The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-05-18
A Few Centennia1s and Milleniais

A Few Centennia1s and Milleniais.
100 years ago-American independence.
200 years ago--king Phillip (the In
diam defeated and slain; habeas corpus
in England
300 years ago-Massacre of St Balthol-
omew Spanish Amanda preparing
400 years ago-Printing invented 1sa-
bella the coming queen.
500 years ago-The days of Tamerlane,
the Turk, and Chaucer, the English poet
GOO years ago-Baliol and Bruce, Rich
ard Bacon, Thomas Aquinas; House of
Hapsburg founded
200 years ago-Richard Cnur de Lion
and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, measuring
swords in Palestine
500 years ago-William the Conquerer.
900 years ago-FIugh Capet, the French
man.
1000 years ago Alfred the Great
l, 100 years ago - Charlemague and
Haroun al RaschI
1920 years ago-Mahometdanism max
ing livel y work in Constantinople and
other places
sian. lives by murder, and the Pope is
AA"NS O. oSS"l4sl JudSC hIllSS.
1,4OO years ago-The Saxons lively in
Britain; Clovis establishes the French
monarchy and the Visigoths conquer
Spain.
1900 years ago-The Roman empire
having legislated many years in favor of
capital against labor, begins TO fall to
pieces.
1,600 years ago--The world has moth
inCr hattar to 10 tl,op 10
nounce heresies ana get up religious per
secutions.
100 years ago-Marcus Aurelius. Ia
citus and Plutarch.
1880 years ago-Jerusalem DESTROYED
and Herculaneum and Pompeii burned.
1876 years ago-All the world at peace
and Christ born
5000 years ago-Adam rose to the dig
nifty OF large real estate owner, but BY
poor management was driven into inyo!-
untary bankruptcy.
RUBENsTEIN's DEATH The sudden
death OF Rubenstein in his cell is an event
that can scarcely fail to excite many and
various suspicious. and vet it can be sut-
ticiently accounted for without reference
to other than strictly natural causes Ora
AA'''NAS iehiiSiNo dlG JOpuldl, anu IL IS SO
much in the style of romances that catch
the general applause to assume that con-
demned murderer who suddenly dies has
by some deep ruse cheated the gallows,"
that many will resolutely persist in that
opinion, But it is more rational to be-
lleve that a step of that sort, if taken.
would only be taken when all hope
from the courts was gone Rubensteid
had lVall MI rh cta i
10y fasting, and did not know, perhaps.
how far he had gone with this. for
an excited mind sustained him and his
weakness was not felt But day of ex-
haustion came, the mind that had alone
sustained him broke down, and collapse
resulted. This seems the Just explana-
ton Of his death New York Herald.
fire April 18th in the Theatre DIES Arts in
houen France, broke out while the actors were
dressing for performance Of the opera of
Hamlet, and was discovered before the public
was admitted. The flames spread rapidly The
outlets to the building were so narrow that the
exits of the members of the chorus and super-
nunlerarles were cut off, and the poor people
crowded the windows, many leaping upon the
bedding piled below by the Inhabitants One
chorus singer was visible for an hour in an up
per window, beyond the reach of help. Four
deayoring to save lives. About fifty persons
were badly injured and taken to the hospital.
A leading singer, Nine. Pzys, entered the burn
ing building in search of her husband and per-
ished.
A Gentleman in Paris paid a visit the
other day to a lady, in whose parlor he
saw portrait of q lovely woman, of, say
tiveandtwenty. Upon the entrance of
the lady her visitor asked her ii the pict-
ure was a family portrait, and was told
that it represented her deceased daughter.
HAS it been long since you lost her ?"
asked the gentleman. "Alas, sir Z" re-
Piled the lady, 'she died just after her
birsh, and | had portrait painted to
represent her as she would have appeared
if she had lived until now.n
An old farmer says of his boys From
sixteen to twenty. they knew more than
did at twenty-five, they knew as much;
at thirty, they were willing to hear what
l had to say at thirty five, they asked nv
advice, and | think when they get to be
forty, they will acknowledge that the old
man knows something.
We should feel that great blessing had been
vouchsafed the whole country if we could only Sc
from the east, Hendricks or Thurman from the west
We could trust either one of them on any platform
or without any platform. Platforms at least are but
shifting winds on the ashore ATLANTA Constitu
ton.
found a youngster in my hall
A seedy little loafer-
Marring with marks my stairway wall
The rascal did Ego for"
Said he 81 cannot tell lie,
Like George with his little hatchet;
You see, saw niche IAN itch) in the wall
And was bound to scratch it."
It has been demonstrated In Alabama that a No.
gro can be killed by blow the head but not that
his skull can be fractured In row in an Alabama
prison last week. negro convict assaulted another
with an iron pot weighing 10 pounds, but, though
the wounded man died of concusson of the BRAIN
apost-mortem examination failed to show that the
blow had affected the skull.
A countryman went to see his lady love, and,
wishing to be COW ersat0nal, observed, 1.-THE Their
momokrOn is twenty degrees above zero this even
ing" Eyes" innocently replied the maiden "such
kinds of birds do fly higher some seasons of the
year than Others"
Wishing to pay his friend a compliment.
gentleman remarked: 81 hear you have very
industrious wife," eyes," replied the friend,
with q melancholy smile, "she's never idle.
She's always finding something for me to do"