Show 1 CURIOUS OF HISTORY BITS 1 ely by A W MACY AN UNCROWNED HERO about the middle of the eighteenth century there appeared upon the streets of london one day a gentleman carrying a very strange looking apparatus pa para ratus tua at times he would carry it by his hi aide falde and again he would spread pread it out and carry it aloft he was an englishman and a great travel traveler cr and he had brought this curious device from hamff far persia the like of it had never before been seen een in egland E gland and it excited a great deal of curiosity curlo alty more than that it brought much ridicule and abuse upon the gentle maws mans head crowds of men man and boya boy would follow him hooting and jeering and even pelting him with stones out but he was not dismayed and per titled silted in his practice day after day others took it up and he rived to see his example followed by almost the whole populace of L ondon london the tic name of this uncrowned hero was jonas hanway and afe H e was wail the aa englishman to carry an umbrella L sa CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY by A W MACY THE FATHER OF CRUELTY hakem I 1 ruler of cordova spain in moorish days day did not hesitate heil tata to use drastic measures measure I 1 with his subjects when 1 they displeased him at on one time when confronted with a rebellion he promptly sent lent forty thousand of them into exile to make assurance doubly sura aura he razed their dwellings to th the ground thus leaving them n no homes to return to for this act he has become known in history as a the father of cruelty it Is recorded that when he died he left a faill family of forty children twenty boys boy and twenty girls ht 1911 by joseph 13 CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY by A W MACY THE BELATED FUNERAL OF JOHN BROWNS SON old john brown had two sons killed at harpers parry ferry owen and watson the owen was burled with others in a trench near tho the scene of th the conflict that of watson waa wa efured secured by some physic physician laps from a medical college at winchester twenty miles away three years afterward in 1862 winchester was captured by gin gen banks banka of the union army and dr J J johndon Joh Johi naon ison surgeon of the twenty seventh indiana volunteers was placed in charge of the medical colle college o which had been turned into a hospital for southern soldiers dr john son on found tho the body of watson brown to so labeled which had been anatomically preserved as a a fino fine specimen of the human body lie he p I 1 t tnt atha body to hla 1 for many years tn in 1882 word 0 reached the brown family th that at dr John johnan rn had katr fatyna ns body the oldest son john brown jr who was living at put in day bay went to Martins martinsville ville ind where dr johnson lived identified the body and took it away wl with th him it was burled with impressive press lva ceremonies by the aida 6 de of the father john brown of osawatomie Osawa tomie in the adirondack mountains this account Is authentic then tic tle for the writer of curious bits of history Is the one who discovered the body at Martins martinsville ville A full account of the matter will be found in the now new york independent of june 15 1895 copyright 1311 1911 by joseph B D bowles F CURIOUS OF HISTORY BITS I 1 by A W MACY THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY the american or know nothing party was organized in 1852 or 1853 it took its name from the fact that its members when questioned would always answer 1 I know nothing at all about it it was in fact a great secret organization with lodges grips signs P passwords as swords etc its chief alm aim was to exclude foreigners from participation in governmental affairs in this country in 1856 it nominated millard fillmore for the but he re calved only eight electoral votes the membership of the party was well distributed over ever the country north as well as south for a considerable time it grow grew steadily and alpar apparently antly bid fair to become one of tile the great political parties As the slavery question became more and more prominent however be coming a political factor in spite of all efforts to prevent it the know nothing party split on it ane anc went want to pieces most of the members probably joined the whigs and eventually became republicans J by bi japh 13 Bow bowleg lw CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY by A W MACY BRYANT AND THE EMBARGO during the early years of the nineteenth century england was at war with france and some times time had difficulty in keeping her navy supplied with the right kind of men man there them were many desertions desertion and frequent ly y the deserters would find service on an board american i ships whereupon the english fell into the habit of overhaul L ing ships and search r the th americans did not like specially ally when it happ accio aed aa 23 it 4 got sometimes did that american citizens citizen were Im impressed presse d into the english service at the in sti gatlon of president jefferson Jeffor con congress cong reia passed the embargo act which prohibited american vessels from trading with for eign countries thus thu england could not buy certain much needed american articles article an ai she he had been doing out but the embargo act was wa very unpopular with many american Americ and the feeling on their part against president Preil dent jefferson wj wi very bittar i cull culi bryant then a youth of thirteen wrote a lengthy tirade against him in the course of which he said go wretch resign the prel chair disclose thy secret measures foul or fair go search with curious eye for horned frogs frog mid the wild wastes of louis hanlan bogs or where ohio rolls her turbid stream DIS dig for huge bones bon thy glory and thy theme go scan thy charms and sink supinely in her sable arms bryant was becomingly ashamed of this when he grew up and the poem will not be found among his collected works work copyright 1911 by joseph joaeph B D dow bowleg jig leg |