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Times. tju: home of jA.pj.y. TI1E MOST FAMOUS CITY IN THE JAPANE8E EMPIRE DESCRIPTION OF A TEMFLB WITH ITS THIRTY-THREE THOU SAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE IDOLS. Letter to Chicago Tribune! After an hour's rido from the Seaport Iliogo, by rail, we reach Osaka, a very ancient city of over 600,000 people, and lying at the head cf Osaka Bay. It is the centie of a vast commerce by steamer aud junks of the smaller class, a large sand bar spoiling the baibor for large vessels. Aside from the Government Mint located here, aud said to be one ot the largest iu the world, and a few dilapidated old tem ples, so old thai even the Japanese do not know who built them, nothing of special interest is to be seen. The Governor's cas tle, over a mile in circumference, and strong ly fortified, overlooks the northeastern por tion of the city. Thence the road sweeps round a spur of the mouutain, and on through the same rich valley, and in one hour more we roll n1o the fine station and alight in the sacred city of Japan, the Rome of the Empire, where for a thousand years the Mikados, the spiritual Emperors of the nation, held theij court. Like Jerusalem of old, Kyoto is "a city altogether lovely." Few traveleis have seen it, and probably no o. her city in the woild so combines in its parks and palaces the beauties of both city and conn ry. Its hundred hills are coveted with sacred groves, pagodas, tem ples, and convents, while lovely parks and pleasure grounds greet the eye on every side. True, they are iaet going to decav, yet as they aie BEAUTIFUL EVEN IN THEIR DECLINE, what must the city have been in the zenith of its giory 1 The main portion of the city lies-in a fertile plain, bounded by chains of hills ever greeu, and behind which lies tbe finest view in Japau so say the Japanese themselves. A dozen rivers flow into it, and from it rises the Yodo-gana, which runs to the south of Kyoto, and thence into the inland sea. Two branches of this river flow diiectiy beneath the walls of Kyoto, ou the east aud west, thus completely sur rounding it with a net work of running water, which is utilized in forming canals in all directions through the city, and sup plying the tanks and lish-ponds in the tem ples and Imperial parks. Tbe temples of the city are almost counties, each has its ciowd of worshipers, who are there at all hours of the day and night, and with re spectful curiosity at the still novel sight of a foreigner among them. Scarcely a score of travelers have seen Kyoto : we first vis ited THE GREAT TEMPLE OF MARO. Here is seeu the largest bell in the world, .1... l.;l n .-. n B ".." haHging in a tower on me urn, o j,,, fect iu tone as the day it was suspender!. lij measurement it exceeds the great bells at Peking, Chiua, and at Russia, both of which are also said to be cracked. Where tbe bell was cast and by whom is lost in the shades of antiquity. Chinese and San sciit characters cover the eutire sui lace of the bell, but no modern Japanese scholar or priest can translate them. This bell is twenty-four feet in height and sixteen in ches thick at the rim, aud, when the priests sound it at 8 o'clock every eveniug, its ma iestic boom ! boom ! is heard many miles down the valley. None of the bells in Japan have "clappers," but are sounded by suspended levers of wood, nsed like a bat tel lug-ran-, and striking the bell on the outside. Next we saw the great 1 emple of Liugmoto, whose grounds, and gateways, and bronze bouse where the priests reside cover one square mile of ground. Here was a great throng of worshipers, though the hour was early. At the entrance was a magnificent bronze ox, life size, which has some sacred qualities iu the eyes of the Japanese particularly cunug diseases. 1 he faithful believe that if they pass the hand over any portion of the image, aud immedi ately tub the corresponding part of their own body, it will be forever protected from disease. A crowd is always going through this ceremony, aud the ox is worn b.ight in every part from this. CONSTANT DRAIN ON HIS HEALING VIRTUES. The idol behind the shrine, though small, was ricbly-gilded, and a score of priests were going through a ceremony aud chaut ioe prayers. A small fee to one of them admitted us to their private apartments in a separate building, where the .00 priests attached to this temple live. Every room was carpeted with a tine carpet of loreign manufacture, and the dividing screens were richly-gilded. Tbe temple itself had a lofty and beautifully inlaid ceiling. The pleasure-grounds about the buildings aie ex ouisite, shady walks and miniature lakes full of beautiful fish, and spanned by bridges of costly-carved stone-work, make a delightful retreat lor the weary soul. The Darwinian theory was doubtless familiar to the Japanese 500 years ago, for on the carved door of this temple was wrought in wood and bronze a scene showing first a monkey, then an ape. then a g or ilia, and so on up, until by gradual development the last figiue was a perfect man, surrWMded by elephants aud curious birds. These diors were carved and erected over 500 veais aeo : from what source did the work- man get the subject of his work? From here we went to the Temple of the Thirty Three Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Three Gods, this being the exact num ber of idols it contains. Oae thousand of these idols are life-sine, nd hold the other small ones on their hands. They stand in serried ranks, like a brigade of soldiers on drill. They are every one, large and small, richly gilded with gold, and as the sliding doors of the vast temjle were thrown back, and the sunlight poured in upon the scene, and its rays flashed back from the thous ands of golden gods, there was presented; A SCENE OF DAZZLING SPLENDOR well calculated to strike the beholder with awe. There is no other temple in the world that can produce such a sight and I long for the advent of some cool-headed ex pert who will calculate the cost in dollars and cents of this roagnificeut Buddhist Temple and its gods. The jealous priests would allow no measurement, but I rough ly estimate the building at GOO to 700 feet square. Near here we saw the great idol Dia Butza,-over 60 feet high and richly gilded. It is simply a head and shoulders. The features, like every idol seen so far in Japan, wear an expression of the utmost rest and quiet happiness. The present im age is said, to be but the model of the head aud shoulders of the original, of bronze, which stood 1G0 feet high, but was thrown down by an earthquake hundreds of years ago. By the side of the idol lies a colossal bell, fully as large as the one just men tioned, but for 600 years my guide said it had lain there unused and neglected. In front of this temple is a wall built of im mense stones, some of them 40 feet long, 18 feet high, and 30 feet thick as they lie in the wall. What power of the present clay can hew and convey from the mountain quarries such tremendous stones ! These two temples I have described so briefly are the principal ones in the city. To give an idea of how impossible in even a volume the magnificence of Kyoto's places of wor ship, the records of the city show that at ono time the Shinto faith, THE OFFICIAL RELIGION OF JAPAN, had in Kyoto and suburbs 2,127 temple-, while tbe Buddhist religion had in its dit ferent sects no less than 8,803 temples, pagodas, or chapels. Truly, this ancient city is to Europeans as yet an unexplored country, and, as I contemplate this vast array of costly buildings, now fast going to to decay, 1 believe it is a city that can challenge the world to produce its equal. After the temples, we visited the famous porcelain factories and silk-weaviner estab lishments, where the richest brocades are mrtde. Next we saw the imperial palaces, which the people regard with sacred vene ration. They aro inclosed in a high wall, and occupy the northeastern portion of the city. Long lines of trees of great size and height, towering above the glittering roofs, give a vague idea of the extent and tran quility of the parks, in whose recesses the imperial dwellings hide themselves from profane gaze and the noise of the city. ! Taia rln-olr ftw tvor a tbrmunnrl vearft tl.n Pontifical Sovereign of Japan, Claiming I direct descent from Heaven, he wassacred and invisible, and only women surrounded hia person. They dressed him and fed him, attiring him every day in a new costume, and serving his meals in vessels which each day came fresh from the maker's bands. His sacied feet never touched the ground ; his face was never seen by profane eyes. Such was the Mikado up to 1808 at Kyoto. What a change in nine years ! Tbe other day at Yeddo I saw him on his horse re viewing the victorious army returning from the scene of the late rebellion. He now mingles freelj with the people, opens new railroads, and sails in his private steamer. Truly those who with to see any traces of old Japan must hasten to its shores. AX OL.Pt LOVE. AN INTERESTING STOUT OF AN OLD TRO FESSOR. A recent article by Robert Collyer on ''Remembrance" brings to the mind of the Bangor Commercial an instance of a char acter similar to some there related, which, although known to few, has never yet. found iis way into the prints. As the parties have now passed over to the other side, thrre may be no impropriety in relating it. The Commercial calls no names but its sto ry apparently relates to Professor Thomas C. Uphaai of Bowdoin College: In the early part of the present century, up among the bills of New Hampshire, a voting collegiate of remarkable atlainments and promise formed an attachment for a young lady of much beauty and worth. Timid and retiring, aa he was through his long life, be never made known his love. She, however, was not unaware of his unex pressed attachments Time, and events aep arated them. L'kethc subjecta of Whittier's beautiful poem, "Maude.MuIler," each mar ried another. Subsequently the student be came a professor in one of our foremost. New England colleges. His talents were of a high and extraordinary order. Hisgenios and learning found vent in philosophical and other works, which speedily found their way into the English-speaking colleges and academicsof the two continents, and, through translations, into the universities of Franca and Germany. At last the weight of years compelled him to give up tbe Unties of his professorship. The partner of hia honors and toils had gone to rest. A white-haired man, be took his staff and wandered off on a to him long journey into a distant city of a distant State. Amidst all the cares and labors of more than half a cen'ury there was an object that he had never forgotton for a single day the oV.ject of bis firnt love up among the hills of New Hampshire. In that distant city that object was still living, a silver-haired widow. Their recognition of each other was as in atant and mn'ual a? was that of the High lander and his lassie a half century before. Tbe interview was long, anil, to them, touchingly interesting. At last the old man rose to leave. To tho.se who knew the ven erable professor, his dignity, his reserve and his Lawfulness, what follows will seem passing strange. Taking the venerable lady by the hand, for the first and last time in bis life, looking her tenderly in tbe face and calling her by her Christian name, he said : "I have a favor to ask of you. Will yon grant me a kiss?" The request was grant ed. Their lips met with all the fervency, if not the passion, of youth, while tears stole down their aged cheeks. They separated, and, a few mouths later, both had passed over the river. A young lady, in conversing wkb a gentleman, spoke of having resided in St. Louis. "Was St. Louis your native place?" asked the gentleman. "Well, yes, part of tbe time," responded tbe lady. STOWED JL WA I". 1 was once third mate of the "Water Nymph, a fine clipper ship engaged in the Australian trade. One autumn she was discharging a general cargo at tbe railway pier, Williamstown, Port Philip, aud my duties chiefly consisted in keeping a watch ful eye upon the stevedores at work in the hold, for they 1 were terrible fellows for broaching cargo whenever they got a chance, and the quantities of wines, beers and spirits aboard offered them many temptations. Notwithstanding all my vigilance, casks and cases were constantly sent on deck void of contents, and I was repeatedly cen sured by the chief officer for not keeping a sharper look-out. This galled me much, for I was confident the gang then at work were not the depredators, as I bad seeu several bottled ale casks dragged empty from the places where they had been stow ed, and I knew that their depletion was due to some other agency than the one at tributed. At last 1 received a hint from the cook that there was always plenty of grog knocking around the forecastle ; and tbe inference I naturally drew was that the sailor had effected ingress to the hold by forcing a passage through the bulk bead in tbe fore peak, and made night in cursions upon the cargo. So I resolved to sneak below, after the batches had been closed at sunset, and endeavor to catch some of the crew in the act. I told the first mate the suspicions I en tertained, and he considered my project a good one ; so, shortly after nightfall, be lowered me down the after hatchway him self, caiefully reclosing it, as, of course, if the men got a notion of what was in the wind, my mission would be fruitless. The night was cloudy and stormy, occa sional squalls of wind and rain drowning every sound on deck ; but in the spacious lower hold all was still and silent as the grave. I groped my way forward for some distance, clambering on bands and knees over chests, bales and boxes, until at last I found my way impeded by several huge cases of machinery, which barred up the passage from ono hatchway to the other, ou the starboard side. On the port side and amidships small cases of wine were stowed, and as I could easily lift them, I commenced removing the top layer, and trawling ahead as I did so. As a lamp would have betrayed my presence to the thieves, I did not carry one; but I had a few matches iu my waistcoat pocket and I occasionally lighted one when I lost my way through the labyrinth of goods. At last, on removing a good sized uaie, l found empty space before mo, and suppos ing I bad arrived at the main hatchway, from whence all the careo had beeu re moved, I faced about and began lowering myself by my hands and feet to the kei.'sou, but a case I giaspcd suddenly gave way aud was precipitated to tbe plank floor ing, the package fallling upon my legs ahd holding me down with its weight, which was considerable. I tried to rise, but the effort was futile, and the pain in my crushed limbs was excruciating. The air was hot and stifling, with a peculiar sickening odor hanging upon it. After fumbling in my pocket for a match I struck the last one I had against the iron band of the cas. Directly it ignited a sheet of white flame flickered around, and in its pale, wierd light, I saw a ghastly skeleton crouched in close proximity to where I lay. Huge drops of sweat welled up and stood in dewy beads upon my brow, yet a chill sensation shook every nerve and muscle in my body. I could see nothing in the in tense darkness; but as if lured by fascina tion I glanced in the direction of the ghast ly figure until my eyes stood out of their sockets. I fancied I could see the long, bony arm of the skeleton thrust itself forth to grasp me; the flcshless face, the hollow temples, seemed clear to my sight, and the white rows of teeth seemed to mock and grin at my despair. I was but a youngster and I could bear the horrible phantasy no longer ; my overstrained nerves relaxed and I swooned. How long I ren.ained unconscious I can not tell; but, when my senses re turned, I heard a noise a short distance ahead of where 1 lay, and saw a ray of yellow light gleam through the interstices of some loosely stowed packages on my right. Theu the sound of a mau's voice fell on my ear, and, by the intonation of it, I knew that a sailor named Carstairs was in the vicinity of where I lay. "It's good for us tbe mate thinks it's the land porters as broaches the cargo, or we'd never get a drop of this good liquor. I say, Bill, can't we smuggle off enough to list the voyage home i"' I heard him say. "Carstairs!" I hallooed, in a faint voice, that sounded strangely unnatural even to mvself. " Heip! I'm jammed up in hero." I heard a crash of glass, as if a bottle had been let fall. ' Heavens! Bill, did you hear that?" half shrieked the terror stricken sailor. " 'Tissummatonnat'ral, anyhow, Let's get out o' this, Joe. I knew no good would ever come of this way of doing business," replied his companion. I hallooed again, louder and more dis tinctly. "For heaven's sake don't leave me here to die!" I cried. "That's the third mate's voice, lor sure," said Carstairs. "What's he artcr down here? Spying on us 1 suppose. But if he's hurted, it's best we go aud help him; he's not a bad sort, aud, perhaps, won't split on us." Flinging cases and barrels aside, they advanced quickly towards me, guided by my voice as I repeatedly hailed them. At last only one case stood between them aud me; they rolled it away, and grasped the one beneath which I lay. "Are you much hurt, sir?" asked Car stairs. "I can scarcely tell," I replied, as they lifted me up. Then I pointed in the direction of the skeleton. "Look there," I said. "Mercy, mercy!" cried the sailor, his stalwart form trembling all over as his iraze fell nnon the ghastly figure which the bright glare of the lamp revealed to us in all its renulaiveness. "Tis Borne poor fellow who's stowed himself away for tha nasaacre " he added, when tue nrst , n i . agonv of surprise had passed away. I was sorely bruised, but no bones were broken. The sailors assisted me along until f jrot near the main hatchway; the they went up ou deck by way of the fore castle, and toid tbe mate they thought Rome one was down in the bold. He, think ing I had made a capture, opened tbe hatch and I was dragged, moie dead than alive, from the hold beneath. I explained all to the mate, except the part relating to the two sailors, for I did not wish to get them into trouble as they had aided me, and the next day the re mains of the unfortunate stowaway were brought up on deck. From a paper found in the pocket of his coat we ascertained his name and former residence, and after wards learned that the unhappy man wished to join bis sweetheart in Australia, but having no money to pay for a passage he stowed himself away in the pump well, from whence no sound could reach to the deck, and so met the terrible fate I have recorded. There was no cargo broached at night aboard the Water Nymph that voyage. THE MEliCirAXlS STORY. Yes, it was rather a curious start that I had in business. The first'thing I did, af ter having saved a little pile of money, was to set up a shanty in Sioux City. I had all sorts of traps to allure Indians, and I wanted to buy any kind of peltries, scalps excepted. But I was a new arrival, and the noble red man couldn't believe in me without help, and I found trade rather dull. Late one night, however, as I was sleeping among my stock, there came a tremendous hanging at my door, and when I uubarred it. there was a tall fellow who seemed to be a little drunk ; and said he : "I want a butcher-knife." "All light. Come in," said I. "I want a reliable one," says be. "I want it to kill a man with. Give me a good strong handle. I want a knife that I can put in and turn it around." Says I, "I think I cansuit you. Walk in and take a look." I knew him by that time. He was a Virginian, a splendid looking fellow, rfud belonged to a good fam ily, as I understood, but be had gone wild on the frontier and had done a great many illegal things, and been forced to herd with the Indians. The consequence was that he spoke their language and was a person of influence among them. Well, I felt a little doubtful about his intentions not knowing but what I was the man be was after ; but all the same I got out my stock of tools and showed them. There was one, nearly two feet long, which I had bought for a cheese knife. Says I, "I think that would answer your purpose." "Yes, I should think it might" says he. "How much is it?" I told him the price about four shillings, I think. "I'll take it," says he. "But I haven't any money. Lndei the circumstances, seeing he had the knife iu his hand and was ready to turn it around, I thought I had better offer to trust him. "You'd better not," says be. "You don't know me from any other gentleman." "But I've got to trust you, says I. "ion ve got the butcher knife by the handle, and l;m at the sharp end of it. Besidos, I believe I can trust you." Off he went, and I heard no more of him for a time, not even whether he had killed a man. But some weeks later ho put in an appearance and paid for the knife. "And now, youngster," says he, "I like the way you treated inc when I roused you out for that tiade. You didu't show tbe white reather. ome men, bustled up at that time of night, would have been scared. But you behaved every way like a gentleman, and now ! want to behave to you as one. 1 here are some .nutans com ing in to-day, aud 1 11 bung them to your shanty to trade. Have you got any i urn ? I hadn t any rum ; I didu t keep it. Wei!," says he, "we must have some mm. No rum, no Injun. Give me a couple tf dollais." I gave him the money, and he went off. When he came back he had a demijohn full of drink and some tumblers. An hour or so later :he Indians appeared, some two hundred of them. First came the warriors, with their lines, bows and tomahawks; then followed the squaws, stooping almost to the ground un der their loads. My man halted them, but they didn't want to trade witli me; they didn't know me. There was a long pala ver, and at last he threatened to kill some of them if they didn't follow his friendly advice ; and the end of it was that they . . Tl 11 gave in, to save a quarrel. i iiey crowueu into my little stiop, and orann my ciemijonn emptv, and bought my stock clean out, and filled me full ol peltries, i maue ,ow that season, and went on in high spirits to lose it somewhere else, and then to pick it uo arrain. As for the Virginian, I lost sight of him, and never learned how he ended. I didn't even inquire whether he put Ins butcher knife in and turned it around. It . . 11- t- . 4. seemed to me zoo aeucaie a cuujixu At lantic Monthly. Hanqed for a Bet. There are not wanting instances of persons who have hanged themselves, or suffered themselves to be hanged, from motives of curiiwity or amusement. A remarkable case of this latter description formed the subject some years ago of one ol mose many curious in vesications which have taken place from time to time at How street. On April 15, 1812, two men were charged before a n agistrate under tbe following curious circumstances : A onstable who was passing along Hampstead Itoad on the previous evening observed a man six feet high hanging by his neck from a lamp-post attached to a wall, having been tied up and "turned off" just before by a short man. The officer rushed to the spot, and when he arrived there the handkerchief by which the tall man was susimnded cave way, and he fell to the ground. His eyes were protruding from their sockets, and he was nearly "gone ;" but, on recovering himself sufficiently to stagger on his legs, he immediately struck the officer so vio lent a blow on tbe nose as nearly to knock him' down. Both men were with difficulty secured, when they explained that the tall man who was being hanged was simply paying "a debt of honor." The two had been "tossing" in the after noon, first for money, then for clothes, the tall man having won the other's jacket, trousers and shoes, they agreed to loss up which should hang tbe otner. ms snort man won the toss, and forthwith proceeded to bang the tall man on the lamp-post. The tall man urged that had he won the toss, he would in like manner have assur edly have hanged the short man ; but the magistrates expressing their horror at the whole story, sentenced both prisoners to find bail for their good behavior. Not having bail they were committed toBnda we'tl. Pall Mall Gazette. The decree of doctor was first conferred in Europe, at Bologna, in 1130; in England, ia 124)8. An Extraordinary Affair. It certainly was an extraordinary affaii and tbe parties interested will remetnbe it as long as they live. The young ladj was shopping in tbe evening. On her way home she was ovet takeu by a young man, an acquaintance, who asked the pleasuit of escorting her home. The offer was nc ccpted, and the two proceeded, be cany ing her bundles, and making himself gen eral!) agreeable, as is tbe custom iu such cases. Arriving at her home she tuck him direct into the sitting-room, as the parlor stove was not yet up. The father and mother were sitting there, enjoying, evi dently, the genial warmth of the fire. Ou their entrance the young man noticed that the mother blushed deeply, and at tbe same time her husband laughed outright. It was a most boisterous laugh, without evident premeditation, and appealed to owe its origin to no assignable cause. The laughter gave no explanation after the esplosiou, but continued to look veiy much amused, while th color in his wife's face deepened. To the young man this was a most embarrassing reception. Nat urally enough he felt that it was something in his appearance that excited the miith of the one aud caused the blushes of the oth er. Involuntarily lie toik a hasty suivey of his appearance as far as the circumstan ces would allow, but could peiceive tn.th iug therein calculated to upset the tisi-dli ties of any man or unduly agitate the bo som of any woman. Still he was not at his ease, and the young lady discerningit, and failing to understand the action of her parents, proposed euchre as an offset. So the two played, and tbe old gentleman continued to look amused, occasionally varying this accomplisnment by facetious wiuks at his wife, whose countenance was alternately red and white. The young man became so absorbed iu the game that be forgot the peculiarity of his reception, and the young lady, dividiug her attention between the cards and bis face, lost sight of the trouble. And so they played and played, while the silence of the patents grew really oppressive bad the playeis but known it. They played on, and all inter ests were swallowed up iu the game. An hour passed, and then a half hour more. It was now ten o'clock. As the bour struck the old geutleman looked op from his paper, in which be had Iveeti absoibed for some little time, glanced at the players, then upon the face of his wife, and imme diately went off into such a fit of suppress ed laughter that an effort to control it very nearly precipitated him into a case of apoplexy. Fortunately, or rather unfortu nately, the players did not notice this agi tation. Had they looked up they could not have failed to have noted the terribly distressed expression of tbe mothei's face in which case the young man would have understood that some family misfor tune made the presence of au outsider very unpleasant. A half hour more passed. The young man threw down the raids aud said he must go. The young lady having thoroughly enjoyed the game felt impelled to say to him, "Don't be in a huny ; it is early yet," and had almost uttered the fateful words when her glai ce encountered the stony expression upon her mother's frtCP, and tbe words died upon her lips, while a thrill of fear shot through her heart. The young man took his hat, turned to bid the family a pleasant good night, when his gaze also fell upon tbe face of the mother, and tbe same thrill pierced his heart. He withdrew without a word, using all the baste possible, and went up the street to his home in a dazed state of mind. lie learned accidentally a few days later the cause of it all. The old lady, having a severe cold, bad taken the piecau ion to soak her feet in hot water before retiring, aud her feet were iu the pail receiving the proper treatment when the young man was unexpectedly ushered in. As her skirts fell over the vessel he failed to note the fact and consequently pioloi ged hia atay two solid hours. What tbe tempera ture of the water had become at tbat bour can easily be imagined, but what were the thoughts that passed through the misera ble wotnau's distrac ed mind during those two hours no one can fathom. Even she finds herself unable to clearly define thewi, although she has talked of but little else since the awful night. Danhury Xete$. Interesting Facts. Pistols in use, 1344. Muskets in use, 13T0. Spectacles invented, 1280. Paper made from linen, 1300. Musical notes used, invented, Linen first made in England, 12&. Clocks first made in England, 10OS. Peus first made of quills, A. D. G35. Printing Gist introduced into Eucland. 1471. S ' Paper was invented in Chiua 170 years B.C. Saddles came into use in the fourth cen tury. Plays were first acted iu Rome 23 years B. C. Horse-shoes of iron were first made A D. 43. Stirrups were not made until a century later. Printing iuveuted at Metr by Gutten berg, 14-jO. lVdatoes were first introduced into Ire land in 156. Tobacco first introduced into Frauce by Nicot, 1430. Cannons first used at the siege of Alze. giras, 1342. The art of weaving was introduced into England, 1330. Astronomy and geometry brought into England, 1230. The calender was reformed 'by Julius CiPsar in the year 43 B. C. The first public libiary w&i founded at Athens 52G years B. C. The first public library in Rome was founded in the year Wi B. C. Paper of cotton rags iuveutcd toward the close of the tenth century. Comedy and tragedy were first exhibited at Athens 237 years B. C. Turkeys and chocolate introduced into England from America, 152H. The figures of arithmetic brought into Europe by Saracens, A. D. 991.' Postofiices establiiied in France, 1464 in England, 13SI ; iu Germany, 1641. Insurance on ships and merchandise was first made in A. D. 43. The first public library was founded at Alexandria, Egypt, A D.84. The first regular bank was established in Venice in the yerr 1137. Stone buildmgs aud srlasa wers first in troduced into Eifcianu iu A. D. 674. J. M. S J oi.iw- j,,.Ar,'A. 11-?0-St.l 1BI:'WT"' ,
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