AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 170, 5 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

A sailing-boat the Little Western, with two hands, Thomas and Forman, from Oloucester, FI ass., to London, arrived at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on July 28, all well, having been -to days from land to land. The men report that beyond shipping a sea, which nearly capsized the boat, the voyage had been passed without accident. The dimensions of the boat are:—Length, Hi feet 7 inches ; beam, <> feet 7 inches ; depth, t! feet .7 inches. Flic is cutter rigged, and carries one small boat. WANTED—AX EASY PLACE. ilev. Henry Ward Beecher some time since received a letter from a young man, who recommended himself very highly as being honest, and closed with the request, ‘ Get me an easy situation, that honesty may be rewarded.’ To which Mr. Beecher replied: ‘ Don’t be an editor, if you would be ‘ easy.’ Do not try the law. Avoid school keeping. Keep out of the pulpit. Let alone all ships, stores, shops, and merchandise. Abhor polities. Keep away from lawyers. Don’t practice meeicine. Bo not a farmer nor a mechanic; neither a soldier nor a sailor. Don’t study. Don’t think. Don’t work. None of them arc easy. omy honest friend you are in a very hard world ! I know of but one real ‘ easy ’ place in ir. That is the grave.’ AN C! ENT AM K !1 l( ’A N <,J 1A NTS. The Mev. Stephen Bowers notes in the • Kansas City lleview of Science,’ the openi sg of an interesting mound in Brush Creek Township, Ohio. The mound was opened by the Historical Society of the township, under the immediate supervision of Dr. •]. It. Everhart, of Zanesville. It measured sixty ■ four by thirty-live feet at the summit, gradually sloping in every diiection, and was eight feet in height. There was found i:i it a sort of clay coJim enclosing the skeleton of a woman measuring eight feet in length. Within iiis eolliu was found also the skeleton of a child about three and a half feet in length, and an image that crumbled when exposed to the atmosphere. In another crave was found a skelction of a man and woman, the former measuring nine and the latter eight feet in length. In a third grave occurcd two other skeletons, male and female measuring respectively nine feet four inches and eight feet. Seven other skeletons were found in the mound, the smallest of which measured eight feet, while others the enormous length of ten feet. They were buried singly, or each in separate graves. Besting against one of the coffins was an engraved stone tablet (now in Cincinnati), from the characters on which Dr. Everhart and Mr. Bowers are led to conclude that this giant race were sun worshipers.