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The Colossus Of Rhodes.

The New York Obssrper says that the
colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening
the World, which will be reared within
a few months upon Bedloe's Island in
the bay of New York, is sure to be COM
pared with the Colossus of Rhodes
oftener than any other work of the kind.
ancient or modern. The most authentic
accounts make the Colossus of Rhodes
to have been seventy cu5its or above
105 feet in height, while the figure of
NJ. Bartholdi's Liberty will be los feet
high, without reckoning the coronct, or
| 1877 feet nine inches from the sole of the
foot to the tip of the torch in the out
stretched hand, the grand total height
of pedestal and statue being about 22O
feet. Thus the Colossus of New York
will be considerably larger than WIGS the
Colossus of Rhodes.
This Colossus of Rhodes, n of the
seven wonders of the world, was the
work of Chares the Lindian, q pupil of
the famous Lysippus. There is still ex.
tant, however, a Greek epigram of two
lines, which attributes the work to
Laches, also an inhabitant of Indus.
The best authorities agree nevertheless
that Chares was the architect of the Col
ossus, and that it was erected in the third
century B. G.
A mechanician of the following cen
fury, Philo Byzantius, wrote a treatise
on the seven wonders of the world, one
chapter of which was devoted to the
Colossus. He says that the figure was
Joined together inside by irons and
squared stones, the connecting bolts
showing Cyclopean blows of the ham
mer; that after the base of white mar
BILE had been laid down the great statue
was cast and built up in successive Sec
tons until it became "a second son be-
fore the world" 1t took all of twelve
years (B. C. 292-2SO) to complete this
great work, and the amount of money
expended upon it was three hundred tai
| ents, or over three hundred thousand
dollars.
About ifty-six years after its erection
the Colossus was shaken down by an
earthquake. and it was at tho same time
broken off at the knees.
The Rhodian taste in sculpture inclined
to the colossal, for Pliny relates further
that Rhodes had more than q hundred
other colossal statues, and though they
were smaller than the great one, any one
| of them would have ennobled the place.
A few modern authorities suppose the
Colossus to have been really restored for
a time, but they can show no good foun-
dation for such o belief. It is more
probable that the great Colossus lay in
ruins for nearly nine hundred years. Then
the Saraccns obtained possession of
Rhodes, and their general, Moawiyah,
sold in A. D. 872 the bronze fragments
of the PROSTATE statue TO a Jewish mer.
chant, who packed them upon nine
hundred camels and carried them away.
From the number of camels necessary to
remove the bronze, Scaliger calculated
its weight at 700, 900 pounds.
The popular idea Of the Colossus OF
Rhodes has long been that it stood with
legs astride across the entrance Of the
harbor, holding q light aloft as a pharos,
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Snearinr. SWOrd.FiSh,

The fish arc always harpooned from the
end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel.
All vessels regularly engaged in this
fishery are supplied with an apparatus
for the support of the %harpooner, which
consists Of q wooden platform about two
feet square, upon which the h%arpooncr
stands, and an upright bar of iron three
feet high, rising from the tip of the bow
spirit Just in front of this platform. At
the top of this bar is a bow of iron in a
nearly circular form, to surround the
waist of the h%arpooncr. This structure
is called the ''rest" or the "pulpit." A
man is always stationed at the masthead,
whence, with the keen eye which prac-
tice has given him. he can easily dcscry
the t~cll-tale dorsal fins at a distance Of
two or three miles. When a fish has
been sighted, the watch ''sings out, and
the vessel is stecred directly toward it.
The skipper takes his place in the pull
pit, holding the harpoon with both
hands by the upper end, and directing
the MAI at the wheel by voice and ges.
turc how to steer. When the fish is
lIOlll Din W tCl lCCI III lloulO VI tiiC NSoSS't
it struck. The harpoon is not thrown;
the strong arm of the %harpooner punches
the dart into the back of the fish beside
the dorsal fin, and the pole is Withdrawn.
The line is from fifty to one hundred and
fifty fathoms long, and the end is either
made fast on board the smack, or attached
to a kcg or some other form of buoy and
thrown overheard. After the fish has
exhausted himself by dragging the buoy
through the water, it is picked up, the
fish is hauled alongside, and killed with
a lance. In the meantime, several other
fish may have been struck and left to tire
themselves out in the same way.-Fopu-
lar Science -M0nthly.
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IN TIME TO CONE.
The flowers are dead that made a summel

The flowers are dead that made a summel
splendor
By wayside hooks and on the sunny hill,
And with regret these hearts of ours grow
tender,
As sometimes all hearts will.
We loved the blossoms, for they helped tx
brighten
The lives so dark with wearying toll and
care,
As hopes and dreams forever help to Tighten
The heavy loads We bear.
How like the flowers, whose transient life is
ended,
The hopes and dreams are, that for one
brief hour,
Make the glad heart a garden bright and
splendid
About loves latticed bower.
One little hour of almost perfect pleasure,
A foretasts of the happiness to come,
Then sudden frost-the garden yields its
treasure,
And stands in sorrow, dumb.
Oh, listen, heart! The flower may lose its
glory
Beneath the touch of frost, but does moi
die,
In spring it will repeat the old, sweet story
OF Gods dear by and bye.
In heaven, if never here, the hopes we cher
ish-
The flowers of human lives we count as
lost,
Will live again. Such beauty cannot perish
And heaven has no frost.
-Ebcn E. Rerford.
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rur FORTUNATE ISLES.

You sail and you seek for the Fortunate
Isles,
The old Greek Isles of the yellow-birds
song?
Then steer straight on through the watery
miles,
Straight on, straight on, and you can't &c
wrong.
Nay Lot to the left, nay not to the right,
But on, straight on, and the Isles are in sight.
The Fortunate Isles where the yellow-birds
sing
And life lies girt with a golden ring.
These Fortunate Isles they are not so far,
They lie within reach of the lowliest door,
You can see them CLEAN by the twilight star
You can hear them sing by the moon:
white shore
Nay, never look back! Those leyeled grave
stones
They were landing steps; they were step:
unto thrones
OF glory for souls that have sailed before,
And have set white feet on the fortunate
shore.
And what are the names of the Fortunate
Isles9
Why, Duty and Love and a large content
Lo! these are the Isles of the watery miles,
That God let down from the armament.
Lo, Duty and Love, and a true mans trust
Your forehead to God and your feet in the
dust;
10, Duty md Love, and sweet babes smiles
And these, oh, friend, are the Fortunate Isles
Joaquin Miller, IN Chicago Current.
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How the False Prophet Works Mira

The "Mahdi," is q very able, cunning
man in all he does. lie has had a build
ing erected into which he retircs to pray,
and where he sometimes receives and
speaks to his followers. Here he tells
his dcvotees he convcrses with the Gel
Hadra," or ''IIoly Presence" from whom
he receives instruction, direction, and
advice on all matters. The crcdulous
Arabs squat around outside this building
in hundreds all day long, and when the
Mahdi appears beg to be shown the
s'Prcsence," that they may die happy.
"Oh, Prophet" they cry, "show us the
FL Madra." With grave face Mahom-
med Achmcd turns to some n and an
swers, "Wallah! that is a very serious
and difficult task you seek to impose on
me-" He is invariably polite, and always
calls every one "Ya! Sidi" (sir). If in
a complaisant mood the Mahdi prctends
to yield to their requests; he invites
them into his sanctuary, which is bare Of
furniture save a few carpets, skins and
mats, a brass bowl and brass tray. lie
then bids them search the apartment to
see if there is any one or anything beyond
what meets their eyes concealed therein.
Their answer usually is, "What need to
search, oh. Prophet? There is nothing
here" "Then leave me a little, whilst
I pray" replies the Mahdi, land perhaps
the Spirit may grant your request"
Mcligy said, when the ''Prophct" vas
left alone, he thc MahdI waited a lit
tie, then, lifting the brass tray, which
had coIce-cups standing Oh it. he poured
a vessel of water into the bowl, replac
ing the tray on the top, but not so rs to
be resting on the bowl, for the tray was
held an inch or two above the bowl either
by big pieces of loaf sugar or calcincl
lime.
The water at once begin to act upon
whichever of these substances he en-
ployed, but before it had time to disin-
tegrate them the people were rcadmitted
into the apartment, where oil appeared
as they had seen it a minute before. They
were soon alarmed and terrified by seeing
the tray move, and hearing the cups and
dishes rattle. Sometimes q little smoke
or steam accompanied these demonstra-
tions but on every occasion on which the
ignorant Arabs and negroes witnessed
them they shouted at is the Presence"
and, falling down with their foreheads
pressed to the ground, remained in pious
prayer until the Mahdi babe them leave
him. Another plan he has for enlisting
adherents is to covertly prepare a pit or
hole in the ground, in which he sets
matches and gunpowder. Haranguing
the wholly savage tribes who flock to
hear and see him, he tells them they have
nothing to fear from Turk or infdel. If
necessary, fire even could be sent to con-
sumo all their enemies. so that they would
not not need to lift their hands against
them. Then, to show his power, the
Mahdi drives his spear into the ground,
selecting the spot prepared, and fire and
smoke follow the blow. He tells them
the fire will be confined, so as not to then
and there burn them. Afterward his
confederates come to his aid and remove
the traces of the prepared stage effect
London Telegraph.
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The Coca Leaf.

The Youths Companion says: Some
time ago we gave our readers q brief
sketch of the wonderful power of coca
leaves, when chewed like tobacco, to or
rest the waste of the system and to keep
up its nervous tone and vigor. DR..
Smith, in his "Peru as it is" says:
when used in moderate quantities it
increases nervous energy, cnlivens the
spirits and enables the Indians to bear
cold, wet. great bodily cxertion and
want of food to q surprising degree with
apparent case and impunity."
In 1850 two men buried in q mine
eleven days were kept alive by the small
amount of coca they had with them.
The natives of Peru make a three days
journey over the mountains with no
other support, and reach their destina-
ton without exhaustion.
The recent discovery that the most
difficult surgical operations can be per
formed on the eye without causing
pain, by simply dropping in it a little
solution of the active principle OF the
coca, has given it new interest, and we
add the following, gathered from the
New York Melict Record:
"Thc leaves resemble those of the tea
plant, and in fact, the active principles
the alkaloids, as they ore tcrmed-are
essentially the same. The trees grows
wild in the mountains Of Peru and Boil
iyia, and is also cultivated in high lati-
tudes. In 1864 the annual product was
valued at two and onc-half millions of
dollars. The leaves are worth in Peru
sevcnty-lve cents a pound. They have
been used by natives from a remote an
tiouity. The high esteem in which they
were held is seen from the fact that they
were among the offerings to their gods,
and it was believed that the latter would
not be propitious unless the priests
chewcd the leaves during the ceremonies.
1t is estimated that thirty million pounds
are now annually consumed by eight
millions of people, each using two or
three ounces day. 1t is about twenty
five years since the discovery of active
principle thc alkaloid) and of the pro-
perties Of the latter. Its present name,
cocaine pronounced cocoaine), was then
given it. 1t c~rvstalizes in four to SIN
sided prisms. 1t unitcs with acids TO
form various salts. The salt now used to
deadcn sensibility is the muriate of CO.
.caine. Like all the alkaloids, it is q
poison in largedoses, the symptoms being
cerebral excitement, complete paralysis
of sensibility, tetanic (fxed) spasm, and
death. 1t is thought that theme the
alkaloid of tca) may have the same anms-
thetic properties, and be substituted for
it. Caffeine-the alkaloid of cofTee-is
also radically the same"
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It is now believed, says the Current,
that the foundations of the land do not
cover the sea floor further than 800 miles
seward. These deposits are four miles
deep in places. Far at sea its surface is
covered with very small ''!shell animals. "
There is a patch of them in the North
Atlantic 1900 miles long and several
hundred miles wide. Their shells finally
sink to the bottom and form chalk. In
the great abysses of the ocean, however,
these shells dissolve before they reach
the bottom. Here the only addition to
the sea floor is made of wrecks, iceburg
washings, dust carried by the wind,
pumice from volcanoes, and meteoric
stones. The pumice has foated till il
became waterlogged. Tie color of the
deep sea floor is red. The accretion Is
infinitely slow.
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and Chat shius could pass at full sail be

and that ships could pass at full sail be
tween its legs. This idea has been proved
false. The main harbor of Rhodes has
too wide an entrance to admit Of such q
posture, but q narrow passage leading
into the inner harbor has been suggested
by several travellers q the site Of the
striding statue. The Colossus doubtless
stood near the harbor, but not over it in
the remarkable position so generally &C.
cepted, for no ancient author mentions
this position.
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REV. JAS. ERWIN, Methodist minister,
West Eaton, N. Y. was long and ser1-
ously i'll with inflammation OF the prostate
gland Ia very obstinate dlsorder). In
1881 he began the use Of Warmers SAFE
Cure and June 25th, 1884, wrote, I'M
relief obtained two years agols permanent.
JNO. L. CLARK, NJ. D., Waterloo, n. w.
in 1881 was Frustrated with Brlghts disease,
crick on the back, rheumatism and maia-
ria. From the latter he had suffered Tor
fifteen years without help. In July, 1854
lie says Warmers SAFE Cure cured me
in 1881, and I am now sound and we'll"
S. F. HESS, Rochester, N. Y, tobacco
manufacturer, three years ago took twenty
five bottles of Warmers SAFE Cure for
liver disorder and August goth, 1854, he
reported Il consider myself fully cured
wholly through Warmers SAFE Cure
MRS. C. F. BOSHEN, 81, 9Th street, Troy,
N. Y, in 1881 was taken with rheumatism
and malaria. Her digestive power was de-
stroyed and eventually extreme kidney dis
order overlook her. Her bowels were par
TALLY paralyzcd her heart throbbed VIC
lentiy and commissions were frequent. She
used six dozen bottles of Warmers SAFE
Cure and SAFE Pills and Oct. 27th, 1854,
wrote 1--WE gladly bear testimony to the
worth II Of Warmers SAFE Remedies" |
N. B. SMILEY, Esq, Of Bradford, Pa,
in 1882, was very seriously sick of extreme
kidney disorder and rheumatism, which
gradually grew worse. Physicians being
unable to assist him, his last resort was
Warmers SAFE Cure, and June 25th, 1854,
he wrote, my health is better than for
-.ct ooj - corpo recDertc &c bet.
ter than it has been for five years. The
relief 1 believe is permanent"
A. WAY, Navarino, N. Y, in 1879, was af-
fictcd with neuralgia, ringing sensation in
his ears, hacking cough, pain in the back,
irregular urination, dropsy, nausea, and
spasms Of acute pain in the back. Then
amt chills and fever. The doctors gave
him up, but after using ~ bottles of War
ner's SAFE Cure, he said, II am hale,
hearty and happy" On June goth, 1854.
owe my existence to Warmers SAFE Cure"
ROBERT GRAHAM, II Penn Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, suffered for six years
from inflammation Of the bladder and stric-
turc. Six physicians, specialists, gave him
tip to die. In 1883 he began Warnersf
SAFE Cure and its continued use, he says,
effected a complete cure. June rs, 1854
he says, MY health continues good have
used no medicine since April, 1888"
FIFTH. 1t is no small
know that very many thol
their life and heal tn to
Rochester, N.Y., n
Jan. ], 1885. 10
.'."H"r"i.' VOTE: The above Il, wo b
EL... .ss ~. l. Led In public print. and II 10 CO
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Well then, why don't you do something to
bring back the roses to her checks and the
light to her eyes? Don't you see she Is suffer
ing from nervous debility, the result of fe-
male weaknessl A bottle Of DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" will brighten those
pale checks and send new life tn ,?,ugh that
wasting form. If you love her, take
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Important.

Important.
When you visit nr leave NV York city. save baggage,
e1pressaRe and So carrirgc hire, and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Centrtl depot.
uNelcGan rooms. lifted M at d rnst Of ono million
dollars. 81 and upward lfrdsy., European plan. EIo-
yator. RestautnDt supplied with the II at. Horse ctrs.
.tages and rlr,s:ri railroad Ia all dephts. Families
caE 1.-Two better frr less III ,a"y mt the Grand Union
hptcl. than At any other nrst.class hotel IN the CITY
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Lesbia's Poem.

In Puck's "Answcrs for the Anxious,
a correspondent-"Lesbia "-who sends
q poem is disposed of as follows: Yes,
dear, it is a very pretty poem: but, bless
your young heart, we have the receipt
for making that kind of thing by the
gross 1t is much more easy than the
well known acrobatic feat of rolling of
a log. 1t is frequently very difficult to
roll off q log-to roll it off another mans
wood-pilc without attracting the atten-
ton of the dog, for instance. But any:
body can write that kind of poem. All
you have to do is to give IN accurate
machine.made description of naturc-say
like this:
Now the snow is softly falling
On the meadows bleak and bare,
And the snowbirds sad are calling
To each other through the air
You can go on with that kind of thing
and chase the heeting Muse as long as
the soles of your balmoral hold out
thus. as it were:
Now tho tumtum tumpty tiddies
And the tiddy tumtum toes
While the itty UNI that iddies
Tums with tumtum all the trees.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

NJ. Combe d'Alma, member of the
agricultural society of La Gironde, has
succeeded in producing illuminating
gas by the distillation of the sea pine.
Crocodiles are the only reptiles whose
n~ostrils point in the throat behind the
palate, instead of directlyint the mouth
cavity. This enables the crocodile to
drown its victim without drowning itself.
for by keeping its snout above the water
it can breathe while its mouth is wide
open.
Paper from the yucca, a hairy plant
found in Arizona, New Mexico and
Lower California, is becoming popular
in Great Britain. 1t is readily bleached,
and has a fibre almost as strong as hemp.
It can be manufactured at about the
same cost as paper made from mixed
cotton and linen rags.
NJ. Charcot describes a hysterical pa.
tient who slept uninterrupted for fifty
four days. The noise of a gong beating
violently ct her bedside was unperceived,
yet she was able to eat and drink, and all
the functions connected with nutrition
were performed without difficulty. The
awakening was spontaneous, and found
the patient in good health. She did not
know that she had been unconscious fol-
nearly eight weeks.
Experiments indicate that the effect
of l light upon plant tissues without
chlorophyll, such as roots, rhizomc,
blanched plants, and some parasitic
plants, is to decrease the intensity Of the
respiration, more carbonic acid being
given off and oxygen absorbed in dark.
ness than in light. The amount Of
oxygen absorbed is, however, in the same
proportion to the carbonic acid given of
in light as in darkness.
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A voLuME has lately been published on
"What to Wear" Now for the sequel, en-
titled " How to Procure It."
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In 1888 there were Owe tifiy.onc mil
lion tons of coal mined in Pennsylvania,
which was worth 500, 107, 2l3, which
was an excess in value of the gold and
silver product of the whole country Of
$27, 907, 245.
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NfOthcrs.

If you are failing; broken, worn out and ner.
vous, use Wells Health Remover" 81. DrGts.
PHILADELPHIA. hrs 10 pending divorce
cases. Chicago has Ga.
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FAC-SIMILE 0R TYPE WRITER LETTER.
70 THE PUBLIC, GREETING

Boards Of Heal tn are now everywhere cor
rect1ng the faul ts Of sewerage and advising
the people how to prevent future eptdemt cs.
But other precautions are necessary, with
out viii ch no amount Of SAM tation can avail.
Dr.. Koch says that chol era has but little
chance among those who keep the digestive
organs and the liver, skin and kidneys (the
sewers Of the BODY in heal thful operation.
Warmers SAFE Remedies. are the best scion
t1ftc curat1ves and Prevent4ves, and we cannot
too much emphas1 ze the Importance Of using them
now, as a safeguard against any future scourse
Q Much of the common ailments are caused, not
primarily by bad blood, but by IMPAIRED LIVER
AND KIDNEYS. ; This result ts in blood corruption
and injury to the entire system. Remove this
impaired action, and most ordinary ailments Will
disappear. Other practitioners have held that
extreme liver and kidney disorders are incur
able. We, however, by the severest tests, have
unanswer ably proved the contrary. Please note:
FIRST. WE DO NOT CURE EVERY KNOWN DISEASE
FROM ONE BOTTLE. { Warmers Safe Remedies are
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SECOND. Manners Safe Remed1e s, spite Of
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verywhere recoeni zed as leading STANDARDS.
THIRD. AT ter six years Of unequalled exper-
fence, We give these unqualified guarantees:
GUARANTEE I.--That Warmers Safe Remed1e s'
are pure, harml ess, effective.
GUARANTEE II.--That the Testtmon1a ls used
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wi tn a forfeit of $4,000 for proof to
the contrary.
GUARANTEE III.--That Warmers Safe Remedies
are NOT MERELY TEMPORARY, BUT PERMANENT,
IN THEIR CURATIVE EFFECTS AND WILL SUS-
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FOURTH. Especial inquiry among hundreds Of
our oil dest patients result ts in unequ1vocal
testimony that the cures wrought six, five,
four and three years ago, were PERMANENT. And
mos of these Patients were pronounced INCuRA-
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Alcohol can be produced from tho nat
ural gas of Western Pennsylvania. AL
cohol, when misappiicd, is productive OF
natural, oratorical as.-HartforI Post.
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If you have catarrb, use The surest remedy
DIR Snne'S