The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-08-23
A CURIOUS EXHIBIT.


)ne Of the most curious of the re-
It arrivals in the Agricultural Bull
" was received and placed in posi-
in the Oregon department yester-
v. It is chart about twenty-five
/ long and two and a half feet wide,
ssenting in unbroken lines the COM
ete history Of man, including the
cord of every nation from the Garden
Eden TO tho Present. Upon the
lie adopted the nations, empires,
ngdoms, republics and States the
lnners, customs and dress the prog
IS, civilization and discoveries /; the
vention Of steam electricity, mechan'
3: the introduction of letters, the
ogress of language, the spread Of lit
ature the names, nationalities and
stinguishing characteristics of emf
mt men the names and dates of all
lportant battles, discoveries and in-
sntions the rise and fall Of ancient
npires, dynaeties and peoples the
annes Of all the sovereigns, emperors,
ings, rulers of the earth and the du-
lsion of their authority the area,
opulation, and the number to the
Iuare mile to each country, with an
petome of ancient and modern histo-
Y, together with a fac sinuite of ancient
oins, medals, stones, monuments, obe-
isks, and pyramids of Egypt, Syria,
Uneven, and Babylon; of implements
warfare and hasbandry, alphabet
al letters and hieroglyphics mythol-
,gy-the gods, temples, and priests |;
Il geology-the stone age, the iron age,
he brass or bronze of navigation
he compass, the galley, and the clip
Der ship; Of astronomy-the size, the
distance, and number Of heavenly bod
les are all given in their proper sys-
tematic relation to the worlds history.
As tho atlas shows the place where, SO
The chart shows the time when, and
the relative position Of one event to
another. In this work the author evil
IDENTIFY does not assume to be response
BILE for the facts of history, but gives
thom simply as they are found on rec
ord in the several histories of the va
rious nations of the earth. Every
student Of history has experienced the
difficulty attending the effort to elimi'
nate the salient facts of general history
from the voluminous network of sub
ordinate facts and details with which
they seem inevitably entangled. With
out something of this kind to assist il
separating the important facts of his
tory from the confused ideas and jun
BILE of unconnected facts, can we hop
to make accurate progress in under
standing the full record Of our race
This chart shows what is going on a
the same time, the world over, in al
the nations. One of the chief feature
of this work is what is termed syn
chronism, for here we find, without tn
loss of several hours at general librS
ry, that the founding Of Troy an
Athens were contemporaneous with tt
Egyptian bondage and the founding
Thebes by Cadmus. These also occu
red at the time of the first introductio
Of letters, with the Israelites in IL
wilderness, the building Of the large
pyramid by Cheops, and the reign
Saul, the first King of the Jews; q
roaster, the Persian philosopher, ar
Hesiod, the Greek poet. We learn
a glance that when Solomon was wri
ing his Proverbs, that Homer was W.T.
ing his piece of ancient Troy; th
Lycurgus, the Spartan law,giver, VI
made iron a legal tender, and had pu
lie tables to which all were invite
and abolished all theatres and lux
ries, lived at the same time as Que
Dido, the founder of Carthage, a
that when Isaiah was prophesyi
Romulus was founding Rome; th
Pythagorus, who invented the forI
nine problems and the multiplicati
table, lived contemporaneous with
Ion who revised the bloody laws
Draco, and Esop, who wrote tn,
wise and witty fables, and Nebuchi
nezzer, who took the Jews captive, a
the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel of
cred history; that Cinnatus, the Ro
an patriot; that Perieles, the gr
Athenian statesman ; Herodotus,
father of history; Xerxes, Socra
and Ere F.; Plato, Xenophen aud M
aehi lived at the same periods of til
This chart is simply a most unexpec
illustration of the benefits of obje
teaching, and it had been in place
than half an hour, yesterday, when
was surrounded with visitors. 1t
the first thing of the kind ever
tempted in this country or in Euro
and it is rather a curious fact tina
resident Of the distant State of Ore
should be the exhibitor.-PhiladelE