The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-04-06
HISTORY.
The word parliament first appears in
the laws of England in 1912.

The word parliament first appears in
the laws of England in 1912.
The imperial library at Paris has p,
600 works treating of the French revolu'
ton.
Yale College was named after Cover.
nor Yale, who gave it in early days about
$4,000
The first Bible in the Welsh language
was published in 1888, the year of the
defeat of the Spanish Armada,
The first savings bank in this country
was the Philadelphia Savings Fund So.
ciety, organized in 1916. tits still in ex-
istence.
Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. stands
on the site Of Fort Des Moines. United
States post from 1882 to 1887. and then
the most remote garrison on the north
west frontier.
The Chinese are known to have built
several fine suspension bridges before
the opening of the Christian era. One
in the province of human, built in the
year SO A. D., is still in excellent condi-
ton.
Sir Walter Raleigh was said to he the
first white man to use mahogany lumber.
In the yea 1895, while at Trinidad, he
repaired one of his ships with mahoga-
ny plank. That incident caused it's in
PRODUCTION into England and into the
commerce of the world.
In the Thureau room of the Concord
Antiquarian Society is the cane strung
bed stead which Thoreau made with his
own hands and used in his Walden hut,
Here, too, are shown the Thoreau family
Bible. dated at Philadelphia in 17SS, and
the pen with which Thoreau last wrote.
The Painted Chamber" was a room
of historical interest in the old palace Of
Westminster, SO called from its having
been painted by order Of Henry III. 1t
was hung with tapestries representing
the siege of Troy. In this room Parlia-
ment sat for time. The building was
taken down in 1852.
The British Museum has an ancient
weight, unique object in the shape of
bit of green diorite, about four inches
high, carved in Mesopotamia in the year
COS B. G. 1t has long inscription in
Assyrian, which sets forth that it was
made in the time Of Nebuchadnezzar II.
and is the exact copy of the legal weight.
1t is somewhat conical, with fiat bot
tom.
When the postage stamp was first de-
cided upon, the Post Office authorities
issued prospectus and offered the sum
of $1,000 for the best design and plan for
a stamp. 1t is said that no fewer than
3,700 designs were submitted by the "art-
lists, men of science, and the public gen.
orally" to whom the proposal was ad-
dressed. The penny stamp came next
and in July, 1910, two-penny stamp
was issued. and subsequently complete
series ranging in value from half penny
to five shillings.
From Orcutt's Good Old Dorchester"
we take this item: 1.-THE Sunday after
noon of August 81, 1862. was one long re-
membered by the good people of Dor
chester. News had just been received
of the second battle of Bull Run, and
all the churches gave up their afternoon
services to the work of making bandages
aud packing provisions for the sick and
wounded. The First Parish alone sent
off twenty-one cases as result of that
afternoons work. 1t is estimated that
the whole amount contributed by socie-
ties and private individuals during the
war. for the relief of the soldiers and
sailors, was more than $4,000"