Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-07-21
PEOPLE AND EV GNr

Acconn,xa 10 Canon Farrar, about louf
,hnnsond clerpymen OF the Church OF Eng
land are ont OF employment. Another writer
declares that an equal number are mlserapiy
underpaid. -
Tyr nromotion of men from the ranks 10
ha commissioned officers has not hau tho
tooet promising sequel in our army. tor 'ilo
fou IN time this year the War DepaHniene
hos had cause TO pronounce an oHcel '"u'
promoted deserter. .,..
: ALMA TAUEMA says in the Stud'o l'ia. os,I
cam. ra has had most healthlul anu 49," s, ~,
influence on art and Is oil the gie4'ss' s nm
nninter..n This high opinion VIII DC Oh un-
usual interest to those persons VINO haVe haVn IN
tended that photography has done XIV F'''
bic damage to real art.
.ryv chief engineer of tho Austrian s'a9o
ro;lwavs. Henry Graf. is in Washington Io
has come to America to make a spscia' $50
of American Railwai systems. lie 70 q JIo ia,
man still III his twenties. lie mas oino .,, ratl-
ters to many high officials on nerican A,u. lines
~ nyo .oiidlv built than those OF Europe, anu
~, tin,a made much fast r whle 'ne & Iu
soneans evcel in the matter oil precautions
ngainst accidents. A
I'M RrrpyN ALpH1DaE GUILD, VINO na7
lust resigned rs librarian ot bto"h :. lace
sitv has served his alma mater III sn"s p,ou
for tortv-six wears. His term oi csn. ga
service is longer tn that oil any o.neL si VT ,he
Ger Brown has ever had. eXcep'ins only cyancv
late Professor Lincoln. 10 Hi .u' ~ ad
nrusad nv DIR. Guilds retirement .no ~ a~
,i,. oauoo' oyn,noit 90 re commended the ele0 tion
n Henry L. KoopmaD, who has sersIu -
Actor the Cornell University, the ColuniOi""
collage and Rutge.s College llprarles'
u,s Uiohness the Maharajah OF kapur,
..ain ,rbo ia now in japan headed Tor Tue
The Worlds Fair, 'is a petty Hlndoo poesH1- p.,1
tate Imahoraiah is Sancrit for 'greal kips ~ y,
bnt n very Gorgeous one, for he IS weai.ny ~
he 1lrient's barbaric pearl and goia; uilu
s,oore one or more lings on every hne
ond on his thumbs as a slight lndlcatlon ~
HE fondness for iewelry. He is ratner oIu
and unlike most Eastern princes, W. ,nc.
we'll educated. He Is accompahicu ~ 49, Il
erous tinuH, but cu'lously enousn ,oncv
under the direction of an excursion agency
r c,,N.N president of the john Hop
t,n. ~ fT,ni,,ersitT r, baltimore, has presented
IN behalf of the trustees the OniNeIs"!
% tha American Bible Society, Iacslhlle y
d. cboIdean food tablet, recently iecon
: strrcted Inv Professor Haupt. Inc laolet =
q nloeter cast from modern reprouuclloi,
IN CLAW of the sO-called lZduDar OF vi Sln..,,
iaoenSs commonly known under the nail'
} of the Babylonian Nimrod epic; IL con'a,n' pe.,n
the cuneiform text OF the ChaIueall ao.gs pa,,
of the deluse, as restored ~ tLG.e .;rteeD frag
1 Haunt The text is based on thirteen ma1
nsuts msup which were found during the Brltisl
+, excavations in the valley OF the Euphia,o Z
. and Ticris and are now preserved III Tue u'' .s
\ na,tment of oriental antiquities AT III
a british museum. London. The casts nav
4 heen finished in colored plaster, so as " =,
% ,he annearance of a real cuneiform clay tau
:. let The tablet contains, in six Columns
n 39I lines of cuneitorm writing.