THE COLOSSUS KNOCKED OUT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 1

THE COLOSSUS KNOCKED OUT.

M. Eiffel has rendered a real service tomankind in connection with thefamous Colossus of Rhodes. !•'<» centuries that impertinent statue has been thing, so to speak, in our faces as an evidence of the vast superiority of ancient over modern engineers, and thousands of unhappy school-boys have been compelled to commit to memory its impudent proportions. Now conies M. Eiffel and demonstrates with slate and pencil that no such statue ever existed nor ever could exist. There never lived an engineer who could have placed a bronze statue standing astride of the entrance to the port of Rhodes, for the simple reason that the weight o the body would infallibly have crushed the legs. Let us hop,, that M. Eiffel will pursue his good work and demolish the aggravating hanging gardens of Babylon ami prove that the exasperating temple of Diana at Ephesus was alsmt the size of an ordinary Methodist chapel.