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tuber:mees wherewi!.h to, dig !.bom:' 'from the'
soli, We now inbale pure air. and are not
poisoned w\1h tbe rarified and partially
blUDed oxygen of stove-fumisbed rooms;
nor do we waste onr physical powen and excellencies
for the sake or a,passing moment
of pleasure, whlcli'is faJ.e, fleeting, eYanes-
.. cent and hoUow, and con.equentlY do not
, sap !.be foundations of life, from which tlow
tho finer emotlollB and feelings of the spirit.
But our education COlUmonces in !.be hodies
__ andBIJuIs cl.-.--paret>!&, years ~ ~ are
born ; consequently we bave none of !.be
strange looking men which people of the dark
times of the 19th century, called physicians,
or doctors, wbo were endowed wi!.b a knowl­
'of the science or polsons j for it Is a iact, Zo-
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Uvia, !.hat whenever Ii. mao
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or
'
wemno becnme
polsone.i, these peroonagea .trn.lgbtwa~ administered
polson still more deadly !.ban the
original j.yet, in spite of all !.his, !.he people
lived to the astonishing age 0,1 60, '10, and
, sometimes 80, or more, yeanl. ' Thie resulted,
however, from !.he fact, that men took more
care of their bodies than their mlnd.9 ; ior, Il,'
like us, _they knew how to expand the soul
aud fit It for the slUe.., they would sooner
have left !.he earth;, and mounted alolt, to a '
'happIer bOrne:"" . , -.--
,Thus ends a part 01 the lett.el" we thus far
havo_.been able to decipber. We have engar,ed
tho services of an "-'nlnen! eryptOgraphlst,
who will furnish further transl;'"
tious, at another time.
THE lIJSTOUY OJ!' Ol,EOl'A'rIl.A'S NEEt>J..E. '
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_ Mr. .1ohn DixOD, C. E., the engineer who
• has _nndertaken the task of removing from
_ Alexandria and erecting in London the Cleo­
_ patra obelisk, lately gave an Inreresting lee·
ture at the United Seriice Institution, on the
'I!bject of his arrangements for tho conveyance
oi !.be stoliO to Jo:nglaod, and-tile plan,
'he purposes adopting for placing it upon Its
pedestal, when a suitable site sball bave heen
derennined upon.
, Cleopatra'. Needle, as it has been rel'lned,
was ,the oldeal monument existing which
, recorded upon ilB face a hi~tory dating from
its birth, and as some persons bad questioned
the utilit,. of taking such pains to po.sess It,
he might, he thOUght, bring to their recollection
a few of the principal dflUo-S with which
tbe monolith was .... oclated. !o1ftcell hUIl-­
elred and fifteen years before Chri.t, Thath­
DIes UI, the great"st monarch of llis time.
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