A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 19 January 1884, Page 2

A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Ancient ruins which surpass any: thing of the kind yet .discovered on the, American Continent, Jjave been found in Sonora, about four piiles southeast of Magdalena, Mexico. There la fine pyramid which has a base of 435f) feet, and rises to a height of 750 feet. It lias a winding roadway leading from the bottom by an easy grade to the top wide enough for carriages to pass over, which is many miles in length. The outer walls of the roadway are laid In solid masonry from huge blocks of granite in rubble, and tlie circles aro. as uniform and the grades as regular an could be made at this date by the best engsneers, To the east of the pyramid a short distance is a small mountain about the same size and rising to about the same height. On the sides of this mountain a people of an unknown asp have cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms, from sft x 10ft to lGffc or 18ffc square. These rooms are cut out of solid stone, and so even and truo aro the walls, iloor, and ceiling, so plumb and level as to defy variation. There are no windows to the rooms, and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are Bft high from floor to ceiling. On the walls are numerous hieroglyphics and representations of human forms, with feet and hands out in the stone in different places, Stone implements., of: every description aro to bo found in groat numbers in and about tho rooms. ■ It is, of course, a matter of much speculation as to who the inhabitants were, and in what ago thoy lived. Some say they were the ancestors of tho Mayos, >

a race of Indians who still inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin, and light hair, and are said to bo a moral, industrious, and frugal race of people, who have a written language, and know something of mathematics,

Yesterday Bullard Water-bury calling attention to bis shirt' whyMßy was very neatly made and which li'gWk'' said with pride, was'mado by His wife: T* "Did she make the entire shirt ?! asked Gilhooly, carelessly... «■ Every : stitch of it.' 'Well, I didn't know. I heard that she always collared' pi ■' " cuffed you, bat I didn't know who made the rest of the shirt,'

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-Horn &i , . fault—ln all' irritations of tho skin,-, sores, ,■, ulcers, burnß, and Bcrofulous enlargements ~,, of the glands, Molloway's Ointment presont3 .. a ready and easy meaM of cure, whichnover disappoints the most favorable expectations. • , It manifests a potent and peculiar power in restraining inflamttlion, removing -stagnc tion, cooling tho heated blood, and checking all acrimonious or unhealthy discharges. Whilst thus acting locally, tho Pills aro no less remarkablo'for {heir power in improv' ing the general condition antf habit pf'bpdy,' which renders the oures complete anij permanent. Under the genial influence of these potent 'remedies, tho puny infant •■■;; bccomeß the robust child; tho pale and emaciated regain color aud flesh, and tho dyspectie eats freely, without fear.