The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-15

FAREWELL TO GROG.
Scene. Wardroom of the L. s. 8. zee.
Time: Night Of August 81. 1862 The
law abolishing grog takes effect Septem-
ber 1. 1862. Ar: Come Landlord. Fill
the Flowing Bowl"
Come. messmates. pass the bottle round,
cur time IL short. remember.
For our grog must stop and our spirits
drop
On the frs. day OF September
Farewell. Old Rye. tits a sad, sad word
But, alas IL must be spoken.
The ruby cup must he given up
And the DemJohn be broken
Jacks happy days will soon be gone.
To return again. Oh never.
For they've raised his pay Ave cents .
day,
But stopped his grog forever
We, memory oft will backward turn
And dwell with fondness partial
on the days when gin was not a sin
Nor cocktails brought courts martial
CBos'n's Mate pipes "Ail hands splice the
main brace.")
All hands to splice the main brace call.
Hut splice IL now in sorrow,
For the spirit room key will be laid away
Forever on tomorrow.
Is Il permissible TO Use the expression
chose kind OF men, I have been cor
rected for using II. yet I am sure have
heard II in the speech OF educated per-
sons. c.
The locution il not one TO be recon-
fnended to the use OF any save such az
by their daily walk and conversation
show themselves far removed from
charge OF solecism In grammar. The pit
iful tribe OF grammarinns and rhetorl-
clans have decided and have promulgated
their decision that this In a vulgar error.
since those being plural cannot possibly
be In true concord with kind In the sneu-
lar. Yet tho plural sense fairly dominates
the noun. This was well illustrated in
the EFFORT Of young friend TO he obed!-
ent to the rules OF grammar. With the
result that he hit upon the expression
that kind OF those people True to
sense rather than form English idiom has
for centuries employed those kind" just
az It insists on employing II to-day. We
find II In 1854 In the reign OF Queen
Mary ITO such n pride are those Kind
Of men become by reason OF the disorder
Of princes. az all seemeth 70 them reason
that necessity maketh to be sought for
az their hands.
Kindly inform me what relation NV
cousins are T. my children ana also what
relation exists between children %: my
children and children " my ch!ldren's
cousins j. &. FORSTER
II one wish, and few do. TO be accurate
in the ordination OF descendants from q
common ancestor there Is "a very neat sys-
fem which may Re presented In the form
Of the following diagram:
A-brothere-B
Al---frst cousins---BI
A2--second cousins-B2
A3---third cous.ns--B3
In this diagram y represents the common
ancestor. A and Is two sons establishing
parallel families. In this diagram the
cousin relationship between equal genera
tons IL clear. The odd generations are
susceptible oc distinct statement. The
euerlst inquiries what relation hls cousin
Is Ia MS children. Let 4 be The. qIeris,.
MS first cousin. the relationship sought
would he indicated By q j.agona, drawn
from to AZ as chld) therefore the
relationship - first cousin once removed
lie also inquiries whs; relation exists be-
tween "A child OF his child and q child ~
that ch!ld's cousin. In the diagram the
child %: his child ,A2) Is denoted by A.
the cousin 81 AZ Is B3 and thar cousins
child would be IA therefore the relation
ship would be stated as third cousin once
removed. This IS the simplest form ~
;he problem . person .ond OF tracing sim
pllcity through !rtricacy may frd an IN
teres,luS problem IN establishing the sys-
TEN where there IS more than one unit In
each step OF descent.
be kind enough TO let me know when
envelopes first came into use. /. e., when
ala they stop pnsting the edges ~ letters
together and thus form covering for
them. W. VI. Is.
The frs, OF which there - record COW
cred a letter sent May &c, 1896. by Sir
William Turnbull TO sir James ogilvle OF
British affairs Of state. 4 later record
by thirty years IL found in Dean Sw!t,'s
Advice 10 Grub strut
send these TO paper sparing Pope.
And when he sits TO write.
No letter with an envelope
Could give him more delight;
stamped adhesive envelopes were IN
Produced 10 English use May 8. ls4o. bu,
for more than quarter of n century
waters wer" used and sealing wax has
never quite lost its elegance.
DEAR SIR; Would be pleased 10 have
you advise us whore and by whom the
following quotation may he found
you cannot maize silk or silken
purse out 81 n sow's ear"
You Will confer "A great favor, az wish
10 settle an argument concerning same
l." HELEH BFRKEI.
The question has led to Il surprise. The
proyerb Is 50 frequent that II Is remark
able that II has not been caught UP 10y
the collectors o: wise saws. yet such Is the
case. ono may somewha, dlmly sense 1t
as In some sort underlying the song OF
Autolycus in the winters Tale:
II tInkers may have leave To i've
And bear the sowskin bowge,
Then my account well may give
And in the stocks avouch it,
The "Shillings and Pence items OF
your correspondent Myers may be en-
hanced by custom still prevailing. an
Oddly no dealer can explain. that all bar
rel packages of market freight" reaching
our city from the South are sold whole
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