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Show I TODAY IN HISTORY SUNDAY, MARCH 13. Two continents may rightfully claim Dr- JfcPb Priestley, antl any country would be proud to own him. Although the distinguished theologian, and man of science was born In JCngland, and In that country wrole the greater part of' his Hclcntlnc .-Mid thoologlcal literature, I10 camo to make his home In America at the height of his fame, and died In this country, and Is burled in the little Quaker:?' burial ground at Northumberland. Northumber-land. Pa, Joseph Frlcsllcy was born on March J3. li.!:J, near ocds, Ungland. The centennial cen-tennial of tho discovery of oxygon was celebrated on August . 1S74. by tho unveiling un-veiling of a statue lo his memory In Birmingham. England, an address In Paris, and In this country by a gathering gath-ering of chemists tit his grave in Northumberland, North-umberland, whero appropriate addresser, wero made by T. Sterry Hunt. Benjamin fallllman. and othor scientists. Priestley was the son of 11 cloth drcss-or. drcss-or. and his father dying when ho wax only 0 years old. lie was adopted inlo the homo of his aunt, and was glveu an excellent education, lie studied for the ministry, but on his attempting to enter It, ho was rejected on account of Ills views on original sin, the atonement and eternal damnation. Ho then La tight school for some time, and was finally given tho degree of IjL. D. from the University Uni-versity of Edinburgh, and was elected to the Royal society In 17CC. From 177.". till 17S0, while acllng as literary companion to the earl of Shcl-burne. Shcl-burne. Priestley made his great discoveries discov-eries In chemistry. Ho was unacquainted with the subject; ho had no apparatus, and knew nothing of chemical experimenting, experi-menting, but theso adverso conditions may have been serviceable as he entered upon a new Held whom apparatus had to bo invented, and tho arrangements he dovlsed for the manipulation of gases are unsurpassed In simplicity and have been used ever since. Tho first of these dlscovorles was nitric oxide iu 177-'. Iu 1774 he mado his discovery of oxygen. After coming to the United States he also made Important discoveries along this same line. Priestley arrived in America on the 1th of June. J704. landing In New York, and from thence to Philadelphia, where ho was offered the, professorship of chemistry chem-istry In tho University of Pennsylvania with 11 good salary, but declined, preferring pre-ferring to choose his own oconpatlon In retirement. Upon going lo Northumberland Northumber-land ho built for himself a laboratory and an extensive library, whero he worked studiously up to a short period beforo his death, whteh occurred on February Feb-ruary fl. 180-1. Toplady said of Priestley's character: ' I lovo a man whom J can hold up aa a piece of crystal, and look through him." Huxley said: "Ho charmed away the blL-tcrest blL-tcrest prejudices in personal Intercourse." Inter-course." Dr Alkin says of him' "In the domestic relations of life ho was uniformly uni-formly kind and affectionate; his parental feelings were those of the tendcrest and best of fathers; and not even malice Itself It-self could ever fix a slain upon his private pri-vate conduct, or Impeach his Inlegrltv." On March 13 the treaty of France with the United States was officially announced an-nounced in 176-1: Hcrsehcl, the astronomer, astrono-mer, discovered Uranus in 1781; a charter char-ter was granted to the Pennsylvania railroad In 1S-16: and It is the birthday of Charles. Earl Gray, the British reformer re-former (17G4); William Orr, the Inventor (180S): John Shrady. tho distinguished surgeon (1830); and William W. Everts, theologian and author (1S41), and the day on which Belizarrlcs, tho Byzantine general, died In C65, |