Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — Historical Items. [ARTICLE]

Historical Items.

Henery 111. was the first English King who wore spurs with rowels. Six hundred lions were killed at one show given by the Roman Pompey. -Archimedes invented a screw for facilitating irrigation in Egypt, B. C. 2-50. i The first alter mentioned in Scripture was erected by Noah after the flood. Gibbon beg&n to write his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Lon don in 1772. In Moscow the plague introduced by the Turkish army carried off 20.000 victims in a month. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France, guilty animals suffered death on the gallows. Grasshoppers were venerated in Greece both as sacred and musical. The Athenians wore gold ones in their hair to denote the antiquity of their race. The body of Julius Ciesar was borne to the grave on the shoulders of the magistrates; Augustus by the Senators and Germanicus by the tribuue and centurions.