The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-11-10
CALENDAR
FOR NOVEMBER

Nov. T-Earthquakc at Lisbon.
T755. swallowing up the greater por-
ton OF the city, together with sonc
10000 Of the inhabitants, As Oliver
Wendell Holmes puts it III his clab
GRATED poem. The One Hoss Shay
That was the year when Lisbon
town
Saw the earth open and gulp her
down.
which was quite fair sized mouth
ful to swallow at one attempt, easily
beating the record, we believe up to
that time.
NovcmtEr 3-AIikado OF Japan
born, 1852 He came into the world
baldheaded and helpless and weighed
onlysix pounds and three ounces,
troy or tin peddler's weight at that,
and his proud parents little thought
at that time he would grow up -
pull the eye teeth OF the Chinese
dragon and larrup the Russian bear
single-handed. But it was even so,
And now they say that even the
American Eagle on its Rocky Noun
tain perch is beginning 10 grow res
tive for fear il may lose some of its
tail feathers in the far off Pacific at
the hands of the same entcrprising
SION Of shotgun. Maybe it will-you
can't most always sometimes tell
but TO paraphrase Bridget's remark
when she attempted to pluck live
game cock the Mikado will find the
American eagle about the liveliest
chicken he ever picked if he attempts
lii.
November 4-James Wh:tcomb
Riley born, 1852. He is among the
most famous OF the half million pc
cts and authors, more or less, who
have been born and raised in Indi-
ana. The buckwheat crop, the alfalfa
crop, and other crops may dwindlc,
peak and pine, but the Hoosier poet,
fails 1t is hard lines on the rest of
us, of course. but we couldn't all b.
brorn in Indiana. There isn't room.
Nov. 5-Gunpowdcr plot discov-
cred and Guy Fawkes, chief conspir-
ator arrested, zoos. He was a Wise
Guy, but the officers nabbed him
just the same You remember all
about it. OF course-how the enter
prising Mr. Fawtes had thirty six
barrels and a hogshead or so of gun
powder carefully stored in cellar
under the parliament building and all
ready for a match when an English
bobby 1t on his collar and snatched
him away TO the dungeon in the tow
er OF London. He was tried and lee
tured by the judge and otherwise tor
tured before they finally concluded
to hang him, and his last words
were:
II am going to land where par
liaments and judges are unknown.
Likewise matches and eunpowder.
wittily observed the lord high exc
kcutioner as he strung him up.
| Nov Battle of Tippeeanoe. 1871
| in which General William Henry
/ Harrison won fame and his title of
I"Old Tippecanoe' by defeating the
Indian tribes commanded by the
/ Prophet a brother bf Tecumseh.
Twenty-nine years later General
Harrison ran for the presidency on
| the Wing ticket, and when people
canoe victory they fairly fell over
each other il their anxiety to get to
! the polls and cast their ballots for
! HIM. This was known as the log
cabin and hard cider campaign OF
| 1870. when the country marched and
voted to the tune of "Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too and the Harrison
/ and Tyler ticket swept the country.
carrying all but four states III the
/ Union
Nov. I2-AleNander the Great
died, 3a3 B. C. Alexander was a
Iscrapper from Scrappersville, and i.
was lucky thing nor the rest of the
world outside OF his little kingdom
THAT he died when he did. He held
the job Of king OF Macedon only
thirteen years-3s6 B. c. to 513 B. c.
the years treveled backward in