Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-22
NOTHING NEW.

the limitations of julius Caesar, and
some one has taken pains to point
out number of the things he didn't
do. For instance, he never rode on a
'bus In his life; never spoke into a
telephone; never sent telegram;
never entered railway train; never
read newspaper; never viewed his
troops through field glass; never
read an advertisement; never used
patent medicine; never cornered the
wheat market; never crossed the At
lantlc; never went to a roller SIX ate
rink; never rode bicycle; never die
tated letter to a typewriter girl;
never invested in railway stock;
never saw an electric light; never lis
tened to Photographs; never posted
letter; never had his photograph
taken, and so on, dd intinitunl.
But after all, he wasn't entirely be-
hind the times, and a little delving
among antiquities shows that when
King Solomon, with that impulsive
tendency to exaggeration which he
seems to have inherited from his
father, bluntly declared that there
was nothing new under the sun, he
may not have been SO far wrong as
the great Romans lack of experience
would at first seem to imply.
If julius had been a Chinaman, he
would have found no novelty in a
ri hn
those ceremonious little affairs in the
time of Confucius. Nor are they the
only nation to thus announce them
selves, for many savage tribes, even
among those who have no written
language, make use of carved board,
or branch of tree, to signify their
arrival as friendly visitors.
Antitoxin has no right to vaunt it
self as an entirely new idea, for Pliny
relates that Mithridates, a hundred
years before our era, made himself
proof against poison by taking an an
tidote whose principal ingredient was
the blood of a peculiar kind of duck
that had the reputation of living ex
clusively on substances fatal to human
life. This seems to have been clearly
the employment of the blood of an
immune animal to render Immune the
blood of the human animal-a true
serum.
The early Egyptian children had
jumping jacks, as we'll as dolls with
real hair, and their elders patronized
veritable nickel-in the slot machines
only they did it as religious act, for
the machines were all in the temples
and were owned exclusively by the
priests.
Roman ladies had safety pins close
ly resembling the modern article;
combs are found in the earliest known
graves; brooms were used in Egypt
two thousand years ago before our
era; Prof. Schliemann found over 1900
gold buttons in ancient Troy, and
needles and lamps antedate history.
The truckmen who ornament their
sets of harness with numbers of bone
or ivory rings are only initiating til
Etruscans, save the latter made the
rings of bronze, and the custom de-
scended to the early Britons, who en-
ployed metals of various sorts.
Coming down to somewhat more
modern times, we find evidence in the
remains of great aqueducts that Ari
IONA was once populated by a prehis-
toric race posse ssing knowledge of
irrigation.
Curtains were employed for bed
steads in the eleventh century and
were afterwards transferred to the
windows, while outer blinds were US
ed in the fourteenth century.
Big sleeves were prohibited by the
town of Dedham, Mass, in 1889, the
authorities laying severe penalties on
any audacious person who should
make ga garment for women or any
other sex with sleeves more than half
an ell wide in the widest part. "-Euery
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