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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 514, 16 February 1883, Page 5

A German traveller, Herr Sester, has discovered in the vicinity of the Euphrates, at the place where the river makes a way for itself at Mount Taurus, monuments of collossal proportions and altogether unknown until now. On a mountain about 6,500 feet high, which is situated between Madatich, Sarisat, and Diarbekir, are found remains of buildings which attain the height of sixty feet, and which are covered with inscriptions that have remained almost intact, but yet indecipherable. These monuments appear anterior to the Assyrian period. In the immediate vicinity of these monuments, there have been found the ruins of the royal sepulchre of the Comagnees, which leads to the supposition that these remains form part of a gigantic pantheon.— PUoi.

A constant source of unhappiness to Louis Blanc, the French statesman and agitator, who died the other day, was his dwarfish size. The wife of an English church dignitary almost drove him into a state of suicidal frenzy by asking him when he was detained in her country house during a storm, whether he would mind sleeping in a child's bed. Another day at Brighton, he was rendered supremely wretched because he was taken at the Pavilion for Gen. Tom Thumb An old lady said to him: "You darling? I must really kiss yon" He took his short stature from the Corsican side of the house. '