The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-09

PERSSADING TIE DOG.
Need add that it was Corbett, tho
trimmer md copal varnishcr of my fell
low author, John l.. Sullivan?
They had come there to SEQ him. Ac-
cording to the report made by very well
known palcolithic expert of France,
there are abundant signs of paleoiithic
men all over that country. The region
is west of the Nile and toward tho
southeast corner of that belt of virgin
real estate known as the Desert of Sa-
hara.
NJ. Chatelicr says that the spoor of
paleolithic man points to the existence
of human beings here in the uuaternarv
period, and even back of that mt n time
when the distribution of land and waters
was far different and when tho Desert of
Sahara was little streak of sand where
the Egyptians camo to get material for
plastering. An old limekiln is still on
the ground, though some claim it is a
royal tomb or sarcophagus bed
Inc scientist says very truly, l think.
and l am borne out in this opinion by
my fellow scientist, Tunk Brady, au-
thor of 'Ten Groggy Goes and Ten Sec
onds of Silence" u book that had n
large salo while Tunk was popular, but
is now out of print, that "tl,o paleolithic
man appears to have been succeeded
without hiatus by neolithic commu-
mites who developed to IA high degree
OF perfection the art Of making stone
implements" AS there are 10 whiskers
found i'll any of the graves it is pre-
sumed by Huxley and that these men
narfaCfp1 10
gree that even the king made all kinds
OF excuses to leave the throne in order
to no shaved twice per day.
nj. Chatelier also says that "the most
striking features of the prekistorical re-
mains are tho megalithic Structures
tho dolmans, the menhirs, the cron-
lechS, the trilithons. stone circles, etc
which are abundant!y scattered over
the soil from Fee, in Morocco, to the
Tripolitan chateau"
Unfortunately l did net know this
until had furnished my house. L
would have been pleased to look over a
few of those myself.
Discovery Of Roman coins in some of
these dolmans shows, he says, that they
may have been contemporary with the
OLD settlers of Beled Ell Mehgreb: also
that coin pocket III tho dolman has
always been regarded as safe place to
keep money from the hand of man.
Similar megalithic remains have been
found IN Palestine and away back in
the early history of the cave bear, the
three toed horse and tho old settlers of
Islip. The Amorites also left megalithic
remains and two or three Cornish Jokes
still bearing the marks of the clumsy
stone implement with which they were
hewn out.
1t must be a great comfort to these
people to know that they have been SIC
cessful in leaving megalithic remains.
Washington awoke one morning to find
himself the father of his country, but he
left no mcgalithic remains Columbus
discovered the country of which Wash
ington in q number of well chosen re-
marks officially became the father. hut
even Chris left no megalthic remains
which would resist the elements and the
overZealous tooth of Time.
What may we learn from this?
One hundred dollars in cash or farm
produce will be given to tho first one
who discovers what we should learn
from this.
wrote to a paper once that was frying
10 boom its circulation by Offering 81 900
To the first one who should write the cor
rect solution Of a rebus published in this
paper and inclose one dollar also for
subscription. The editor sent me Il let
ter in which he said that my solution
was correct, as also We're many others
But unfortunately his wife, being right
handy to the Office, had been the first
one to solve 1t, and as she was very
needy person and very well connected
by marriage he had awarded the prize
t. her.
Another correspondent writes from
scar Prairie, Wis, to ask regarding IL
Question Of law, as follows: Would
yvn :,ind taking the time 10 answer.
publicly ~ privately, as you may
Choose, for the benefit OF yuuug law
student. W. ,her on not the y,tc.. Us. as
II matter OF fac;, rcai estate on personal
property"
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