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winter, men will not work with the same 
diligence. So it is evident that it is 
foolish to compare Mexican with Amer¬ 
ican labor, and to print long columns 
of comparative wages .—Mexican Corre¬ 
spondence Boston Herald. 
ANCIENT COPPER MINES 
^ j| ^HE copper mines of Sinai, the 
most ancient mentioned in his¬ 
tory, were the subject of a recent 
communication by M. Berthelot 
to the French Academy of Sciences. 
Authentic documents show that these 
mines were worked since the time of the 
Egyptian dynasty (about five thousand 
years B. c.) until the end of the Rames- 
ides (about 1300 to 1200 B. c.). While 
their possession was the object of several 
wars, they have been abandoned for 
three thousand years on account of the 
poor quality of the ores. From these 
mines came the sceptre of Pepi F, a king 
of the sixth dynasty, which is now pre¬ 
served in the British Museum, and 
which Berthelot’s analysis showed to be 
of pure copper. The adits still exist, as 
do ruins of the furnaces, the crucibles 
the huts of the miners and fragments of 
their tools .—Boston Transcript. 
DISCOVERIES AT POMPEII 
A T Pompeii some mural paintings of 
^ more than ordinary interest have 
recently been disclosed. In the Eighth 
Region, between Nos. 16 and 21 of the 
Second Insula, Via III and IV, the re¬ 
markable discovery has been made of a 
house five stories high. The upper 
floor, which is entered from the highest 
level formed by a mound of prehistoric 
lava, is profusely decorated, and the 
principal hall displays on one wall the 
myth of Bellerophon, a nude figure who, 
holding with one hand the bridle of his 
horse, is in the act of receiving the letter 
and orders of King Proetus,who is seated 
on a throne before him. The lower part 
of the house,,looking towards Stabia? and 
the sea, was used as a bathing establish¬ 
ment. Three steps lead into the frigi- 
darium, which is perfect, the lower part 
of the surrounding walls being painted 
blue, and the upper red. The middle 
of the right wall is occupied by a picture 
representing a nymph, semi-nude, borne 
over the waves on a sea-horse. The 
horizontal band dividing the blue from 
the red surface is a kind of frieze of comic 
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