The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-12
Facts From Ancient History.

Facts From Ancient History. =
All the interior OF Africa was once
called Ethiopia, except, perhaps, tina,
part inhabited by the white race.
Edom is now called Arabia. Ishmael
the first born of Abraham, was the ;ath.
err of the Arabian nation. Mahomet,
the false prophet, was an Arab who
fourisbed the time small pox first ap.
peared. The cholera also, first appear.
cd in the United States about the time
10. Smith started the Mormon church.
The Arabs invented figures and also al
zebra. At the present time Arabs are
scattered over large part of Asia and
Africa. Arabia lies along the Red Sea.
Mahomet started the Saracen Empire at
the same timc he started bis religion.
Every country he and his successors
conquered werc compelled to embrace
the Mahommedan faith. The capital of
their empire was at Bagdad. The Ma
bommedan Bible is called the Khoran.
About l24 100000 people on the
globe are now Musselmen or Ma
hommedans. Plurality of wives allow
cd by the Koran makes the religion re-
semble that Of Brigham Young, ut least
so tar as the woman are related TO it.
After the Saraccns had conquered a large
part of Asia and compelled the nations
under subsection TO them, TO embrace
their doctrine, the Turks, a fierce, war
like tribe of Asia, swept down on the
possessions of the Saracens and subdued
them and afterwards crossed over into
Europe and made the Christians tremble.
As country after country west of the
Dardanelles fell under their yoke, the
danger TO Christian civilization in
creased. The Pope seeing the danger
entreatcd those faithful to the cross, to
pray daily for deIiverance from the
Turk. Christian children coming into
possession of the Turks where put into
Mahommedan schools to be trained into
that faith. These, filled with zeal for
the religion of their conqucrors, became
the terrible Janizaries of the Turkish
army. Let US hope the days of Mahom.
mechanism are drawing TO d close.
The Elamites of the Bible were the Per-
SLAMS.
Before the Kingdom of Persia was
brought into notice by history the King
dom of Nineveh and that of Assyria had
arisen. Cyrus the Great, united the
Kingdoms of Persia and Media and took
possession of Babylon. He was put to
cruel death by the queen of Sythia,
whom he undertook to subdue.
His successors were all vain, cruel tyr
ants, living in pomp, and treating their
subjects with great cruelty. The people
Of Edom and Elan or Persia were of the
Caucasian race. Cyrus treated the Jews
with great kindness, and his successor
did likewise. Zerubbabel and Ezra re.
ceived many acts of kindness from the
Persian moGarchs and Esther was
Queen TO one of them.
Alexander the Great conquered Per-
STA and ended his life in that Kingdom |
at the WINE cup. The Jews were for a
Great.
Cheese and curdling of milk are men,
toned in the book Of Job. David was
sent by his father, Jesse, to carry 10 |
cheeses TO the camp, and to look how
his brothers Jared. "Cheese of kline"
formed part of the supplies of Davld's
army at Mahainam during the rebellion
OF Absalom. Homer says that cheese
formed n part Of the ample store found
by Ulysses in the cave of Cyclops.
Polyhemus, Euripides, Theocritus and
other ear y poets mention cheese. Lu-
dolphus says that excellent cheese and
butter were made by the ancient Ethio-
plans, and Straby states that some of the
ancient Britons were SO ignorant that,
though they had an abundance Of milk,
they did not understand the art of max
ing cheese. There is no evidence that
any of these ancient nations had discov-
ercd the use of rcnnet in making cheese.
They appeared to merely have let the
milk sour, and subsequently to have
formed the cheese from the cascine of
the milk after expelling serum or whey.
As David, when young, was able 10 run
TO the camp with ten cheeses and an
ephah of parched corn, the cheese must
have been very small.-W. S. N. in 0s-
wego Independent.