Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — SIX CENTURIES TO BUILD. [ARTICLE]

SIX CENTURIES TO BUILD.

Cologne Cathedral Wm in Process of Krection Six Hundred Years. While the first stone of Coldgne Cathedral was laid on Aug. 15, 1248, and the body of the edifloo was not >poned until Auk. 15, 1845, 505 jmx%

later -o m, very day. n was ever, until Aug. 15, 1880, .ip|jjj| did structure was finally reporter . pleied, having thus occupied Itti WBMj log the record time of exaetlM 11111 l years. .1 The castle of Kingsgobe*®! W ffj|§f stands at the southern extreailfl |j|j||| Jutland, took 204 years from tbjß'fgfpj iug of the foundation stone to tbSfjl||| King of its master’s banner on its ft. /:Jjj est flagstaff. Its foundation stotMX .ij the skuil of its builder’s bitterest® '■‘o. iny. Three months after its Count Jliorsing, the builder castle, was killed. His son was JS „‘j|| iT : i lug ‘‘i< lies ill- did not*! jjMM rinue iiis father’s work until aged® mmjim On his twenty fifth birthday bfc \ tin-ow n into prison by the son of|lSJJ|| man whose skull lay in the Ivingsg-.iH-rg’s foundation stone. Injt .'I ;;a i .. . master of Ivlj) golx-rg was stopped putting ao fflf§§§| stone toward the completion of j| l|||| founder’s work till civilization ifmjjSßi Between Perth and KingnsM^pnH s.-or land, on the direct John o’ Gsl to Land’s End road, stands Murflßgij| Castle, a magnificent struct tire, designed in the early palaaMj the present century. It is not Ilf | to !»■ finished, ho vever, building i. |§jjj| s another < Only a few miles distant, on the at I fill main road, is the vast, unfinishedll f ||f| ace of the dukes of Athol. It wa*ji wHj gun by the fourth duke, who dieSpflH 1 and who planned it on the n: fj||| sumptuous style. When it will !>e one of the finest private deuces in the kingdom. * |B| For over twenty years Lord ButeljSSj been busily building a great mans., I.TOg on the island of that name. It is not .•"lupimi-d nor ilk.-iy to t*e for anotfcl ten years. At the end of that permßm Mount Stewart, as the place is to9«B called, will be one of the most gorgeotßil establishments in the world. - |||| Itestormel Castle, in Cornwall, toHH ninety years to build, of which perflHHj exactly one-third was occupied in/T-y l|H rating the foundations. The so®*mjjMg upon which it stands is almost . 4*9i1l as iron. Indeed, “Restormel” in Cornish, “the palace of the rock.” Milan Cathedral was begun in IiHH and finished under Napoleon in lSoqß||| 419 years. f The Duorao at Florence was ctflS meneed by Amulfo in the year the last block of marble being placed ljß| position in the facade in presence the King on May 12, 1887, a period 593 years.—Stray Stories. Rubber Heels Are Worn. Everyone knows that when cross a bridge they are ordered to step, so that the regular so many feet shall not «ndjtngeSLjjM9 safety of the structure. Now an armMl surgeon of France has discovered tbfflj the brain jar due to long regular step is as trying on the frame as such marching is on the s*niijfl[ ture of a bridge. To the regular tition of a shock to bone* and caused by this uniform and ued marching are due the aches, pains and illness of the < >n a one-day march, be says, this shocljH Is repeated 40,000 times, and often tihXl strongest men who can walk the santfl| distance without trouble when noLjflj line succumb to the strain in two three days. Therefore this surgeon poses as a remedy the use of heels. This device has been tried in tj(H[ French infantry with great succeamllll But our army has a better plan that. We simply break the step the command “route step.” At thdflß gait the men march In columns of foasflg at the rate of three to three and a miles an hour. They carry their pleceKj at will, keeping the muzrle They are not required to preserve affl ence, nor to keep the step. And tbadHi why the American doesn’t wear rulfl[ bers. fl|