The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16

---A-'e,s.eA ~olAAanuer 0orrInKe n13
written a most interesting sccOsnt Of the
removal Of the Egyptian monolitk frvm
Cairo to New York. The obsli.k trax-
elled $3.50 miles by sea, Il, $50 fses BY
land, was lowered SO feet and liASd ESQ.
The entire cost Of removal, borne by Mr..
Vanderbilt, was sl0S, ,7S2. And thn ID
the straDgest part: Lisatsnaut-C -COsnman-
der Gorringe got exactly 81, Iss Tor bis
services IL viii be rememhere3 that
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe cid not
get his scientific education from the Gov
ernment He was the son Of an EagIi.h
clergyman in the West Indies, enIistsd IN
the navy during the war, becsne war
rant officer, and by sheer cEpacity and
pluck has made his present distinguished
place In the American navy
From corrected data, Prep.esd By
those in charge OF the Nautical Almanac.
1t is learned that the new comets dearest
approach to the earth viii be In the latter
part Of May. The comet win reach its
PeriheliOn on June u. Il win nOf bs xis-
ible to the naked eye before'the 10Th Of
May. 1t gives indications Of being very
large. Ii viii first appear in the north,
about thirty degrees above the horizon,
about eight o'clock in the evening The
increase Of bril6ancy win probably be
marked from May 25th to June Izfh. but
the comet viii probably be lost to sight
in the sunlight about June 10th. and wiH
be visible only in the southern henis-
phere- During the first week Of June Il
should present fine appearance in the
northwestern sky after sunset, If present
indications are to be relied upon
The impression that the northeastern
coast of the American continent 10 slowly
rising-the estimate of the rate Of emer-
geney IN progress being over foot, and
perhaps as much as three feet, IN q cen
tury-has recently been cOntrOverted by
eminent scientific authorities, includinu
DIR. Mitchell of the Coast Survey. who
states that the salt marshes are stiII. a.
they were in the tine Of the eSriv ex-
plOrers, at ordinary high water level and
that the rocks on our coast, long nOt0ri-
Gus as dangerous to navigation, have not
risen since they were first discovered.
But eastward of lOgitude 60 Is, and es-
peelally in Newfoundland, great changes
present themselves, the depth appearing
to De at some points less and 81 other
points greater now than formerly.
"A pitched battle Is certain 70 be
fought very speedily" says the London
Times, "Over the revised version of the
New Testament Already a respectable
organ Of conservative opinion has sounded
the war-ery against It's new readings with
as much feeling as If it thought Mr.. Glad
stone had been among the revisers.
Nituperation and taunts will rot arbitrate
at the end of wOrdy warfare the public
be able 10 perceive what Is the actual
amount of questionable matter, something
viii have been gained The high proba-
bality is that a majority Of persons Who
speak the English language will be con
tent to regard the uncertainties As still
uncertain, provided they may keep 50
much as remains behind admitted"
The first part of remarkable die
tionary will probably be issued within the
next few months Il wiz include all En-
glish words in all centuries and in alt
meanings, with quotation applicable 10
every stage of the development of these
words, each quotation to be accompanied
by the name Of the book and the-number
of the chapter and verse from which il was
taken. The work was started in.Is57, by
the Pathological Society of EngE4nd, but
the death Of Herbert Coleridgs, the FIRST
editor, caused the enterprise to languish-
1t is now being carried forward by the
Pathological Society in cO-Operasion with
the Oxfor University, and not less than
500 volunteers are engaged in gathering
quotations, which twenty scholars are
putting into preliminary form, while TWEEN
ty more give the enterprise the benefit Of
their advice.
Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess
player, is, it is said, afflicted with two
singular hallucinatiOns. One il horror
of the game Of chess; the other Is the con
tinnally recurring nOti0n thai unless he
can secure q loan Of $500 he VIII be 6nan-
cially ruined His condition . vel IN
derstOOd by his friends. and he goes about
among them asking for loan Of e2Oo,
which is never refused, and which he
never takes. When he drops into An Of
fee with this request. apParestly in sx-
treme anxiety, the friend 60 whom he ap-
plies responds: ~Certainlys Morphy;
viii you take the money BORf" he i
instantly calmed with tbs reply, and
goes away with the remark shzs he viii
call for 1t again; bat he nevs< dosA he
resides In New Orleans
=" Gath" the correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Esaq.rirsT, says there are four
great chapters Of dark politics in Our
country. The FIRST was the rivalry Be
| tween Jefferson and Hamilton: that BE-