
room within the head. A six-f foot
man standing on the level of the lips
only just reached the eyebrow. While
workmen were employed on the crown
of her head they seemed to be MAX
ing huge sugar caldron, and they
jumped with ease in and out of the
tip of her nose. Fifteen people
might sit round the flame of the torch,
which elevation can be reached by a
spiral staircase within the outstretch-
| ed arm.
The London Daily NeaUs, in speak
of it, says: SIT is out and away the
largest statue of modern times. The
Colossus of Rhodes was nothing to
it. 1t could carry the 'Bravaria' or
the Herman in it's arms. 1t towers
to the skies from the yard of the Rue
de Chazelles, where it has been eight
years in construction, and the view
from its coronet sweeps clear of the
six-story houses and beyond the walls
of Paris"
The weight of this stupendous stat
ue is 440, 900 pounds, of which 176,-
900 pounds are copper and the re-
mainder wrought-iron. 1t is expect
ed to arrive in New York about the
25th of May, where it will be erected
on Bedloe's Island, this being the To-
cation selected for it by Gen. w. I.
Sherman, who was appointed by the
President to make the selection.
When placed in position it will loom
up 305 feet above tide water, the
height of the statue being 151.12 feet,
that of the pedestal 81 feet, and
foundation 52.10 feet.
This imposing statue, higher than
the enormous towers of the great
Brooklyn Bridge or the steeple of
Trinity Church, which is the loftiest
in the city of New York,-higher, in
fact, than any of the colossal statues
of antiquity, by its rare artistic pro-
portions, as we'll as by its stupendous
dimensions, will add another to the
Wonders of the World. A word
should be SAID of it's artistic merit.
The pose, stride, and gesture, with
its classic face, are pronounced per-
feet; the drapery is both massive and
fine, and in some parts is as delicate
and silky in effect as if wrought with
a fine chisel on the smallest scale.
The conception and execution of
this great work are due to the great
French sculptor, M. Bartholdi, who
has devoted eight years of his life
and most of his fortune to this great
work, and whose generous impulses,
which must be on scale commens-
urate with this noble work, prompted
him to make such gift to the United
States. The committee in charge of
the construction of the base and pc
destal for the reception of this great
work are in want of funds for it's
completion, and have prepared a
miniature statuette, an exact counter
part of the original, six inches in
height, the figure being made of
bronze, the pedestal of nickel silver,
which they are now delivering to
subscribers throughout the United |
States for the small sum of 81 each. |
Aside from it's being lasting souv-
enir of this colossal statue, it will Or
nament our homes and bear testimony |
that we have contributed to the COM
pletion of one of the grandest works
of modern times. All remittances
should be addressed to Richard But
ler, Secretary American Committee
of the Statue of Liberty, No. 33
Mercer Street, New York. The COM
mittee are also prepared to furnish
model, in same metals, twelve inches
in height, at SIS each, delivered.
We feel assured our people will be
only too eager TO testify their CRATE
full sense of the friendliness of this
magnanimous offer on the part of the
French people, and to reciprocate the
kindly and liberal sentiments in which
it originated, by thus aiding in an ac-
tive prosecution of the labors that
may be required to give the statue an
appropriate base and pedestal. Now
is the time to do it. Whoever wishes
to have the honor and pleasure of
contributing to the erection of the
grandest statue of any age, to say
nothing of the sentiment that should
be welcomed and encouraged, must
act promptly, for the money will be
raised as sure as the sun rises. Ev-
cry subscriber sending 81 will be sup
piled with a miniature counterpart of
this great and imperishable statue
of 'LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE
WORLD"
That feeling of extreme debility is entirely
come by Hoods Sarsaparila. "I was tired all over
but Hoods Sarsaparilla gave life and
Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. 81 bottle,
six bottles for $5.