The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-29
THE WORLD .sAt&S&
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AGO TODAY-aSSSSA
Copyright, 1900, by n. Z. Hughes. Louis
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r lie CORNER STONE Of that very totterinp
II structure, Hindu chronology, was laid al

THE CORNER STONE Of that very totterns
structure, Hindu chronology. was laid at
= the dawn OF the nineteenth century At
this time was published O copy OF the in.
soription OF King Pyadasi, styled "The Beloved
Of Gods" In India $50 u. G. IL appeared in
"Asistic Researches" by Sir Richard Cobb
Hoarc, English antlquary, taken from stone
column, forty.two feet high, and known as the
Lat or pillar OF Firoz Shah, a sultan, who about
the middle OF the fourteenth century conveyed
1t TO Delhi from a village In the hills about go
miles distant, and re.erected II as an ornament
to his capital. This inscription was a subject Of
great curiosity and speculation, and bafiied all
attempts to decipher IT, II was not until thirty.
seven years later that the acute sagacty OF
James Prinsep surmountcd the difficulty. The
mystery Of the alphabet being thus penetrated
the missing links OF Hindu chronology were
soon discovered.
With all It's other initial strides toward th.
goal OF progress this year marked the beginning
Of a period Of religious federation neither equalcd
nor approached in the history Of any nation. The
severcr forms Of persecution fell decidedly out
Of fashion; the Jews being the most notable
monument OF the change. Their history for CEN
turies have been full OF blood and tears, they
were despised and rejected, but now they began
10 be admitted to all the rights Of citizens in
the most lourishing nations 1t was only In the
most backward countries that the reverse re-
mained true.
This was the turning point in quarantine legis.
lation in England. parliamentary committee
sat on the practice and a more reasonable act
arose on the report Prior to this the whole
detention Of vessel was from sixty TO sixty
five days. Pilots had to pass fifteen days on
board "convalescent ship" The expenses were
enormous, The first United States quarantine
law had been in existence two years.
factory for the accommodation Of 200 looms
for weaving printed calicocs, the largest up to
this time, was erected at Pollokshaws in scot
land. Prior TO this James Lewis Robertson had
introduced into Glasgow two looms, fitting them
up in a cellar, the motive power being a large
| Newfoundland dog which walked inside rcvolv'
ing drum or cylinder.
Eytelwein, Of Berlin, published valuable
| compendium Of hydraulics, containing accounts
| OF many new and valuable experiments made by
| himself. lie showed theoretically that o water
| wheel will have its effect a maximum when ite
circumference moves with half the velocity Of the
| stream.
| Robert Raikcs, the founder yi Sunday school:
at Gloucester. England, twefty.one years be
| fore. began his forty.tourth year as proprietor
| Of the Gloucester Journal. lie lived to witness
wide extension of his religious undertaking.
Shelley, believed by many to he the supreme
| poct--Goethe oxceptod-of the new era whicl
| began with the French revolution, was now at
| tending school at Warnham England, kept by
| Rev. Mr.. Adams
China and Japan were the only tea producing
| countries at this date, and the product reached
| the western markets only through the narrow
| est channels and under most oppressive rCstric
| tions.
| Among those born in the first year Of tn,
| century they helped to make progressive were:
John limbs. English journalist and compiler.
Paul Tulane, American merchant and philan
| thropist.
George W. y. Towns, American lwaycr anC
| statesman,
David Lawry Swain, American lawyer ant
| statesman.
Jules Antoine Taschcrlln, French bIographe
and editor.
James Brainard Taylor American clergyman
| and author.