Clocks first made in England:  1568
      Bank of England incorporated:  1594
      Shakespeare died:  1616
      Circulation of the blood discovered:  1619
      Barometer invented:  1623
      First newspaper:  1629
      Death of Galileo:  1643
      Steam engine invented:  1649
      Great fire in London:  1666
      Cotton planted in the United States:  1759
      Commencement of the American war:  1775
      Declaration of American Independence:  1776
      Recognition of American Independence:  1782
      Bank of England suspended cash payment:  1791
      Napoleon I. crowned emperor:  1804
      Death of Napoleon:  1820
      Telegraph invented by Morse:  1832
      First daguerreotype in France:  1839
      Beginning of the American civil war:  1861
      End of the American civil war:  1865
      Abraham Lincoln died:  1865
      Great Chicago Fire:  1871
      Jas. A. Garfield died:  1881

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT OUR BODIES.

The weight of the male infant at birth is 7 lbs. avoirdupois; that of the female is not quite 6-1/2 lbs.  The maximum weight (140-1/2 lbs.) of the male is attained at the age of 40; that of the female (nearly 124 lbs.) is not attained until 50; from which ages they decline afterward, the male to 127-1/4 lbs., the female to 100 lbs., nearly a stone.  The full-grown adult is 20 times as heavy as a new-born infant.  In the first year he triples his weight, afterwards the growth proceeds in geometrical progression, so that if 50 infants in their first year weigh 1,000 lbs., they will in the second weigh 1,210 lbs.; in the third 1,331:  in the fourth 1464 lbs.; the term remaining very constant up to the ages of 11-12 in females, and 12-13 in males, where it must be nearly doubled; afterwards it may be continued, and will be found very nearly correct up to the age of 18 or 19, when the growth proceeds very slowly.  At an equality of age the male is generally heavier than the female.  Towards the age of 12 years only an individual of each sex has the same weight.  The male attains the maximum weight at about the age of 40, and he begins to lose it very sensibly toward 60.  At 80 he loses about 13.2328 lbs., and the stature is diminished 2.756 inches.  Females attain their maximum weight at about 50.  The mean weight of a mature man is 104 lbs., and of an average woman 94 lbs.  In old age they lose about 12 or 14 lbs.  Men weigh most at 40, women at 50, and begin to lose weight at 60.  The mean weight of both sexes in old age is that which they had at 19.

When the male and female have assumed their complete development they weigh almost exactly 20 times as much as at birth, while the stature is about 3-1/2 times greater.  Children lose weight during the first three days after birth; at the age of a week they sensibly increase; after one year they triple their weight; then they require six years to double their weight, and 13 to quadruple it.