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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Wedding. The first anniversary of a wedding is the 

 paper wedding, the gifts being paper articles ; the fifth, 

 wooden; the tenth, tin; the fifteenth, glass; twenty- 

 fifth, silver; fiftieth, golden; seventv-flfth, diamond. 



Well of St. Keyne. A well in Cornwall. The first 

 Of a married couple to taste its waters will " wear the 

 breeches." 



Westminster Abbey. A church in London where 

 many of the illustrious dead of England are buried. 



Wetherell, Elizabeth. Pseudonym of Miss Susan 

 Warner, author of The Wide, Wide World. 



Whig. The name of a political party now extinct. 



Whistle. (To pay too dearly for the whistle.) Dr 

 Franklin's story. Cost greater than benefit. 



White Feather, To Show the. A display of cow- 

 ardice. 



\Vhite House. The Presidential mansion at Wash- 

 ington. 



Whiteboys. A secret society in Ireland, 1789. 



Wild Huntsman, The. A spectral huntsman in the 

 Black Forest. German legend. 



Windmills, To Fight with. To oppose imaginary 

 objects. Don Quixote. 



Windsor Castle. A royal residence near London. 



Wise Men of the East, The. The three Magi 

 guided by a star to Bethlehem. 



Witch of En dor, The. The soothsayer who foretold 

 the death of Saul. 



Witch-Hazel. A forked twig used for finding 

 witches; in use still for finding water. 



Wooden Horse. A ruse at the siege of Trov. 



Woolsack, To Sit on the. To be Lord Chancellor 

 of England. 



Wyoming Massacre. The Valley of Wyoming wa.- 

 ravaged by Indians in 1778. 



Xaiithos. The prophet i<- hor>e <>r Aehille>. 

 Xantippe. The scolding wife of Socrates. 



Yahoo. A ruffian. The Yahoos in Gulliver's Travels 

 are brutes shaped like men. 



Yankee. A name given to all Americans. In America 

 itself the name is only used for natives of New England. 



Yarmouth Bloater. A red herring. 



Yellow Jack. The yellow fever. 



Young America, the growing generation. 



Young Chevalier. Charles Edward Stuart. tin- XT 

 ond pretender to the throne of Great Britain. (1720-88.) 



Young Germany. Heinrich Heine and his follower-. 



Yosemite Valley. In California. Also a picture by 

 Bierstadt. 



Yule. Christmas. 



Yule-log. A large log of wood burnt on the hearth 

 at Christmas. 



Zend-Avesta, The. Persian Scriptures written in 

 the Zend language. 



Zollverein. An association between (ierinan States 

 for the maintenance of uniform' tariff rates. 



THE LOR1VS PRAYER. 



1, at in. Pater noster, qui es[in coelis, sanctificeter 

 noinen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas 

 tua, sicut in coslo, et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidi- 

 a n u m da nobis hodie. Et remitte nobis debita nostra, 

 sicut et nos remittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne r os 

 inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Tibi 

 enim est regnum, et potentia, et gloria, in sempiternum. 

 Amen. 



Italian. Padre nostro, che sei ne' cieli, sia santifi- 

 cato i' tuo nome. II tuo regno venga. La tua volonta 

 sia fatta in terra come in cielo. Dacci oggi il nostro 

 pane cotidiano. E rimettici i nostri clebiti, come noi 

 ancora gli rimettiamo a' nostri debitor!. E non indurci 

 in tentazione, ma liberaci dal maligno. Percioche tuo 

 e il regno, e la potenza, e la gloria, in sempiterno. 

 Auien. 



French. Notre Pere qui esaux cieux, ton nom suit 

 sanctifie. Ton regne vienne ; ta volonte soit faite sur la 

 terre. comme au ciel. Donne-nous aujourd'hui n<>tre 

 pain quotidien. Pardonne-nousnosp<kjhs,comnieaussi 

 nous pardonnons & ceux qui nous out offenses. Et ne 

 nous abandonne point a la tentation, inais delivre IKMIS 

 du malin. Car a toi appartient le regne, la puisaanoe, 

 et la gloire, & jamais. Amen. 



German. Unser Vater in dem Himmel, dein Name 

 werde geheiliget. Dein Reich komme. Dein Wijle 

 geschehe auf Erden wie im Himmel. t'nser tiigliehes 

 Brod gieb uns heute. I'nd vergieb uns unsere Schulden, 

 wie wir unsern Schuldigern vergaben. T'nd fiihre un.- 

 nicht in Versuchung, sondern erlese uns von dem iviiei. 

 Denn dein 1st das Reich, und die Kidft, uud die Herr- 

 lichkeit, in Ewigkeit. Amen. 



Shelley wrote " Queen Mab " at 18. 

 Mohammed began the Koran at 35. 

 Keats wrote his "Endymion" at 22. 

 Alexandre Dumas wrote plays at 22. 

 Disraeli wrote "Vivian Grey" at 



21. 



Heine published his first songs at 

 23. 



Seneca wrote " Do Beneliciis " after 

 50. 



Swift wrote the "Tale of a Tub" 

 at 37. 



Richardson published "Pamela" 

 at 51. 



Racine wrote the "Andromache" 

 at 28. 



Paley wrote the " Horae Paulinae" 

 at 47. 



Coleridge published "Christabel" 

 at 44. 



Pliny finished the "German War" 

 at 31. 



Luther wrote his ninety-five theses 

 at 34. 



Poe wrote " The Raven " in his 36th 

 year. 



Confucius began his religiousworks 

 at 30. 



Butler wrote " Hudibras" after he 

 was 60. 



Shakespeare wrote his first play at 

 about 24. 



Sterne published "Tristram Shan- 

 dy " at 46. 



Owen Meredith published "Lu- 

 cille " at 29. 



Boileau wrote his first satirical 

 poems at 24. 



Corneille wrote " Melite," his first 

 drama, at 21. 



Calvin published his "Psychopan- 

 nychia"at25. 



Spenser published the " Farrie 

 Queene " at 38. 



It is said that Horace wrote his 

 first odes at 23. 



Sheridan wrote his "School for 

 Scandal" at 26. 



Machiavelli completed ' The 

 Prince " at 45. 



Sir Thomas More finished his 

 "Utopia" at 73. 



Livy is said to have finished his 

 "Annals" at 50. 



Goldsmith finished " The Deserted 

 Village " at 42. 



Josephus published his "Wars of 

 the Jews" at6(i. 



Lamartine's poems appeared when 

 the poet was 30. 



Perseus is thought to have written 

 his satires at 45. 



Thackeray was 36 when "Vanity 

 Fair" appeared. 



Lord Bacon wrote the "Novnm 

 Organum" at 41. 



Tacitus finished the first part of 

 his history at 50. 



David Is said to have written his 

 first psalm at 18. 



Homer is said to have composed 

 the Iliad after 60. 



Bryant was 19 when made famou~ 

 by "Thanatopsis." 



Solomon is said to have collected 

 the Proverbs at 50. 



Baxter wrote the "Saint's KMT- 

 lasting Rest" at :>4. 



Dante .finished the "itivina Coni- 

 media" at about 51. 



Von Rauke finished his History 

 of the Popes" at 3i>. 



(ieorge Kliot was ;>'.' when \dain 

 Bede" was]n inted. 



Fichte wrote the famous Wissen 

 sdiat'tslelire" at ;:_'. 



Robert Browning wrote "The Kin- 

 and the Book" at 07. 



Samuel Johnson ])iiblished "Lon- 

 don" when he was 211. 



The Bucolics of A'ir^il were writ- 

 ten between 4;> and 47. 



Thomas a Kemjiis wrote the " Imi- 

 tation of Christ "at ."!. 



Joseph Addison's tirst essays ap 

 ]ieared when he was 29. 



John Bunyan finished the " Pil- 

 grim's Progress" at 50. 



"The Robbers," by Schiller, made 

 the author famous ai INI. 



Hannah More wrote "The Search 

 After Happiness" at'JS. 



Martial is said to have written epi- 

 grams before he was 20. 



Voltaire's first tragedy came out 

 when the author was L'L'. 



Adam Smith published " The 

 Wealth of Nations " at 53. 



