Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — STTS OF HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

STTS OF HISTORY.

The first Christian school was established by the Pantseus in 181. Golconda mines are now exhausted. At one time 60,000 men were employed In them. When the Sultan Mahmoud, who reigned in 1177-1206, died, he left In his treasury 400 pounds’ weight of gems taken from the mines at Goltonda. The first aerial voyage was made Sept. 19, 1783. by a sheep, a cock aqd a duck to a height of 1,500 feet. The first human traveler through the air was M. Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who mounted the following month in c free balloon. The earliest known lens is one W rock crystal unearthed by Layard at Nineveh. This lens, the age of which is by thousands of years c>w lies in the British Museum, «u bright and as clear as it was the day it left the maker’s hands. In the appalling eatastropho which destroyed the qty of Lima and its harbor, Callao, in Peru, in October, 1746, the earthquake shocks were repeated •3'opy seven or eight minutes, and over 200 of the most violent kind wen counted within twenty-four hours. lithe great earthquake of Caraccas, oh the 26th of March, 1812, fifteen shock* rare felt on the first day, and they »ontinued numerous every daiyi until dre sth of April follow'ng. dressmakers’ bill in the #orld has been discovered on a Chaldean (ablet, dating 2800 B, C. It has entry of “ninety-two pure vestmente for the priests,” 7\mpaff tbs Hems art _t? n wfy-ta of the’Temple, eight ruoes of the house of his lady, ten collars of the house of his lady, ten pair 31 gold collars, two white robes and tour scented robes,” also “two winders,” probably scarfs for finding’ aboiit the waist. Before this the oldest acOoun* of this sort was On a tablet dating jver 1400 B. C. The Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. wst the United States 8135,193,703. The Colonies furnished 395,034 troops. The War of 1812 cost $107,159,003; the number of troops estimated at 471,62,' The Mexican War cost $100,000,0 ft the number of troops engaged was 101,232. The Civil War, 1861-1865, cost $6,189,929,900, acco -ding to the official records; the number of troops engaged on the Union side was 2,859, 142, the total loss 460,503; the number engaged on the Confederate side was %bjut 493,000 and loss about 300,000.