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Show EVENTFUL HISTORY. Never before, so far as records show, has such eventful history been written in the same time as the past six months have made. -Even our own war of rebellion, re-bellion, gigantic and unparalleled as it then was, has been outstripped by the late astounding events in Europe. And to simply recall the leading changes that have occurred in the eastern hemisphere since July, of 1870, L, almost bewildering. Six months ago France was an empire, em-pire, Prussia a kingdom, and the Pope a temporal snj ereigo. Now, the old , German traditions are revived in the resuscitated German E-Dpire; France has been stricken a deadly blow and is terribly humiliated, while its late Emperor is a fugitive from his country and a prisoner. The Pope the spiritual head of a hundred hun-dred millions of people is stripped of his territorial possessions; and the house of Savoy, in the person of Victor Vic-tor Emanuel, has given Rome to Italy. Other changes have occurred, second ' only in magnitude to those already named. And in the violent disruption of ancient landmarks are sown seeds of future terrific struggles to again convulse con-vulse that continent War has not ceased foreyer and the millennium been inaugurated by the capitulation of Paris. Nor is the exaltation ex-altation of Germany a certainty of continued con-tinued peace. There will be influences at work, arising from the late wonderful wonder-ful results in changing the condition of Europe, which will continue to work until a further deluge of blood ensue?. |