Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — A Wall Built of Statues. [ARTICLE]

A Wall Built of Statues.

Two striking instances of the wanton destruction of works of art after the fall of the Empire have been obtained in the last few days. A few yards from the so-called Temple of Minerva Medica, in Rome, a wall was discovered built with statues. Seven have already been put together, as I mentioned in my last letter. Not far from the same place we are exploring a foundation wall, eight feet square, built with same materials. The upper strata contain slabs of marble stripped from pavements and from w alls, steps, lintels, thresholds, etc. The middle strata contain columns, pedestals, capitals, all split into fragments. Finally, at the bottom of the wall, statues begin to appear of exquisite workmanship, together with busts, henna), bas-reliefs, etc. The stratification of these marbles shows that at the time when the foundation wall was being constructed there was in the neighborhood a shrine, a temple, a fountain, or some such monument, in good preservation and profusely ornamented. The masons first took advantage ofwhatever was movable without difficulty, and accordingly we find the statues at the bottom of the trench. Then they put their hands on what was half movable, and this is the reason why columns, capitals, etc., are found in the middle strata. A further want of materials obliged them to attack at last the building itself, its steps, thresholds, etc.— The Athenaum.

At Half-Way, a station between Auburn and Syracuse, N. are f >er ‘ ry fish ponds, where brook trout, salmon trout and California trout are raised for market. The Water in the ponds is pumped from clear mountain streams. All the eggs are packed in moss. The fish are fed upon the lights or lungs of animals, as this kind of meat does not sink to the bottom, and these trout feed from the surface. When food is thrown to them they show as much eagerness as a flock of chickens, rushing pell-mell over each other, throwing the water up in little sprays, and flinging it about until one who objects to being' showered steps back. Mihnows arid small brook trout are also thrown to them, which are taken down Jonah-like at one swallow. The large fish are kept apart-from the small ones, even of the same Kind, else they will continually illustrate the old adage “ the big fish feed upon the little ones.”

—Jack Singleton, colored, was arraigned in Charleston, S. C., on the charge of beating his wife. It being proven to the satisfaction of the court that Jacob had exOTcised his authority with no indication of malice or ill-Wili, Justice Chisholm dismissed the case, holding that a husband had the right to chastise the wife for net'correction. “X>*ug:h mid Grow Fat.” Thfi ancient bit ot advice is well enough for “spare" people, but how about those that are akfady too fall Wtiat Is to become of them! Bft still, and I’ll tell you. After many experiments, extending through months of patient investigation and toil, the celebrated analytical chemist, J. C. Allan, has perfected and given to the world Allan’s Anti-Fat. Thus far In several hundred cases this great remedy has never failed to reduce a corpulent person from three to six pounds per week. It is perfectly harmless and positively efficient. Sold by drugglkta. ' Housekeefehr prefer C. Gilbert’s Starches. Ch«w Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

61sei the composition of one of the moot popular propnetory medicine*—we ■ peak of Dr. F. Wllhoft’* Aotl-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic—has been published and accompanies every bottle, the sales of this greatest sj>ecifl<!>Jcr the cure of Chill* and Fever, Dumb Chills and hypertrophied Spleen have doubled; and the leading physician* prescribe It in tluir practice phen the usual remedies fall All Druggists sell It.