The Danes have been building a vessel upon the lines
of Noah's Ark as described in Genesis. The model is thirty feet long, five feet wide, and three feet in height, its total size being one-tenth of Noah's structure. It was floated on the Sound on October 30th, with a party of professors, engineers, and officials on board, and is reported, rather, it would seem, to its designer's surprise, to have behaved admirably at sea. The event is probably regarded by the Danes as a confirmation of the Biblical account of Noah's escape ; but it also confirms the theory put forward in Herr von Ihering's remarkable book, "The Evolution of the Aryan," in which he maintains that the Babylonians had at a very early period a sea-borne commerce, that Noah's ship was a seagoing vessel, and that it was driven, as recorded in the Babylonian annals, by a storm: wave up the Doab of the Tigris and Euphrates into the mountains. The remembrance of this calamity, which, destroyed whole cities, lasted long, and grew with the Jews into the account, obviously impossible as a literal state- ment, of a flood which was universal. Herr von Ihering further states that the Babylonians constantly kept doves on board their ships, which they occasionally released ; and thus, by following the direction of their flight, were able to reach land.
Bank Rate, 3 per cent.
Console (2f per cent.) were on Friday 87i.
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