The Forrest City times., 1892-04-29
Gbe forrest Gitp Ginses.
lANDVOlCT & VADAKIN. Editors arad Publishers
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 9. Ira.


Errors os Speech that arc Made
 Every Day.
 From Go,dthwaitcs Geographical Magazine.
 Don't say or write Austro- Hungary. The best writers prefer Austria-Iun- gary.
 Don't call the Chinese "Mongolians. {" It is better to reserve the latter name for the people who live north of China proper.
 Don't speak of a native of China as a Chinaman. You would not say that YOU had an Ireland man digging in your garden. It is better to call John a Chinese.
 Don't, please don't say that New York city is located on ManhatteD island. Such a misuse of the verb ito locate" is trying to the nerves of the best photographers. Say New York city is situated on Manhatten island.
 Don't speak of China as our anti podes. Our aDtip0des is the point on the other side fO the world reached by a straight line passing through the place on which we stand and the cen ter of the earth. Our antipodes is in the ocean southwest of Australia.
 Don't forget the oriental names end ing in "an" have the accent almost invariably on the last syllable, as Te- benan, BeloOchistan.
 Don't imagine that the spelling of geographical names in the papers is necessarily accurate. It Is safe to say that One-haif of the places names ill Africa and Asia as they appear in our daily press are mangled almost beyond recognition by tlie cable or the types.
 Don't call Bermuda"a North Ameri- can island, ''as writer ill newspaper did the other day. There are plenty of North American islands, but Bermuda is not one of them. It is an oceanic, mot q continental, island.
 Don't be mystiied if on one map in your atlas Hudson bay seems to be larger than the gulf of Mexico, while on another sheet of the same atlas the gulf of Mexico appears larger than Hudson bay. The apparent discrepancy is doubtless due to the different map projections employed. You know, for instance, that areas far removed from the equator are very much aggregated if they appear on maps of the MercatOr projection.
 Don't say the compass points to true north, for it doesn't, except in certain places. The compass points to the mag netic north, which is at present con- sidirable west of the north pole. When Lieut.. Greedy was at Lady Franklin bay the declination of his needle was found to be very great, the needle pointing toward the magnetic pole in q direction nearly southwest.
 Don't make the mistake some people do of thinking the word "alluvium" to be synonimously with the ''soil.n Only those soils which are the result of depo- sition of sediment by running water can properly be called alluviM soils.
 Don't, for mercy's sake, say "Smith- sonian institute The name is ssSmithsonian institution"
 When you are writing novel don t get your geographical facts so badly mixed as to reflect discredit upon your early training. In one of the popular novels of the day the Azores are re- ferred to in southern latitude. The writer also introduces his hero into the Antarctic region in January and speaks of the s'inky blackness' of the nigkt he experienced there. Of course anybody ought to know that the month of Jan nary is the height of the Antarctic summer and the entire month is one continuous day.