The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-12

and progress, are bearing abundant fruit, and even in obscure corners of this great world there is a newly awakened desire for knowledge and the disposition to encourage and help all those who so aspire. Those who are searching for items of news concern ing educational matters find many striking proof of this. For instance, there is the school lately opened in Tokio by Madame Tel Sono, Japanese lady of rank who was educated ln America and returned to iheT own country with a heart full of eager interest for the welfare of women ln Japan. Many American friends con- tributed to the fund for establlshlhs this school, which is to be 8 tralnlns school where girls will De tausnt various trades and practical industries Another woman in whose enterprise women of this country should Ieel deep interest, is Madame Sigrid Mag nussen, an Icelandic lady of high rank' who gives up all her jewels 10 uls- cover a new world of education TOT the girls of Iceland. The jewels are the accumulation of over 1'Ooo yeals and many of them are of great hstorlc interest. The oldest is necklace oL silver gilt bearing a cruci1lx or HalA- mered work. and made very early In the Christian era. Ruslkin pronouhceu | this the most uniuue and interesting collection of antique ornaments III 'he world. There is hardly a piece that does not count it's years by centuries, and since it is probably the largest complete collection of family jewels or all ages in the world it is hopeo the.t it may be kept unbroken where IL ls now on exhibition, at the Boston Al' Museum.
 Madame Magnussen was born anu reared at Reykjavik and never leIt the island until after she was married. sne lived twenty years in England where her husband was lecturer ana teach- CT of Icelandic language and literature in Oxford University. When she re turned to her old home Madame Mag nrssen resolved to found High anu Training School for girls on her own land on the spot where she was porh' but there were financial difficulties 70 contend with and in order to supporl the school she packed up her JeWels and many specimens of hand wrought work neculiar to that country without a machine" and sailed away for Amer ica, where she believed she might ma purchasers of these marvels Of ancient and modern native skill. This new lsa- hella Is a wee woman: striking figure in he1. native garb, short-sklrted wool en dress, the sleeves. bodice, belt ana skirt being trimmed with exquisite gold embroidery Her stature is somewhat increased by the peculiar crown she wears. which, rising high at the back and curving over toward the front, supports a white lace veil so marvellous in it's texture and embroidery as to com mand the admiration of all lace lovers, Madame Magnussen wisely says, All inc education in Iceland depends on the mothers. therefore want to begin early the training of these mothers" She , loves her island home Loyalty, and de- sires for it all that is best and most helpful in modern educational methods. For this reason, and this only she parts with all her treasures or hand- wrought silver and woolen stuffs of un- exampled fineness.
 MORE THAN MoUTHTuL.
 The Welsh language is not likely to supersede the French as the lam guage of courts, or the English as the language of commerce. The very look of 1t intimidates by a seem inglv haphazard combination of doubled consonants, though any tongue to Welsh speech born will assure you that it is not only easy to pronuonce but most musical in sound One doubts this last statement, however, even when one has the opportunity of hearing 1t sung.
 A sample of the difficulties with which the student of Welsh will have to wres- tie is afforded by the name of one little village in that land of flood and moun- tain It is not merely a name, but a description of it's 1ocality-a traveller
 guide. so to speak, if the traveller can only translate it. It has twenty-two svllables and sixty-nine letters. Take long breath and try this:
 "IIanfairpwllgwyng yngyllgertropwllger-
 chwyrmpwllgogerpw erpwllantysill gogog
 och"
 Is it any wonder that, as we are told,
 the mail-sorters at the post office give
 1t brief mention as "Llanfair-piggely'
 wiggeiy?"
 But we are also told that the word Is
 very easy translated. "Llan" means a saint, or church; flair" means Mary | 'pwll," a syllable four times repeated t is a pool; "gwyn" is white; "gyii," ha- e gel; ger" near; "tropwll," turning t pool, "gerchwyrmpwll' means near the
 whirlpool; "goger," very near; and SC s on. A literal rendering into English Is - "st. Mary's White Hazel Pool, near the s turning pool, near the whirlpool, very - near the pool of Llantysilio, frontint }, on the red rocky isle of Gogo." Hardly g possible to fail of finding the place af
 ter such explicit directions, yet, though l. it must be a picturesque spot with 1t J. many pools and whirlpools, if the in $ habitants with to allure the summer AN.rw