Cleopatra's Needle

The monoUth which fnids a norci restlnz-pltvce on American soü was erectel on ita original site under tn ereatust of the Egyptian pnnces of the eiditeenth dynasty, Thothmes III., the brother and suocessor of Hatshepu, the "woinan-khiï," whose ïmne is borne on the two great obeliska of Amen-ra. The inscriptiona which havo been deoiphered upon the New York obelisk, I as it raay now bo oalled, %ke us back, tliercfore. to a period morcffiianfiiteen centnries before Clirist, and to tl ie Aranueean age in history of the lUüy Land which was ïnvaüea anu cuuquerod by Tbothmes III. The monofith was perinés gaed U)oa Ly Moses. . ., E"-yptolo-ïist3 tc11 us now Kreat monoliths, oarly soventy toet high, wcre taken from the grauita quarries at Syene by the skillod woriïucn of antiquitv, and conveyed thenco to Karnae and Èeliopolis. Inoi-derto quarry thein the stoue wasnwrkcd the wholo length required, and niatal wed"os wcre driven iiito tlia Lina. Another plan, which also showed wonlerful ingenuity, was to ïuscrt ■wedgegof extrernely iry wftud, ana then to pour water upon thcin Uil they split aud displaced the stone. I'linvsavsthat they wcre ecl tö thëNüe with the aid ot flatbottomed boats, floatlng in canalsepecially preparcd for the purpo. Sharpe says that they we re placed in an erect position by cutting a groove in the pedestal, in which the lower e-l"o of the monolith inignt turn as U it werealmi-e, the top of the obelisk being clevated by inems ot a moand of earth, the size of wlucli was continually incroased, titl the stono stood sccurely erect. Fl-om. lleliopolis -wherc they stood bclbre Uie entrancc of the temple of the god rum, or the Setting Bun, they were Uuusnorted to Alexanlria Aui'ing Ujo reian of Tibcrius, but bear tiie popularnaino beoauae of a tradiUon tnat they were brought to Aleiaudria ui the time of Cleupatra. Sam Patch is ontdone by Tom Boyd a wanefing clock tiuker. Boyd latelv found business di8oourginál' ln" iu Keiituoky. Tie bridge "fi""""" Kivcr near MunfordsviUe, is 125 lect hi-h. He advertised in tlie newspapers that, at, a cei-uúii time, ke would drop firom tliat structure into the water bclow, Uu said ho cared very littie whother h.o lived ox not, and therofoi-o dia iiot niind the risk. On the othet band he would make moneyby thefoat, ifitdid not Milita. The railroad corapany óvrhing tho bridge excluded hira at tu-st.btit at leugtU, so clamoroug was the ndulüiode, cotBontedtoletUimtakethflliaaard. Ho went dowu licad forciuost, uyd V& Uüt hui-t.