Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — Trusting to His Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Trusting to His Imagination.

“Can you give me a drink, madame ?” begged the tramp. “I can give you a drink of water,” she said. “Well,” he said, after some consideration, “water’ll do, if you give me an old tomato-can to drink it from. I’m a poor and lonely wreck, madame,” he continued, with pathos; “but, thank heaven, I have still the remnants of what was at one time considered the finest imagination in the county where I was born!”— Puck. The greated pyramid is that ot Cheops, one of the three pyramids forming the Memphis group, situated on a plateau about "137 feet above the level of the highest rise in the Nile. Its dimensions have been reduced by the removal of the outer portions to furnish stone for the city of Cairo. Its masonry consisted originally of 89,02b,000 cubic feet, and stillamounts to 82,411,000 feet. The present vertical height is 450 feet, against 479 feet originally. The total weight of the stone is 6,316,000 feet. How many in hot pursuit have hastened to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold —the mind anc(. the power to enjoy it