The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-14


Magyar nationalites TO assert their indie
pendence and oppose by force OF arms the con-
solldation OF the new Constitution. The whoie
of the south and southwest OF the country
was soon in a state of revolt ana war OF
races was carried on with understandable
fury Representations to the Court of vi
emma remained UNDECIDED; the Emperor Is
sued hypocritjcal pr0clamatlons against the
rebels and placed at the disposal OF the Hun
garian Minister few regiments under dis
| affected officers. The abortlve result Of
depuiation to Vienna, the appearance of
troops, and Ferdinand finally declaring him.
self openly against the HungaIians, annul-
ling the DEGREES of the Diet and sending
forces for the reduction Of Hungary, brought
matters TO a crisis, and revolution was de-
clared. (2) There has been no general dis
turbance III Hungary since 1919 (3 While
the revolution was brewing there were Aus
September, 1S4S, Jellahch had advanced
within twenty-five miles of Buda, but. being
defeated at NelenrZe, fled toward Vienna.
On the 10th OF December the main body of
the Austrian army began to cross the west
crn frontier of Hungary and other corps
followed during the same year. a. By the
middle OF March, 1S49, an army Of 10000
men, with ample artillery, was concern
trated by. the Hungafians, but the whole
available force did not amount TO more tn II
half OF the allied armies, that of the Upper
Danube being $4,000; that in the south,
$4,000; in the north, 1900; about 1000 in
Pennsylvania and few thousands in the
county Of ilatamoras. % and % The main
body OF Russians consisted of over 100000
men, while the western frontier was crossed
by an Austrian force of 10000, supported by
Russian division of 1900. On the Brave
anu Syrian frontier were - 600 Austrians
ana near ESZek 5000. In Pennsylvania
were 10000 AuStrians and Russians, SO that
including the, garrisOns OF the f0rtreSSeS in
their possession, the allied forces were, in
all, not less than 275,0o0 men, with 600 guns
The russians took part III the fighting.
GREAT WALL OF CHINA-L. c., City.
The great wall of China was begun under
the supervision of Che Huang-Te, one of
the greatest rulers that China ever had, and
who assembled the throne when but
Is years old, at the death of his
father, b. c. DAG. lie was in his day great
refo rmer, who, having settled the internal
af1al RS OF his kingdom, turned his attentio n
10 the enemies beyond his frontier, chief
among whom we're the Tartars, whose at
lacks had for years kept the Chinese and
neighbOrng principaliteS in state of dis
quiet. lie marched against these foes with
an army of 100000, completely routed them,
eXterminateq those in the immediate
neighborhood of China, and drove the
others into the mountains of Monso-
la, Having crushed formidable re-
bellion and subdued certain southern
tribes, he then returned to his capital to ad-
minister the empire he had Won and the
limits of which were as nearly as possible
as those OF modern China proper Finding
that the three northern States were buiding
lines Of fertilization along their northern
frontier for protection against the incur
si0nS of these Heung-Noo Tartars, he con-
lived the idea Of building one gigantic
wall 10 stretch across the whole northern
limit OF the huge empire from the sea TO the
fartheSt corner Of the modern province of
kan-Suh. This work hqUun
b. c., but though energetically proceeded
with was not completed before his death in
30 B. c. Its length is about 1850 miles.
MOTHER GoosE-W. P. W., City. Much
has been written about the personality of
Mother Goose of nursery tales fame. A CON-
mon story makes her one Elizabeth Goose,
Boston matron. who was born more than
200 years ago, and there is 4 record in the
City Registrars Office in Boston of the mar
riage on June s, 1715, by Rev. Cotton
Mather, of Thomas Fleet to Elizabeth
Goose, the Oldest daughter OF lady nee
Elizabeth FOSTER, who had married on July
5, 1852, into a famous Colonial family origi-
nally known as Nertigoose, changed to Yer
goose, and finally shortened to Goose. Fleet
was printer, who came TO Boston in 1872
and started printng-house where, in 1719,
1t IS said, was published book entitled
Lays Tor the Nursery, or Mother GooSe's
Melodies for Children" rude drawing of
goose with very long neck aud wide-open
mouth adjoining the title page. No copy of
this book Is known now to be in existence,
and at this point one begins TO tread on du-
bious ground and enters the realm of legend.
Its curious coincidence that in 1719 Charles
Pertault had made his famous collection of
fairy tales under the title of Contes de ma
merePAye." or Tales of Mother Goose and
the term is known to have been in use in
the sense of folk talk nearly a hundred years
before even Perrault published his book
The =. {. might continue and demonstrate
that Mother Goose is simply popular remi-
niscence of the old goddess Freia.
THE LoG-BooK-L. c., City. The word
''log" in its nautical meaning and the COM
pounds log board, log-bo2k, log-chip, leg
glass, log-line and loggerhead, are primarily
derived from a word, which, alike in low
German, Danish, Swedish or Icelandsh,
means felled tree or bulky piece of stick
OF wood or timber. The word log in its
nautical sense signifies an apparatus for
measuring the rate OF a ships motion
through the water, the common log, or its
log-chip, being thin wooden quadrant so
loaded with lead on the arc to make ii float
upright that it is kept by the water from being
pulled forward. The word log may have and
| probably was derived from the fact that a
piece of wood was thrown overheard to lie
as log in fixed position and motionlcss.
Ho lOS measuring
| the rate OF ships motion through the
| water, i. was also necessary to record such
observations, ana log-board was used.
This was board consisting of two parts,
| shutting together like book and divided
| into columns. in which were entered the
| hours OF the day and night, direction of the
wind, course of the ship, but instead of
which the lOg-slate is now used; hence the
| register, which is the official record in which
| are entered the daily progress of a ship at
sea, and all the Indications Of the log came
naturally enough to be called the log book
IN HOSPITALS AND IN THE FIELD-E. G.,
| Oakland, Cal. o. Mrs. harriet Beecher
| Stowe was not one of the ladies who, during
| the war, cared for the wounded soldiers in
| hospitals OF on tile battle fields. (2) Louise
| May Alcott was and many are the ladies
who were engaged in this work. Among
those whom the Q. c. remembers without
| consulting the records are: Mother :"
| Bickerdyke, who was the field operator of
Mrs. Cordeiia A. d. Harvey, the wife of the
| Governor OF Wisconsin; Mrs Webb of Hi
| nois. who had charge of the smallpox hos
| pital department; Anna Elizabeth Dickin-
| A. Mulligan. the Florence Nightingale of
the Irish Brigade; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
| the lady of the White House, and Mrs
Hayes, the wife of the President; Mrs.
Stelia ,. Coatsw0rth, Mrs. jeremiah Porter,
Mrs. Turner and her assistant, Miss Hadley,
| who were with DIR. Turner on the hospital
boat City of Memphis; Mrs. Egertou, A.
a.. Hoge, d. p. Livermore and the wife OF
| Colonel Noble, Mrs DIR. Hamilton. Miss
Rebecca Woodward, Mrs. Lynn Boyd, Mrs.
hughes OF PaducAh, KY, Mrs. 81: Austin,
| Mrs. Lou lockwood Warner aud Miss Addie
| Ballou of this city, besides hundreds of other
| noble and patriotic American women.
| special committee of the Board of Super
| visors appointed in February, 1885. to in-
vestIgate and report upon that section of
San Francisco commonly known as China
town" confined its investigations without
attempting to deal with the Chinese
occupancy of any portion of the city
outside the limits Ito the locality
embraced within the boundaries of
California street on the south, Keany
street tho or fho Ia