THE SEVENS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 252, 2 January 1874, Page 4

THE SEVENS.

. ,^ HIVMPIOys -? 1 ! CIttIISTESDOM i/> by, uichard Johnston, who. lived in" Ihe rtMgns of Elizabeth and James I.' ' / (1) St., George' of'Jingland was' seven dor, the biackfking.of-Morocco. *•, . (2) St. Vran'ce lived seven yeari in tha. form' of a hart. •. St.* James of Spain ;.wa3 seven years, dumb out of love to a fair Jewess.! \ . •,' ._ " <Xf)_ St, Anthony -of Italy, with the. c 9 a JP|ndns, was enchanted into, adeep sleep t in the black castle and w,as -released by Sfc George's three quenched. the seven lamps by water from the enchantedVouiitain. (5), hfc. Andrew of Scotland, 1 who was-'g'uitleU-through .the Vale,of'Walking? Spirits delivered six ladies who had ; lived seven years under' the form of lriilkvvhite swans. . _ • ,

(6), St. Patrick [of Ireland Ireland was immurecl in a ceil jvhere he scratched hiausraye with his own,nails. * . (7) St.'David of Wales slept *;seven;, years in the enchanted garden of Ghv mandine, ,and was, redeemed ,bv St.. •George./-. !^evesT'iDiais >(London)., )( ,<A column, railedfin; formerly stood at the ancient 1 • mits of,. St.; Giles, and , seven t dials, 'were. affixed* to it,-, facing, ...the.-- seven streets which radiated from that, centre. ' < v r ; . , >'.•■■■: ! : J\ <. ■ >■: v■■ • : VVhere framed • St. Anin-nUledeolumn roars itsiofty head. . * » Here t ( o seyen streets seven dials cp^unt,the,day. rAntl from each other catch,'the cinjlingriiy/ Q ayTrivia " 'ii,'" SEWN. .Saoes- -OR , WISE ;MEX".,OF. Gkeege. rl ' :»,(1) ; Solon of Athens, whose ' motto •was, i";Kuoav. thyself." ' i (2) Ghilo of Sparta—, Consider the end." ■ /'

, ; • (2) iThales of Miletosr—".Who hateth suretyship .is sure." , (4) Bias, of Priene—" Most, men .are bad." , . , v*V t (s) .Gleobulos of Lindos ''The golden or,-, 2 Ayoid extremes.''! ■/ (6). Pittacos , of. Mitylene—" Seize .fTioae by the forQlocfe".; t ' t ; |^(7^ : l[eriand e r. ~of Corinth— I "'lffdt&.;. t 'inglis«impo9sibieitO; industry." t First j Solon," who^madetheAthenianlawa rlnLMileto3'Bi(f'2%(iZe,y l '' astronomy teacK f '*■ to preach; ■ Cleobulos, ovLinAoa, washandsomo anciHvisep iMitylene 'gainst.thraldom saw j Bibtauos,rise ; rPeriander t X% mud: to, have gaincd~througli his court j ' The 'title, that Myson, tho Cheuian, ought .

.7 iSEVEN. Sleepers. Seven noble, '•youths ,o.f Epliesos, who fled in the uecian, persecution to a cave in Mount . Celion. After 230 years they ayvoke, ,6ut:Hoon died,' and their, bodies' jyerei .taken to Marseilles in a large stone colEu, still shown in Victor's Churklii 'frheir, Tiamea; ai;e Constantinej JDioriysius, jJohn', MaAi'mian, Malchus, 'tear. 'tinian Jf and .SeramonT fable 'took' r its rise,, from^'tni^ the Lorcl" rr-i.e., ''dibd.;—Gregory of Tour's, i( De Gloria Marfyruni." ' • ~ i W (/kbbbs; of Antiquity. (L)^the IV of*' EgVpt •; (2) T tbe Hansihg'-yGarden^ 5 , of Babylon • (fe)f th'uomt>. oF-M solos; (4)"' the Terxipta j'of. iJiaha at/' Uphuesus ; (5) thd'C'blo^stis'of Khoderf-t(6) s the Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) 'by Phidias ; (7)< the, ? Piiarus or 'else-the "Palace of f Cyrus cemented' " .Tlio Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid. ! . <■■■; . Jft'kt 'Bahglonfoitfur&eßjSfoK, Am ytis fm'itde-; i Then 'Mausolos'sfcomtyofcaffeefcioii audi- guilt.;', fourth,■ theriPempLe.opDian;.in Ephesus built; t r ihu,,C.olosßos of Rhodes.'uast ia brass, J to the . f -; •% ! •-1 •Sixth'i'tfupiteY's* statue, by Phidias done ( ■ ■■Tku)Pfi'tiros qf 'JiJyypi'conies last;'we tire,-told •Oj'. tho palace oft* Cyrus, cemented with gold; (II.) Of th'e 'Middle Ages. ' (1) The' Coliseum •. ot' Home; (2). tiie Catacombs Great'-Wall of China ; (4) Stonehenge; '(s)'the Leaning 'lower of Pisa; (6) the Porcelain Tower of Nankin; (7) ' tlie Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople;— Brewer's " Dictionary of Phrase and Jjablei''