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the unit to be used in our calculation. the ancient Greeks had their chronology arranged in accordance to the anniversaries of the Olympics, where the tribes of this gifted race assembled and competed for the crown of the laurel, so the California geologist arranges his chronology in correspondence to Legislatures, California Olympics, where all the talent, the honesty, the virtue, the wisdom, the beauty of this country meet and conglomerate into one enlightened body. Now, if we remember that it took five California Legislatures to ruin one geological survey, we easily can form an idea how long the tertiary period must have been during which the antediluvian Gryphæa developed up to the intellect of the now living oyster.

You see here several hollow cylindrical bodies of a substance that by our State Chemist has been pronounced a silicate of potassa. These bodies have proved a great puzzle to archæologists, until, by my untiring researches, it has been estab

lished beyond a doubt that these bodies were objects of public worship. The prehistoric Indian imagined them inhabited by spirits, powerful but benevolent, to whom he brought offerings of small pieces of metal. The silicates are found in a state of more or less perfect preservation and in great profusion throughout that whole region, and bear testimony of the most early piety of the red man. In some excavations they have been found numerous enough to form strata; these probably were places of public worship.

It was in the fourth year of our Bohemian era that it came to pass that a great prophet arrived from China, who instigated the people to destroy these idols, and converted a great many to the Five-Gallons Monotheism. The object of their worship. was the great spirit of red noses, called "Lok Ah Lo Pshon."

Here you see some cubic bodies whose facets are ornamented by points of different numbers, from

one to six. Their use was till lately a mystery to science, and I am indebted to our Board of Education for the explanation of these curious implements.

According to called bones

their statement, they were by the prehistoric Indian, from the Latin words "bonus bona bon," which means a bone, for they were made out of the bone of the untamed mastodon of the plains. They served for the instruction of children in arithmetic. They have been tried by the Board and found very useful in complicated calculations about spiritual matters.

As you see, the points do not exceed six. The Indian did not count more than six. The decimal system was not yet invented, and the Indian of the period relied on his sexual system.

This object for a considerable time was inexplicable, until I succeeded in

restoring it to its original form.

IRISH HISTORY.

OUR Bohemian brother, Dr. Nuttall, has enlightened us on the subject of Irish rhetorics. He has quoted specimens produced by Irish ladies when in a state of virtuous indignation or otherwise excited. But what is Irish elocution when compared to Irish history? Irish history is a history of itself. It is entirely original; it does not connect with the history of any other nation, or even with the history of the world; it is independent from chronology, or even real facts.

There comes the Fenian, the Milesian, the Erse. Nobody knows where they come from, and we only entertain a dark suspicion where they go to. They do not connect with collateral history otherwise than by the name of some great Irishmen that