Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-01

hlmanacs nfst puDllSned, l4lO.
Spinning wheels invented, 1880.
Spinning Jenny invented, 1859.
Camera Obscura invented, 1915.
Printing invented by Faust, l441.
Engraving on Wood invented, 1860.
Roses first planted in England, 1905.
English Shilling first coined, 1905.
Diamonds cut and polished, 1889.
Punctuation first used in literature,
1920.
Gun locks invented at Nurenburg,
1917.
Watches first made at Nuremburg,
1894.
Soap first made at London and Bris-
toll, - 4.
Theatrical Exhibitions first given in
England, 1878.
Muskets invented and first used in
England, 1921.
Post Offices established in England,
1864.
Printing introduced in England by
Caxton, 1474.
Maps and Charts first brought to
England, 1889.
Fortifcations built in the present
style, 1900.
Sugar Refining first practiced by the
Venitians, 1903.
Chocolate introduced into England
from Mexico, 1850.
Turkeys ntr"oaa;aiccd into England
from America, 1920.
Engraving on Copper Invented,
1451.
Canals in modern style first made in
1881.
Algebra introduced into Europe by
| the Saracens, 1412.
Casts in Plaster invented at Flor
cnce, 1870.
The true theory of the Solar Sys-
tenn discovered by Copernicus, 1892.
Playing cards invented for the amuse
ment of the French king, 1890.
New Style introduced into England,
1855.
Identity of lightning and electricity
discovered by Franklin, 1853.
Achromatic lenses invented by Dol
land, 1858.
Crayon drawing first invented by
Bennett, 1929.
Chronometer invented by Sir John
Harrison, 1859.
Lightning-rods invented by Frank
lin, 1910.
PosTHUMoUs THoUGHTs AFTER
DINNER PARTY An English satirical
writer thus administers drop Of ven-
omous gall to givers of good dinners
When your guests are gone, sit down
and review the progress of the enter
taipment, thinking how nicely every
thing went off, do you remember, mad
am, that at the same moment your
guests are seated in their own homes,
putting all the circumstances in quite a
different light ; laughing at your hired
grocer, who (you are just say
ing looked so like butler execrat-
ing your champagne, which (you are at
this moment Aatter;ng yourself) passed
for the product Of the grape and not
the gooseberry and generally putting
yourself, your children, your house,
your dinner, your company, your mu-
sic, into such ridiculous light, that, if
you knew it (Which happily you never
willy you would wish that you had
mingled a little strychnine with the
vintage so villfed!
EXTRACT OF WoRDs.-An Eastern
monarch had books enough to load
thousand camels. 81 cannot read all
this" said he. "Select the cream and
essence Of it, and let me have that"
Whereupon the librarian distilled this
ocean Of words down to thirty camel
loads. ''Too bulky yet" said the
monarch. 81 have not time to read
that" Whereupon the thiry loads
were loubly distilled, and the selection
made was but single ass load.
"Tco bulky yet," said the monarch.
Whereupon it was trebly distilled, and
the only residuum was these three lines,
written on palm leaf
This is the sum Of all science
Perhaps.
This is the sum of all morality
Love achot IS good, malpractice 1t.
This is the sum Of all creeds Be
Heve ,Uhat Is true and do nat tell all
you beIIere.
CRIME The league between virtue
and nature engages all things to as
sumo a front hostile to vice. The
beautiful laws and substances Of the
world prosecute and whip the traitor.
lie finds that all things are arrayed for
truth and virtue that there is no den
in the wide world to hide a rogue
Commit crime, and the earth is made
Of glass. Commit a crime, and it
seems as If a coat Of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods
the track Of every partridge, and fox,
and squirrel, and mole. You cannot
recall the spoken word you cannot
wipe out the foot-track; you cannot
draw up the ladder so as to leave 20
inlet or clue. Some damning circum-
stance always transpires. The laws
and substances of nature-water, snow,
wind, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES penalties to
the thief.
Poor Folks AND ARIsTOCRATIC STo-
RIEs.- Poor folks prefer to read aris
tocratlc stories. So says an able re-
viewer, who thus expresses it:
We are told, by those who have gone
into the statistics Of our cheap popular
literature, that the fiction which comes