The age-herald., 1900-12-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thou hast very unfortunate birthday
 and thy money and business will go to
 waste; thou wilt also travel and change, and misfortune will overtake thee; keep
 myself very quiet"
 "A child born on this day will be very unfortunate, careless and useless, and nearly always in trouble; if female, liable | to sorrow in early life"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Fri l day. December 7 1900:
 Sell; unfavorable for all else" Heavy msfortunes and ca1amities threaten thee; thy affairs will all go wrong | and thy health will suffer-"
 "A child born on this day should keep in employ and not attempt any business on its own account: if a female, an un- fortunate life is significant" 
 Among the familiar words frequently mispelled in print is the pluraL-of money" said a well-known pedagogue. Many fair ly well educated persons write it monies an dthe country printer, proverbial for ihs 1 correct spelling. often follows copy and puts it in type that way instead of the correct way-moneys. No one who has ever taken a course in the spelling book
 
 ral of valley or turiies for the plural of turkey. And yet many high graduates in the art of spelling forget the rule when they come to write the plural of money. Another word that is often, it might be said usually, mispelled is our much used by-product. The-prefx bi- from the Latin bis, meaning twice or double, is well understood by chemists But the pro iHa fro,,, ;,, TI,o l, ,;af produce is by-product not a bi-product. To write it bi would be like writing by law, by-play, by-path, and all that class of words with an instead of a y. Another mistake that is quite conspicuous not in spelling, however is in not distinguishing between depositary and depository. The | latter form refers to the place where the thing is stored or deposited. A cotton l warehouse is a depository for cotton. A bank selected as the agent for taking on deposit the governments money and ao- counting to the government for the funds thus deposited is the governments depos< tary, not depository. The depositary, if it's officers see fit, can send the govern ments money to a neighbors house and lock it up there for safe keeping. The neighbours house or chest would in that case be the depository, but the bank off, cially designated would continue to be the depositary The United States Treasury Department and the United States Courts, as we'll as the die tionaries always careful to make the distinction, but as the two words are so nearly alike in spelling and in sound and convey etymologically the same idea, the mistake is not only natural, but 1 predict that in the course of time Uncle Sam himself will drop the more techni- cal word and use only depository. But the proof-reader in a well regulated newspaper office will never let monies or bi-product pass
 "Buslness>1s certainly good. The Birming ham district is certainly prospering but I find it almost impossible to do anything in the way of selling options on coal or ore lands" said a prominent citizen, who has had much experience in buying and selling mineral tracts. Yes, business in general is good; the coal companies were never op- the mistake is not only natural, 1 have not been able to swing a trade this year. My poor luck is explained by the fact that the trusts and big corporations have everything their own way. They are in the saddle. They regulate prices and kee down competition. Now the trusts may be all right for the district as a whole. The ma jority of people may be benefited or think they are benefited by them But from my point of view they are not what I would like to see.''
 A few of the Jefferson County farmers received 10c for their cotton. They were for tunate to strike Birmingham early in the season. when the bulls were making them selves felt. During the past few weeks the Birmingham prices for good middling have ranged from 9A to 95sc. But it is only question of a comparatively little while now when the price must get up to 10c again. At least that is the impression in cotton circles. Whether it will be next week or the week after no one seems to kaow. Atlanta is getting ready for another big exposition. It is to be held in 1902. The in- tiatory steps are being taken, which means that the show vii take place on time; for no matter what else may be said about the metropolis of Georgia. it has won the dis tinction of being the exposition city, not only of the south, but of America When Atlantians make up their minds that eX- position is in order, the ways and means committee acts promptly, and the gates are opened on time. Birmingham is moving for a great international exhibition in 1904-5, and if it materializes-and there is every reason to think that it will-Alabama's metropolis will take precedence in this line, for this show is to be larger in its scope than anything of the sort ever undertaken in the south.
 The Grand Lodge of Masons, in annual session at Montgomery this week, brings together many of the most prominent men of Alabama. Dr. R. M. Cunningham of Jeff | ferson County, who went to Montgomery as deputy grand master, will return as most worshipful grand master, or most worshipful the grand master, as the Eng fish would say. His local lodge at Pratt City is preparing to tender him a recep- | tiop in annraciation of the honor which the