Smyrna times., 1857-05-20

mon. Aims were collected for them, and Par
lament granted large sum of money to relieve
their immediate necessities. Five hundred
families went under the protection of the gov
ernment to Ireland, aud the rest were sent out
| to New York and Hudson's Bay. But not being
well received by the people there, they went 10
Pennsylvania, where they settled in 17O9.-
Being there greatly encouraged by the Qua
kers, they invited over some thousands OF Ger
man and Swiss Protestants, who soon made this
colony more fiourishing than any other.
Germany was covered in the days of Caesar
with an immense forest, called the Hercinan
Forest" 1t was sixty days journey in length,
and nine days in breadth. The Black forest
was part of it.
The term heresy before the Christian era WIS
applied to q particular sect. Soon after that
era it began to be applied to those who propa-
gated their private opinions in opposition to the
Catholic church. Simon Magns. who came to
Rome A. d. Al, was the first hereto Thirty
went frem Germany to England in ll60 to pro.
pagate their opinions. and were branded in the
forehead, whipped, and thrust naked into the
streets in the depth of winter, where, none dar-
ing to relieve them, they died of hunger and
cold. The statute for burning hrre;ics was
passed in l40l, and William Sawtrec, recIur o
st. Osyth's, London, was the first that suffered
The statute was repealed in 1871
The creed the Lords payer, and the com
| ma ndments were first translated into the Saxon
language by Alfred in 76l-the first translato.
of any portion of the Bible into English.
| Iron is said by the ancienIs to have first been
discovered by the burning of the f,rcsis Oh
Mount Ida. 1882 before Christ. But Moses re.
lates that it was wrought by Tubal Cain. Ii
was first cast in England at Blckstead Sussex,
| by Rail- Page aud Peter Baude, l544. There
is iron enough in the blood OF torty-two men to
make a ploughShare weighing twenty four
pounds.
| The ancients wore Jewels, and 80 prodigious
was the extravaganza OF the Roman ladies in
this respect, that Plny the elder says he saw
Lolita Pauina wearing ornaments which were
| valued at Egg 916. Yet the custom of wear
| ing jewels seems to hive gone completely out
of fashion, for il is related th~t Agnes Sorrell,
! in l:34, was The FIRST woman in France that
wore any.
! The story of the extravaganza of Cleopatra,
| who dissolved pearl in vinegar and drank it at
a dVaught, is familiar TO most readers of his
tory. History abounds with like instances OF
folly. In 1850, so great was the extravaganza
and ostentation Of the French nobility, tha,
when Raymond de Eenous, Count of Tholouse,
held full court, in order to reconcile two con-
tending powers, the "nvIrons OF the castle were
plowed and sowed with silver dcniers. to the
amount of seventy-fve hundred pounds. The
food was. s.dressed by the heat Of wax light, and
Raymond caused thirty Of his horses 10 be burnt
before the assembly.
In the year 1915, perpetual rains and cold
weather having not only destroyed the harvest,
but produced mortality among the cattle, III
England, Parliament endoavored to moderate
the prices of provisions.
The Emperor Charlemagne, in the year 800
instituted the ceremony at Easter Of a Chris
tan's giving any Jew he might meet, box on
the ear. The custom was afterwards carried t.
such an extent that Jews were sometimes kill
ed by the force Of the blow. This custom
about the beginning Of the 18th century, wal
changed into tax. and appropriated to tn,
eanons Of St. Sernin.
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