The Walk to Orarak.
Wo walked to church tOßatlMr,
That sweet, bright, mimmcr day;
My heart waa like a feather
*TUo robin sheds in May.
" Dear heart I" I whisper to bar.
And then a ailnnoo foil.
I knew not how to woo Ixir,
Or how my loro to tolL
" Dear heart, thi* happy morning
We start to climb tho hill.
We see or hear no warning.
Of weariness or ill.
Wo may not hare all sunshine,
About this path of outs;
There will bo thorns and pttfclia
Hid under brightest flowora.
" It will be lonesome climbing
For me, if I rnnet niiss
Tho face whoso June-Umo rosea
Are sweeter far than this."
I gathered from tho hedgerow
A owe, and gave to lior;
The fragrant little blossom
Was love's interpreter.
" Yon necil not climb alono, John,™
Hhe said; and then a bird
Soared upwanl, and in heaven
Ho told what he had heard.
Tho echo of his music
Kings incur heartstrings still,
As hand in hand, my darling.
Wo climb the long, steep hilL
PRUDENCE GRAY.
That's my name, for father said there
wasn't a better barge on the river than
the Prndence, and if I was called the
same he was sure there would never be
a better girl.
I used to think our barge, which was
a very small billy-boy, if you know
what that is—if yon don't, I must tell
yen that it's a barge built with rounded
ends and low bulwarks, meant for car
rying loads up rivers—l used to think
our barge, I say, a very, very large
shin, till I grew old enough to com
pute it with those that passed us going
up and down the river, and then it used
to seem to me that it would be wonder
fully fine to go on board one of those
great ships and go sailing away, far
away across the ocean, instead of just
coasting along the Bheerness and up
the Ned way, as wo used to go year a'ter
year.
I can't tell yon how my child-life
slipped away, living with mother and
father on l>oard the barge, in a little
bit of a cabin with a tiny stove; all I
know is that I was happy, I
never hardly went ashore, and when I
did, I war frightened and wanted to
get 1 ac'i; and at last I seemed to have
grown all at once into a great girl, and
father and I were alone.
Yes, quite alone, for mother had left
us very suddenly, and wo had been
ashore, father and I, and came back
from the funeral and were sitting on
the cabin hatch before I could believe
it was anything but a terrible dream,
and that I should not awako and find
that she was alive once more, as blithe
and cheery as ever, ready to take up the
tiller or pull at a rope when father
wanted any help.
Father was a changed man after that,
and as a couple of years slippod by, the
•work on the barge fell more and more
into my hands, and I used to smile to
myself as I saw how big and strong
they had grown; for father grew quiet
and dull day by day, and used to have
a stone bottle filled whenever he went
ashore, and then sit with it in the cabin
till I called him to come and help me
with the sail.
Our barge was well known all al>out
•the mouth of the river and far up be
yond the bridge, and somehow —I don't
know how it was—the men on the dif
ferent boats we passed had always a
kind hail or a wavo of the hand for ns
as we glided by.
Poor father seemed to grow more and
moTe broken and helpleea every day,
and this frightened me, and made me
work to keep the barge clean and ship
shape lest the owners should come on
board and find fault with father and dis
miss him, and that I knew would break
his heart. Bo I worked on, and in a
dull heavy way father used to thank me;
and the time glided on till one day as
we were lying off Southland, with the
sea glassy and not wind enough to fill
the sails, I felt my cheeks begin to
burn as I leaned back against the tiller,
and would not turn my head became I
could bear a boat being sculled along
toward us, and I knew It was earning
from the gr. at lee board barge lying
astern.
" He's coming to see father," I said
to myself at last ; and as a hsil came I
was obliged to turn, and there stood in
the little boat be wss sculling, John
Grove, in his dark trousers, bine Jersey
sid scarlet cap, and as I ssw his sun
hnrnt face, T felt my heart beating fast,
and I knew he was not e miig to see
father, but to see me.
We hod hardly ever spokaa; but 1
bad known John Grove for years now,
and we had nodded and waved to one
another often as we passed up sad down
the river.
" fl* ave us a rope, lass," he '.lid, and
I did it c-vamtngiy. fie hitched it
arou.d tbi *hwart of his boat, and was
|uy over lids lofcre I could stir
and he stood looking down npon me,
while I felt sometlmos hot and some
times cold, and as If I could not speak.
11 Do yon want to seo fa her ?" I said
at last.
•• No, my lass," he said, quietly ; " I
want to see you."
"Me!" I faltered, with my voice
boraing.
"Yos, you, my lass," ho said, and his
bandsomo brown faoo lit up, and ho
looked so manly as ho laid his hand on
my arm. " Prudence, wo're both yonng
yet, but I thought it was time I spoko
to you."
"Spoko to mo I" I said, with my face
still hunting.
"Yes, my lass, spoke to you; for we've
been courting now a matter of four
years."
" Oh, John I" I cried, bursting out
langhing, and feeling more at my ease;
" why, we'vo hardly spoken to ono an
other."
" That's true, Prudence; but how
conld we; always taking our tarns at the
tiller as we were ? But all tho same,
my lass, I've been always a courting of
you, night and day, these four years,
and looking for the time when tho Pru
dence wonld come in sight and I conld
give you a hail, and get a wave of the
hand back."
I conld feel the color coming into my
cheeks again as I heard him speak and
knew bow anxiously I had looked out
for his bargo coming up or down tho
river.
" Prudence, my lass," ho said, " I've
saved ten pounds, all my own, and our
owner has just given mo the command
of a new baige with as pretty a cabin in
it as you'd wish to see; and so, my lass,
1 thought I'd ask you if so be as now
wo've been courting for fonr years, you
wouldn't como to me aud bo my wife ?"
" No," I said, " no;" and shook my
brad. " I belong to father, and I could
never leave him, never."
" Bnt you'll have to some day, Pru
dence," he said, looking downhearted.
" No," I said, " I shall never leave
him ; ho needs me more and more every
day."
"Prudence," ho said, sharply, "yon
ain't playing with mo, are yi u?'
" Playing with you V
" Yes ; I mean yon ain't going to take
np with anyone else.* No, no," he
cried, " I won't bo so mean as to ask
you that. Hut, Prndence, dear, some j
day you may have to leave him, and
when you do will yon please recollect
as John Grove loves yen better than
aught else in the wild world, and is wait
ing for you to come."
" Yes, John," I said, simply.
"Yon mean it, Prudence?" he cried
in delight.
"Yes, John ; I don't know anybody '
else, and thero's no one as cares for
me."
" Hnndrods on the river," he aaid ;
sharply. _
" Then I don't care
I said, simply; " and ifj
—ob, dear! what am I
1 sat down on a
my face with my hands, and began to
cry ; but ho took my hands down, and |
looked long and lovingly into my faro J
with honest brown eves. At last he
gasped ont:
"Thankey, Prudence, than key. I'm
going away now to wait, for you'll come
to me some day, I. kaow."
"For tbn time may come, my lasa,
when you'll be alone in iho world ; and
when it cornea there's tho cabin of the
Betsy Ann a-waiting for you, just as her
master's a-waiting."
He wont quietly over tho side of the
boat, cast oIT the rope and was gone,
and I sat there in the calm afternoon
with a feeling of joy at my heart such
as I lud never felt beforo.
It mnat have l>een about 10 o'clock
nt night when I was seeing to the light
hoisted np, when I heard father come
stumbling np to the cabin.
"Prne, Pruel" be cried.
"Yes, father," I replied; and then I
uttered a wild shriek, and rushed
toward where tho small treat hung
astern, hauled her np and climbed in,
fer no sooner had I answered him than
I heard a cry and a splash, and I knew
that my fashcr had gono overboard. 1
was in the boat in a moment, paddling
away in tho direction that the cry bsd
come from; but though I fancied in
those horrible minutes that I saw a
band stretched ont of the water, I
paddled and sculled about till I was far
from our barge and then souk down,
worn out, to utter a moan of horror, and
sobbing: " Oh, father, what shall I dor
"Is that you, Prndence,' said a
▼oioe.
"Yea, John, yes," I cried, looking
ont through the darkness, ont of which
a boat seemed to steal till It was along
side, when John strotched out his band
and took mine.
"Quick," I gasped, " save him, John
—father—gone overboard!"
"When you shrieked out, Pruef
"Yes, jo*," I Wails! ; "oh save
him f'
"My poor lass," ho said, "that's a
good quarter of an Lonr ago, and th
tide's running strong. I've been pad
dling about ever since, trying to fin i
yon, for I went up to the barge and
you were gone,"
" Bat father," I wailed, " father—Bare
him I"
"My poor little lass," he said, ten
derly, " I'd jump into the water now if
yon bid me; bat what can I do, yon
know. Prudence, what can I do ?"
I did not answer, for I did know that
ho mnst havo been ewept far away be
fore then, and I was beginning to feel
that I was alone—quite alono in the
world.
It was quite six months after that
dreadful night that one evening John
came ashore from his barge to the cot
tage where I was staying with his
mother, over since he had brought mo
there, without scoing him, only to wave
my hand to him as ho sailed by. That
evening he came and looked wistfully
at me, and said bnt little ; and at last
his timo was up, and he rose to go.
I walked down to tho boat witli him,
and on the way ho told me ho had got
leave to alter the name of his barge,
and it was called tho Prudence, too ;
and then, without a word, he was fay
ing good-bye, when I put my hand in his
and Raid, quietly :
"John, dear, I haven't forgot my
promiso." *
" And you are alone, now, Prudence,
my lass," he cried.
" No, John, no," I said, softly. " I
nover snail be while yon live."
" NeTcr, my lass, never," lie cried.
" And yon will bo my little wife T'
" Yos, John," I said, and with one
long hand-pressure wo parted, and I
went back to wait another month, and
then I was his happy littlo wife.
And there seemed no change, for I
was once more on tho river or ont at
sea, leaning upon the tiller and gazing
before me, with tho gull* wailing as
they wheeled and dipped and skimmed
and settled upon tho water; while the
soft wind gently stirred the hood that
was tied over my wind rallied hair.
Only a bargeman's young wife, living
on tho tide, but very happy, for John
often points to the great ships that pass
us, with their captains in gold-lace
caps, and whispers: " Not with tho
licit among tlicro, Prne, not with the
best; I wouldn't change places with a
king.'' ___________
Pearls In Ojstern and Clams.
" Do you ever find anything in oys
tcrs ?" was asked of a proprietor of a
New York oyster saloon who for many
years has stood in one place opening
bivalves. Pointing to a milk-white
pearl, about the sizo of a canary bird's
egg, held by a golden claw and fa toned
in his shirt bosom, ho said: "That is
the liest thing I ever found. It's worth
6100, I have been told. At least, I
would give that for its duplicate. In
every oyster I expect to find something.
That is the reason I open all 1 get my
self. There is a mild fascination about
the work to me. I will show yon a few
specimens of the foreign substances I
have taken ont of oysters." He pro
duced a half pint bottle with wide open
month. It was half filled with rough
of stone. " Those aro all pearls,''
said tho oysterman. " They are, of
course, undressed, and appear rough.
Sbo'! of them are irregular in shape,
(settings if treated by a lapidary. I
don't know that they h/ivo any valuo
except as cariosities. Sometimes a
cuatomer, in eating oysters on tho hs'f
shell, finds a tiny pearl, which he lias
made into a shirt stud or ring. Did yon
ever lee s clam pearl ? No Then I'll
show you a beauty."
It was indoed a thing of beauty that
the oyster ojmner unloldod from a cov
ering of chamois skin when he opened
the door of his safe. It was egg-shaped
and greatly resembled a catbird's egg.
It had a slate color, which, at the apex
of tho cone, was worn into white. There
was a rich appearance to the enriosity
in its sotting in a heavy gold ring.
"Now, isn't thst pretty?' said tho
owner,smiling with satisfaction. "Isn't
it a jewel ? I found (hat in a clam a
few years ago, and I am afraid that I
will nover find another. lam patiently
looking for it, though. I never saw
anything like it before, and no ono I
over showed it to ever saw its like.
Yon see I take good care of it Well
I think it's worth taking oaro of."
Impaired Ef Might.
Myopia, or shortsightedness, baa boon
attributed lo excessive reading and
ntadj in a standing position and in an
iil-lighted room. Dr. Bamnel Sexton,
a leading otologist, baa been examining
the matter and baa mado a rather curious
discovery. He fnds that defective
vision is due, in many instances, to the
decay of the teeth. The norves which
supply what may ha called the vital
power to the eyes, the ears, and the
teeth, aro joined together, and any grave
defect in the teeth is apt to impair both
vision and hearing. Mow, it is well
known to physiologists that defective
teeth are almost universal among civili
zed habits of eating. The alternate use
of cold ami hot fluids impairs the in*
t-giity o' the teeth and Anally decays
th>m. This reacts on ths nerves, and
aiDcta the eye*lght and bearing.
Parent*, if they wish their children to
be sound in their various senses, should
look to the teeth an 1 see that thay are
k p' in good order.
CLIPPINGS POIt THE CURIOUS.
Fumigation of brimstone is of I toman
origin,
A locomotive drinks forty-fire gal
lons of water every mile it travels.
Out of every 100 inhabitants of tho
United Slates sixteen live in cities.
Bracelets were given as a reward of
bravery to soldiers in tho Middle Ages.
The Oanls lovo to decorate their
helmets, swords and hackles with coral.
A crown of red- hot iron was an
ancient punishment for rebels and regi
cides.
The Emperor Augustus in his letter
writing dated even tho divisions of the
honrs.
Coleridge and Goldsmith wrote " The
House that Jack Built" and " Goody
two-shoes."
By the Baxon laws twelve yrnrs of
ago was fixed as the earliest possible de
velopment of the legul understanding.
The smallest engine in the world has
been finished in Baltimore. It can lie
covered by a thimble. Three drops of
water fill the boiler.
The Greek word for horse-shoe first
occurs in tho ninth century. Horses
wore then only shod in time of frost or
for especial occasion*.
Coats of arms and heraldry were in.
trod need into England in 1100. The
arms of England and France were first
quartered by Edward 111. in 1356.
Tho Roman soldiers carried, in their
military baggage, chains for prisoners
of war—iron for common, and of gold
and silver for rich prisoners and princes.
The first silver money coined in Home
was A. U. O. I*l. The mint was in tho
temple of Juno Moneta, which circum
stance occasioned the or igin of our word
money.
A circulating library in the Middle
Ages may seem surprising. In 1342 a
law was framed in Paris compelling all
pnldic bookseller* to keep books to lend
ont on hire.
On the Patent 801 l of Henry IV. is a
record which allows Matthew Flint,
tocrfA* drawer of London, sixpence a day
for life upon condition of his drawing
tho teeth of the poor gratuitously.
Professor Hoxley declares the supply
of herring in tho aca to be practically
inexhaustible, and that nothing which
man can do in tho ordinary way of de
struction will ever appreciably diminish
the stock.
Among the early Romans a kind of
Fivti, or annals, was kept by driving
nails into tho wall of tho temple of
Minerva; aud in pnblie calamities, in
time of pestilence, etc., a nail was
fastened in tho temple of Jupiter.
Tire Knd of the World.
The age of the earth is placed by
some at five hundred millions of years;
and still others, of later time, among
them the Duke of Argyll, places it at
ten million years, knowing whtt pro
cerates have been gone through. Other
planets go through tho same process.
The reason that other planets differ so
rnnch from the earth, is that they aro in
aso rnnch earlier or later stage of ex
istence. The earth most bootnc old,
Newton surmised, although he conld
giro no reason for it, that the earth
won Id at one time lose all its water and
become dry. Since then it has been
fonnd that Newton was correct. As the
earth keeps cooling, it will become
porous, and great cavitioa will be formed
in the interior, which will take in the
water. It is estimated that this process
is now in progress, so fsr that the wster
diminishes at about the rate of the
tbicknea* of a sheet of writing psper
each year. At this rate, in fi,000,000
years tho water will have snnk a mile,
and in 15,000,000 years every trace of
water will havo disappeared from the
face of the globe. The nitrogen and
oxygen in the atmosphere are also di
minishing all tho time. It is in an in
preciable degree, bnt the time will come
when the air will lie so thin that no
creatures we know conld breathe it and
live; the time will como when the world
cannot support life. That will be the
period of old age, and then will come
death.— Richard A. Procior.
A * hrewd Reply.
Sir Walter Soott says that the alleged
origin of the invention of cards pro
duced one of the shrewdest replies be
had ever heard given in evidence. It
was made by the late Dr. Gregory, at
Edinburgh, to a counsel at the Scottish
bar. The dootor'a testimony wont to
prove tht insanity of tho party whose
mental capacity was the point at las we.
On a cross-interrogation he admitted
that the person in question played ad
mirably at whist. "And do yon seri
ously say, doctor," said the learned
counsel, " that a person having a
superior capacity fur a game so diffi
cult, and which requires in a pre
eminent degree memory, judgment and
combination, can be at the samo time
deranged in his understanding?" "I
am no card player," said the doctor,
wish great address, "but I have read
history that oards were invented for the
amusement of an insane king." (Charles
VI. of France). The consequence of
this reply were decisive.
I'EAIILM OP THOUGHT.
There sre remedies for all things bnt
death.
Virtue has many preaoherr, but few
martyrs.
There is no charity in helping a man
who will not help himself.
Would yon respect yourself, keep
your heart and body clean.
Would yon retain tho love of a
friend, do not tie too selfishly exact
ing.
There are those for whom money
docs everything except to make honor
able men of them.
Tho truly great man undertakes a
thing because it is great; the fool, be
cause he thinks it is easy. •
Eren poverty is better than avarice,
for wliilo poverty wants many things,
avarico wants eierything.
It is not necessary to threaten a bail
man, for his own deeds threaten him
with a worse punishment than you can
inflict.
Above every other feature which
adorns the female character, delicacy
stands foremost within the province of
good taste.
Wc can never have much confidence
in tho uprightness of others until we
have discovered some degree of up
rightness in ourselves.
There cannot he a surer proof of low
origin, or of an innate meanness of dis
position, than to be alwajs talking and
thinking of being genteel.
The mero lapse of year* is not life.
Knowledge, trntb, lovo, beauty, good
ness, faith, alone can give vitality to
the mechanism of existence.
Every man has in his own life follies
enough, in his own mind trouble
enongb, in his own fortunes evil
enongh, without being carious after
the affairs of others.
Thi* wish falls often .farm upon my
heart, that I may Icarn nothing that I
cannot continue in the other world;
that I may do nothing here but deeds
that will bear fruit in heaven.
The lieginning of hardship is like the
first taste of bitter food—it seems for a
moment nnbearmble; yet, if there is
nothing else to satisfy our hunger, wc
take another bito and find it possible
to go en.
If you want knowledge yon must toil
for it; if food, you must toil for it, and
if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil
is the law. Pleasure comes through
toil, and not by self-indulgence and
indolence. When one gcla to love
work his life is a happy one.
Water In Dry Places.
It is known that between the Rocky
mountains and the Mississippi there
arc vast regions which arc arid and un
profitable because of the absence of
water. A stream or a well is all that is
necessary to make those sterile regions
blossom as the rose. It is known that
at so mo distance underground there is
an alinndaneeof water,which, if reached
and utilized, would mako fruitful hun
dreds of millions of acres of land. The
government has aelocte.l Messrs. C. A.
White, of Greeley, Colorado, and Pro
fessor 8. Aughey, of Nebraska, to act as
a commission to select sites for sinking
experimental artesian wells in tho arid
regions of the Ricky mountain*. To
gnide the commission. Professor Powell
has marked spots on the map for exam
ination. Moat of them aro between the
101 st and 113 th degrees of longitude.
The area to bo inspected includes one
third of the State of Texas, the eastern
portions of Montana, Colorado and New
Mexico, and the western portions of
Nebraska, Dakota and Kansas. The
practical resnlt from this inquiry mnst
be of the utmost moment to the conn
try. Irrigated land is wonderfully
fruitful, and it ia of the utmost im
portance that, a* our population in
creases, new oatlets should be fonnd
for those who wish homea and farms of
their own. These now arid plains are
near the richest mineral regions in the
United States. Could they be made
productive, the crops would find a
ready market among the mining popu
lation.
Trained.
In many Southern cities, boys and
glrla walk the streets balancing on their
heads heavily-laden backets or baskets
or pans, containing polishing sand, or
fish, or frnit for sate. A little fellow of
seven rears, whom yon would think fit
ted only for romping and play, will
walk along steadily, and yet with seem
ing ease and unconcern, bearing up
snch a weight as that, when the least
carelessness or inattention woald tum
ble it to the ground. While still a
mere child, he has in his special work
the sense of responsibility and tho
steadiness of a man. It was not natural
for him to walk in this way; bnt lie
quickly acquired the needful powor
through training, We onght to hsvs a
care not to put too heavy a load on onr
littlo ones; bnt we msy fail to realize
as we should their possibilities of train
ing. A great deal of their lesUemaeaa
oan bo early controlled and directed,
not only without harm to them, but to
their positive advantage.
MOHAL AND REI.IUIOI'H.
Tbf I'or Mkirp,
Home time ago a very earnest and
successful Baptist minister in Virginia
was telling n tome of Li* early expe
riences— among other*, this, which is
quite too good, we think, to IKS lost.
He was accustomed to labor not a litis
>n protracted meeting*, and his method
always was to begin by belabo.ing the
members of the church. In this, per
liajm, he was not peculiar, as such is the
habit of professional evangelists.
Our brother had just concluded a
very searching and seeching discourse,
oddre&sed with great vehemence to pro
i feasors of religion, when, coming down
i from the pulpit, be was accosted by a
venerable, but mild-mannerc-d disciple,
who told him that he bad a teat from
which if some time he would l>e good
enough to preach the aforesaid disciple
would be very thankful.
The pastor, while diffident of bis
ability to preach with freedom from the
I text selected for him by somebody else,
■ declared his willingness to do tLe best
he could, and curiously inquired what
J the text might be. The old brother
I could not quite remember just the chap
' ter and verse, but said that it related to
words spoken by our Lord to Peter,
after his resurrection, when be asked
! the npoatle if be loved him ; and upon
| Peter's replying, "Lord, thou knowest
all things, thou knowest that I love
thee," he said unto Peter, "Beat my
sheep." "No! no!" said the pastor;
"you are mistaken, my brother. He
said, 'Feed my sheep.'" "Ah, he
did?" said the old man, with a scorch
| ing lock into the pastor's face ; " I
( thought maybe you read it ' Beat my
j sheep.'"
The pastor thought he saw a light—a
light that twinkled in the old man's
eye*, and a new light on the Word of
! God.
He throw away his cudgel, end filled
up hi* cnb.~Uaptist Teacher.
lirtlfflou* Nrwt nrf Noire.
No opium smoker, it is said, is ad
mitted to church membership by any
Christian mission working in China.
The Germany and Switzerland Metho
dist Episcopal conference has 9,717
mcml>ers, showing an increase during
the year of 273, "notwithstanding 184
deaths and many removals to America."
The Congregational church at Barn
stead, N. H , has had only two pastors
in seventy-six years. The former pastor
preached for fifty-six years and the
present one has been settled for twenty
year*.
An edict has been published by the
Chinese government extending to Prot
ectant Christian* tbo exemption from
assessments for the lent fit of heather,
ceremonies which was accorded to
I toman Catholics in 1862.
At the late session of the Epitoopal
convention in D&nvillc, Vs., it was
voted that the clergy should recognize
the fact that the negroes within their
parochial bhnnds arc an integral part of
their parochial work, and that such work
cannot be ignored or neglected.
The Lutheran Visitor calls for a Lu
theran Ecumenical council. It believes
that snch a body would be perhaps one
of the gresbat meetings ever held, and
asserts that instead of " a few millions
of Calvinists or Armenians or Dissent
ers," it would represent fifty millions of
Lutherans from all quartern of the globe.
The latest statistics of missions in
Japan record the work of sixteen church,
e* and societies, which are represented
by 3H4 missionaries, thirty-eight woman
missionaries, twenty-eight native or
dained preachers, ninety organized
churches, and 3.792 members. Two
hundred and twenty-one rooms arc used
for worship. The largest number of
members has l>een gathered by the
American Presbyterian, the next largest
by the Congregational, and the third
largest by the Methodist Episcopal mis
sions.
The summary of the Presbyterian
board of borne missions for the just
year shows that 1,217 men hare Iwcn iu
commission in 39 States and Territories.
Kansas takes the lead, having 121 mis
sionaries, and lowa coming next with
103. Of the whole number, 910 are in
the Western States and Territories.
The missionaries report 4,979 additions
on confession and 4,715 on certificate,
and a total membership of 65,006, with
90,018 in the congregation*. There are
1,147 chnrch edifices, and $115,865 of
church debt* was paid the past year.
The total receipts of the board were
$345,911, the largest since the reunion.
The largest stone slab ever quarried
in the United States has recently bean
placed before the new residence of Mr.
W. H. Vanderbilt, on Ffth avenue, Now
York. The stone measures twenty-five
feet two inches by fiftoeu fe®4, and is
eight inches thick. It weigh* about
44,000 pounds. It was quarried at
Bammlle, finlliran county, N. Y., and
the block from which it was cut is de
scribed as perfectly level, and about
ninety feet long and nineteen fret in
width. From this surface the block
was cut oet and then raised by wedges.
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