The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26


Longfellow once entered in his journal
I always write the n.erAe October win
especial pleasure. There s a secret CHI
memories. il is fun OF dts ky splen5ors h
is fun Of glorious poetry. % 49, -.
Mr. Lecky records Ca --icks ASSERT d.,
that Whitfield could prom ounce Nee
tamia 50 as 10 make a cors -regat ton v-e-.-
Bralder Matthews says. The Bosrr-
rus IS a more poetic ~ ace than Nv
ford, though the meaning Of both nan1rs
is the same. The Big RIVER is h---
vulgar nickname. and vet We accar,- ..
equivalent GuadalQuiVir an Rio Grar's-.
We even allow ourselves sometimes =
speak OF the Rio Grande riv sr-Which is -
tautolOgical as DE Quincy declared 49,
name Of Mrs Barbauld 10 be We -
be neighborly. most of US, with the W.
mountains; but We feel a deeper resna.-
for Mont Blanc and the Weis shorn ana ne
Sierra Nevada" 40
Il hope and trust" wrote WashiDr+,.
Irving, that we are to liye TO be -
old nation, as well as our ne ighoors -
nave no IDEA that our cities when they
SNAIL nave attained 10 venerable aurlr.
uity shall be dubbed New York and ~
London and new this and new that fip
the POne Neuf (the new bird ge) at Parf.
which IS the oldest bridge in that capital
or ike the vicar Of Wake fields hors-
which continued TO be called. the coli -
III he died Of old age"
Elberon. where Garfield died, was FOUND
IL
the hOmely name of the ow ner was nm
contOrted to make a seemin gly exOttc -
pellation for the place. And they saw aiso
that the man who once damned a brooS
amid the pines of New Jersey had tbrae
children, Carrie, Sally and Joe. ana fbaS
he bestowed their united names 1ncn
Lake CarasautO, the artificial piece of ~
ter on the banks of which Lakewood non,
sits salubriously
Marquette spoke of a certain streav, -.
the River of Immaculate Conception. al
though the Spaniards were alreaCy farnii-
lar with it as the River OF the Holy SpTrt
and later La Sale called it after Colbert
but an Algonquin word meaning many
waters" chung TO # always and so we
know it now as the Misst ssippi.
In speaking of the meeting of Evange-
line and Gabriel, Charles Sumner wrote n
LongfellOw lat Mrs. Norton considered
the scene on the Lake .Atchafalava
where the two lovers pass each Other
so typical of Ii te that sh e had a seal emf
with that name upon it," and shortly
afterward Leop old, the king of the Rel
gians speaking OF "Evangeline," ASKED
her If she did not think the work Atchaf-
alaYa was suggestive of experience In
life and added tn at he was about to have
Il cut on q SEAL wereupon to his aston
ishment she showed him hers.
Budapest won iri5 name by the consoli-
dalton of Buda and Pesth.
When Robert Louis Stevenson came to
the United States ais an amateur emigrant
he was delighted to learn that the beauti-
full Susquehanna was so named, as he
considered no othei' name so fitting"for
that shining river nd desirable valley"
Later on Stevenson, in speaking of the
musical Indian nam IS of many states in
America, wrote: '''n here are few poems
with a nobler music for the ear; a song
full, tuneful land; ant if the new Homer
shall arise from the western continent
his verse will be enril he'd, his pages sing
spontaneously with the names Of states
and cities that would strike the fancy IN
a business circular"
Washington Irving went so far as to
wish not only that New York city should
be Manhattan again but that New York
state should be Ontario, the Hudson river
the Mohegan and the United States them
selves Appalachia. Edgar Allen Poe also
approved Of Appalachia as the name Of
the whole country.