THE COST OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11713, 13 July 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE COST OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

The cost of Solomon's Temple an] 'i.-. internal decorations and other pauphernalia wag on« <>f th« won of olden times. Accord -npf to Vi'!-i'-panders, the '•talents' 1 of aroU, ilr^-, and brass used in its construe i n i-eiv valued at t' e enoruom tn n of J-6 879,822,000 The worth <f ffiGf l iG jjwels is generally placed at a fii^o-o equally bigh. The vessels <-f £-A \ according to Jo3ephu3, were va 'j- i at 140,000 talents, which reduced to English m mcy (ns ha.3 been sh'^u ly Cnapel's redaction tables) was eqaa! fy L 575 296 < 203. The rebels of si'rr, according to the same a'ithoriti>s, «^t:ro still more va'nabl», being eetd^uas worth L 619 344 000, VtleiU v^sments and robji of singers, L2,010,C00, trampets L200.0)0 To the ab.ve add tbe expense of building malarial?, labour, etc., and we get some w.tnerful figares. Ten thousand men hawing cedora, 60,000 liearars of burdeas, 80,000 hewers of stone, 3300 or rs>cr?, all qt whom were erpplojed for 'ertn years, and upon whom, boslU^ 'heir wage?, Solomon bestowed L 6,738 9!)7. If their daily food was worth 2- a«';, tbe sum total for all w&s L 63,87 7 :088 daring the time of buildiag. Ti.e mate/ial in tie rough is estim td as having been worth L 2,545,337 000. These several estimates snow tl.> toal cost to ha*e been L 17, 412,442.108.

Only six per cent of the criminals in tbe United States are women. "Toe mostv costly chair in exf-tence belongs^to the P,up3. It ia of silver, is worth ninety tbousanl ddks, and was a present from a wealthy a inrirer. A French specialist in mental diseases has diicorered that (l66 ■u1:u 1 : a! every 100,000 soldiers and eaiK-rs bs come hopeless lunatics. Am^ng mechanics the average is but 6d pir 1 )0,000. The Dum-Dam bullet derive* it? name from Dam-Dum, Indi3, where it was first" made. Its top is of brass, scd hollow. When it stakes its victim it becomes umbrella shape!, and texrs ita way through the flesh, making a dangerous wound. Blood poisoning aHs in thiity minutes after the bullet *'nk-is.