The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11

,tor Sumner by Representative Preston
Brooks In 1855. w. 8. NoBBURoH.
tyson attributes only fve wits to the
,f f. 8. Y. In THE Sun Of May 23. ask
.ns for the meaning and origin OF the
used by one Of tho classic
the seven wits Of an OWL:
when cats run home and the light is
come
And dew lie cold upon the ground.
And the far-off stream Is dumb.
And the whirring sail goes round.
And the whirring sail goes round.
Alone and warming his Ave wits.
The white owl In the belfry sits.
merry milkmaids click the latch.
And rarely smells the newmown hay.
And the rock hath sung beneath the
thatch
Twice or thrice his r%oundelay.
Twice or thrice his ~roundelay.
Alone and warming his Ave wits.
The white owl In the belfry sits.
II this 10 the origin Of the phrase
ulate as to the two extra senses. Pos
5lDiy r.. o. II. HAS ptcu tSouihS WV H"NN'
~ your seven seas discussion.
JOHN MILLER DOWNRIGHT
VIII some Of your readers tell mo
where to md ar ode to Napoleon which
Behold the man whose war
horse Weighed upon the Po." and goes
TO recount his power and greatness.
finishing. I think. with the line but
r,-.-.. f..A 49, L~,nsrnr anA yyaIan's
Isle entombed him" B. A.. v.
What ID a bob major? Kipling uses
the word In his poem THE Bell Buoy:
TIL the sweated ringers tire
And the wild bob majors die.
A bob major Is the changes TO which
q set OF eight bells can be runs. These
are made according to certain
rules OF the art OF bell ringing, and are
not a mere series Of possible permutations
and combinations. Sir George Groves
OF Music and Musicians"
under the subject OF Change Ringing"
a table in which II 10 figured that
a bob major will yield 40.s20 changes.
for the ringing Of which one day and
four hours 10 generally allowed. The
correctly made changes In ringing .
bob maximus on a set OF twelve bells
run up into the hundreds OF millions
and are estimated to require nearly
ears
The bestowing Of the degree OF master
OF arts by Columbia University upon Sir
Johnston Forbes Robertson, the fore
most English actor. marked the first
time an English actor had been honored
in America by n university. Does II not
also mark the FIRST time any actor Of
any nationality has received a degree
from an American educational institu-
tom? ]. X. II,
No. Joseph Jefferson received the de-
gree Of master OF arts from both Yale
and Harvard.
The poem The Tapestry weavers."
the authorship OF which was asked for
by C. T. wettsteln, is pronounced to %
by Arson G. Chester. One correspond
ent says the Rev. Arson g.. Chester
another makes him "Anson G. Chester.
NJ, D." 1t 10 reported that the verses
been translated into many Ian
guages, including Hindustani. Chinese
and Japanese. One reader clipped them
in 1851 from . magazine which may
have been LittelIs Living Age. l.. +.
recalls the author as a clergyman living
In or near Buffalo, N. Y. and the
brother OF the principal OF a seminary
for young women In Buffalo.
In answer to Samuel Gibson regard
ms the old Red House rae course,
beg to say II was a half mile course
bounded by l04th and l06th streets.
First and Second venue The inner
field was used as a drill ground during
the civil war later 1t was used as "A
ball field. and the Mystic. Eclectic and
Gramercy baseball clubs played impor-
tant games there. The Red House was
kept by Mark Mcguire and In 1866 was
used as a cholera hospital,
w. s. V%osBuRGH.
GRAPHIC. who inquiries in THE SUNDAY
SUN OF July 4, will find the story OF the
nervous man who suddenly opened a
bank account and closed 1t with even
greater precipita ncy in stephen Lea
cocks Literary Lapses," II GRAPHIC
would like to have some more OF this
sort Of humor. rarely refined, let him
hunt out the scarce little volumes BY
G, s. Street, Some Notes OF a Strug-
Cling Genius" TAB.
GRAPHIC will fnd. | think. the answer
to his query In THE L in that piece
~ nA,t-n hla f,.ll.. ,V 4.
erary Lapses." r. q. |.
The story GRAPHIC seeks is by stephen
L.eacock and Is called my Flnancial
Career" 1t was published In Lite and
may he found In a collection, The Bes,
stories In the World" compiled by Tom
l., Mason. Doubleday. Page'& Co. New
York, 1913, Perhaps also In other col
lections. A. II. WILSON.
win You kindly advise me IL It il
necessary to get a charter to conduct
a correspondence school: j. d. w.
State Acknowledgement Woodbury. re.
plies; "A person may organize and carry
on a correspondence school, like any
other lawful business, without incorpor.
ating and without getting "A charter from
the Education Department
About 1869 there were "A number of
local newspapers published in the city
Of New York which made a speciality
OF Masonic news-such papers as the
Sunday Atlas. the Sunday Dispatch, the
sunday Neps. the Sunday Mercury and
the Sunday Times. ! have been to ever,
public library In New York and to the
Masonic library In West Tventy-thir