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# Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Cap. VII.-IX.

​VII. The Indian tribes, Megasthenês tells us, number in all 118. [And I so far agree with him as to allow that they must be indeed numerous, but when he gives such a precise estimate I am at a loss to conjecture how he ​arrived at it, for the greater part of India he did not visit, nor is mutual intercourse maintained between all the tribes.] He tells us further that the Indians were in old times nomadic, like those Skythians who did not till the soil, but roamed about in their wagons, as the seasons varied, from one part of Skythia to another, neither dwelling in towns nor worshipping in temples; and that the Indians likewise had neither towns nor temples of the gods, but were so barbarous that they wore the skins of such wild animals as they could kill, and subsisted on the bark of trees; that these trees were called in Indian speech tala, and that there grew on them, as there grows at the tops of the palm-trees, a fruit resembling balls of wool; that they subsisted also on such wild animals as they could catch, eating the flesh raw,—before, at least, the coming of Dionysos into India. Dionysos, however, when he came and had conquered the people, founded cities and gave laws to these cities, and introduced the use of wine among the Indians, as he had done among the Greeks, and taught them to sow the land, himself supplying seeds for the purpose,—either because Triptolemos, when he was sent by Dêmêter to sow all the earth, did not reach these parts, or this must have been some Dionysos who came to India before Triptolemos, and gave the people the seeds of ​cultivated plants. It is also said that Dionysos first yoked oxen to the plough, and made many of the Indians husbandmen instead of nomads, and furnished them with the implements of agriculture; and that the Indians worship the other gods, and Dionysos himself in particular, with cymbals and drums, because he so taught them; and that he also taught them the Satyric dance, or, as the Greeks call it, the Kordax; and that he instructed the Indians to let their hair grow long in honour of the god, and to wear the turban; and that he taught them to anoint themselves with unguents, so that even up to the time of Alexander the Indians were marshalled for battle to the sound of cymbals and drums.
# Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Cap. XIV.

​XIV. But such as are too young, or through the weakness of their constitution not worth keeping, their captors allow to escape to their old haunts; while those which are retained they lead to the villages, where at first they give them green stalks of corn and grass to eat. The creatures, however, having lost all spirit, have no wish to eat; but the Indians, standing round them in a circle, soothe and cheer them by chanting songs to the accompaniment of the music of drums and cymbals, for the elephant is of all brutes the most intelligent. Some of them, for instance, have taken up their riders when slain in battle and carried them away for burial; others have covered them, when lying on the ground, with a ​shield; and others have borae the brunt of battle in their defence when fallen. There was one even that died of remorse and despair because it had killed its rider in a fit of rage. I have myself actually seen an elephant playing on cymbals, while other elephants were dancing to his strains: a cymbal had been attached to each foreleg of the performer, and a third to what is called his trunk, and while he beat in turn the cymbal on his trunk he beat in proper time those on his two legs. The dancing elephants all the while kept dancing in a circle, and as they raised and curved their forelegs in turn they too moved in proper time, following as the musician led.
The elephant, like the bull and the horse, engenders in spring, when the females emit breath through the spiracles beside their temples, which open at that season. The period of gestation is at shortest sixteen months, and never exceeds eighteen. The birth is single, as in the case of the mare, and is suckled till it reaches its eighth year. The elephants that live longest attain an age of two hundred years, but many of them die prematurely of disease. If they die of sheer old age, however, the term of life is what has been stated. Diseases of their eyes are cured by pouring cows' milk into them, and other distempers by administering draughts of black wine; while their wounds are cured by the application of roasted pork. Such are the remedies used by the Indians.
# Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Cap. XVII.

​XVII. The Indians are in person slender and tall, and of much lighter weight than other men. ​The animals used by the common sort for riding on are camels and horses and asses, while the wealthy use elephants,—for it is the elephant which in India carries royalty. The conveyance which ranks next in honour is the chariot and four; the camel ranks third; while to be drawn by a single horse is considered no distinction at all. But Indian women, if possessed of uncommon discretion, would not stray from virtue for any reward short of an elephant, but on receiving this a lady lets the giver enjoy her person. Nor do the Indians consider it any disgrace to a woman to grant her favours for an elephant, but it is rather regarded as a high compliment to the sex that their charms should be deemed worth an elephant. They marry without either giving or taking dowries, but the women, as soon as they are marriageable, are brought forward by their fathers and exposed in public, to be selected by the victor in wrestling or boxing or running, or by some one who excels in any other manly exercise. The people of India live upon grain, and are tillers of the soil; but we must except the hillmen, who eat the flesh of beasts of chase.
​It is sufficient for me to have set forth these facts regarding the Indians, which, as the best known, both Nearchos and Megasthenês, two men of approved character, have recorded. And since my design in drawing up the present narrative was not to describe the manners and customs of the Indians, but to relate how Alexander conveyed his army from India to Persia, let this be taken as a mere episode.
* ↑ Hence one of his names is Vâraṇa, implying that he not only carries but protects his royal rider.
* ↑ The ekka, so common in the north-west of India, is no doubt here indicated.
* ↑ Marriage customs appear to have varied, as a reference to the extract from Strabo pp. 70-71 will show. See Wheeler's History of India, pp. 167-8.
# The Ugly-Girl Papers/Chapter 23
### CHAPTER XXIII.

* Hands and Complexions.
* Preparing for Parties.
* Refining Rough Faces.
* Carbolic Baths.
* Chalk and Cascarilla.
* Glycerine Wash.
* School-girls' Flushed Hands and Faces.
* To Soften the Hands.
* Red Noses.
* Secrets of Making-up.
* Cologne for the Eyes.
* Cosmetic Gloves.
* To Impart a Brilliant Complexion.
People are in trouble in cold weather about their hands and their complexions, which take the time when parties abound, and owners need their very best looks, to put on a ruinous air. It is more than suspected that the young lady who begs for some good face powder or wash that will hide a bad complexion without spoiling it entirely, has the end in view of making herself presentable in society for the winter. Her entirely reasonable request shall be attended to, no less on her own account than because she writes in the name of four devoted subscribers. Carbolic soaps fail to ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/251 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/252 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/253 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/254 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/255 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/256 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/257 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/258
# The Ugly-Girl Papers/Chapter 24
### CHAPTER XXIV.

* Women's Looks and Nerves.
* A Low-toned Generation.
* Children and their Ways.
* Brief Madness.
* Women in the Woods.
* Singing.
* Work well done the Easiest.
* Sleep the Remedy for Temper.
* Hours for Sleep.
* The Great Medicines
* Sunshine, Music, Work, and Sleep.
Women's looks depend too much on the state of their nerves and their peace of mind to pass them over. The body at best is the perfect expression of the soul. The latter may light wasted features to brilliance, or turn a face of milk and roses dark with passion or dead with dullness; it may destroy a healthy frame or support a failing one. Weak nerves may prove too much for the temper of St. John, and break down the courage of Saladin. Better things are before us, coming from a fuller appreciation of the needs of body and soul, but the fact remains that this ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/260 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/261 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/262 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/263 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/264 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/265 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/266 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/267 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/268
# Libussa

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From Musäus' Volksmährchen der Deutschen volume 3 (1784), which includes a retold version of the ancient Czech folk tale about Libuše, based on its narration in the Latin chronicle Historia regni Bohemiae by Johannes Dubravius (1552)
English-language translations of Libussa include:
* "Libussa", translated by John Oxenford in Tales from the German (1844) (transcription project)
* "Libussa", translated by Adolf Zytogorski in Libussa, Duchess of Bohemia; also The Man Without a Name (1852)
* "Libussa", translated by Thomas Carlyle in Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter (1874)
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# The Ugly-Girl Papers/Chapter 25
### CHAPTER XXV.

* Changing Wigs and Chignons.
* Matching Braids.
* Frizzing the Hair.
* Crimping-pins.
* Blonde Hair-pins.
* What Colors Hair.
* Bleaching Tresses.
* Sulphur Paste.
* Foxy Locks.
* Freshening Switches.
The secret of content for most women is not perfection, but change. They can not even be satisfied with their looks long at a time; but Mary, Queen of Hearts as well as Scots, must draw an auburn wig over her luxurious tresses, dark and smelling of violets, for which regal-haired Elizabeth would have given. the ruffs out of her best gowns, and her recipe for yellow starch with them. The "pretty Miss Vavasour," who changed her chignon every morning with her costume, was a type of the fickle beauties of the day, who are always better satisfied with some other woman's style than their own. Women of intelligence send ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/270 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/271 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/272 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/273 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/274 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/275 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/276 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/277 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/278
# The Ugly-Girl Papers/Chapter 26
### CHAPTER XXVI.

* Hair and Complexion.
* Black Dyes.
* Persian Blue-Black.
* Peroxide of Hydrogen.
* Chloride of Gold.
* Transient Dyes.
If it were easy to change the color of one's hair, and possible to fix that change, which it is not, the result in most cases would be far from desirable. Nature tints hair and complexion in harmony with each other, and both should be deepened if one is altered. Human pictures as well as canvas would often be improved by bringing out the colors, but the free hand of Health, that divine artist, is the only one whose work is tolerable or enduring. In health this harmony of tint is varied and delicate, ranging from the rose-and-snow complexions that suit the true blonde dorée, the translucent honeysuckle-pink that sets off red-brown, blue-black, and olive-brown ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/280 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/281 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/282 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/283 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/284 ​Page:Ugly-girl papers.djvu/285
# Chronicle of the law officers of Ireland/Judges' Salaries in 1690

​ The following table shews the annual fees paid to the Judges and Law Officers out of the civil establishment, immediately after the revolution, from the Appendix to the Commons' (Ir.) Journal, Vol. II. p. 80.— ​An Establishment or List containing all the annual payments to be made for civil affairs from 25 December, 1690.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
| | £ | s. | d. |
| Lord Chief Baron, for his fee and robes | 500 | 0 | 0 |
| Second Baron, for his fee and robes | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Third Baron | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Prime Sergeant, for his fee and robes | 33 | 16 | 8 |
| Second Sergeant | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Attorney-General, for his fee and robes | 88 | 6 | 8 |
| Solicitor-General | 88 | 6 | 8 |
| Augmentation to the three barons, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| COURT OF KINGS'S BENCH. |
| The Lord Chief Justice, for his fee and robes | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Second and third Justices, each | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Augmentation to the three Justices, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Lord Chancellor of Ireland | 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. |
| The Lord Chief Justice, for his fee and robes | 500 | 0 | 0 |
| Second and third Justices, each | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Augmentation to the three Justices, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
# Chronicle of the law officers of Ireland/Present Salaries and retired Allowances

​ ​Charge of the circuits to every Justice of Assize who goes at £100, which for five circuits twice a yeare comes to the sume of £2000.—The allowance of such as doe not goe the circuite to he save to the King.
# Chronicle of the law officers of Ireland/Present Salaries and retired Allowances

​ The following table shews the annual fees paid to the Judges and Law Officers out of the civil establishment, immediately after the revolution, from the Appendix to the Commons' (Ir.) Journal, Vol. II. p. 80.— ​An Establishment or List containing all the annual payments to be made for civil affairs from 25 December, 1690.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
| | £ | s. | d. |
| Lord Chief Baron, for his fee and robes | 500 | 0 | 0 |
| Second Baron, for his fee and robes | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Third Baron | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Prime Sergeant, for his fee and robes | 33 | 16 | 8 |
| Second Sergeant | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Attorney-General, for his fee and robes | 88 | 6 | 8 |
| Solicitor-General | 88 | 6 | 8 |
| Augmentation to the three barons, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| COURT OF KINGS'S BENCH. |
| The Lord Chief Justice, for his fee and robes | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Second and third Justices, each | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Augmentation to the three Justices, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Lord Chancellor of Ireland | 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. |
| The Lord Chief Justice, for his fee and robes | 500 | 0 | 0 |
| Second and third Justices, each | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Augmentation to the three Justices, at £200 each | 600 | 0 | 0 |
​Charge of the circuits to every Justice of Assize who goes at £100, which for five circuits twice a yeare comes to the sume of £2000.—The allowance of such as doe not goe the circuite to he save to the King.
# An Act constituting the Department of Inland Revenue

An Act constituting the Department of Inland Revenue.
[Assented to 22nd May, 1868.]
Preamble.
Department constituted.
Minister.
Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner.
Of what matters the Department shall have the control and management.
* 1. Of the collection of all duties of Excise;
* 2. Of the collection of Stamp Duties and the preparation and issue of stamps and stamped paper, except postage stamps;
* 3. Of Internal Taxes;
* 4. Of Standard Weights and Measures;
* 5. The administration of the laws affecting the culling and measurement of timber, masts, spars, deals and staves, and other articles of a like nature, and the collection of slidage and boomage dues;
* 6. The collection of Bridge and Ferry tolls and rents;
Subject always to the provisions of the Acts relating to the said subjects and matters connected therewith.
Governor may appoint officers, and fix their pay, &c.
Board of Examiners of applicants for employment.
Annual Report by Minister.
Inconsistent enactments repealed.
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# The New Student's Reference Work/Valencia (Venezuela)

See also Valencia, Carabobo on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​Valencia, a town of Venezuela, South America, in the province of Carácas, two miles east of Lake Valencia. The city is situated in an exceedingly fertile district, in which cattle and horses are raised in great numbers. Population 38,654.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 24 - Layard

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​Layard. — Many descendants of the good refugees have served in the army. I have already mentioned (see chapter xv.) his grandsons, brothers of the Dean of Bristol, Lieut.-General Anthony Lewis Layard, and Lieut- General John Thomas Layard. The Dean’s eldest son, founder of the first branch of the Layard family, Rev. Brownlow Villiers Layard, served in his youth as a lieutenant in the 7th Fusiliers; two of his sons were Lieutenant-Colonels, as is his grandson and principal representative; three other sons were in the army, viz., Lieut. George Henry Layard of the 89th Foot (born 1806, died 1848), Captain John Beville Layard of the 22nd Madras Native Infantry (born 1809, died 1846), and Lieut. Augustus Villiers Layard of the 23rd Madras Native Infantry, who died in 1848.
As to the second branch, represented by Sir Henry Austen Layard, I have already named Lieut.-General Frederic Peter Layard, born 6th May 1818; he was of the Bengal Staff Corps, having entered the army on 11th November 1838, and became a Lieut.-General on 7th September 1884; his son Julian Henry Layard, an officer of the 37th Foot, died near the Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War on 24th September 1877; another son is Lieut. Arthur Austen MacGregor Layard of the Royal Engineers. General Layard had a brother, Captain Arthur John Layard of the 38th Foot. Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of the Second Division in the Crimea, who died at Balaclava on 7th August 1855, aged thirty-six.
As to the third branch, Sir Charles Peter Layard has two brothers in the army, viz., Captain Brownlow Edward Layard of the Ceylon Rifles, born 15th April 1810; and General William Twistleton Layard, born 4th August 1813; he entered the army on 22nd February 1833; he earned a medal for services in Burmah, and commanded the troops in the Kornegalle district of Ceylon in the year 1848; he was in active service as a Colonel in i860; his son Colonel Charles Edmund Layard, born 18th September 1838, is Lieut.-Colonel in command of a battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment, and became a Colonel in the army in 1885.
# The Works of Virgil (Dryden)/Poem 5

To Mr. Dryden on his Translations.
AS Flow'rs transplanted from a Southern Sky, But hardly bear, or in the raising dye, Missing their Native Sun, at best retain But a faint Odour, and but live with Pain: So Roman Poetry by Moderns taught,$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ Wanting the Warmth with which its Author wrote, Is a dead Image, and a worthless Draught. While we transfuse, the nimble Spirit flies, Escapes unseen, evaporates, and dyes.
Who then attempt to shew the Ancients Wit, Must copy with the Genius that they writ. Whence we conclude from thy translated Song, So just, so warm, so smooth, and yet so strong, Thou Heav'nly Charmer! Soul of Harmony! That all their Geniusses reviv'd in thee.
Thy Trumpet sounds, the dead are rais'd to Light, New-born they rise, and take to Heav'n their Flight;
Deckt in thy Verse, as clad with Rayes, they shine All Glorify'd, Immortal and Divine.
As Britain, in rich Soil abounding wide, Furnish'd for Use, for Luxury, and Pride, Yet spreads her wanton Sails on ev'ry Shore, For Foreign Wealth, insatiate still of more; To her own Wool, the Silks of Asia joins, And to her plenteous Harvests, Indian Mines: So Dryden, not contented with the Fame Of his own Works, tho' an immortal Name, To Lands remote he sends his learned Muse, The noblest Seeds of Foreign Wit to chuse. Feasting our Sense so many various Ways, Say, Is't thy Bounty, or thy Thirst of Praise? That by comparing others, all might see, Who most excell'd, are yet excell'd by thee.
George Granville.
# The Faerie Queene (1590/1596)/Books 1 to 3 (1590)/Book III/Canto V

Cant. V.
# The O-Wash-Ta-Nong

The O-Wash-Ta-Nong is an amateur periodical edited by George W. Macauley. It was published from 1936 until 1951, alongside Macauley’s other main journal, Hay Stack.
* Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 1937)
* Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1938)
* Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 1938)
# The O-Wash-Ta-Nong/Volume 3/Number 1

The
O-Wash-Ta-Nong
An Amateur Journal
From the Land of the Ottawas
The O-Wash-Ta-Nong From the Land of the Ottawas
An Amateur Journal published in the interest of the National Amateur Press Association by George W. Macauley.
Printed at The Mayhew Press of 1747 Paris Avenue, in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan. 1938
Contents
* Assorted Photographs
* The Outpost
* The Birth of British Amateur Journalism
* Where There's a Will There's a Way-Out
* Rose
* With Our Exchanges
* Be a Booster and be Present
* Ibid
* Japanese Hokku
* Acirema
* The Lambkin
* United we Fall - Divided we Stand
* In Correction
* Forget It Kid
* Sand vs. Mud
* Early Michigan Literati
Cincinnati Invites You to the 63rd July 2nd 3rd & 4th
Make your resolution now to attend the 63rd at Cincinnati
July 2nd, 3rd & 4th
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# Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/Ronald's Lament

Copyright. Contributed to Carpenter's "Penny Readings," vol. iii., and inserted in this collection by permission.
# Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/The Caged Lady of Buchan

John Comyn, the last of the Earls of Buchan, had married Isabel Macduff, sister of the recusant Earl of Fife—one, along with her husband, of Edward's adherents. This lady was as warmly attached to the cause pf the Bruce as her husband and brother were opposed to it. The honour of placing the Scottish crown upon the head of the sovereign at the ceremony of coronation belonged of hereditary right to her brother, Lord Fife; but when Bruce was to be crowned at Scone, her brother, by his desertion of the cause, had forfeited, or at least abandoned, this distinguished privilege of his family. Determined that none but a Macduff should aspire to this honour, and in the enthusiasm of her own zeal for the cause, Isabel heroically assumed the office, and with her own hands raised the crown of Scotland to the brow of her rightful sovereign. Soon after this, Edward unfortunately became the arbiter of her future destiny. Isabel, having fallen into his hands, was kept shut up a prisoner, for seven years in Berwick Castle, in an iron cage; illustrating a frightful feature of the times, and of the character of Edward in particular.—Pratt's Buchan.