Litchfield enquirer., 1878-04-25

THE OLDEST HUMAN RELIC IN THE WORLD. In the Etruscan vase-room of the British mu- scum is to be seen the skeleton of one Pharaoh Mykerinus, decently incased in it's orig ginal bur ial clothes, and surrounded by fragments of the coffin, whereon the name of it's occupant can be easily read by Psychologists, affording conclusive evidence that it once contained the mummy of king who was reigning in Egypt more than century before the time of Abra- ham. The proof is thus explained in the Gen. tleman's Magazine, April, 1876 "About two years ago, Herr Due michens German ex- plorer of the monuments of Egypt, following up the inCicl ltions pointed out M. Mariette, distinguished arch@ologist. discovered on the buried walls of the temple of Osiris Abydos, a larger tablet containing the names of the an cient Pharaohs from the time of Mizraim, the grandson of Noah and the founder of the Egyp- tian monarchy, to that of Pharaoh Seti l., the father of the well-known Rameses the Great, including thereby the chronology of nine cen turies-viz, from B. c. 2300 to B. C. l4OO. This tablet, by far the most important yet dis covered. hos been compared to the sculptured figures of the kings of England at the crystal palace, from William the Conqueror to her Majesty Queen Victoria. Astronomical evl- dence, moreover, enables us to determine the time of two important epochs in the history of Egypt, one of which is connected with our
 
 the age of the great pyramid of Gizeh to the middle of the 22d century B. c. The tablet of Abydos shows that the Pharaoh whose bones we now possess succeeded the building of the great pyramid with only two intervening kings. We are, therefore, warranted in assuming that the remains of Pharaoh Mykerinus belonged to the age to which we have assigned them.'
 The above account, caption and all, we find in one of our exchanges. The remains of the L of kINO oldest human relics in the world. At Mentone, on the border of France and Italy, and in a cavern unearthed on the side of ravine in Bavaria, human skeletons have been found, covered deeply with overlying earth, and strata of ashes, etc., which are pronounced by pale ontologists to be many thousands of years older than the Pyramids, or of anything of the time of Abraham. Instead of being '6, 900 years old," these partially preserved skeletons-one with has good skull as the average English mans or Americans of to-day-are believed to be more than 50, 900 years old. And thGt would be modern date, compared with even the relatively brief human period, in the unim- aginably ancient history of the planet itself The fact is, ''this is a very old world'-and the geologists, more and more, are finding it Out.-Hartford Times.
 A BRAVE SHEEP.-Toby, the sheep, hated the whole canine race. One day when the Captain and his pet were taking their usual walk on the promenade, there came on shore the skipper of Falmouth ship, accompanied by very large formidable-looking dog. And the dog only resembled his master, as you ob- serve dogs usually do. As soon as he saw Toby he commenced to set his dog upon him. but Toby had seen him coming and was quite era g0rde so a long and fierce battle ensued in which Toby was slightly wounded and the dogs head was severely cut. Quite a multi tude had assembled to witness the fight, and the ships riggings were alive with sailors. At one time the brutal owner of the dog, seeing his pet getting worsted, attempted to assist him but the crowd would have pitched d>him neck and crop into the river, had he not de- sisted. At last both dog and sheep were ex- hausted and drew of, as if by mutual consent. The dog seated himself close to the outer edge of the platform, which was about three feet higher than the rivers bank, and Toby went, as he was wont to do, and stood between his masters legs resting his head fondly on the Captains clasped hands, but never took his eyes off the foe. Just then a dog on board one of the ships happened to bark, and the Fal- mouth dog looked around. This was Toby's chance, and he did not miss it or his enemy either. He was upon him like bolt from a catapult. One furious blow knocked the dog off the platform, next moment Toby has leap ed on top of him, and was chasing the yelling animal toward his own ship. There is no doubt Toby would have crossed the plank and followed him on board, had not his feet slipped and precpitated him into the river. A few minutes afterward, when Toby dripping with wet, returned to the platform to look for his master he was greeted with ringing cheers: and many was the piastre spent in treating our woolly friend to fruit. Toby was the hero of Galatz from that hour; but the Falmouth dog never ventured on shore again, and his master as seldom as possible. --ChGme6eTS' Journal.
 How THE BEsHoPs SwoRE.-It must be ad- mtted that Lord Melbourne used to swear a great deal, but in this accomplishment he was excelled by his brother George, the Under Secretary of the Home Department, who when Mir. Evelyn Denison went to consult him about the educational clauses of the Factory bill damned him.. damned the clauses, and damned the bill On complaining of this to Lord Melbourne, the only consolation he got was, "Well, damn it. what more could he say p One night, at Holland House. Lord Melbourne stigmatized the Benthamitesin gen. eral, and the Austins in particular, as d--d fools When the Earl of Mulgrave wanted to become Marquis, Lord Melbourne is said to have answered, My dear Mulgrave, how can you be such d--d ass!' On Scotch Earl demanding the Order fthe Thistle, Lord Mel bourne said, ''Why, d. it, he'll eat it." There is an excuse to be made for this habit, that everybody swore in former times except the Bishops We never read in any memoirs an instance of. Bishop swearing But the late Bishop of Exeter, when he got into hot water with any one, used to pray for his antag- onist with such malicious fervor that little light cursiny would have been relief to the sufferer However, we are bound to admit that waiter lately left the Athenaum, and gave as his reason for his wishing to serve military club, ''that the Bishops swore awful if their mutton-chops were not up to the mark" But then servants always romance about their late masters. Temple BGr