The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21


have eat none yet"
say nonsense" l should be glad II YOU would
JOIN GLENDINNINO.
Il Is Just because OF the nonsense with which our
speech is crammed that the English is so well
worthy of the interested study OF all humorists.
In the pretertt and past participle eat" is "et"
except where the ia shion Of the schoOlmarms has
excavated from another primitive dialect OF Eng
lish the form ate" Eat" Is ct" in the dlction-
aries. and half a cen fury ago II was taught In all the
schools. But Just 10 prevent anybody from being
too cocksure Of any English pronunciation there
may be cited for participisl eat" as "eet" an
authority quite as good as any dictionary maker
or other founder OF cast iron English:
THE pig was eat and Tom was beat.
And Tom ran crying down the street"
Give me the names Of nve 10 ten writer's who
write proverbs on memory. friendship &C.,
No man Willingly writes proverbs; with space at
- a column no man can anord II. But when a
man writes much. he may write once In a day or
once in a week something which seems 10 him good.
And II there be in him the spark of genius the people
who read may md In his writing e, rarely In the thing
he has plumed himself upon. something that will
live in memory; and there you have your proverb.
once In q year. once in a writer's whole career.
more often never. Then come the diligent record
ers to gather the stray gems in baskets. and they
give us the book OF the proverbs OF Suleiman ben
Daoud, TO which are appended the words which
AEur spoke to Ithiel and Ucal, and the words which
King Lemuel heard from his mothers lips. So
In English we have the proverbs OF John Haywood.
The fact that there exists "Proverbial Philosophy
new coined from dross by Martin FarQuhar Topper,
in nowise contravenes the views here expressed.
The principal proverbs dealing with any OF the
subjects entioned may most readlly be found by
reference TO the "Cyclopedia OF Practical Quota
tions,- In which the Arran cement is topical.
What constitutes tho Anglo Saxon race In
America JAMES WALSH.
There is no such thing In America and there
cannot be- for race. color or previous condition Of
servitude is expressly barred by the Fifteenth
Amendment as conditioning American citizenship.
There Is no Anglo Saxon race In America. there
can be no citizenship here that calls for a hyphen
In desiEnation-all races fuse. n worthy, into the
one name American. Anglo Saxon when used of
any folk later than the pirate hordes OF HengSt
and Horsa 10 a mlsnOmer. II Is loosely used to de-
scribe people OF English stock wherever they may
be found. a phrase more often on the lips OF toast
masters than OF more thoughtful speakers. Even
the English themselves are but the merest mOrsel
Anglo Saxon: they are an accomplished congenes
OF many tribes. even as we are such In the making.
Saxon and Norman and Dane are We an English
poet sings OF his own people-nOthing exclusively
Anglo Sax on in the statement Teuton and Celt and
NuaUN hbNA haAN INh NV h"NN bNNN @NNNN hNANNg
and still be well within the truth.
Can you tell me why the concluding parts Of
Charles G~revtlle's lou rnal have not been published1
Those Of the Teigns OF King George ". and King
William ". were printed In 1874, and In his preface
sdv.nced in Re his narrative increases IN vsiSs
both in substance and In style; and the most i'm
Re reserved for future publication" 1t would seem.
would II not. that thirty two years might be far
enough in the FUTURE A. r, BURKHoLDER.
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volumes were published, bringing the record up to
1870, for II was q reville's wish that his work should
he published as soon as practicable after his death.
The d-nnitive edition In eight volumes bears the
date Of London. 1904. under the title "Grevile
Memoirs: journal Of the ReIgns Of George w..
william ~. and Queen Victoria"
Some time ago I saw these. or nearly these, words
cut on . monument in New Orleans:
Do not bid me good night.
But In some gentle cline
Bid me good morning.
Please tell me the source. y runs in my mind
CARROLL wEITAKEH.
It is from Life BY Anna Leuua BsrbauId. and
the stanza reads:
Lifel we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
IT'S hard TO part when friends are dear,
Perhaps twill cost a sigh. q tear;
Then steal away. give little warning.
Choose thine own time.
Say not good night-but In some brighter cline
Bid me good morning.
let me know the names OF all the different planets.
T.. 4. TossoC,
The inferior planets, those between the earth
and the sun. are Mercury and Venus; the superior
are Mars, Jupiter. Saturn. Uranus and Neptune.
To this brief list should be added In q lump the
asO asteroids. but not by name. for one astronomer
has said that the asteroIdAl catalogue reads like
the Christian names AZ a girls school. The four
largest Of these tiny planets are Ceres. with .
diameter Of 45 miles. Pallas, 9Ot Vests, 24S, and
Juno. lis. Vesta Is the brightest and at times Ia
Visible TO the naked eve, for It's albcdo Is estimated
At O. ~, which represents a lustre midway between
that OF white paper and that OF freshly fallen snow.
Ia II held b. astronomers TO day that each n1ed
star, OF which. there are 50 many millions, is the
centre OF a solar system similar TO our own but
much VAsterF I. Z.
Not necessarily that each nIed star must have
its system. but that such systems are probable:
although It is equally probable that many Of the
nxed stars have not yet advanced to the stage of
development when the nrst satellites are thrown
OF and formed. As TO the matter OF reckoning the
nKed stars in a Wholesale way by many millions,
Prof. simon Newcomb IL the author of some inter.
estipR studies OF the distribution OF the stars In
.pace and the possible init lions OF the universe.
Please give me a rule for settling this question:
Nv savings are 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the sec
ond, 1 cents the third, and so on for a year what
do they amount to- n. b. c.
This Is simply a case Of Eeometrical progression
and is 10 be solved by the following rule: Raise the
ratio ~ to a power equal to the number 1906 OF
terms; divide the difference between that power
and by the difference between the ratio and /;
multiply the QuotiSnt by the first term ~.
or two inEots Of the same dimensions. one lead
PHYSICS.
That Of lead. The specific gravity OF cast lead