Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-16
IMPORTATION.
Facts and Figures Gathered from
Standard Authorities.

Standard Authorities.
Collated for the Ohio State Journal
Il The languages having the most and
least letters are the Sanskrit, 328 let
ters, Irish, Is. a
During the Reign of Terror in France
1t is estimated that upward of 5000
persons were guillotined.
The balloon trip of Professor Wise
from st. Louis was nearly 1900 miles,
and it Is the longest on record.
In the year 1850 Bible of 6S7 leaves
was printed by Gutenberg and Faust,
with cut matallic letter types.
The first newspaper in the world was
printed at Venice about the year 1868.
II was called the Gazette de Venice.
The new Niagara bridge, below the
feet high. 1t was erected in 1859.
The first reaping machine on record
Is described by Piny in the year A. d.
60. II consisted OF cart, pushed by
an OK.
The Roman Empire had forty-1ve
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Augustus, to the fall of the Western
Empire, 476 A. D. '''
The Hebeas Corpus act was passed in
Engla in the year 1879. 1t was de-
signed to put q stop to the illegal ar
rests made by the King Charles II.
The loftiest city in the world is
POtose, situated in bolivia at an atti-
fxrrf ><xf10 QsAu f<of. trxao
lies Lake Titieaea, the most elevated
lake. Id -. d.. -... -.,r
Richard the First commenced his
reign in. the year 11S9; Richard the
Second 1877, eleven years CT age; Rich
ard the Third, commonly called the
Usurper, 1888.
According to the Egyptian doctrine
bodies OF different animals, at the end
II three thousand years 10 return and
inhabit the human form. ff
Loeb Leven is small lake, situated
in the eastern part of Scotland, nearly
twenty miles north of the capital.
There is castle by that name in the
western part near the valley of Glen
coe.
! The most remarkable instance of
longevity in mOdern times, was that of
Petrasch Czartan,a Hungarian peasant.
He was born in 1887, and died in 1922,
at the ripe age of lS5 years.
Richard Occur de Lion) led the
third crusade, and gained important
victories over Saladin, King Of the
Saracens. He only spent fourteen
months in his kingdom during his ten
years reign. $500, -..,-.
In 1866 the Buccaneers began their
on the Spanish colonies.
California was discovered by CorteZ in
1887. The first settlement made by
the English, was at jamestown in 1907.
William the Conqueror was son of
the famous Duke Rollo. He introduce
ed the custom Of ringing the euriew
bell in the evening, as signal that the
lamps should be extinguished. His
death took place in 1887. .s-s
Elephants, In some instances, have
been kept In captivity upward of one
hundred and thirty years. The lon
gevity of some birds i5 great; swans
live to the age of one hundred years;
the eagle has survived century.
In the year 1865. the Great Plague
broke out in London, and such was its
that 100, 900 died in the city
,lone. In the following year the fre
;ook place, which destroyed 13, 200
iwelling houses and ninety churches.
The first printing press in America
was in Mexico, brought there by Juan
JroD berger about the year 1850. The
irst one west of the Allegbanies Wasat
Cincinnati in 1898, and the first one
vest of the Mississippi at st. Louis,
sos. .--..-. r1
The most elevated bridge in the
world is the Verrugss viaduct, on the
lima and Oroya railway, In the Andes
# Peru. 1t is 1900 feet above the
evel of the sea, $50 feet long, and
ornied of three iron truss spans Of iron
'iers.
Joseph Montgoifer invented the bal
non. Z The tirst one constructed by him
ad capacity OF about forty-five cubic
eet; burning some paper under it. it
uickly rose to height OF seventy-five
act, remaining in It's position until
Doled by the air. He afterwsrd re-
ea:ed his experiment before the Roy
Academy OF Sciences, in Paris.
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