Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-28
"Ihe World One Hundred
Years Ago Today"

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Copyrighted, 1901. by r. +. Hughes,
LouisyiIle)
Blink Bonncy won the English derby
OF this year. the first mare to perform
such a feat up to this time 1t was
rot repeated until 1851, when Eleanor
who combined the blood of Eclipse, Her.
Cd, Matchem and Snap, went first under
the wire in the classic British event
During 1901 Castrel. a celebrated son of
BuZzard by Woodpecker by HerOd. was
foaled. A year before Parasol was sired
by Pot-S-os, the most noted son of
Eclipse, whose fame as an English race
hnrse will never burn low. 1t was about
Eclipse that Mr.. d. O'Kelly, his owner.
made the famous remark in placing his
horse before the first race Eclipse first,
and the rest nowhere
The Doncaster cup, a weight for age
race for three year-olds and upward was
established by the London Jockey club.
The st. Leger had peen run twenty-five
years. the Oaks twenty two and the Der
by twenty-one. at this time.
Horse racing, which had declined very
much in England during the latter half
OF the Eighteenth century, numbers of
meetings being discontinued, now rapidly
founded or renewed and new races from
time to time established.
The supply of diamonds chiefly came
from Brazil They were first recognized
there in 1927 in the province of Minas
| Gereas. where they had long been used
! by the negroes as counters in playing
cards. 1t will be remembered that the
discovery of the diamond mines in South
| Africa was similar. In 1867 a Dutch
| felmer obtained from Boer a bright
stone which his children were ,Sing as
| plaything. Researches followed with
| the result soon known to the world.
! The Koh-i-noor diamond or "moun-
, tain of Light, now weighed $50 karats,
j and was in the possession of Faith. a
Shah, the King of Persia it having
| passed the line of crowned heads from
| Nadir Shah. the Pcgsi n ruler who se-
| cured it on an invasion Of India in 1889,
| and who gave it the narna it later bore,
| no attempt being made to cut the name
| along with the stone. The KOh-i-noor
| is one of the three parts of a stone that
originally weighed 1913 karats. The Rus
| sian Orloff diamond is another section,
| while third fragment was found in the
| possession of a peasant who used it as
flint for striking fire. 1t later turned
/, UP in the storming of Coocha in Khoras-
| san.
!
! Holland, having tried several new
| constitutions one change of government
succeeding another rapidly. returned to
the earlier system under the names of
the eight provincial commissions and one
central commission. This period was
marked in Holland by a general revival
OF intellectual force. The romantic move
mont in Germany made itself deeply felt
in all branches of Dutch literature and
German lyricism took the place hitherto
held by French classicism.
There were only two cotton mills in
the United States, and both were in
Rhode Island.
The Evangelical association, an Ameri-
| can religious denomination, was original
| ed by Jacob Albrecht, German Luther.
! an of Pennsylvania.
William Wherefore, whose name is
| chiefly associated with the abolition oil
the slave trade in England, established
in London the Christian Observer.
| Irrigation began to be extensively prac
| tced in Great Britain.
John, who was afterWard king of SAY
ony, was born during this year.