Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-08-23
EVENING STAR,
A Carfous Exhibit.
A MOST WONDERFUL CHART THE Hts
TORY OF MAN.


TORY OF NAN.
One % the most curious OF the recent ar
rivals Ia. tie agricultural building vas re-
ceived aid placed 10 position in the Oregoa
department yesterday. II is a chart about
= ieet long and > \ feet wide. presenting In
uubroken lines the complete history OF man,
including the record Of every nation from
The garden OF Eden 10 the present. Upon the
scale adopted the nations, empires. king
doms, republics aud states; the manners,
customs and dre5s, TIE progress, clvilizs.
ton and discoveries; the invention OF steam,
electricity, mechanics; the Introduction of
letters, the progress OF language, the spread
OF literature; the names, nationslities and
distinguishing characteristics OF eminent
men; the nance and dates OF all Important
battles, discoveries and inventions; the rise
and fail OF ancient empires, dynssties aud
peoples; the names Of all the sovereigns, en-
pefoTs, kings, rulers OF the earth aud the du.
ration OF their authority; the area, populs-
ton and number TO the square mile to each
country, with IN ept'ome of ancient and
modern history, together with q fac smile
OF ancient coins, medal, stones, monuments
obelisks AID pyramids of Egypt, Syria, Nj
fare and busbandry, alphabetical letters ard
hlero2l phics; OF m thology-the gots, te 10
pies ana priests; OF geology the stone
age, the iron age, the brass or 5fuLE-: or
navigstlCn- the Compass the galley, ant
the clipper ship; OF astronomy-the size, ths
distance, the number OF heavenly bodies are
all given In their proper systematic relation
to the worlds history. As the atlas SHOWS
The place where, so the chart shows the
time When, AID the relative position rfone
event To another. In this work the .iuthor
evidently does cot assume ~ be resp lsib!e
for the facts OF history. but gives them sim
ply as they are found on recori IN the sew
eral histories of the various nations of the
earth. Every student OF history has exps-
rienced the difficulty attending the effort 20
eliminate The salient facts OF general history
from the voluminous network OF su Coordinate
facts and details with which they seem In
evitably entangled. Without something OF
fnan
tant facts of history from the confused ideas
and tumble OF uncopnected facts, can we
nope 10 MAKE ma f accurate progress IN under
chart shows what Is going on at the same
time, the world over, in all the nations One
OF the chief features of this work IS what is
termed synchronism, for here we find, with
out the loss OF several hours at a general
library, that the founding of Troy aud
Athens were contemporaneous with the
Egyptian bondage and the founding OF
Thebes by Csimus. These also occurred
at the time OF the first Introduction
OF letters, with the Israelites In the
wilderness, the building of the largest
pyramid of Cheops, and the reign of saul.
the first King OF the Jews; HOroaster, the
Persian philosopher, and HesiOd, the Greek
poet. We learn at a glance that when Solo
mon was writing his Proverbs, that Homer
was writing his piece OF ancient Troy; that
LycurRus, The Spartan law giver, who made
iron legal tender, and had public tables to
which all were invited, and abolished all
theaters and luxurles, lived at the same
time as Queen Dido, the founder OF Carthage,
ard the Prophet Elijah; that when Isaiah
was prophesying Romulus was Founding
Rome; that Pytbagorus, who invented tue
forty-nine problems and multiplication Ia
bic, lived contemporaneous with Scion, who
revised the BLOODY laws OF Draco, and Esop,
who wrote those wise and witty fables and
Northumberland, who took the Jews Captive
and the Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel of sa,
cred history; that CincInnatus, the Roman
patriot; that Pericles, the great Athentan
statesman; HerodOtus, the father OF history;
Xerxes, Socrates, and Ezra: Plato, Xeu0-
pbon, and Malachi lived at the same periods
OF time. This chart Is simply a most unex-
pected illustration of the benefits OF object.
teaching, and IL had been in place Yesterday
less than half an hour when IL was shYsound-
ed with visitors. 1t is the first thing of the
kind ever attempted in this country or in
Europe, and 1t is rather curious fact that
a resident of the distant state of Oregon
should be the exhibitor.-IP PHI. Press.