Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

Banks were FIRST established by the London
Jews. The Rank Of England was established
in 1903.
The British soverigns from Edward the Con.
fessor to Queen Victoria have been crowned in
Westminster Abbey.
Henry II. Of France was the first who wore
silk stockings, and this was on the occasion OF
his sisters wedding to the Duke Of Savoy.
In the time Of Cicero it was computed tina,
there was only 1000 citizens possessed Of in.
dependent property. They owned the world
In the year 1890, during the reign of Edward
!, the Jews were ordered under penalty Of death
to quit England forever before a certain day.
The paintings which Aurdius paulus
brought from Greece required two hundred and
Fifty wagons to carry them in triumphal pro.
! cession.
laric, king Of the Visigoths, was the frs,
who opened the road for the deluge Of the
northern barbarians and led them into the
heart OF the Roman world
Aristarchus II lived about 400 re, and
was one Of the first who held that the earth
reyolves around the sun, for which opinion he
was thought guilty of impety
Pleades means the Sailing stars, because
the Greeks considered navigation safe at the
return Of the Pleindes, and never ATTEMPTED it
after these stars disappeared.
"Conscript Fathers" was in Roman anti.
guilty the appellation the senator's. They
were so called because their names were writ.
ten together in the senatc's register.
Geometywas frs, taught in Egypt. Itarose
from the necessity Of adjusting the landmarks
disturbed by the foundations OF the river Nile.
Thales introduced the science To Greeks.
those who early became famous in medical
science. lie is the author Of the in ancient
maxim, Life is short, and art is long
Edward II, Of England was born in Caer.
narvon. Wales. The natives claimed the
| child as their countryman, and he was declared
Prince of Wales, 4 title which has since always
been borne by the eldest son of the sovereign
Aristotle was disciple of Plato He was
the tutor of Alexander the Great. He taught
while walking up and down the walks that sur.
founded the Lyceum, from which he obtained
the name Of "Peripa,etic," which has chung to
his name and his philosophy.
1t is something singular that Washington
drew his last breath, in the last hour, of the
last day, of the last week, of the last month,
of the last year, of the last century. He died
on Saturday night, twelve clock, December
sIst, 1899.
An English journalist Of twenty-five years
experience protests against two meal day"
He contends that men Of brain work are always
tempted to overeat, for reasons which any
doctor or Psychologist can explain. And din.
ner-one heavy meal latter in the days a
serious mistake; dessert helps to render it fatal
Hecxhors his younger brethren Of the press to
eat at least three times day; to make good
breakfast, warm luncheon and dinner
at least three hours before bedtime If pos.
sibe; to drink as little alcohol as possible,
and on no account to tuch il till their work is
done; never to smoke on an empty stomach
and never TO eat so much at one time as to feel
sleepy or stupid afterwards
Zeno wanted only two years OF century
when he died ; Diogencs ten years more I; Plato
died at the age Of ninety-four, when the eagle
Of Jupiter is said to have borne his soul to
heaven Nenophon, the illustrious warrior and
historian. lived ninety years; Polemon and
Epitharmus ninety Lycurgus eighty
five; Sophocles more than hundred. Georias
entered his hundred and eigth year and As
clepiades, the physician, lived century and a
half. Juvenal lived hundred years Pacuvius
and Varro bnt one year less Carneades died at
ninety; Calico ut sixty-eigh,; Cassini at ninety
eight; and Newton at eighty-fve. In the las
century, Fontenelle expired in his ninety
ninth year Button in his eighty.frst Voltaire
in his eighty.iourth. In the present century,
Prince Talleyrand, Goethe, Rogers and
Niemcewicz are remarkable instances. The
Cardinal de Belloy lived nearly a century and
Marshal Money terminated a. glorious career
at eighty-hve.