The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-30
MEN WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Sesame and Lilies received at the Public
Library last week. The natural conse-
quence Of reading this book will be call
for more Of Ruskins works. Mr.. Ruskin
IL fortunate author Already his works
are sold at the rates Of varieties second
hand book seller in Birmingham offers a
collection of this eccentric Englishmsn's
entire works, In sixty-eight bound volumes,
with all his pamphlets for $500 Separate
~ the works would bring even more.
judge Tourgee is said to have cleared the
c"@5csr,hle sum of 100000 from the sale
of "The FOOLS Errand."
"E. Marlitt," is the nom de plume Of
Fraulen John, resident of the little town
of Arnstadt, in mid Germany.
The works of this author translated by
Mrs Wister are exceedingly popular just
now with the subscribers to the Public Lii.
brary.
The Pennsylvania Museum has Just been
presented with an extensive collection Of
objects Of art, industry and vertu tapes
ny ceramics Of all countries and eras,
carvings iewelry, lace ancient glass and
old missals, the property Of Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore Of Philadelphia. The collection has
been her labor of love for many years.
Nine. Leon Bcrtant, lady who has
achieved great successes with many works
of sculpture that have been produced in her
atiier has Received the compliment of be-
ing selected to execute for the foyer of the
opera, bust of Sophie Arnauld. Il Art En-
terchange.
The Alexandrian Museum, whose schol-
airs were maintained at public expense, had
for their use 100000 volumna or rolls of
the library which was supposed to contain
copies OF all the books in the world. 1t
was this portion Of the library which the
Calph Omar is said to have destroyed in
$40, with the remark that if they agreed
with the Koran they were useless, if not
they were hurttul. In the museum was
kept the original copy of the Septugent,
the earliest translation Of Old Testament
Scriptures into Greek, made al Alexandria
about two centuries before Christ.
THE ALEXANDRIA OF OLD.
Alexandria was for ages the chief seat of
both pagan aud Christian learning. 1t is
said that Aristotle, the preceptor OF Alexan-
der, at one time taught philosophy in the
portico of the Serapeum. Certain it is that
Euclid had his school of mathematics in
Alexandria, and it was there that, in an
swer to question from King Ptolemy as to
whether there WAS not some easy way to &C
quire knowledge of his favorite science,
he replied: There is no royal road to ge-
ometry," Galen studied medicine there,
and some say that Archimedes lived there
for time. Philo, Ammonius and Plotlnus
revived there the Platonc philosophy; Eu-
sebius says that st. Mark the Evangelist
preached and founded churches there, and
1t WAS there that Clement earned his title
as one of the fathers of the church, that his
pupil 0rigen labored, and that Arius and
Athanasius made the world ring with the
quarrel of the trinity until Constantine
called the first general council to settle the
matter which was held at Nice in the year
325. A little before this, while heathenism
was still strong in the city, ST. Catherine of
Alexandria, virgin and martyr, is said to
have been beheaded bya sword just outside
the walls and to have been borne after
death by angels over the desert and over
the Red sea to the summit of Mount Sinai,
and little after this, when the Serapeum
had been destroyed ard Christianity had
gained the ascendency. Cyril and his
monks seized the beautiful and virtuous
llypatia daughter of Theon the mathema.
tician, as she was on her way to teach
philosophy in the school she had estab-
lished, and murdered her because she chung
to the gods that she had learned to wor-
ship at Athens. The Alexrndrine dialect
Of the Greek was the one in which the
New Testament was written, and the pa
triarchal see of Alexandria outranked those
ofJerusalem and Antioch, though it was
itself afterwsrd outranked by Constantine.
pie and Rome.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL