Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-10-01
HISTORICAL FACTS,
with Some Modern Comments CAREFUL
" Compiled.

~ Compiled.
The second census efRome was taken
6O7 b. c., giving the population at $780,
900. Rome was great city but the
Chicago directory man was then IN his
youth.
In the wear 5O4 B. c. Sardis was burn
ed by the Atheniaus, and some OF our
patent safe manufacturers still show the
magnificent GOODNESS with which their
productions went through that c0ntia-
81 ton.
Tarquin the Proud died at Cuma 405
BIC. This is what comes of being
proud.
Mount Etna, probably having taken
too much, threw up very violently in
the year 476 b. C..
There's a vast an cunt of poetry that is SET
stioat these days,
Which treats ofSpriSg times tender love and
of autumnal haze
OF courtship, love and marriage, with divers
Fsthetic gush and woodland lush to which
posts Ideas clinSj.
Disdainiug all such trashy stun, We. with tn,
Incorporate some ideas with regard to an
And hereby state that before c.. in the year
Xerxes' expedition 'galnst old Greecey was
begun.
Herodotus, that good old soul, sets down a
solemn vow;
That three million fighting men, or more,
were mixed up in the row,
But AT the town Thermopylae true Spartan
And Xerxes' whole army was thereby under
showed.
III ,nints n r,oral o,.a, In tba,n days nf
That there is nothing so effective when you
get into fight,
To have the right upon your side 1T is true
edict, -
And II you'll pitch in strongly tits seldosn
you'll get licked. 49,
Some one again threw a tsaSeookl-
full of tartar emetic down the c14ter 20
Mount Etna in the year t7o 3. g. x,'fh
the usual result. ~ ,rsf9q z. = - -
A great pestilence so6c11{s4 IS - La
46S B. c. Jake Hs;nple = T. e Nm
,,. g D E e.eslss ssIslss
lowed TIE Q sv 6eennGa the NOW Nv wosid
net ioIloB b{m. md Cols Mo-
BANNED muss have ben Of the same
Wells Familiar Science says that a
meteoric stone the size Of cart fell at
EgospOtamos, in Thrace, 467. B. G..
Our oldest citizen is called upon to veri-
fy this. lift had struck the name of
the town in its decent the people living
around there would have thought it
was only dust storm.
Deputies were sent from Rome to
Athens asa b. T.. for copy Of Solon's
laws, none of the codes Of West Virgin
Ia being on hand at the time.
Socrates, the philosopher, flOurished
429 b. c. He never stayed out later
than 9 o'clock at night. Hence he was
q philosopher.
We find, after laborious research
that Agathon the comic poet, fiourished
in the year 400 b. e. While we have
none of his selections on hand We
imagine they read something like the
following in style with 8 sunset topic:
A shimmering sheen Of rainbows, float
through q see Of clouds
And cast noon old ocean breast. Caleidosp-
OF coiors iiken TO those you see on Peacocks
wing,
Or which glimmer in Q pearly shell or on
the diamond cling.
The Roman infantry first received
pay 4OS B. C., and there was not any
bowling about back pay, you can bet
your very sweet existence.
Telestes, the dithfirambic poet, hal
fame in the year 4O2 B. c. In these days
he would have been glad to get job at
picking elder berries at Is cents ton.
0chus conquered Egypt $50 b. c., and
now the English have got in their work
according to the latest press dis
patches.