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The largest library in the world
is in Paris, founded by Louis
XIV. It contains 1,400,000 vol¬
umes, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,
000 maps and charts, and 150,000
coins and medals.
The highest monument in the
•world is the Washington monu¬
ment at Washington D. C. The
highest structure of any kind is
the Eiffel Tower, Paris, finished
in 1889, and is 989 feet high.
The tallest man ever known
with certainty was John Hale of
Lancashire, England, who was
nine feet and G inches in higlit.
His hand was 17 inches long and
eight and one-half inches broad.
The January number of the
Southern Farm is upon our
desk, and a more readable maga¬
zine of the kind wo never saw.
We most heartily recommend it
to the farmers of our county, as
being both useful and entertain¬
ing.
Lead in the form of filings, un¬
der a pressue of 2,000 atmosphere,
or 13 tons to the square inch, be
comes compressed into a solid
block, in which it is impossible
to detect the slightest vestige
of the original grains, I Older a
pressure of 5,000 atmospheres it
liquifies.
Samuel H. Humph of Marsliall
ville is said to be the most ex¬
tensive peach grower in the
world. He has 300 acres in
peaches, embracing over 100
varieties. During the past sea¬
son he often shipped nine car
loads per day from his orchard,
and the crop amounted to 200
ear loads.
The famous Corliss engine the
largest over constructed, and the
one used to drive the machinery
in the great hall at the Centennial
of 187G, is now in the shops of the
Pullman Car Company at Pull¬
man, near Chicago, Ill. It is
generally supposed that the Em¬
peror of Brazil bought the en¬
gine and removed it to his own
country;, but this is a mistake.
Ho did talk of buying it, but the
bargain was never consummated.
This tireless giant works in tin
upright position, is over 40 feet
high, of 1,400 liorspower, and has
two 40-inch cylinders, and [a
10-foot stroke.
In spite of all the improvements
in steam and electricity, water is
and will always remain the most
economical power and medium of
transportation in the world. The
only trouble about water is that
it lias to be used where enature put
it, while the other agents are
more movable. It lias been pro¬
ved by actual test that a single
tow-boat can transport at one trip
from the Ohio to New Orleans
29,000 tons of coal loaded in bar
ges. Estimated in this, the boat
and its tow, worked by a few men,
carries as much freight to its
destination as 3,000 cars and 100
locomotives, manned by GOO men,
could transport.
The only colored man in con¬
gress is from the Second North
Carolina district, and a good
many colored people are leaving
that district. He has beeomo
alarmed, and it is said that he
will turn his back upon congress
for awhile, and stump the district
against emigration. Last fall he
received less than 700 majority,
and he realizes that if the eini
gration is not stopped bis
prettysoonT* 1661 “
Vicks Floral Guide for the year
1890 is on our desk, and is a model
of neatness, aud very attractive.
No person, who cares for flowers,
should be without it.
Colored people in Chambers
burg, Pa., have met, and de¬
nounced southern white people
for alleged ill treatment of the
negro. Every time a thing of
this kind occurs, sensible and well
informed people ask themselves
why those northern negroes don't
pay attention to their own ill
treatment, and the answer invari¬
ably is, “Because they are intent
upon making political capital for
the Republican party.” An in¬
telligent Northern man told us
the other day that if the colored
people in Chicago were to show
the same impudence towards the
whites they do in Atlanta, they
would be knocked over in two
minutes. The colored people
have no better friends in the world
than the better class of Southern
white people, especially those
who owned slaves or were raised
up boys with them. The truth is
that these are the only true and
sympathizing friends the colored
men have.
Miss Mary Angela Dickens,
granddaughter of the novelist, is
the latest member of the family to
join the ranks of writers. She
wrote a Christmas story this year
entitled “A Social Success.' 1
TlTe number of cloisters and
monks in Spain have increased
with astounding rapidity of late
years. Spain now has 29,220
monks, and 25,000 nuns in 1,330
cloisters and 179 orders. In Bar¬
celona alone there are 163 clois¬
ters for women. In the last four¬
teen years the number of monks
in Spain has been sextupled, and
the number of nuns has been
doubled.
It has been calculated that the
mobilization of the French, Ger¬
man, and Russian armies would
cost $100,000,000 and their main¬
tenance in the field would cost
$200,000,000 a month. A war of
six months duration would, there¬
fore, use up, for these three coun¬
tries alone, the sum of $1,300,000,
000. Besides that every nation
in Europe, including England,
would have to arm and hold itself
ready, which would cost millions
more. What great times we do
live in!
Senator George wants to give
all of the encouragement possi¬
ble to any attempt to defeat the
bagging trust. Ho introduced
the other day a bill authorizing
the Secretary of Agriculture, after
experiments, to purchase any ma¬
chine or process for decorticating
ramie or jute that shall prove
well adapted to such purpose,
making the use of the machine or
process free to the pooplo of the
United States. He wants $100,
000 appropriated to carry out the
purposes of the bill.
The Capitol building at Wash¬
ington, D. C. is the largest build¬
ing in the United States. The
corner stone was laid Dec. 18tli
1793, by President Washington,
assisted by other masons. It was
partially destroyed by the British
in 1814. The present dome was
begun in 1855 and finished in
1863. The flag of the United
States first floated from it Dec.
12th 1863. The cost of the en¬
tire building has been something
over $13,000,000. It covers 3|
acres of ground, The distance
from the ground to the top of the
dome, is 3074 feet; diameter of
the*dome, 1351 feet—making fifth
as to size with the greatest domes
of the world.
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THE FORTH BRIDGE.
The greatest viaduct (bridge)
in the world is that across the
Firth of Forth in the eastern part
of Scotland and which is now re
ceiling the finishing touches.
It was begun in 1882. Its total
length is 8,290 feet, or nearly 1
and 5-Sth miles. There are two
spans i.Tio feet each. The clear
UUV ' a °. L 11,u 1 gat ion is 150
“
* U1 *^6 d u ^he c<? nter of the
1 spans. Its extreme
higlit is 452 feet. There are
about 53,000 tons of steel in its
superstructure, and about 140 000
''"Remits cubic, yards foundation of masomy aud aud piers. con
,men come to this
nountij , henceforth will not
I won
der so much at the structure of
. Brooklyn Bridge as formerly.
NOTES OF TRAVEL
IN EUROPE
BY T. D. C KELLEY.
No. 14, Venice, Bologna, Florence.
My readers will remember that
I left off last week just as our
party were standing in a high
tower and watching the bright
orb of day lose his brightness be¬
hind the western hills. The scene
was very beautiful, as the golden
rays of the sun were reflected
more and more dimly by the quiv¬
ering waters of the lagoon.
How suggestive was this de¬
lightful scene! We were also look¬
ing down upon Venice, and that,
too, in the sunset of her glory;
for after the discovei’y of America
the course of empire took its
way westward, and never again
did her magnificence so dazzle
the eyes of the giddy world.
Since the places for promena¬
ding in that city all built in the
sea are very scarce, the Piazza of
St. Mark’s is a great resort in sum¬
mer evenings, especially on Sun¬
days, Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, when the military band
plays from 8 to 10 o’clock. After
tea the next day evening we spent
about three hours in the piazza
looking on at the social life of the
Venetians. It was a delightful
scene; and at 11 o’clock we bade
a reluctant farewell to the historic
place.
The most of that day, 9 to 4
o’clock, we had spent in riding
over the city in a gondola to very
many places of interest; among
them, to the storehouse of Shylock.
At 4 o’clock next morning we
arose, and in a few minutes we
were in the gondola which was
awaiting ns. We left the station
at 5 o’clock, on a train bound for
Florence by way of Bologna.
On that same morning soon after
starting we passed the birth-place
of Livy, (Abano near Padua)
which was off a little to the right
of the railroad. It will be remem¬
bered that Livy was the great
Roman historian, whose chief
work was a history of Rome, con¬
sisting of 142 volumes, only 35
of which have been preserved.
At 7£ o’clock a. in. we passed
Arqua del Monte, once the home
and paternal estate of Petrarch,
the “great light of the Middle
Agos,” the revivor of the study of
Latin and Greek. He is both the
subject aud the author of one of
the most thrilling romances,
though not in all respects to be
approved, that have ever been
penned,—that in which “Laura,”
a married woman, is the loved one
and himself the crazy lover.
There is a picturesque grandeur
about the old estate that impress¬
es oue as being the very kind of
place to produce such a charac¬
ter.—It is thought by judges that
no man ever had a greater mind
than-Petrarch.
We stopped over at Bologna
only an hour or two, just long
enough to visit the Academy of
Fine Arts, where we saw Raphael’s
celebrated “St. Cecilia,” aud a
host of other pictures.
At Bologna also the writer be¬
gan his untiring hunt for “the
okarina,” which gave Dr. Scomp
so much amusement, and Hen¬
derson an untold amount of an
noyance. Sad to tell, nowhere
among the cities of Italy could
“the okarina” be found. Perhaps
it was fortunate that it could not
be found; for my infatuation for
the squealing thing would, in all
probability, have driven Hender¬
son from our party, and forced
him to travel alone.
From Bologno to Florence we
were passing through, or rather
over the Appenine Mountains.
The scenery was delightful. The
highest point of the raiload was
2024 feet above sea-level, nearly
all of which higbt it climbed in
40 miles.
At Pistoja, about 7 o’clock p. m.
" e saw the place where Catalina |
wade his last stand against the
Rowans. We reached Florence
(called there Firenze [Fe-ren-zel)
about 84 o'clock p. m.
AT FLORENCE.
Next morning at 8 o'clock we
set out to hunt for sights in that,
city which has been called “the!
center of the world of art.” Hav¬
ing walked a block or two from
our hotel, we found ourselves on
the banks of the Arno, I was
greatly surprised to find the river
so small. The plan of it in our
guide-book led me to think it was
a right respectable stream. As
we saw it, it looked just like na¬
ture had made a place for a river,
but failed to put it there. The
size of the stream, which was
about that of a Georgia creek,
was greatly owing to the dry
weather, then prevalent all over
Italy. Moreover, the Arno is es¬
sentially a mountain stream, which
is always subject to great ex
tremes.
From the banks of the Arno we
went to the Ulfizzi [Ool-fit-see]
Art Gallery, to see one of the
finest collections of art in the
world. This collection, as to ex¬
tent, was simply immense; as to
quality, beyond description.
Among the many thousands there
on exhibition, we mention the fol¬
lowing:—The original Venus de
Medici [med-e-chee], and Young
Apollo; both ancient statues.
Paintings.—Raphael’s Madonna
Cardinella, and Madonna at the
Well; Titian’s Venus of Urbino;
Sarto’s Madonna; Angelo’s Cor¬
onation of the Virgin; the Holy
Family by Luca Signorelli; Titi¬
an’s “Flora;” Raphael’s portrait
of himself; portrait of Michael
Angelo; portrait of Sarto by him¬
self; Titian’s portrait of himself;
Ruben’s portrait of himself; also
a vase cut out of rock crystal by
Benvenuto Cellini; 4 columns of
Oriental alabaster,” and 4of “verde
antique.”
From the Ulfizzi we proceeded
totheDnomo (cathedral). Hen¬
derson and I ascended the Com
panile (or bell tower), which was
built separate from the church.
Dr. Scomp said he was tired of
climbing towers, and besides lie
had climed it when lie was in Italy
before.
One of the most interesting
things we could do in a beautiful
city, and one which we usually
did, was to ascend to the top of
some high tower, and take as it
were, a bird’s-eye view of the city
and surroundings. In this case
the city, as viewed from the tow¬
er, was beautiful beyond ‘descrip¬
tion. The windows in the tower
were beautifully ornamented with
stained glass.
Decanding from the tower, we
all went into the Duomo. We
were much disappointed, however;
for this very noted church was
undergoing repair, the pictures
removed, and the chapels de¬
ranged.
From the Duomo we went to
the church of St. Croce [cro-clia],
in which Galileo and Michael
Angelo were buried. Inside we
saw the very elegant tomb of Gal¬
ileo, the persecuted astronomer;
that of Michael Angelo, who was
a painter, sculptor., architect, poet
general, and philosopher; and
that of Macliiavelli, who was a
crafty politician and the greatest
of Italian diplomatists. Besides
quite a number of tombs and
paintings, we saw a pulpit cut out
of solid.alabaster, said to be the
finest in the world, and of which
Michael Angelo said nothing
could be more beautiful.
After supper that evening we
took a short prominade, and then
returned to our rooms, from the
windows of which we listened for
awhile to the excellent singing of
a blind Italian.
At home the Italians are re¬
markable as singers, while the
Germans are remarkable as in¬
ti* umental musicians.
The first thing of much impo r
_
tanee that we saw next day was
the house of Michael Angelo. It
was interesting chiefly on account
of its intimate association with
this wonderful man. That a
universal genius never succeeds
in any thing, was utterly set at
naught in this great champion of
Italian art; for he was first of all
unsurpassed as a sculptor, perhaps
as great an architect as ever
lived, and a very eminent painter,
In these he excelled Hn uiw «d
so a poet, general, philosopher,
and statesman. Certainly a most
wonderful man.
From Angelo's house we went
to the “Piazza Michelangiolo.”
From this eminence we had a fine
view of the city and surrounding
mountains.
The day was oppressively hot;
but we pressed on through the
heat to the Pitti Picture Gallery.
This is not near so extensive as
the Ulfizzi; but perhaps as good
in quality. We had to climb to
the top of the buildings, as we
always had to do: all art galleri es
are as high up as they can well
be put. Perhaps that is necessary
to keep them associated with the
spiritual. However, we reached
the Pitti, and enjoyed it as much
as our aching backs and legs
would allow. There we saw Ra¬
phael’s “Holy Family,” Ruben’s
“Mars Going to War,” and many,
many others, which we have not
space to mention. Among other
things we saw a mosaic table val¬
ued at $150,000.
Leaving the gallery, we re¬
turned to our hotel to rest, which
was perhaps as much enjoyed as
any thing in Florence.
Florence is no smoky, manufac¬
turing city, but one of fine arts.
It stands in striking contrast with
Liverpool, Glasgow, or St. Louis.
We were up at 5 o’clock next
morning preparing to bid fare¬
well to the great artloving city;
and at 6^ o’clock we boarded the
cars, and left .the “statione,” with
our hearts as well as noses turned
toward the “Eternal City.”
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GEORGIA, Rockdale county.
To all whom it may concern: Whereas W.
N. McKnight administrator of the estate of B.
N- McKnight deceased, has in due form ap
plied to the court of Ordinary for leave to sol
the land belonging to the estate of said de¬
ceased, said application will be beard on the
first Monday in February next.
This Jan. 6th 1890, 0. Seamans,
4t Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Rockdale county—
To all "diouL it may concern: Whereas G.
W■ Gleuton, attorney for L. P. Greeu and
William Reed, lias made application to the
court of Ordinary for the appointment of the
clerk of superior court administrator of the
estate of 13. F. Carr deceased, this t.o citi all
persons conpprpg:!, kindred and creditois, to
show cause on the firgt Monday in February
ifcSt why the clerk of the superior court, or
sonic other fit and proper person should not
bo appointed administrator on the estate of
B. F. Carr deceased.
This January 3, 1S90. O, Seamans.
4t Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Rockdale eonuty
To nil whom it may concern: Jas. S. Weath¬
erford, admr. of F. M. Weatherford, having
shown to me that lie has fudy administered
the estate of F. M. Weatherford, aud having
applied tfi uje for loiters of dismission from
stud Administration.! will pass upon sa.d ap
pliOfition on the first Monday in April next at
my office in Conyers Rockdale county Geor¬
gia. Given under my hand aud official sig¬
nature. Tnis January 2nd 1399.
0. Seaman?,
• 3 m Ordinary.
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LETTER’S OFADMINISTEATj
GEORGIA, Itocltdale county—
To all whom it may concern: ffherel
McKnight has applied to the Court of
ry for letters of administration on the
of B. N. McKnight, late of said corn
ceased, ttiis is to cite all and singular ti
dred and creditors of said deceased ti
cause on the first Monday in January]
my office at 10 o’clock a. m„ if any
why letters of administration should
sue.’toW. N. McKnighton the estate ol
McKnigh t deceased. This Nov. 25, M
0. SEAStd
Ordl
LETTEE DISMISSION.
H. GEORGIA, uardian Rockdale of county: U. S. Jones \Vh«| j
Bryans, G said!
plied to the court of Ordinary of
for a discharge from his Guardiansfcia
S. Jones, this is therefore to cite al! d
concerned to show cause why the sniii
Bryaus should not ho dismissed lrq
Guardianship of Lb S. Jones, and receij
usual letter of dismission on the first i|
in April 1890.
i_ Given under my baud and seal.
Dec. 23rd 1883,
0. SSAM.iNS,
Orainl
GEORGIA, Rockdale county
Whereas G. W. Grauade, executor 1
last will of Timothy his petition deceased, duly icpvcsej filed an
the court in
tered on record, that he has fully ahnini
Timothy Granade’s estate, this is tlicref
cite all persons concerned, heirs and erf
to show cause, if any they can, wh, sa
ecutor should not be discharged from li
cutorship and receive letters of dismiss:
the first Monday in April 1890.
This Dec. 23rd, 18S9. 0.SEAMA!
3m Ordin
