A WONDERFUL STRUCTURE THE STORY OP THE GREAT LONDON BRIDGE. *ts Original Erection Buried in the Misis of Antiquity—No Other liridce Like it Anywhere. Tho original building of the bridge, writes Walter Besant in llarper , cannot bo discovered. As long as wo know anything of London the bridgo was there. For a long time it was a bridge of timber, provided with a fortified gate—ouo of the gates of the city. In the year 1095, the chronicler relates that on the feast of St. Edmund the Arch bishop, at tho hour of six, a dreadful whirlwind from the southeast, comiug from Africa—thus do all authors iu all ages seize upon the opportunity of pa rading their knowledge—"from Africa!" all that way!—blew upon the city and ovei threw upward of 600 houses aud several churches, greatly damaged the Tower, and tore away the roof and part of the wall or St. Mary le Bow, in Cheap side. During the same storm the water in the Thames rose with such rapidity and increased so violently that London Bridge was entirely swept away. The bridge was rebuilt. Two years afterward it narrowly escaped destruc tion when a great part of the city was destroyed by lire. Forty years ago it did meet this fate in the still greater fire of 1135. It was immediately re built, but I suppose hurriedly, because thirty, years later it had to be constructed anew. Arfiong the clergy of London was then living one Peter, chaplain of a small church in the Poultry—where Thomas a Beeket was baptized—called Cole church. The man was, above all others, skilled in the craft and mystery of bridge-building, lie was perhaps a mem- | ber of the fraternity called the Pontific J (or bridge-building) Brothers, who about this time built tho famous bridges at Avignon, Pont St. Esprit, Cahors, Saintcs and Koehcllo. He proposed to build a tstoue bridge over the river. In order to raise money for this great enterprise, , offerings were asked and contributed by ! King, citizens, and even the country at large. The list of contributors was written out o:i a table for posterity, aud preserved in the Bridge Chapel. This bridge, which was to last for six hundred aud lifty years, took as long to build as King Solomon's Temple, namely, tliree-and-thirty years. Before it was finished the architect lay in his grave. When it was completed the bridge was ! 926 feet long and forty feet wide—Stow says thirty feet; it stood sixty feet above I high-water; it contained a drawbridge j and ninety pointed arches, with massive piers vaiying from twenty-five to thirty four feet in solidity, raised upon strong elm piles covered with thick piauks. The j bridge was curiously irregular; there was 1 uo uniformity in the breadth of the arches; | they varied from ten feet to thirty-two feet. Over the tenth and longest pier was erected a chapel dedicated to the youngest saint in tho calendar, St. Thomas of Canterbury. The erection of a chapel on a bridge was by no means uncommon. Everybody, lor instance, who has been in the south of France re members tho chapel on the broken bridgo at Avignon. Again, a chapel was built on tho bridge at Droitwich, in Cheshire, and one ou tho bridgo at Wakefield, iu Yorkshire. Like the chapel at Avignon, that of London Bridge contained an up per and a lower chapel; tho latter was built in the pier with stairs, making it accessible from the river. The bridge gate at the southern end was fortified by a double tower, aud there was also a tower at the northern end. The wall or parapet of the bridge followed the line of the piers, so aa to give at every pier additional room. The same arrange ment used to be seen ou the old bridge at Putney. Tho citizens have always regarded Loudon Bridge with peculiar pride and affection. There was no other bridge like it in the whole country, nor any which could compare with it for strength or for size. I think, indeed, that there was not in the whole of Europe any bridge that could compare with it; for it was built not ouly over a broad river, but a tidal river, iu which tho flood rose and ebbed with great vehemence twice a day. Later on they buiit houses ou either side, but at first the way was clear. The bridge was endowed with broad lands; certain monks, called Brethren of St. Thomas on tho Bridge, were charged with the services in tho chapel, and with administering the rev enues for the maintenance of the fabric. The children made songs about it. One of their songs, to which they danced, taking bauds, has been pre served. It is modernized, and one knows not liow old it is. The author of Chronicles oj London Bridge gives it at full length, with the music. Here are two or three verses: London Bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Leu; London Bridge is broken down, With a gay ladee. How shall we build it up again? Dance over my Lady Loe; How shall we build it up again? With a gay ladee. Build it up with stone so strong, Dance over my Lady Lee; Huzza! 'twill last for ages long, With a gay ladee. A Hi r Fir Log. A mammoth fir log is to be scut to Chicago as a specimen of Washington timber. It was selected by D. Sopor, of Chicago, who came to Paget Sound for the purpose of shipping ouo of tho fa mous trees. The one selected was found at North Bend, King County, and meas ured, after being squared, fifty-three by fifty-one inches across the butt. When placed ou the trucks it was 113 feet long, but two feet had to be chopped off in order to ship it, anil it is now 111 feet long. .It is a line specimen of Wash ington yellow fir, and, examined by a glass, showed 411 rings. This would •ecm t3 make it 441 years old, if the generally accepted theory may be relied •a.—dan Franctieo Call. SELECT SIFTINGS. A machine gums 20,000 envelope* an hour. The barge is rising into favor as a yacht in England. The Chilian Chamber of Deputies numbers 126 members, the Senate forty three. Nicaragua is the largest of the Central American States. Area, 51,600 square miles. An egg pickling concern in Michigan lias over half a million of the fruit atored away in vats. Eda Davis, a child, fell over a preci pice 150 feet high, in Washington, and was '*>ly slightly hurt. A remarkable freak that is making its way toward Paris is a two-headed maiden, joined at the waist, having four arms. Do Lesseps commenced work on tho Suez Canal in 1860, and ou September 28, 1861, sailed through it in a small steamer. A grain of musk will scent a room for twenty years, and t>* the end of that t'me will not show it has diminished in the least. A grain of carmine or half a grain of aniline will tinge a hogshead of water so that a strong microscope will detect col oring matter in every drop. A recent survoy has established the number of glaciers in the Alps at 1155, of which 249 have a length of more than four and three-quarter miles. Equatorial France, Africa, as defined in the Berlin Conference, comprised the Gaboon and Ogowe Congo regions, a tract of some 174,000 square miles with about 2,000,000 inhabitants. A collision between a ship and an om nibus is something rare; but one is just reported from Hamburg, Germany. Tho bus was crossing a bridge and the vessel poked her jib-boom into it, but nobody was hurt. Berlin's Society for the Homeless last year provided shelter for 100,000 men and 15,000 women. In the eleven years of its existence it has furnished lodg ings, food and medical care to 2,200,- 000 persons. A vast "banyan" tiee, covering be tween six an seven acres, has been dis covered on the tiny Lord Ilowe Island, 300 miles from Port Macquaric, in Aus tralia. It is surpassed in size ouly by the greatest of those in India. The American arcbtcologists who aro at work at Platea, Greece, have come upon the remains of an ancient temple, parts of which apparently go back to tho sixth century B. C., or within a hundred years of the authentic beginning of Greek history. Developments of great interest are expected. Among the multifarious presents re ceived by the little Fife baby, grand daughter of the Prince of Wales, were nine cradles, some of them costly affairs, in ebony and gold. A manufacturer of baby powder sent half a ton of his wares in a large square chest, and there was nearly a wagon load of feeding bottles, baby blankets and infaut's chairs. A new parlor entertainment in London is reading the past and future of subjects by inspiration. The operator holds the subject by the left wrist and looks fix edly into his or her eyes. The most celebrated of this class of entertainers affirms that she sees after a few seconds her subject actually in the conditions and under tho environment she describes. Men, she finds, aro more easy to read than women. A colt was born on a farm near Rich wood, Ohio, which is certainly a curi osity. Instead of having one eye located in the usual place at each side of the face, it had both eyes merged together in tho centre of the forehead, and the mouth is cut in across the face, more like a human mouth than like that of a horse. It was almost devoid of anything like nostrils, otherwise it was well shaped. It only lived about four hour*. Children Sold for Old Clothes. If an Esquimau family is very poor they sometimes give away to childless neighbors all their children but one. Thus during childhood a boy may pass from one to another to be adopted by several families in turn. Children are sold by their paicnts, the usual price being a scalskiu bag of oil or a suit of old clothes. During infancy children are carried under the parka, astride of the mother's back, being held in position by a strap under the child's thighs and around tho mother's body across the che3t. When out from under the parka they are carried seated on the back of the mother's neck aud shoulders, with the child's legs hauling down in front on both sides of the neck. Tiie children are given the names of various auimals, birds, fish, sections of country, winds, tides, heavenly bodies, etc. Sometimes they have as many as six names. Children are rarely punished, generally having their own way, and are usually treated with great kiudness by their own or foster parents. Prominent events in the life of a boy, such as having his hair cut for the first lime like a hunter, his first trip to sea in a kiak, his first use of snow-shoes, etc., are celebrated by a feast, if the family are not too poor— New York Journal. A New Hypnotic. Somna! is the name of a new hypnotic recently discovered by a Berlin physi cian. Its effects aro far less depressing than those of chloral, and in other char acteristics it has the same advantages. So many of the new hypnotics have one or more objectionable features, and their continuous use results in so mauy new drug habits tha'.it is a great boon to the 1 physicians to have another remedy of this I class that can be used interchangeably ' with others, and which, as in tho case of 1 somnal, is singularly fee from injurious effects, and yet strong enough to act promptly and efficiently.— Next York i Journal. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN Bead necklaces are seen again. White cloth costume* grow in favoi. 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