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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Charlemagne. " Lord, into Thy hands I commend 

 my spirit!" 



Charles I. (of England). "Remember." (To William 

 Jnxon, Archbishop of Canterbury.) 



Charles II. (of England). "Don't let poor Nelly 

 starve." (Nell Gwynne.) 



Charles V. " Ah, Jesus ! " 



Charles IX. (of France). "Nurse, nurse, what 

 murder ! what blood ! Oh, I have done wrong. God 

 pardon me." 



Charlotte (the princess). " You make me drink. Pray, 

 leave me quiet. I find it affects my head." 



Chesterfield. " Give Day Holies a chair." 



4 'ol ii minis. "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my 

 spirit!" 



Crome (John). " Oil, Hobbima, Hobbima, how I do 



1 My desire is to make what haste I may 



love thee ! 



Cromwell. 

 to be gone." 



Demonax (the philosopher). " You may go home, the 

 show is over." Lucian. 



Elden (Lord). " It matters not, where I am going, 

 whether the weather be cold or hot." 



Fontenelle. "I suffer nothing, but feel a sort of 

 difficulty in living longer." 



Franklin. " A dying man can do nothing easy." 



Gainsborough. " We are all going to neaven, and 

 Vandyke is of the companv^" 



George IV. " Whatty, what is this? It is death, my 

 boy. They have deceived me." (Said to his page, Sir 

 Walthen Waller.) 



Gibbon. " Mon Dieu ! Mon Dieu ! " 



Goethe. " More light ! " 



Gregory VII. " I have loved justice and hated 

 iniquity, therefore I die in exile." 



Grey (Lady Jane). " Lord, into Thy hands I commend 

 my spirit!" 



Grotius. " Be serious." 



Haydn. " God preserve the emperor." 



Haller. " The artery ceases to beat." 



Hazlitt. " I have led a happy life." 



'Hobbes. " Now I am about to take my last voyage 

 a great leap in the dark." 



Hunter (Dr. William). " If I had strength to hold a 

 pen, I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing 

 it is to die." 



Irving. "If I die I die unto the Lord. Amen." 



James V. (of Scotland). " It came with a lass and 

 will go with a lass" (i. e., the Scotch crown). 



Jefferson (of America). " I resign my spirit to God, 

 my daughter to my country." 



Jesus Christ. " It is finished." 



Johnson (Dr.). " God bless you, my dear ! " (To Miss 

 Morris.) 



K iio.v. " Now it is come." 



Louis I. "Huzlhuz!" (Bouquet says, " He turned 

 his face to the wall, and twice cried 'huz! huz!' 

 (out, out) and then died.") 



Louis IX. " I will enter now into the house of the 

 Lord." 



Louis XIV. "Why weep ye? Did you think I 

 should live forever ?" Then, after a pause, " I thought 

 dying had been harder." 



'Louis XVIII. " A king should die standing." 



Mahomet. " Oh, Allah', be it so ! Henceforth among 

 the glorious host of paradise." 



Marie Antoinette. " Farewell, my children, forever. 

 I go to your father." 



Mirabeau. " Let me die to the sounds of delicious 

 music." 



Moody (the actor). 

 " Reason thus with life, 

 If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing 

 That none but fools would keep." Shakespeare. 



Moore (Sir John). " I hope my country will do me 

 justice." 



Napoleon III. "Were you at Sedan?" (To Dr. 

 Conneau.) 



Nelson. " I thank God I have done my duty." 



Pitt (William). " Oh, my country, how I love thee ! " 



Pizarro. "Jesu!" 



Pope. " Friendship itself is but a part of virtue." 



Rabelais. " Let down the curtain, the farce is over." 



Sand (George). " Laissez la verdure." (Leave the 

 tomb green.) 



Schiller. " Many things are growing plain and clear 

 to my understanding." 



Soott (Sir Walter). " God bless you all." (To his 

 family.) 



Socrates. " Crito, we owe a cock to ^sculapius." 



Stael (.Mine. de). " I have loved God, my father, and 

 liberty.'' 



Thurlow (Lord). " I'll be shot if I don't believe I'm 

 dying." 



William III. (of England). "Can this last long?" 

 (To his physician.) 



Wolfe (General).. " What ! do they run already? Then 

 I die happy." 



State Flowers. The following are 

 ' ' State Flowers ' ' as adopted in most instances 

 by the votes of the public school scholars of 

 the respective states : 



California Colif ornia Poppy 



Colorado Columbine 



Delaware Peach Blossom 



Idaho : Syringa 



Indiana .Corn 



Iowa Wild Rose 



Maine Pine Cone and Tassel 



Michigan * Apple Blossom 



Minnesota Cypripedium or Moccasin Flower 



Montana Bitter Root 



Nebraska Golden-rod 



Nevada Sunflower 



New York, Rose ; State tree Maple 



North Dakota Golden-rod 



Oklahoma Territory Mistletoe 



Oregon Goklen-rod 



Rhode Island V i< .let 



Utah Sego Lily 



Vermont Red ( lover 



Washington Rhododendron 



Adopted by State Legislature, not by public school 

 scholars. 



In other states the scholars or State Legisla- 

 tures have not yet taken action. In Illinois 

 in the vote on the leading State Flower by the 

 pupils of the schools the Rose, Violet, and 

 Golden-rod received the largest number of 

 votes, in the order named, although no state 

 flower was adopted. In Massachusetts the 

 Columbine was strongly urged, but no flower 

 was adopted. In Ohio and Tennessee the 

 Golden-rod is advocated. 

 Strength of Modern Powders and 

 High Explosives. 



NAME OF EXPLOSIVE. 



Perunite B 



Perunite C 



Perunite D 



Explosive gelatine 



Rack-a-rock 



Helloiite 



Nitro-glycerine, best quality 



Nobel's smokeless powder 



Explosive gelatine made from No. 5 nitro- 

 glycerine 



United States Navy gun-cotton 



Fulgurite 



Emmensite 



French nitro-glycerine 



Dynamite No. 1 



Cannonite 



Amide powder 



Progress! te 



Tonite 



Bellite 



Oxonite 



Atlas powder, No. 1 , 



Melinite 



Silver fulminate 



Mercury fulminate 



Rifle powder 



Mortar powder 



Rossel's mixture 



Americanite 



Schnebelite 



Pecentage 



of 

 Strength. 



100.0 

 91.0 

 83.0 

 81.0 

 79.0 

 78.0 

 73.0 

 70.0 



68.0 

 67.5 

 67.0 

 66.0 

 630 

 62.6 

 62.0 

 59.0 

 58.5 

 57.0 

 66.0 

 54.4 

 54.0 

 49.0 

 48.2 

 47.6 

 35.0 

 30.0 

 89.5 

 82.0 

 80.0 



