The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08

fOput0.
To settle q controversy please decide II there Is
or has ever been q United States shilling. A.Moc.
So M as concerns the minted money the answer
I s positive that tho United States have never coined
shillings. But In the broader sense the shilling
was for the better part OF the last century the com
mon unit Of reckoning. a domestic holdover from
the former Colonial currency. The several
colonie Issued bills OF credit. never taken at ste Ring
par and subject TO varying degrees OF depreciation
at different times and In different places. When
the Federal Government recast Its financial ar
rangemeuts upon the decimal system Of the dollar
the shilling remained a. q designation for several
sums which were fixed for the several States by
the last general quotations OF the paper OF the
precedent colonies. The cheapest shilling OF all
was The York shilling, in use In New York, North
Carolina, Ohio and Michigan. computed at i?l1
cents. or eight TO the dollar. the Colonial bill of
credit being worth only $3.50 TO the pound sterling.
The Pennsylvania shilling was 1874 cents. and
such was the reckoning In New jersey. Delaware
and Maryland, The New England shilling ran
sf to the dollar. or 10 - cents. and this value held
in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana. Illinois,
Missouri. Mississippi. Florida and Alabama. In
GeorS,s and South Carolina the shilling was com
puted at q 81 cents. or 4 .shlliings 9 pence to the
dollar. The shilling remained the customary unit
OF domestic marketing here In New York until
long after the civil war and Is stll met with, An
interesting survival is Its use In the notation
| VI vs. ~ t'sSt1
all places one would think that real money would
be preferred to the funds Of memory
Long years ago my granddam used to Groom
Syioe baby. Sylo ,eI bye. Not. poppy nor mandTss
S Ss'1 20 asRR y not SS' E srS% Sn i know as1sd for I 7 have
hunted the dictionaries before appealing 70 THE
Sun. ELLEN RHYs PRroE.
Speech need not be English or any OF Its dimly re
eeding ancestors back to the beginning of the race
10 be a true language for the mother and the babe
In the swaying cradle, That combination Of vow
els. the oonsonants may vary or even vanish. is a
wonder working ~sleepmaker the world around.
From the frozen north 10 thu betting band Of heat
that rings the earth's greatest glrth. In the lodges
OF the nomad and the palaces Of the great. babes
for ages have been suned by II TO sleep. II has no,
makers OF dictionaries. fol. II is to be found entered
as bylow, balow and balou Percy's "Rcliques'
has preserved this ancient verse
Baiow. my babe. lye still and slelpe.
II grleves me sair 10 see thee weipe.
II Is taken from Lady Anne Bothwcl's Lament.
An artic,. from the London Chronicle speaks OF
the DUCHESS OF Hamilton, the beautiful Miss Gun
ming. who married two dukes. rejected a third and
sSor, account Of thG interesting person. Have
any books been written about herr c. N. l..
Elizabeth Cunning was the second daughter Of
John Cunning OF Castle Coote In the county Of
Roscommon. her mother being the Hon. Bridge
Rourke. She was renowned as the beauty OF heI
time, and TO deceitful favor and vain beauty she
added the Rraces OF heart and mind. In ITS: she
became the wife of James, sixth Duke o; Hamilton
Incoming a widow In 1853. In 17Sa she married
John. Nth Duke Of Arg yii. In i77e she was created
baroness Hamilton In her own right and died In
1908. survived by her husband. Her two sons In
the hamilton line became the seventh and eighth
dukes of that house, and In the Campbell house
she was the mother Of the sixth and seventh dukes
Of Arryll.
VIVA, Is the fun meaning and derivation of the
word garage7 j. +. II.
Like 80 much OF the motor Technology the word
Is an inning rant fro m France concerning which II Is
TO be said that II has taken out at least Its nrst papers
Of citizenship and may In time become wholly
naturalized with the probable pronunciation some
what Thymlng with carriage. Even In French
the sense ID so new as TO have escaped all but the
very latest dictionaries. II b a derivative Of the
French word care. which In Its several railway
uses may refer to a switch and siding, to a track
platform or TO a station. In the motor language
II Is applied to q place where cars may b e stored
or repaired, or both.
In tn. eady record: Of Albany there anpsars .
resident Is Of that place on January q 1878. for plant
Ing = sssnd slo,,s tree ,nr IN De1 ffon, o. the premises Of
rtass, There are also other rsierences Of a similar
1 iaiH 7 . r ,ssGH%'s %sa, . .hs ses saddly ,sG '2ea wa. k, %S.,
significance there was N planting one In front Of a
mssis!,.,e's house and where and G, how The e, custom
An Interesting branch Of forestry which seems to
have escap ped the stten ton Of the authorities. II Is
hoped that some reader may be induced TO shed
| light on this picturesque custom whether in Fort
Orange or elsewhere.
have a nne quarto Of the Whole Duty Of Man. F."
dated 1855, in perfect condition, except for the
marks OF age.on the covers Is IL Of any value'
| r.. y. FROST.
In Laytnes,on's Auction Prices OF Books" occur
three recent sales OF the work, none OF this 1895
auarto, but they may serve TO give some Idea OF
the value. The London octave edition OF 1859 %.
together with Private Devotions. morocco. with
gilt edges. fetched c. las. In April, 1895; the Lon
don 1918 octave, In morocco. was sold for si2 80 In
January, 1901; the Williamsburg duodecimo OF I74e,
In sheep. brought $40 In January. 1895. A most
soothing GOOD book.
In a recent article there occurred the phrase
swearing like the army In Flanders" BE so kind
EDWARD X. DAVIS,
II is a treasure to always for which the world
Is indebted TO Tobias .Shandy. Esq, late Captain
II. M. foot under the Duke OF Marlborough In the
| campaigns In Fianders. The saying has been prc
served with much other agreeable matter In the
, ney. Laurence Stene's narrative concerning Capt.
Shandy's nephew, which bears the title, The Life
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ifease tell me in ~hht poem the lines occur:
Tnere was mounting 'monE Graemes OF the Meth
ros,efs, Fenw,cks and Musrrnves they rode and
they ran. X. =. s.
50 daring In love and so dauntcss In war
Have you Ger heard OF gallant like young
Lochtnvarf
Who 10 the author OF the lines
vbile the sunset in the west
Giids the worst and erays the best:
SUSAN kEiIRR.
They occur In q poem by Mary F. Robinson, once
widely circulated under the title The Gate OF
Tears."
Caa any reader supply the poem about the whal,
| Ing skipper who had been away for years and when
nsked what he had In the way Of oil and bone
| answered no 10 al, questions, but when he was asked
What be did have replied; a damned nne. san,