The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-20
For The Democratic Adrocnte.


"The Historians Wade Mecum, and con-
tains chronological record of many re-
markable occurrences, from which make
some extracts:
BEFORE CHRIST.
4004. Creation of the world, Oct. 13.
On the 4th day of the creation, at noon,
according to Kennedy, the earth first re-
ceived its diurnal motion.
Deluge general, threatened in the year
of the world 1886; began Sunday, Decem-
ber Z, in the year of the world 1856, /. e..
2348 before Christ, Noah being then about
900 years old. The Ark rested upon
Mount Ararat, Wednesday, May 6, 2347
before Christ; the tops of the mountains
appeared Sunday, July 10. Noah re-
moved the covering of the Ark, Oct. %;
left it Friday, Dec. Is, having been in it
377 days.
331. A great many Roman ladies pois-
oned their husbands; 40 of them suffered
death for it. This was the first example
of such crime.
AFTER CHRIST.
2S. Nine hundred Roman soldiers tax
ing shelter in a wood, having been cut to
pieces, after noble defense, by the Fris-
ians, people beyond the Rhine, it had
such an effect on the Roman army. in
general, that 400 other soldiers that had
retreated within a house, fearing they
should be betrayed, killed each other to a
man.
48. On inquiry there was found to be
], l,544 900 citizens in Rome.
40. After Jerusalem was taken, Flea
Ear defended a strong fortress with $50 of
his most desperate followers. When the
batteriug ram had made a breach, they
turned their swords against their wives
and children, and then against their own
breasts. They died to the last man.
"a. On examination, several persons at
Rome were found to be 100, l20, 130,
13l, 132, 138 and 40 years old, and two
were advanced to $50.
424. The Persian army, fearing they
should be cut off by the Romans, threw
themselves into the Euphrates, where up
wards of 1000 perished.
lib. The water of the river Midway
failed SO much, that the smallest boats
could not float in the channel; also, the
Thames was so low between the Tower
and the bridge, that women and children
Taded it over; owing to so great an ebb
In the ocean, that laid the sands bare sew
eral miles from the shore, which contin-
ued whole day.
114O. In the civil wars in Germany,
when the Emperor Conrade had besieged
the town of Weinsberg, the wife of Guel-
pho, Duke of Bavaria, solicited as an ar
ticle of capitulation, safe conduct to her
and the other women in the town; which
being complied with, each woman took
her husband on her back, and so marched
out Of the place; the Emperor was so
pleased with the thought that he enter
tanned them splendidly about his tent
1850. So great and so extravagant was
the Ostentation of the French nobility
about this time, that when Raymond v,
Count of Tholouse, held full court in or
der to reconcile two eontending powers,
the environs ef the castle were ploughed
and sOwed with silver deniers, to the
amount of f7500 of the present sterling
money; victuals were dressed by wax lights,
and Raymond de Venons caused thirty of
his horses to be burnt before the assembly. |
1900. About this time there was not an
absolute prince in Europe
1915. Perpetual rains and cold weather
having not only destroyed the harvest, but
produced mortality among the cattle, the
Parliament endeavored to moderate the
prices Of provisions. The rates established
were, of our present money, as follows:
For the best OK, not corn fed, e, SIS.
Corn fed, G3, Us. A fat hog, two years
old, los. A fat wether, unshorn, 5s.
Shorn, 3s, 3d. \ fat goose, 79d. Fat
capon, 3D. Hen, 3D. Two chickens, Sd.
-Four pigeons, 3D., and twenty-four eggs,
3d.
1927. Raw skins of cattle, suspended
on stakes, were made use of instead of ket-
ties, to boil meat, in the north of England
and in Scotland.
134O There were 10000 students in
the University of Oxford. Parliamentary
grants to the King were in this year denied;
this year 10000 sacks of wool were in the
grant
134S. 1t rained from midsummer to
Christmas, so that there was not one day
and night dry together. This wet season
caused great floods, and pestilence which
ragged whole year. The earth was at
the same time barren, and even the sea
did not produce such plenty of fish as for
merly. The mortality was so great that
in the city of London, two hundred bodies
were buried every day in the Charter
house yard, beside those inferred in other
common burying places; this lasted from
Candlemas to Easter.
1422. In the time of Henry VI the
Kings palace was surrounded with little
BARRIERS shops, which were under the di-
rection of the barber of the household and
the clerk of the ewry. There being then
no carriages, and the streets being dirty,
it is probable that those who went to
Court were first shaved or dressed in these
stalls or shops. A considerable fee is
also given to this barber for shaving every
knight of the bath, on his creation, as
well as 40s from every baron, zoos. ffom
every earl, and e10 from every duke, on
the like occasion.
I40O. Ihere were taken at Erith, within
II miles of London, four wonderful fishes,
viz: two whales, one sword-fish and one
called nors marina.
l467. The people had an extravagant
way of adorning their feet They wore
the beaks or peaks of shoes so long that
they encountered themselves in their walk
ing, and we're forced to tie them up to
their knees; the fine gentlemen did theirs
with chains of silver, or silver gilt, and
others with laces. This ridiculous Gus
tom was in vogue ever since the year
1882, but now it was prohibited on the
forfeiture of COS, and the pain of cursing
by the clergy, J.s.G.
NeI0 Oot6rd, Pa.
The StraSshurg Gazette relates that
Prince bismarck, when asked by foreign
diplomatist to write in an album, fouad
ON the page on which he was requested to
write, the autographs Of GuizOt and Thiers.
The former had written II have learned
in my life two rules of prudence. The
first is to forgive much; the second is