A Colorado Stone Giant

A Jjenver assuyer write io uut; oí iue ocal papers: "In August, 1875, five of us were wospecting in the vicinity of Pueblo. tu coming upon a sand-stone quarry one of the observed a sort of likeness of a man drawn upon the rook. The incident occasioned a deal of talk about ancieut creations, and the idea of getting up a second Cardiff giant was favorably discussed. The party agreed to undertake the task, and a stone-cutter named Saunders, who kad been working in the vicinity, and known to be a ele ver hand at modeling, was at once souglit out and an agreement made for the figure. While the plan was iu progresa one of the party, in a joking way, said the thing ought to have a tail, as in ancieut times men had taüs six or seven inches long. It was deeided among the party that the flgure shouid be known as a petrified Aztec Indian, and that they would resurrect Mm after six months and impose him on the public as such. The stone-cutter, not seeing the joke, set to work and made the figure, with tail nppended. The price paid the artigan was $135, and, alter lie had completed the figure, it was buried. The 'Muldoon' was made out of eaud-stone and dricd by the cabin lire, which partly accounts "for the little holes on the surface. After the burial - two feet from the surface of the ground - the party went their ways to await the resurre'ction. A few of' the prospectará got wind of the proceedings and were keeping an eye on the party, and so they dispersed in different directions. Finally they became scattered, some in New York, and tho remairder in different portions of the country. I had forgotten nearly all about the matter when the discovery was chronicled in the papers. But I considered it best to keep still about it, and it was only through accident that I said mything in regard to the matter." A Dütchman was riding in the cars, and wanted to get out at a certain avenue. When the street was reached, he carne to the door of tho car, thinking the conductor would stop. As the conductor paid no attention to him, ho said, " Say, condooctur, you don't sthop de car; I van to get out here." The conductor wa was another Dutchnian like himself, anc ïpplied: "Veil, vy yon rlou't my 'po; oHn'ti fifihrnu]! id."