Morris tribune., 1882-08-10


bore their makers name. No doubt
Jacques de Liege sent cutlery to En-
gland as well as to Scotland, and from
Jacques knife to jack-knife is very
short step.
The annuities of the royal family Of
are as follows:
Her Majesty the Queen. EDS 200
prnce u 1900. .''..'.'''''''''.' , ,""oo
Princess OF Naieh. IU,WU
Crown Princess of Russia. ................ $500
Duke Of Edinturg. ........................ 2o0O0
Duke Of Connaught ............ .......... 25,0O0
Princess Christian OF schleswis -Hostein.. 5000
Princess Louise ..................... COCO
Prince Leopold Observation-Disclosures. l5,h00
Ducheps of Cambridge. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Duchess Of Mecklcnberg- Strelitz. ........ 3,OO0
Duke Of Cambridge. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4,000
Total, e5is, 700, or about s., eoo,coc
THERE are number of theories for
the origin of the dollar mark. One is,
that it is a combination of U. s., the in
itials of the United States; another, that
it is modification of the figure 8, the
dollar being formerly called a "piece Of
eight" and designated by the character
S-8. The third theory is, that it is a
combination of 81. S., the mark of the
Roman unit, while a fourth is, that it is
q combination of P. and s., from the
Spanish peso duro, which signifies
"hard dollar" In Spanish accounts,
peso is contracted by writing the 8. over
p, and placing it after the sum. But
the best origin of the sign is offered by
the editor Of the London Whitehall
Review, who recently propounded the
question at dinner-pa in that city,
OF which the American Consul was pres
ent. As no one could tell, the editor
gave the following explanations: It is
taken from the Spanish dollar, and the
sign is to be found, of course, in the
associations of the Spanish dollar. We
Uttered the table with books in the course
of our researches, but I proved my point
in the end. On the reverse Of theSpan-
ish dollar is representation of the Pill
airs of Hercules, and round each pillar is
o scroll, with the inscription, Plus
ultra. This device, in course of time,
has dege,,erated into the sign which
stands at present for American as well
as Spanish dollars-'$.' The scroll
around the pillars, take it, represents
the two serpents sent by Juno to destroy
Hercules in his CRADLE"
The weight Of the heart is from eight
to twelve ounces. It beats 100, 900
times in twenty -four hours.
GRAssHopPERs were venerated in
Greece" both as sacred and musical.
The Athenians wore gold ones in their
hair to denote the antiquity of their
race.
TIE body of Julius Caesar was borne
to the grave on the shoulders of the
m agistrates Augustus by the Senators
and Germanicus by the tribunes and
centurions.
FoR more than two centuries the use
of the potato was vehemently opposed.
At last Louis XIV. wore bunch of its
flowers in the midst of his courtiers,
and the consumption of the food became
universal in France.
In Shakspeare's "Much Ado About
Nothing" there is young lord of
Padua, named Benedick, who, though
he does not love her, marries Beatrice,
utter courtship of wit and raillery.
Since then the name has often been used
as a synonym for newly-married man.
It is now generally written Benedict,
although this is not the photography Of
the bard of Avon.
POETS laureate are SO called from an
ancient custom in the English universe
ties of presenting a laurel wreath to
graduates in rhetoric and poetry. Young
aspirants were wreathed with laurels IN
berry (o7ne de bales de laurier). The
poets laureate of the two past centuries
have been: John Dryden, 167C ;
Thomas Shadwell, 1888; Nahum Tate,
1892 Nicholas Rowe, 1715; Laurence
Eudson, 171S; Cooley Cibber, 1730 I;
William Whitehead, 1757; Thomas
Warton, 1888; Henry James Pye, 1890 /;
Robert Southey, 1878 ; William Words
worth, 1874; Alfred Tennyson, 1850.
Louis JACQUES MANDE DAaUERRE
perfected with Bouton, in 1922, the in
vention which is called after his name.
The process was made famous by the
announcement at the session of the
Academy of Science, Paris. January,
1889, and from that time it began what
may be termed its career. The intro
duction of photography to the public
may be said to be about simultaneous
with that of Daguerre's invention, and
improvements since then have been con-
tinually made, 80 that now photography
is followed as an industrial pursuit in
the United States and other countries
by thousands Of persons.
The English weights and measures in
common use in market reports or agri-
cultural produce are thus defined: A
truss Of straw, Sc pounds q truss Of
old hay after Sept. l, 56 pounds; truss
Of new hay, GO pounds. Thirty-six
trusses constitute load. One stone OF
butchers meat is pounds. An ordinary
stone is IA pounds. q quarter is 26
pounds, a hundred weight is four quar-
tiers, or 112 pounds, bushel of flour sc
pounds, sack of -four or five bushels,
is $50 pounds. In dry measure three
bushels equal one sack Of grain, four
bushels !; twelve sacks equal one chald-
ron; eight bushels or two sacks equal
one quarter, and five quarters equal oSe
load.
ST.. ANDREW was the brother of Simon
Peter, and was the first to be called an
apostle. The legends say that he trav.
eled into Scythia, Cappadocia and Bith-
inia, and converted large number Of
people by his preaching. At Patras, a
city Of Arcadia, among others he con.
verified Maximilla, wife of Egeus, the
Proconsul. He also persuaded her to
make public confession, which SO en-.
ragged her husband that he condemned
st. Andrew to be scourged and crucifed.
There are variety Of opinions as to the
form of the cross on which he suffered,
but the one called by his name is gener.
ally believed to be like that on which he
died. Instead Of nails he was fastened
with cords. In the fourth century q part
of the relics Of ST Andrew were taken
to Scotland, since which time he hal
been the patron saint Of that country
and Of it's first order Of knighthood. Ht
is the patron Of the Order Of the Golden
Fleece Of Burgundy, as well as Of Rus.
STA, and its great Order of the Cross ol
st. Andrew. He was crucifed Nov. 80