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twenty feet, or more, above the surround¬ 
ing country. This ash-pile, which in 
the mouth of the people has received the 
euphonious name of “ash mountain,” 
or after the name of the burgomaster, 
“Monte Georgi,” is situated outside the 
city limits proper, in a suburb called 
Rosenthal, or “Valley of Roses,” prob¬ 
ably because onions and othervegetables 
are raised there in quantity by truck far¬ 
mers. I bis ash-hill will now be cov¬ 
ered with vegetation at the expense of 
I.eipsic, the City Council having appro¬ 
priated 10,000 marks for that purpose. 
They are so proud of the mountain, 
which they have built with ashes and 
patience, that they will erect on the top 
a tower, the view^ from w hich is even now 
being spoken of as the great coming 
attraction of Leipsic .—Philadelphia 
Press. 
TRIUMPHS OF ANCIENT BUILDERS 
building operations of the 
ancients were often conducted on 
a vast scale, and the methods they used 
to bring about their results are practi¬ 
cally unknown in many instances. 
These operations were often on a scale 
that surpasses anything in modern 
times and are in many cases almost 
inconceivable. 
The Great Pyramid is 543 feet high, 
636 feet on the sides and the base covers 
eleven acres. It is built of 208 layers of 
stone. Many of the stones are more 
than thirty feet long, four feet broad and 
three feet thick. 
From Thebes the French removed a 
red granite column ninety-five feet high 
and weighing 210 tons and carried it to 
Paris. Many of the ruins of Thebes are 
on a very great scale and built of exceed- 
ingly costly materials. 
Babel, now called Birs Nimroud, 
built at Babylon by Belus, was used as 
an observatory and as a temple of the 
sun. It was composed of eight square 
towers, one over the other, in all 670 
feet high, and the same dimensions on 
each side of the ground. 
Eight aqueducts supplied the ancient 
city of Rome with water, delivering 
40,000,000 cubic feet daily. The aque¬ 
duct of Claudius was forty-seven miles 
long and 100 feet high, so as to furnish 
the hills. That of Martia was forty- 
one miles long, of which thirty-seven 
miles were supported on 7,000 arches 
seventy feet high. These would never 
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