The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-29
A WONDERFUL CHART.

A WONDERFUL CHART.
The History of the World Boiled Down
from the Philadelphia Pressl
One of the most curious of the recent
arrivals in the Agricultural building was
received and placed in position in the
Oregon department yesterday. 1t is q
chart about % feet long and p feet wide,
presenting in unbroken lines the COM
plete history OF man, including the
record OF every nation from the Garden
OF Eden to the present. Upon the scale
adopted the nations, empires, kingdoms,
republics and states the manners, GUS
toms and dress the progress. civiliza.
ton and discoveries the invention of
steam, electricity, mechanics the intro
duction of letters, the progress of Ian
guage, the spread of literature the
names, nationalities, and distinguishing
character istics of eminent men the
names and datesof all important battles,
discoveries and inventions the rise and
fall Of empires, dynasties, and peoples !;
the names OF all the sovereigns, empe-
rors, kings, rulers of the earth and the
duration of their authority the area,
population, and number to the square
mile to each country, together with
fac smile of ancient coins, medals,
stones, monuments, obelisks and pyra-
mids of Egypt, Syria, Nineveh and
Babylon of implements of warfare and
husbandry, alphabetical letters and hero
glyphics of mythology-the gods,
temples and priests of geology-the
stone age, the iron age, the brass or
bronze of navigation-the compass,
the galley, and the clipper ship !;
Of astronomy-the size, the dis
lance and number of heavenly bodies
are all given in their proper systematic
relation to the worlds history. AS the
atlas shows the place where, 20 the chart
shows the time when, and the relative
position of one event to another. In this
work the author evidently does not as
sumo to be responsible for the facts OF
history, but gives them simply as they
are found on record in the several histo-
ries 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 his
tory from the volumninous network of
subordinate facts and details with which
they seem inevitably entangled. With
ont something of this kind to assist in
separating the important facts of his
tory from the confused ideas and tumble
of unconnected facts, can we hope to
make active progress in understanding
the full record of our racea This chart
shows what is going on, the world over,
in all the nations One of the chief
features of this work is what is termed
synchronism, for here we find, without
the loss of several hours at a general
library, that the founding of Troy and
Athens were contemporaneous with the
Egyptian bondage and the founding of
Thebes by Cadmus. These also occurred
at the time of the first introduction of
letters, with the Israelites in the vii der
ness, the building of the largest pyra-
mid by Cheops, and the reign of Saul,
the King of the Jews; Zoroaster, the Per-
sian philosopher, and Hesiod, the Greek
poet. We learn at glance that when
Solomon was writing his proverbs Homer
was writing his piece on ancient Troy;
that Lycurgus, the Spartan law-giver,
who made iron legal tender, and had
public tables to which all were invited,
and abolished oil theaters and luxuries,
lived at the same time as Queen Dido,
the founder of Carthage, and the Prophet
Elijah; that when Isaiah was prophecy
ing, Romulus was founding Rome; that
Pythagoras, who invented the forty-nine
problems and multiplication table, lived
contemporaneous with Scion, who revised
the bloody laws of Draco, and Esop, who
wrote these wise and witty fables, and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, who took the Jews
captive, and the Prophets Ezekial and
Daniel of sacred history; that Cincinna-
tus, the Roman patriot; that Pericles,
the great Athenian statesman; Herodo-
tus, the father of history; Xerxes, Socra-
ties, and Ezra; Plato, Zenopbon, and
Malachi lived at the same period of time.
This chart is simply most unexpected
illustration of the benefits of object
teaching, and it had been in place yes
terday less than half an honr when it
was surrounded with visitors. 1t is the
first thing of the kind ever attempted in
this country or in Europe, and it is
rather curious fact that resident of the
distant State of Oregon should be the
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