Eau Claire Argus (Newspaper) - July 29, 1880, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Antiquity Of Grain Culture and interest i JT p 4 entitled Domestic Life w page 197 we read the lol to the conquest of Brit 18 Romans C 55 ag fing book England lowing lain by t vers land durn was almost entirely un L The Romans in the important branch knowledge taught the 6 iot he time they m i i so far advanced were they corn and cattle in great has been the prejudge against the and the ancient tance or that any false hood unfavorable to them was be and that readily without the least reflection The above false hood may be nullified at any time by a little pains We will turn the sword against his own men by recalling Caesar s own words in his account of m Britian Speaking ol plough a kind preserved to later times among the Irish The primeval kinds of grain used in Britain were oats ryve angular barley The wheat and barley probably a better kind of barley is attributed to Colh son of a person of unknown date certainly of great anti The Troes an ancient written more than 350 year the introduction of wheat to a date as late as 400 B C but there is evi dently a mistake here unless it re fers to the importation of some new or improved variety The tradition of the Bards states that taught the people to sow corn i e grain in furrows and in the system of or joint plowing a custome still pre served in Wales which is very sim ilar to the American plowing They ducts than i also them toiled at grain pro Patiently of the more 3 consistent with the y of the Germans the sea and ones who gathered they the shallows and on the very While most of the tribes paid more or less agri a few tribes were either or destitute of it the Fenni are by usual inp But they are the amber among year 1439 B makes the piece of about 3000 years old Mrs T A Tea pot and sugar over 100 years old Mr i 200 years i old and a solid silver sugar bowl presented to the bride on the occasion of her marriage Mrs D Kennedy Silver candle tray Mrs C B Gleason Fan 50 years mentioned above plunder and prob o the natives that The laws of the Code were prom about 430 B C These con tain regulations for tillage and har vest Let us in conclusion tuin to for eign Historians born 549 B C the island as so fertile as to produce two crops of grain annually The author of mht be the consequence gold and silver and iron i 1 1 J 41 xi we will give the foil mary of lit from a firstclass English historian In the midst of these precautions and preparations while the seventh legion out they fell into an ambuscade The harvest in most places had been leathered in and secured by the Hnt Sns they attempted to their league with tasar In spots however the corn was left Handing in tno field Tins booty the notice of the seventh legion and tempted them tcy secure ao valuable a Accordingly unconscious oi any danger they laid by their arms and while one party was reaping another was se curing the grain The Britons knowing how bad the enemy was in 1 want oi t which things are brought thence They gather ed in there harvest by cutting oil the ears of corn and storing them in subterraneous Pliny says that in the corn corn had no foreseen ey left this standing that they would soon be attracted to toe add therefore they prepared for then reception accordingly In the of this corn they arm ed bands who J had been secreted all night waiting the arrival of their plunderers and the favorable moment to was cut down by a machine drawn by horses and attributes to that country the invention of the bolting sieve which was mafle of horsehair while Julius Caesar positively says that the system from whichall in and improvements of this kind emanated had its orgn in Britian But in fact the cultiva tion of corn was more or less known all and in use among nations including Germans others from an unknown and antiqui Finally let us extend the inquiry about the cultivation of grain 01 to the Germans We need corn not question whether the Gauls cul corn for having in use among them the mowing machine they must have far excelled of farm ers the Romans themselves Let us look at the Germans tle work of death midst if their labor the Britons fell upon them with all their foice arid killed many so passed the rest with their horses and that not one would have had not the fate that you persuade t 11 en cached the Roman earth or to wait au I our the wonderful and have no r foul pov o horses io household goods they llave for clothing their bed the ground their inly hope is in their which through want of iron bone James in Maine Farmer ART EXPOSITION H Sword and epaulet worn by his grandfather in the revolutionary war Mrs John Cernagham platter 150 years old Mrs iGr collections from Letter of Mrs John Quincy Adams Spanish own ed by Edward over 100 years old General Grants autograph snuffbox over 100 bead chain and embroidered belt 50 years old a baby s cap Number of View and Ear began Grandest Relics ever Exhibited Catalogue Articles and of seemingly more y Thursday afternoon visitors coining and going to grand Exposition of art and antiquity now be ing at church by the ladies of the of this city every one went away than satined with what they had seen Tiie collection of old articles is a great and surprise to all for few peo ple dreamed that such a vast number of relics and antiquities existed within the city of Eau Claire Jt s ble to satisfy ones curiosity in a single evenings visit for the articles are too numerous and their too inter to in We mve a catalogue of the leading articles on Exhibition and the names of their present owners so far as we obtain them If there are omissions it is unintentional for in so vast a collection it is next to impossible clear of an error Mrs G B James A heavy gold nno made by the order of Napoleon Bonaparte while the Is land of St Helena in 1815 and by him presented to Captain Vincent a naval by whom it was given to the present owners It contains a lock of the emperors hair which is limited in and so situated in the ring that it cannot discerned an relic of great interest which is exhibition through the kindness of James is a locket containing ofthe of the illfated sover some Charles I agri and we wil select Tacitus as bus historian The German tribes were and various and the evidence of ag is not among them some of the tribes appearing to neg lect it altogether Of the Germans in Tacitus says Nor will them to plough the for the seasons of the year as to challenge the enemy and eam for themselves wounds it seems slow and in do and stamped on the with his bust the hair is a braided lock easily discerned cm op the and the beautiful and famous auburn color is not in the affected by the lapse of two least cam p Thus instead of teachers ol the on his first step moreover grounds stands up lent to require sweat what you may in the form ofa disgraceful thiet be able to Instead i of teaching the Britons to This does not gain to us in example 3 cornor the form of grain he appears one of a giving an I testimony is by prove your that ure was not inuse among them though it might modern his to think so Further on we read For their drink there is a for us o history saries a this CH fearing But for since out of barley or grain our is byour naver into every turn we will a certain likness of wine Those them to accept him in who are nearest the bank of tne and this they will do river also purchase wine kinds of food are simple wild a wild animal lately slain and cur milk They drive away hnng without incentives to appetite hundred mode artic bowl and fifty though m e isan years A more an interesting Old Dominion silver bowl ahd spoon with the fol o inscribed on the side of the Presented to G P BJames by a few of lais friends in Virginia may names familiar to Ins ears as words be in this flowing bowl freshly ims respect jand friendship tor their honored guest was made mam oh the I occasion of his last resi as consul in A of Schiller Russian corns a seal over 300 years old a filled with engravings and per in print half an inch m width and mini on ivi very old worn by Mrs when she danced with Gen Washington Pa a pair of salt cellars and salt spoon originally owned by Mary Ann Morris wife of Louis Morris a signer of the Declaration of Independence and are therefore over 100 years old Louis great grand father of Mrs Ginty An hymn bobk in the Mohawk language pre sented to Mrs Ginty by Rev Mr Goodenow church at Duck Creek near Green Bny silver snuffers and tray 50 old very old of Mrs T W Martin Mrs Ken A choice display of Kensington art work dress and slip worn byi Mrs Kenyons mother china by herself wa arid Compan ion Piece to i Voyage of Life Mount Blanc all painted by herself Chris tian Emblems B F Cowan Sioux chiefs hunting outfit including an Indians scalp very and elaborately worked an Indian arrow and scalping knife by which Orderly Sergeant C Hall Company of Augusta i this county was killed near the mouth of the Yellow Stone river Apr 27 1865 was found In his body and by the side of it the knife which he was scalped the blood upon which is still visible George Ulrich A Sioux Indians outfit i Mrs J Gl An old silk dress a curious vase from the excava tion C A pair of silk stopp ings supposed ibbe over 100 years old a silk neckerchief about the same age also an old silk shawl Mrs Bollard quilt Mrs towel over 100 years old silk years old John pipe organ made by John King in London in the year 1604 and brought to America by the present owner in 1849 Fred Bawling A old coins among which is a half guinea struck off in 1095 and found in a jar in Bobin Hoods Bufits a wall sur rounding thd battlefield on which that famous forester fought several sil ver pieces over 100 years old Mr James Bain Wooden bowl 150 years old J Mrs Sarah 150 years Mrs Bevi Old teacups Mrs J I Plate 150 years old Whittier Mrs H C Two pitchers years old Mrs Mallory Linen towels rice paper very beautiful curious pie mentioned cork Mrs Andrew Hanson Wooden sng and spoon er brought from Norway Elijah Swift A baby cap worn by the original of Elijah junior Mrs D B Moon A collection of china Mrs Tracy Watch 75 years old Mrs B F Wilson about 75 years old a mat made from the a tree on the Island of Ja maica Mrs S Marston An old Capt B C Whipple An iron hook taken from the wall of Libby prison a piece of wood from the tree under Gen Grant stood when Gen Pemberton him his sword at the fall of Martin Foss A meerschaum pipe over 100 years old brought from Norway H C Putnam Handkerchief be longing to Martha Washington a relic of great interest Mrs A small chest or package of tea Which was saved from the cargo destroyed by the Bos ton Tea Party in 1773 from wharf in Boston harbor The tea is labelled Extra curious Tormosa tea imported by Oriental Tea an earthen teapot made in the time of John Wesley flowered and lettered bearing on one side the portrait of that eminent founder of the Methodist church and the names and portraits of many eminent devines of his day and on the other side the inscription Let your conversation be as the Gospel of Christ a china plate made in 1712 saucer and spoon belong to Abraham Lincoln Miss Mary CoRgdon Old china em bracing teapot and pitch 61 Mrs n C Rowland Old ware 75 old sampler 57 years old a that date ly the eldest one of each the present now 313 Ola and is of Mrs Anne Beed who in this city Mrs Galloway Portraits of Hon and mother of Mrs was once of the Territory Pincushion mats fan and painted byj hand Miss Hattie Bullen Stephen A pair of large 100 years old looking glass of same age I i F W toot from the vicinity of Borne 1 I A spool of Clarkes thread wound m tiie Crystal at the first Worlds Fair M W F Cook A curious Miss Susie Mason A collection 6t Chinese cups bowls chop sticks etc Facsimile of the inscription on the tombstone of and his wife A Norwegian wooden beer dish a very collection of Japanese articles 1 jj i quilt made by the wife of Capt jGreen nephew of Gen Green of revolutionary fame great grand mother Joel Clarke that belonged to dent and presented by his widow to Jane A Livingston the paternal of Mrs W K Galloway of this city pe the risk of a manifest incon we will further entertain Vui readers with a few from the traditional bars and lesions of the primitive are rep as to be acquainted with no less eighteen of the differ ent arti and sciences of many of them whilst they er is not the same temperance thirst indulgence to If yon have shown their inebriation by learned were et in a yet settled in before system in the nomadic towns or state cities hot and hey were brought the of consolidated sovereignty ime of was many centuries before the time of Julius and of Palestine These were hence called the Arts whilst the other nine which they learned subsequently went by the name of Civil Arts The for mer are Here Agri i Weavi supplying as much as they desire will be vanquished no less eas by than by their From this gath er that for intoxicating drinks they depended more on malt liquors m the interior the confines of Gaul and infer that they raised and other grain in the inter ior Again we read of their slaves posed on him a measure or of cattle or of cloth of an inch long a picture exquisitely painted teaspoon over 100 yeats old owned by the daughter of Jonathan Edwards ot North Adams Mass Mrs John Ward A plate of com inon ware 130 years old two wine glasses same age meat platter su years old and a very curious snuffbox made from the butt of a deers horn captured in forest England in the year 1500 This little relic belongs to Mrs Ward and has been in her family during that whole period of 380 years Mrs Geo H Daniels A small china teacup which is said to have been placed over her head she was but a week old and completely cover ed her to the shoulders astone from the Dead Sea Rev J F Dudley A pewter mug years old collection of agates and from Lake Superior Mrs A A collection of rare china seal ring 200 years goblet 200 years old Mrs William Newton A milk pitcher 80 years old mantel ornament 200 years old cameo broach made in bracelet made from the beach at Brighton in 1700 ISO years ago a button from the coat of Capt Perkins of the Eighth Wisconsin regiment guitar 130 years L t old t Mrs George A Teall A wineglass 75 years old 4 Mrs J F Dudley Curious basket from India A cross made from game piece Sand from the River Kile relics of the Chicago in 1871 a whale sj tooth an Indian the bed of Connecticut river 66 years ago reli tes from the battlefield of Gettysburg brain of pavement from Pompeii of a Roman funeral urn a a slave of Rome Crystal quartz petrified beef i A i A4 A y A r feather from the wing of Old an almanac of 1745 a pages a translation of by also a large collection books papers I magazines specimens of stones etc it is almost impossible to enur and the owners of which m some casesi wej to mention of old imens which enumerate 150 ory very rare Preston A ring made tiie first gold discovered in 1849 a silver 300 years old lace veil 200 years Thes Deities a The among ions ai names thus enumerated follow the nine Rural Arts Metallurgy Bardism Harp Playing g Politics Medicine Coin were known to the ancient y before they possessed nd a system of sovereignty implements of husbandry to have them we find the d tf which we now trans late into the English spade rhaw shovel cait mattock or a delving spade crad urad over treading concerning some The master im of corn ing C i They changed their corn fields and land is in for neither do they keep pace by labor with the dnd bounty of the soil so as to plant orchards and fence off meadows and irrigate gard ens a crop of alone is enjoined on the land they do not year itself also into so many parts winter and the spring and the summer nave J 1 L J t Q a meaning and name the name well as the benefits of are un known J The a remote tribe of Ger many whose language was ancient British paid more attention ag Mis inC over old Wyatt A terracotta very old oil painting Cribbage Players over 300 of by herself from an old piece of statuary also a drawing of ijas g Hefby herself Page Silver tea set A silver teaspoon by Mrs A A utters great great mother Mrs the wood of atree Olive Palestine I Joe Dudley Jr whistle brought from of Turkey airs H T Jones A rown on Mount A shepherds the jewel case 02 B Smith Photographs Hyacinthe John Bose A broach over years old 90 nrt Mrs H CJ over old i Baby clothes over 05 years old Delf plate and pitcher over 175 Silver watch 200 years old bait cellar 300 years old Mike Fox Group of deer exquisite ly carved also Chinese junk table flowers etc carved in ul and by himself portrait of M mad Ivela Indi land B Vallier Bouquet of flowers ofthe plumage from birds of nd1 made in the West islands over 100 years ago cape painted by herself F A piece of cloth taken the mummy of It was taken from the of ancient Thebes and sent to New in the Sarcophagus and the Historical Society for the purpose what state of the They found nothing but a yellow dust and Wo or three bones From theim and figures on nis it was said to have been in the years old teacups 200 years old pretty painting enticed BirdsNest Miss M A Davis Table linen 200 years old l Mrs FW Woodward Some rare china very old an engraved glass dish the quill pen with which Dickens wrote Ms name on leaving America the last time Mrs Bullen Tea caddy 190 years old box 175 years old Mrs Flanders Cup and saucer 50 years old j Mrs M A Briggs China mug years old glass candlestick 200 years old pitcher over old Mrs D B Kowland Earthen pot 100 years old Mrs M Tolles A leaf from the fa mous Charter Oak a piece of stone from Plymouth Bock a cap worn by a Modoc Captain Jacks captured in lava beds Mrs H G Free Glass lamp 100 years pictures one 75 and the 100 years old table spoon old Sketch of a coun try inn 98 years old combination sketch of and two deers on pa per fluted so as to show two pictures 75 years old Mrs H H Hayden Curious china cup saucera silver 75 years old Mrs Arnstad China cup and saucer and a spoon way very did a silver and cream from Norway quite old and Mrs D F Crabbe Pepperbox 15th years old Mrs Martin H Hanson China pitch er j over years old v x Mrs Chas F Mayhew 10Q years old L Mrs W H Cup and sau cer 100 125 years old j v i A years old a rich wedding old style a wax doll dressed in the cos tume worn in England at the time sent to Mrs Tones 41 years ago when was a little child Mrs Agnes Keith A very curious belt embroidered with perch scales over 50 years old Mrs Ballard A pewter urn very an cient 4 i Two tropical landscapes and loaned by Miss Hattie D B Moon Views of Venice from Turner four paintings of land scape Indians viewing the approach ot civilization painted and loaned by Mrs Moffat Mrs cats Capt A M Sherman Engravings of Ferrara and Florinda Voyage of other Along Way Ahead The four largest cities in the United States Kew York Philadelphia Brooklyn and Chicago have a total population of 3113084 In 1870 their population 2311390 They have about a third in the ten If rate of ten years longer their population in 1890 will be over four millions or an a million each now the population of these four cities of whose growth we are so proud taken together falls short of the population of London alone E ven if we added St Louis we should not make up so many people as London contains If we put in Washington also we get an aggregate population about equal to that of London London therefore contains about as many people as New Tork Philadel phia Brooklyn Chicago St Louis and Washington together the latest of that city was tak en eight years I ago its increase has been estimated and the 3620868 a total is within tlie The H aggregate population cities which we And even ten years if grow rate of which it has shown during the eight it population equal to that four greasiest put together It will contain over four millions of people comparisons are not ony in they are valuable also may tend to subdue a boastful spirit in grow ing countries and they to f orm some conception of magnitude of the greatest the world has ever seen Assuming a continuance of its of for a some jEnglish writers as swollen to a capital of i than But there is no warrant any such creatI cities eventually limit i rit J Mrs Brown Old English landscape The Seasons engraving of a bur lesque character Miss Picture in birch bark by the late Mrs Stephen Brown Mrs B FWilson Shadow picture of Mother dog H A and artistically contrived the tomb of Dorothea Schlegelmilch pho of f father i and mother of next Mrs Anne Beed purchased in the year furniture bridge the years century of growth and show a When that wp be at by London i any thing but the i i a 1 been passed I
