The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-12-21

made entirely of wood. The head Of
the figure is large enough to accommo-
date twenty persons in its interior, and
is fitted with an automatic arrange
ment corresponding with the human
brain.
Hachiman holds in his right hand a
wooden sword thirty feet long, and in
his left a golden ball twelve feet in
diameter
A huge, hideous face OF a woman is
fixed on house in Berlin. and is
known as 'The Head of Spite" The
Emperor, William I, had it erected as
warning against rancorous ill will.
The Emperor stopped one day at
blacksmith's to have his horses shoe
refixed. Next door was rival black
smith, and the daughter of this man
of muscle put her tongue out and dis
torted her face, which was never very
pretty, with horrible grin, in order
to show her contempt for the King.
His Majesty took no notice of the in
suit at the time, but the next day he
ordered well-known German sculp-
tor to produce in wood a monstrous
face Of a woman with a tongue lolling
out Of the mouth.
The Emperor superintended the fix
ing of this strange ornament above
the doorway of the blacksmiths shop,
where the ill-bred woman resided, and
there it has remained ever since.
A statue to Rob Roy, nine feet high,
and made Of wood, was erected some
years ago on the projection of a cliff
fifty feet above the River Cutter, near
Aberdeen.
The figure, which is one of the sights
OF Scotland, is painted with the colors
Of the Clan MacGregor.
Brussels most famous statue repre-
sents nude boy standing over a foun-
tain. It was erected by a nobleman
whose lost son was found wandering
near the spot.
Louis XIV decorated the statue with
the Order Of the Holy Ghost, and to-
day it possesses nine costumes, be-
longing to nine different periods. On
fete days the boy is attired in uni
form Of the Civil Guard.
A statue to William Wheelwright,
the famous engineer and shipbuilder,
stands in square at Valparaiso.
This Is one Of the few monuments
erected to Englishmen in foreign ports
Wheelwright began life in a poor way,
but he ended by organizing the Pacific
Steam Navigation Company, which
has ever since been the greatest power
on the whole Pacific Coast Of South
America.
The most expensive memorial that
has ever been erected is undoubtedly
the Tai Mahal, at Agra, in India.
It was built as mausoleum for the
body Of Arjamed Banos Begun, a wife
of the Emperor Shah Jehan, better
known as ''the Exalted of the Palace"
The Begun died in 1929, and the
building, which was started in the
same year, and not completed until
1648, is said to have cost 100000.
The materials are white marble and
red sandstone, and the main feature
Of the memorial is a great dome,
which swells upward to nearly two
thirds of sphere, and tapers at its
extremity into spire crowned by an
enormous crescent
The Begum's memorial is numbered
among the wonders of the world, and
Bayard Taylor writes of it:
1.-THE Tai Mahal at Agra is a poem.
Did you ever build castle in the air !?
Here is one brought down to earth and
fixed for the wonders Of ages; yet so
light 1t seems, so airy, and, when seen
from distance, SO like fabric Of
mist and sunbeams, with its great
dome soaring up, silvery bubble
about to burst in the sun, that even
after you have touched it, and climbed
to its summit. you almost doubt its
reality"
An old anvil coated with enamel,
topped with large horseshoe. and set
in base of solid granite, stands in
Belleville, ILL.,, in memory Of Moehle, a
blacksmith.
At the same anvil Moehle toiled for
the better part of his life, and during
his existence he looked upon this mass
Of metal which had been presented to
him by the old blacksmithato whom he
was apprenticed at Pilot Knob, as his
greatest treasure.
After his death his fellow citizens
had it turned into monument
On Bedloe's Island, outside of the
harbor Of New York, stands the ia
nous Statue Of Liberty. The statue.
which is $50 feet high, is placed on a
pedestal lit feet high, and is, there
fore, 327 feet above the sea level.
It is not like most monuments, mas
much as it is composed Of innumerable
pieces OF iron and copper, separately
hammered into shape, and then riv-
eted together.
The head Of the statue is fourteen
feet high, and will hold forty people,
with room to spare, while the torch,
which Is several feet above, will ac-
commodate sixteen persons.
This colossus was presented to
America In 1884 by the French Re
public, the funds for its building being
. entirely subscribed by the people Of
France.