nd in 1835 the galleries,
taken collectively, had reached the unprecedented length of 123 miles.
A new gallery, begun in 1838, had reached a length of eight miles at
the time of the census of 1878. The deepest perpendicular mining shaft
in the world is located at Prizilram, Bohemia. It is a lead mine; it
was begun 1832. January, 1880, it was 3,280 feet deep. The deepest coal
mine in the world is near Tourney, Belgium; it is 3,542 feet in depth,
but, unlike the lead mine mentioned above, it is not perpendicular. The
deepest rock-salt bore in the world is near Berlin, Prussia; it is
4,185 feet deep. The deepest hole ever bored into the earth is the
artesian well at Pottsdam, which is 5,500 feet in depth. The deepest
coal mines in England are the Dunkirk colleries of Lancashire, which
are 2,824 feet in depth. The deepest coal shaft in the United States is
located at Pottsville, Pa. In 1885 it had reached a depth of 1,576
feet. From this great depth 400 cars, holding four tons each, are
hoisted daily. The deepest silver mine in the United States is the
Yellow Jacket, one of the great Comstock system at Virginia City,
Nevada; the lower levels are 2,700 feet below the hoisting works.

FATE OF THE APOSTLES.--The following brief history of the fate of the
Apostles may be new to those whose reading has not been evangelical:

St. Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom or was slain with
the sword at the city of Ethiopia.

St. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, till
he expired.

St. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree in Greece.

St. John was put into a cauldron of boiling oil at Rome and escaped
death. He afterward died a natural death at Ephesus in Asia.

St. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem.

St. James the Less was thrown from a pinnacle or wing of the temple and
then beaten to death with a fuller's club.

St. Philip was hanged up against a pillar at Hieropolis, a city of
Phrygia.

St. Bartholomew was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king.

St. Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached unto the people
until he expired.

St. Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Caromandel, in the
East Indias.

St. Jude was shot to death with arrows.

St. Simon Zealot was crucified in Persia.

St. Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded.

St. Barnabas was stoned to death by Jews at Salania.

St. Paul was beheaded at Rome by the tyrant Nero.

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