The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-21
"A POLYGLOT COUNTRY.
Two Towns Where From Seven to
Ten IdiOms Are Spoken.

From the Nineteenth Century.
Hungary is the basin of the Danube
and its tributaries, bounded in a semi
circle by the Carpathfan mountains. No
other country of equal extent possess the
same physical unity. With very few ex-
ceptions all rivers of Hungary flow, dI-
rectly or indirectly into the Danube and
in prehistoric times Hungary was, indeed
an immense lake, which, by crumbling
masses from the Carpathians, has in the
course of untold centuries been leveled
up to a vast plain. This physical self
contentedness of the country designated
it, as it were, for a proud and selt-con-
tented nation. Legion was the number of
tribes and peoples pouring into Hungary
through the passes of the north of the
plains of the south from the time of Al
exander of Macedon to that of Alfred of
England Gepides and Goths, Herules and
Alans, Huns and MoraVians, Servians and
Ruthenians and very many more land
seeking tribes essayed to court the love
of incivta Hungaria.
The Maygars alone, a Finnish Ugrian
tribe, probably from Central Asia, enter
ing Hungary by the pass of Vereczke, in
the Northeast Carpathians, a thousand
years ago. have been able to wed them
selves in good and lasting marriage to
the country Astounding in the treasures of
a fertile SOIL varied surface and a be-
nign climate. They alone founded a true
nationality and a genuine state. The peO-
pies inhabtating Hungary before the ar
rival of the Magyars were not so much
conquered as relocated to them They
were. and always remained, what the
stately law term of the Hungarian Trip
arthur code of law, called them reg
nicloe jewellers, not citizens proper. As
physically so nationaD, Hungary has al
ways been a unit, not a union. Not every
aggregate Of people speaking the same
language is nation. True, from what
we art pleased to call the photographic
point of view, Hungary offers indeed a
most picturesque spectacle of endless va
rieties of speech, costume, customs and
folklore.
There are towns in Hungary, and small
towns, too, where from seven to ten i'd
IONS are constantly being used on the
Galican frontier there is in lovely val
ley the old town of Eperjes. The number
of it's inhabitants does not exceed 1900.
To this day the good people of Eperjes
are in the habit of talking or being talked
to in six different languages and several
dialects. An ordinary household will in
clude a SloYak man servant, a Hungarian
coachman, a German cook and Polish
chambermaid. What is still more remark
able, each layer Of society will tenacious
~ cling to its own language for CEN
turtles. A mile or two from Eperjes there
are the famous salt mines Of Saros The
Low Frisians, who were called there as
settlers by the Hungarian kings over 800
years ago. still preserve their old Ger
manic dialect intact to the present day.
The same phenomenon of polyglot com
munities may be found in very many other
towns of Hungary.
Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, K.
P, commander in chief Of the British
army, completed his sixty-third year on
June f. Born near Dublin he entered the
army in 1850, and was dangerously wound
ed in the second Burmese war During
the Crimea he was twice wounded. His
first command was the Red river expedi-
ton in 1870. After that he commanded the
troops in the Ashantee war Of 1873; in the
South Africa war in 1879, and in Egypt, in
1882. when he was raised TO the peerage,
after the victory Of Tel-el-Kebir. In 1890
he took up the duties of commander in
chief in ireland was appointed q field
marshal in 1894, and In 1895 commander in
chief. He has published q Soldiers
Pocketbook'' and a Biography of the
Duke of Marlborough"