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have been built had the Romans known 
that water will always rise to the level 
of its surface. 
The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, 
was 425 feet long and 225 feet broad, 
while the roof was supported by 127 
columns, each sixty feet high. It re¬ 
quired 220 years to build the temple.— 
New York Herald. 
HOW THE FOUNDER OF THE VENDOME 
COLUMN WAS RUINED 
TOURING the past century one of 
the most enormous monuments 
which were attempted in bronze was 
the celebrated Vendome Column. The 
French Government entered into a con¬ 
tract with an iron-founder who had 
never been engaged with either the 
modeling or casting of bronze; the 
Government engaged to supply him with 
the cannon which had been taken from 
the Russians and Austrians during the 
campaign of 1805 in (|uantity sufficient 
to found the monument. Knowing noth¬ 
ing of the phenomena which the fusion 
of bronze offers, he discovered when he 
had completed two-thirds of the column 
that he had used up all his metal, 
kmough bronze had been served out to 
him to complete the monument, and he 
was responsible for the full amount. 
Ruin stared him in the face. In order 
to get out of his difficulty he melted 
up his scoriae and mixed the metal with 
some cheap refuse which he bought, and 
so managed to finish the founding. 
1 hese castings were discovered to be 
full of flaws, and the work was stopped, 
to the utter destruction of the founder, 
d he moulding of the different parts of 
the bas-relief was so ill-executed that the 
chiselers employed to repair the defects 
removed no less than seventy tons of 
bronze, which became their perquisite 
in addition to £\i,ooo paid for their 
Vdhov.- Illustrated Carpenter and Bntlder 
CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKES 
/V “CATALOGUE of Earthcpiakes 
^ ^ on the Pacific Coast, 1769 to 
1897,” by Dr. E. S. Holden, forms No. 
1,087 “Smithsonian Miscellaneous 
Collections.” In compiling this cata¬ 
logue, Dr. Holden had in view the 
determination of the general facts as to 
distribution of earthquake shocks, as to 
topographic areas, as to time, intensity 
etc., and also the characteristics of partic- 
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