, 1874-10-24
FAMILIAR TALK.

THO term "uavyy" IL applied to tho Enslsi, |
h''orer "ho duo" Tic "'eElhs' tue hAfdcst una
ksya1eM dnt1Nery l'osIhrea VI 'io collssri'esaon
or rallwaya, tuaswnys. ard works. of tho aort In
t,,s t,mr whou tlig claps Of MOI, ,yus employed
H. ,,.Ii.r ,,,o ,rtt;n,,s u,,l rn,bart,montu m.
qnlrcd I'll tho tofnano" .. "a's,s, s''ef "ero
called "naysgNtord..-a nasiio Ntatc1t @as eoos'
abbreviated Into "nnvvlos," atltl hna alnce he
cou,o Tho t,.3t,nctjyo op1,cllation Of the English
smoyo'>,.s's. =, n 1,rs,cov ,,s ,,.co, 7,,,.,,n
when LIT. ahon'as n'"a.s'. sns S%". n. ..sae" ,
rallroad'coutfaost'f. eha"be" 's!'o' 'n' nm! rat
wuy-wori In FiNi,ce. he took over q bntty nj
uayyios from England to 10 the dig
,,,u., -. ,hn rronch laborcr3 haf
Hn'E' "s "o ~ ~. ,,at,,s,, ,,,,ru,,o.1
ahoi' no u''aeista''n1a -. NV 4lot"oo" t.'
~ bnaiHin:f Failna.' ta!l n,a'h'lB nssuuus ~
taa alo.iee tn,,sa ~ t or,,o',,cetn viz
ti,cir foll,w-laboypra WHO upoko foreign 1an-
Euugc, Is riyyn hy Sir Ar!ln,r Helps III liia bog.
raphy Of atr. brasgoy u illustrator N farcible
nlA',ues tue nfx'pltf y. mai3 'a %oras, w1en ny AZ
ird ,Id.s s3a eAT rho nayyna i haf1 IN In onloyors
a. wat as employed and thor 1nodo of in~
atruoting tho Frencllnaon working under them.
or working with them, was at tfat OF
very or.S,ai unauth H. anoy Pontu,u Ill.,, " i'; .tS
tI,o " wnri .I1n' onnI,aticailv. n.n,n,,inr t],cr
fcot and somehow or other their Instructions,
Tins conveyed, wore geno.ully oomprchcnded by
tho foreigner"
A similar instance of the versatile power Fosi-
don't III single word once came Under tho writ
cr'R uolice. 4 ttlo child jugt learning to talk,
iii several weeks had III It'll vocabulary but tho
one word "More:" and Ii Was Il 1nous interest
ing lesson IN language to roto hepotontialtty Of
that word as revealed by tho Ingenuity Of
Its owlter. It was lnatlo to express m clear Us
light, by peculiar infection, or Ill accompany
Ing gcEture. every need and wish Of the infant
for creator freedom, ran 70 tlle fonco inc1oaing
Its play. .gronl.d, and renohlng lis arnls through
tho bars. with IN eloquent gcBtnro Of outrnatv
criod, "Aore 1noro!" Yerboblty nevcr Booinel
ao conto1nptible IS at that moment. nor tho
beauty OF 1aconicism 10 supreme. Tho incident
gevo u hint Of tho foreo Ut tcrso and pithy
speech. which will mover ho forgotten.
OH poogs.
The " Afozarin 1,b1on-so called from having
~ =. ,,,n ,,asas,a;o, n ~ t,,a ,sa.. ro-ai'
once neon III s'o poaseaa!on Of INC great caral-
nails the earliest printed hooE Hhown to 10 IN
existonee, It Ia supposed to have bcen pub
ljuhct by GuttcnburG and Tnuat at nlontz,
ohnut lAy5 The s.pSe}tern 1rinte1 two yeara
after, ut TIM saus place, by Fauss aud schaeirer,
is tho first book known 10 have bneu printed
with date Caxton's "Gamo and pluye OF
Chesso," datol 1I7l, was tho tirat hook printed
In England. The u Bay Palm ,l,ook," printed
ut Cambridge in 1G40, WAS tho lrst book ippuel
in the United statca,-t1e first Biblo being that
Of Eliot. translated Tor she Indians, and printed
~ nanKlnge II, dGo1ao9 ,.;,.., .,,.t .,,,. .,o
o;,,ltS.s;Y ~ % voa,e ia>.wco,, l6I, md i611 thcro
wrre published a7s l.1o.ant cdtsonp Of tho niblo
and New Testament while it is estimated, bg
editions really averaged, during that period,
four every yoaf. ln tne reign OF nonry tl1i.,
between 1926 md 15l1, threo editions Of tho
Bible ue.s published Annually. During Elza-
hSs fs tue ayersgo Per a'nn n w ano as
to eight each year. on the Continent and IN
London tboro woto published, l50 separaee cdi-
tlons OF tho donevul version OF the Bible, iii
Nholo. or OF The Nav Testament. as proot TINT
discovery ot printing, DR.. Hanry II. Dexter
state* that. in prosecuting certain branch Of
study, he mato careful lst OF all tho publica-
tions which he cousd hnd truce OF III tho !af;e
libraries "i Eur1ps which hsd nasn ssa ed ne
ono topic Of "Chllrch Goyernmont IL England. J"
| aud tho 1ist numbered between TOO mud 1900
| xoparsto Work5.
THE ALExASDA1Ax Library.
H.. ~ 1s..". - H. nna;.at n.or1J wna royr.'od
tne Iaiae1t y. t1'e an''e's NV =,
1 by ftolamy soter. Rpont 3os y. u IT 1acfeaben
50 rapidly that, in the time Of Its first manager,
Danetriuo rAaler7tB, it iuolnlod 6od0o volumes
or ,o1ls. Hinder hin s,,c.easoya Zeuolotus. Ario-
.ss' nss".as.. .a 49,, ...,a,e.,i,.n ona,,;,,a
...eaas ~ @a,ss - I'm oaa s",,,,.a. aaaa5
49, 'o s. =. a'.s.a n",,,s ~ roo nm a"nara;,,1 -
!us ~ su'"s -. .on mn e"st. oo,vou. ~ ea..s ~
n.y. !, a.aa ,,,,aa A. ~ 49, ,,ea,ss T.;
nols "as u'a ~ ., ~ amo s.., e"1a rs. ~
~, s,r,,,aoin,r ia noia"taJ iitoro tro af Tona
! Gferes. India. aud Eeypt. was contained iu tho
| hfuseu.n, located in tho quarter calleh Brit
cf1elum. During tho atege OF Afexandfta
BY julius ceaSr, nbous W. .. 9. thla
part or tue library Was destroyed ny
fro which spread from tho nhipping to
tho city. It was afterwards replaced By
the collection Of 2oo, ,o0p volumes beloagng 10
tho iAng Of porsSerao0, which Alaro Antony gsvo
to Cleopatra, greatly to tho disgust of the m edu.
cateu Nomans. Tho othcr lart Of tue library
wan Kept IN tue temple q Jupiter serap's antii
sho t!no OF Tieodoo'nH tue Great. When az tho
heat!son Temples IN tile homan Empire re- wef9 &c.
stroyed nM t1's amnng thn rest: ia9 oaliee
Tas demolished IN 391 ~ Il mob OF chr'stiai,
fanatics. led by tho Archbishop TAeopl'ilus antl q
1t Is supposed that tho books contained IN It
wero, Tor tho most part, Involved IL tue dsssrnc
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