Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-26
A CURIOUS EXHIBIT.
A Most " onderful Chart-The His.
tory of Man.

from the Philadelphia Press, August 15.l
One of the most curious of the recent
arrivals in the agricultural building
was received and placed in position i'll
the Oregon Department yesterday. 1t
is chart about twenty-five feet long
and two and half feet wide, presenting
of man, including the record of every
nation from the Garden Of Eden to the
present time. Upon the scale adopted
are the nations, Kingdoms, republics and
states the manners, customs and dress;
the progress, or clylTlZHI1on srrlra-.aircov--
cries; the invention OF steam, electricity,
the introduction OF letters,
the progress of language; the spread OF
literature; the names, natiOnalities and
distinguishing characteristics Of eminent
men the names and dates of all impor-
tant battles, discoveries and inventions;
the rise and fall Of ancient empires, dy-
nasties and peoples; the names of all the
sovereigns, emperors, kings, rulers Of
the earth and the duration of their au-
thc-ity the area, population and num-
ber to the square mile to each country,
with an epitome OF acient and modern
history, together with fac-simile Of
ancient coins, medals, stones, monu-
mcnts, obelisks and pyramids OF Egypt,
Syria, Nineveh and Babylon; of imple-
ments OF warfare and husbandry; al
phabetical letters and hiereglyphlcs; of
mythology-ihe gods, temples and
priests; Of geology-the stone age, the
iron age, the brass OF bonze; of naviga-
tion-the compass, the galley and the
clipper ship; of astronomy-the size, the
distance, and number of ofheavenly bodies
are all given their proper systematic
relation to the words history. AS the
atlas shows the place where, SO the
chart shows the time when, and the re-
lative position of one event to another.
In this work the author evidently does
not assume TO be responsible for the
facts of history, but gives them simply
as they are found on record in the sew
eral histories of the various nations OF
the earth. Every student Of history
has experienced the difficulty attending
the effort to eliminate the salient facts
of general history from the vol
luminous network of subordinate
facts and details with which they seem
inevitably ertangled. Without some.
thing of this kind to assist in separating
the important iacts OF history from the
confused ideas and tumble of unconnect
ed facts, can he hope to make accurate
progress in understanding the full record
of our race? This chart shows what j.
going on at the same time, the worlC
over in all the nations. One Of The
chief features of this work is what il
termed synchronism, for here we find
without the loss of several hours at {
general liberty, that the founding O
Troy and Athens were contemporaneou
with the Egyptian bondage and th'
founding of Thebes by Cadmus These
also occurred at the time of the frs
introduction of letters, with the Israel
ties i'll the wilderness, the building O
reign Of Saul. the first King of the Jews
Zoroaster, the Persian philosopher, ant
Hesoid, the Greek poet. We learn a
a glance that when Solomon wa
writing his Proverbs, Homer wa
writing his piece of ancient Troy
Lycurgus, the Spartan law-giver. VIII
made iron legal tender, and had publi
tables to which all were invited, and abol
ished all theaters and luxuries, lived a
the same time as Queen Dido, the found
er of Carthage, and the Prophet Elijah
that when Isaiah was prophesyin.
Romulus was founding Rome; tina
Pythagoras, who invented the forty-nin
problems and multiplication table, live
contemporaneous with Solon. who re
vised the bloody laws of Draco, an,
Ksop who wrote those wise and witt
fables, and Nebuchadnezzer who too
the Jews captive, and the Prophet
Ezekiel and Daniel of sacred history
that Cincinnatus, the Roman patriot
that Pericles, the great Athenian states
man Herodotus, the father of history
XerXes, Socrates and Ezra; Plato, Ken
ophon and Malachi, lived at the sam
periods of time. This chart is simply
most unexpected illustration of the ben
eiits of object teaching, and it had bee
in place yesterday less than half al
hour when it was surrounded wit
visitors. 1t is the first thing of the kim
ever attempted in this country or il
Europe, and is a rather curious fact tina
4 resident of the distant state of Oregon
should be the exhibitor.
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