The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
HISTORICAL.
Cannon were first used at the
battle of Agincourt.

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federation, the power to coin mon
ey was vested not only in the Con
tinental Congress, but in the sew
eral states, many of them taking
advantage of this to issue copper
coins.
1t is, in round numbers, sixty.
SIX years since the first locomotive
engine was imported into the
United States for use on an exper-
mental railway, and about sixty
five years since the first locomo-
tive was built in America.
The most serious calamities Wis
tied upon this country in recent
years by the commissions of nature
have been the Charleston earth
quake in 1886, the Johnstown
flood in 1889, the hurricane along
the southern coast in 1898, and
now the St. Louis tornado of 1896.
Next year the English Church
will celebrate the Booth anniver-
sary of the baptism of the first
English king by St. Augustine.
The Dean and Chapter of Can
terbury still hold land in Essex
given by king Ethelbert of Kent,
which has been in their uninter-
rupted possession since 597.
Queen Victoria's age has been
exceeded by only one former occu-
pant of the throne of England
George I'LL, who was eighty-two
years old when he died. The age
of George II. was equal to that
which her majesty has attained. |
She has been fifty-nine years on
the throne. Only one predecessor.
George ILL.,, who ruled for nearly
sixty years, held the sceptre for
longer period than her majesty.
Talleyrand took thirteen oaths
of fidelity: To Clement XIII. when
he entered holy orders, to Clement
XIV. when he became Bishop of
Anton, to Louis XVI. in 1789, to
the King and the constitution,
to the Directory in 1895. to
the Directory in 1896 as Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, to the three
Consuls, to Bonaparte, sole Consul.
to Napoleon Emperor, to Louis
AVIIl., in 1914 to Louis XVIII.
at the second restoration in 1915.
to Charles X. in 1924, and to
Louis Philippe in 1880.
The derivation Of the word yam
kee, says writer in 1896, SIS from
farmer Jonathan Hastings of
cambridge, about lib. He used
1t to express a good quality. Thus.
a Yankee horse and Yankee ci-
der were an excellent horse and
excellent cider. The British used
1T wrongly as word of contempt
Tor the Americans. Thus when thew
marched out of Boston in IT'S
they played march called Yam
kee DOODLE; though the predic- :
ton of an active boy was-that
their retrograde march would be
to Chevy Chase"
Beneath the portico of the First
congregational Unitarian Church
at Quincy, in the same vault which
his filial affection built for his par
ents, in a like casket and of SINH
arly hewn stone, now repose the
of ex-President John
quincy Adams, together with those
IT his wife. A mural monument.
similar to that of his father, was
erected in 1852 by his son, Rev. G.
+. Adams, being a tablet of white
marble to the right of the pulpit
IT the church. The tablet is -
by bust Of John Quincy
Adams, executed by Powers. It
vas finished by him in April, 1887,
utter repeated sittings by Mr..
Adams.
The women of the early years of
New Netherland and New York
Uttered from the women settlers
i Virginia and New England.
hey had other traits than those
# domestic housewifery; they par
ook frequently of the shrewdness
nd business sagacity and capacity
t their Dutch husbands. Widows ,
eem to have felt no hesitation
nd experienced no difficulty in
arrying on the business affairs of
heir dead partners; their ven
lres were as extended and as
sarless as those of the men.
hey traded for peltries with the !
indians with marked success. Per- 4
APPS part of their profit may have
ONE through the Indian braves
creme confidence in their own su.