The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-18
NOTES N QUERIES.

"douh" In the English Language, the foui stanoeru
words, hazardous, tremendous. stupcndous. leopard.
Gus, and seventeen others OF infreuuent use. OF these
seventeen We recall only nine, namely; Horrendous,
nendous, nefandoua, rcpandous. liquepcndous, no
dous, multinodoua, frondous, and tardisradous.
"1 rISsSi IN south p Africa Ss' by 'p" Which Gs' Z Infer tbs fs.t The
word .vslds" means ,.nn, a S y or low " ground; Ny
Of preuthe. Holland. called "wsstervsid." II wa
pep early records in Holland, beginning about hoo.
when we nrst learn 81 on DIRK R,chArd) van weater.
meaning OF tho wordf w. 7. W.
veldt ia a changed form OF the Dutch weld. tho same
a. our English word neid. It means simply open
ground. or prairie. westerveit means west neld;
roosevelt rose field Blauveit. blue field. There are
| other Dutch names ending In rcit. and many parallel
names In herman and other tongues.
illuminated ntehtlya II. n. ZEvELT.
so that It can be seen.
Did Edwin Booth ever act in wsshington, .. O..
s are, ths ,a S,,e %iIS., booth S1 President Iinoq 4 = = his
He did not. He acted in Baltimore. but never
nearer 10 Washington than that city.
when I was a boy on the other side there WAS
lighted M.n : to .s s,ns in the ears rs 81 : a ssr' Ts,l Ens sn,na r's 9
"The Th'rtr.third, tho dirty crew.
VINO lOSt tneT hr1nE " " hVeTlNO,'
What Mt Of COW ardicc this regiment performed I do
not know. but the ,prcpriety OF the above couples
mrnt had no ""~fac,nes;" T.. e. the co,orcd badge
n.ssnsnS T Of ,h BY ,u R1it, %s. FG mi.sins ,n OF sh the ". SeG of .S Ss
Thirty.third: whose collar was tho same color-se.rlet
Us tho tunic7 P. X.
Tho Thirty. third 10 now the West Ridins Regiment,
"puke Of weilington's." II ia absurd to imagine for
an instant that a regiment that behaved badly At
Waterloo would he called for tho Duke Of wellington.
As a fact. the Thirty.third never had facings until
1881, when the present territorial system ' was put
in force in tho British army and the regiment was
forced to assume thom.
II two men marry two sisters ia Il proper 70 call the
two men tsothsT..i !, law, A.. or !, each man only brother.
Strictly speaking. It is improper TO do 60. because
they arc not brothers.in.law.
A~arrives in this country from England in 1884. en-
ter the United States army and is honorahly dis
charged at the end Of the war. and now claims he is q
TIs1Tsn and Gs ' ]pf,1 TH,tss sppsrt. SnH = th sRs,.,e' = claims q. sns
that 4 AIM, must si, isss on, n1 K,nslI sss5Gp 'p'" sef1rs he
b IA right. A must take out naturalization papcrs,
but he may make his nnal application at once. with
out q preliminary application. This privilege iu
given to him because of his service in the war.
On March ~. in an editorial on the "Evaousston of
Cuba" ynu spoke Of a Cardinal cisneros. VIII Won
where I can learn particulars concerning him.
FL LuoARESo.
cardinal cisneros -" was really Cardinal Ximeues,
he was not called Cardinal Cisneros usually. Fran.
cisco Ximenes de Cisneros was born in Spain in
1890; the Pope appointed him to the living OF
CEada in 1474, but the Archbishop Of Toledo impris-
oned him in the Tower OF s~antorcaz. whence he was
released in 1880. In 1ts2 he became a Franciscan. In
1892 confessor to Queen Isabella, and in lAo5 the
Pope commanded him to accept the Archbishopric OF
Toledo. He began to reform the Franciscana in
Spain at once. so much 30 that Il 10 said that 1000 OF
them fed TO Barbary. In 1907 Pope Julius II. made
him q Cardinal. In 15os7 he was practically regent
Of CASTLE; and in 1915. when Ferdinand died. he was
regent OF, Arragon. He died Nov. q. 1877. He did
much to ameliorate the condition OF the natives in
the American colonies, and opposed the introduction
OF negro slavery therein.
In the minutes of an organization. under date Of
and a lime road " leading from the Yorkviile station
s If sss H can y"u H sirs %s tho to B, .ss@, icessio nr Of % 'SI.
hotel and the direction OF the road? r. OBJ.
This wa the hotel kept by Ferdinand Palmo for
about nine month"; -shortiy after the failure of his
italian opera season In 1s44 The road was perhaps
Harsen's lane. which Joined the Bloominedaie road al
about Seventy. first street. and came almost due west
from over Yorkvfle way. We do not know the exact
situation of the hotel: no historian Of New York
thinks II worth while to devote much attention to
Pnlmo, unfortunately.
say. that Germany and Germans have nothing &c
boast OF: that all the German warships have beer
DulIt ny EnRllfhmen; tnat fngi1an tOlntefN arc q Rreat
deal finer physically. &c. Won't You kindly enliehter
this Anglomaniac on a few points In favor OF Ger
many? w. L.. 9.
The early German battleshira were built abroad
since 10000 they have been built in German yards
almost wholly OF German material. As to the army
we think your friend must have been joking. The
best British troops are probably tho native Indian
troops. which are recruited practically m the German
army is. That is. in Germany every man has to serve
unless he is physically disabled; in India entire tribes
Of nghting men send their hest members into the
army. In Great Britain recruiting has been M slow
at times that the requirements have had to be modt
Ned; the hest men physically don't go into the army
in England as a rule. while in Germany they have &c
serve. An English regiment seldom goes to Indii
without having to be increased to its service strength
by drafts from other rrgiments. The German regt
ments arc kept full by the system Of conschption-
crosses the line the pist OF March and the Goth Of sep
tembcr. I met an old retired sea captain recently
OF %HS March sn,h |" aist on mrrii. the eoth Of septem Ibbs
and the Goth of October each year. Was he right.
Tie was wrong. The sun crosses the equator OF
March 81 and Sept. 90. thore or thereabouts. and q
its crossing we have the equinoxes. when the day ant
the night arc Of equal length.
Kindly inform ms what hog Latin" 10, where 10 d
used. and where the name Hog Latin =" ortatnAted
Also. in what respects 1t differs from pure La.in7
Hog Latin. generally called Dog Latin. h simpi,
very bad Latin. The French and the Germans call 1
Kitchen Latin. We don't know how the term origin
ated. There 10 Q number of similar phrases-dog
sleep compare cat. nApl-a light sleep that Isn't
uleop; doggerei. verso that isn't poetry. 40.
Can you inform me why there are no numbers o.
Broadway between 9b7 and 1907?
WILLARD DRANn.
We cannot. You will npa~ q similar lapse in IN
numbering at Bond street. where 65s IL followed b.
o7o. Broadway is strange in moro than one way.
-
Can Won inform mo where the inscription, Una,
born ri woman Ia Of few DAYS and full OF trouble, h
cometh to you like n flower and Is cut down; h
neeth life as Q shadow and continneth not IL take
from, and who was the author? The quotation or
pears on the Tombstone OF tho little child buried jus
opposite Grants tomb at Riverside.
FRANcB BARNEY.
Il IL taken from Job XIV. ! and Q. We haven't tn
least idea who tho author was.
wero the Hebrew and Christian Easter Sundays o
the same date in 1871; n so, what dAtar Or, II the
were on different dates. win you kindly give the date
OF oachp H.. =.