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HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
Where England’s Rulers are Buried.
A place has been given in this list to
Oliver Cromwell. Strictly speaking,
Cromwell was net a sovereign, but most
people will agree with Macaulay, that
“he was the greatest Prince that ever
ruled England.” His remains were dis¬
honored when Charles II. came to the
throne, but there is no dishonoring his
place in history.
William William I., 11., at at Caen.................... Winchester............. j^7
Henry 1., at Reading Abbey........... 1185
Stephen, at Favjrsham Abbey, Kent... Uo4
Henry If., at Fontevraud, Anjou...... his heart
Richard J., lit Fontevraud, but citizens of
bequeathed to the
Rouen............................... ™
John, at Worcester..................... 03
Henry III., at Westminster Abbey..... 1*7 cC
Edward L, ut Westminster Abbey..... 1307
Edward II., at Gloucester Abbey....... 1327
Edward III., at Westminster Abbey.... 1377
Richard II., at Westminster Abbey.... 1399
Henry IV., at Canterbury........ H13
Henry V., at Westminster Abbey...... 1423
Henry V I., at Windsor................. 1471
Edward IV., at Windsor............... 1485
Edward V., at Westminster........... 1483
Richard 111.. at Cray Friars. His bonee
were nut-allowed to remain there; they by
were torn from his humble bed
Henry VIII., and his stone coftin used
as a drinking trough for horses at an
inn in Leicester.............. 1509
Henry VII , at Westminster...
Henry VIII., at Windsor...... 1547
Edward VI., at Westminster... * « • • • • .. 1553
Mary I., at Westminster....... 1558
Elizabeth, at Westminster..... 1803
James I., at Westminster...... 1825
Charles!., at Windsor................. 1849
Cromwell, at Westminster.............. M ->
Charles 11 •, at Westminster............ 1885
Mary IL, at Westminster Abbey....... 1894
James IL, at St. Germain, Paris.......1701
William 111., at Westminster Abbey... 170:1
Anne, at Westminster Abbey.......... 1714
George J., atHanover.................. 1737
George George ilV.^t^rSr^. IV., Windsor................ *. 1 1830 1820
at
Wiliiam IV., at Windsor............... 1837
—Leeds (England) Mercury.
Happy Every Day.
Sidney Smith cut the following from
a newspaper and preserved it for him¬
self: “When you rise in the morning,
form the resolution to make the day a
happy one to some fellow creature. It
is easily done—a left off garment to the
man who needs it, a kind word to the
sorrowful, an encouraging word to the
striving—trifles in themselves as light as
air—-will do it at least once in twenty
four hours. And if you are young,
depend upon it, it will tell when you are
old; and if you are old. rest assured it
will send you gently and happily down
the stream of time to eternity. If you
send one person happily through each
day, that is 365 in the course of a year,
If you live only forty years after you
commence that course of medicine, you
have made 14,600 souls happy, at all
events lor a time.”
Watery Wonders of Utah.
There is in the extreme north of Utah
a magnificent subterraneau reservoir ol
first-class soda water, bubbling and ef¬
fervescing out of the ground in such
quantities that all America might be sup
plied. In the extreme south, on ilie
road to Orderville, is an exquisite circu- the
lur lake-let that is always just full to
brim with -water as clear and as green as
beryl. And wherever the water over
flows the lake’s edge it encrusts the
ground and the grass and the fallen
loaves upon it with a flue coating or
limestone, so that the brim is growing
higher and higher with the impercep
tiblo but certain growth of a coral reef,
and in the course of generations the lake
will become a concreted basin.
Fat ys. Lean.
4 ‘ Ab, me!” sighed the lean man, “ if I were
a fat man,
How happy the world would seem;”
“S’deatli,” moaned tha fat man, “how happy
you thin men—
“ Oh. dear! if I could ba lean.”
Fo thus doth the lean man envy the fat msu
While the fat man would fain be lean;
Oh. happy am I. not fat man or lean man—
Only betw’ixt and between.
—Louisville Post,
Tin: growth of higher feeling within
us is hke the growth of faculty, bringing
sympathy, than a painter or musician
can wish to return to his cruder manner,
or a philosopher to his less complete
formula.
IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS
Facts About the World's Pro¬
gress in that Time.
The People of the New World Out
stripping Those of the Old
In the forty-nine years’ reign of
Queen Victoria the government of
that great nation has been growing
more and more liberal, while the peo¬
ple are enjoying very much of what is
known as American freedom. Never
before has an election to the House of
Commons been attended with such in¬
terest and importance, for the issue
relates to the extension of human
rights, the enlargement of personal
liberty.
France has outlived, in form, for a
season at least, her Napoleonic rule,
and settled into a Itepub' • not unlike
the United States. G *nany, adher¬
ing to her time-honored King, has re¬
leased to the people many privileges,
and extended her power since the
Franco-Russian victories, but America,
tUa of the oldest government. ,
scon
Xrown'Te*pe“
Ihe majority ... of people, . ... h of .
a e sue
cess equal to tueir hopes and
tons is glory qu.te suffl .ert, yet who
had ever predicted tiiat America, the
once bleak and despised . . , Republic, „ ...
should distance all competitors? The
day of trouble brought us doubt of it; '
tf .. ie h hour of P enl ri i i„ ,etI i nq us fn t0 question nllP „ t j„ n ll r
W e had planned wisely, but the hours
of triumph in liberty, unity, currency
an( j cre( jjt made us proud r of our na
tional influence.
In New York Penns-lvania there' Vir
ginia, and New England were
farms and homes and improvements as
long as forty years ago, hut the better
part came on much later. Within
the period of forty vears has been
made the greatest gains and the fast- :
est time ever before recorded in any
country, in the West we knew very
little of luxury forty years ago. The
hulk of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and the States further to
ward sunset, liavo grown into being
and blossomed into gardens within the
hist third ot a century.
The pruned and cultivated farms of ;
England have been trained and tended j
for many centuries, while the fields and j
prairies of Indiana and Dakota
were homes of of red hunters. men The and j j
free lands
limit of English land and the ex
tent of our o>vn is the chief cause of
one’s finer cultivation and the other’s
rugged developments.
But the people in the New World
are ^ ^ ^ h * vement8 .
Inventors by the thousands, machine
r y by the mile length, mining and
8 ^ oc jj. ra i s i n »r grain and wood com
merce trade . . and , speculation, , .. out- .
*
grows the mother countries by degrees
beyond J counting, and America, once
80 P 00r and de , Qnon P endent . nt that that she ahplnvifoil invited
France to join her in a struggle for
independence, may now claim more
liberty, more progress, and more inde
pendence than even England.
In land, exclusive of India and Can¬
ada, what country can compare with
America? In machinery, implements,
wood, iron, coal, gold, silver, salt and
minerals, timber lumber, railway and
cattle ranges, where is her equal? In
growth of men and development of
letters—counting of course, the meagre
beginning—what a wonderful and
marvelous advancement. It is not
the climate, nor the water, nor the lo
cation? nor t h e soil, nor the advanta
^ eg ^ tho men that have m ade it!
11 is not the land of a street * but thQ
men on it that improve it. It is not
the money we had, but the money we
earned that made the nation rich. It!
is the grand co-partnership of the peo
pie, who somehow all feel an interest
in its progress, that has made Ameri
ca so thrifty, so progessive, and so
prosperous prosperous for for the the forty forty years years gone gone by, by,
and will make her such a monument
of national greatness in the coming
century.— J. IY Donovan , in Chicago
Current.
(Jueer Mistukes of Bridegrooms.
Most people the moment they enter
a parsonage to get married become so
embarrassed they are hardly conscious
of what they are doing. One fellow I
heard o£ was dreadfully afflicted in
this way, and without realizing his act
pulled a cigar from his pocket and
twirled it around in his hands. When
that portion of the ceremony was
reached in which the lady and gentle¬
man join hands he happened to have
the cigar in his right hand. What to
do with the cigar he evidently didn’t
know. The clergyman g ; paused ^ for a
and then join' e])eate the instruc .
-*«» that they hands. By this
time the poor P fellow’s embarrassment
t0 b6 .
H J e gave one agonized * look at
6
in his mouth, Before the ceremony
could be concluded the minister had to
take the cigar from between his lips.
Another prospective groom was in the
same dire condition of mind. He was
making a great effort to regain his
composure by whirling around on his
outstretched finger a silk hat when the
minister announced his readiness to
be 8 iQ the service. The fellow quickly
Jumped up. For a second ho did not
know what to do with his bat - but
onl y for a second - for he solved the
P robIem by sticking the castor between
l,is knees. The clergyman told me he
could hard| y refrain form laughter as
lle "lurried that man standing in the
ridiculous position he was forced to
take. — Philadelphia Record.
Weakness of OreatMen.
Alexander was too fond of strong
Julius Caesar was inordinately vain
an< j 0 f c | regs>
Demosthenes was always on the
platform wh en everything was serene,
and under it when there was danger.
i» eter the Great was a glutton aDd a
drunkard.
Napoleon , T . was addicted ... . . to . ... lying; so
much so that the habit became notori¬
ous.
The Earl of Chatham always dressed
. infl nn «pd for etfect ZL
fehendan t\as neter aoJe . lb!e to to give eive up u p
^he bottle an d gaming table,
George \\ ashington occasionally
swore when he was very mad.
Gen. Santa Anna had a weakness
for Disraeli^started cock fighting.
1Jlsraeii - lArieu out a a dandv «<umy and re
ma j ne d one to the last.
Alexandre Dumas earned millions
w jth his pen. but could not keep out
of <| e bt .—Chicago Time
A Ball of Fire.
Captain Hanson, of the bark Paul
ine, from, Cardiff, at Quebec, recounts
a strange phenomenon. In latitude 55
degress north, longitude 4G degrees
west, during a rainstorm, a brilliant
ball of fire lodged on the deck, and for
a few minutes played about from the
cabin to the forecastle, prostrating the
captain and two seamen. With a lend
report the fiery visitor disappeared as
suddenly as it appeared, without dam
aging the vessel,
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A number of granite rocks have
been found by Indians on the Snake
River, Oregon, which contain impres
sions of deer and bear feet, and one of
which has a very distinct human foot
print,
The recent experiments on the
British coast to test the relative merits
of oil, gas and electricity for light
houses, have resulted in the decision of
the committee that oil is the most
suitable and economical illuminant for
ordinary necessities, and that elec¬
tricity offers the greatest advantages
when very powerful light is needed.
In countries having marked winter
seasons earthquakes are found to be
more frequent in winter than in sum¬
mer. Dr. Knott, of the Seismological
Society of Japan, finds only two pos¬
sible meteorological reasons for this—
one being the stress of accumulated
snow and the other that of high ba¬
rometric pressure during the cold sea
son.
The expression of the eyes of per
sons killed by violence is considered an
important matter in criminal jurisprr,
deuce, but its value has been greatly
lessened by reason of .ts evanescent
nature. A French scientist has found
, me ans of restoring the life-like ex
pressioD. It consists in applying a
few drops of glycerine and water to
the cornea.
Hyoscine, a worse sedative than
chloral, is being used in New York.*
It comes from a German plant and has
been occasionally sold by German
apothecaries at 75 cents a grain, but
the demand has recently increased and
the price has gone up. The danger
arises from the fact that it is very
powerful and the risk of overdoses is
great, its habitual use produces mus
cular paralysis and violent delirium.
H «aty Dalton, the late eminent
English mlcroscopist, used to run. j on
gj ass f rom the scales and hair of Bra
z u ian butterflies the representation of
a bouquet, which, seen through a povv
erfdl ins t r »ment, showed eig' tv-two
distinct flowers of various shades and
colors. To the naked eye the bouquet
looked like a small shot. There are
not more than fifty Dalton slides in
this country, and they can scarcely be
purchased for love or money. Gray’s
Ele gy. containing thirty-two verses,
bas been photographed by the aid of a
microscope on a slide within a space
of one-tenth of an inch square, ^ and is
perfectly legible when read through a
powerful instrument.
llr. Bacon ami Daniel Pratt.
, “** „ ^ t0ld *'° ry
characteristic of his famous father,
Dr. Bacon was entertaining a eom
p aD y oi - f r i en( j s a t his home one day
when suddenly a hand was thrust fa¬
miliarly under his face and a some¬
what ostentatious individual insisted
I on shaking hands as a preliminary to
a metaphysical discussion. Dr. Bacon
showed his astonishment, but the call
I er was not to be abashed.
“You don’t know me, sir,” quoth
i the stranger, ad ling, with grandilo¬
! quence that was almost charming in
its impudence, while a dozen guests
j stood aghast, “I, sir. am no less a man
th »n Daniel Pratt—Daniel Pratt, sir
the great American traveler
“Oh!” said Dr. Bacon.
“Yes, sir,” recited Mr. Pratt, more
fervently still; “yes, sir, the great
American traveler."
“All right,” was the placid com¬
ment, “travel!”
Daniel did .—New York Times.