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VISONA, by Arthur Merton (Sivartha), was developed by the author in 1870, and has been published in Chicago by the School of Culture. Visona is a universal language based on natural laws. It is based on unity as a center, called Mastona or Omniverse, and from this grows the stem words. The circle illustrating it includes five series, containing 144 words. For each of these words there is a new word of of two letters, and these are the stem-words of the entire language. There are 36 postfixes for attached syllables, and the words are selfdefining. The first 8000 words are produced dy 240 syllables. Thus in Visona the noun for organizing is Su.

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The author claims it is twenty times easier to learn than English, French, or German. It leads to the classification of every branch of knowledge. The visonal word have no more than three syllables of six letters each. It is far more uniform than Volapük, and can be memorized much easier.

"ENOCH," OR "TRAINUP"? We read in the authorized version Proverbs xxII, 6. this: "Train up a child in the way he should go.'• There is another translation of this verse which, we are told, the original language will bear, as follows:

"Enoch hath been made into a boy, according to his path."

Will some of your linguistic readers give a literal translation, and state if the original word CHNVK can be vocalized as Chanokh (Enoch), or should CHNVK be vocalized as Chanekh ("to instruct," 'to train up")? If it will bear the italicized rendering, does it imply that Enoch was re-incarnated without experiencing death?

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FIDES.

We are informed that there is only four recorded instances that Jesus wept," namely:

I. At the grave of Lazarus (John XI, 35).

2. In the garden of Gethsemane (Matt. xxvi, 38; Mark xiv, 34). Over Jerusalem (Matt. XXIII, 37; Luke XIII, 34).

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On the Cross (Matt. xxvII, 46; Mark xiv, 34).

Is there record, canonical or apocryphal, that he ever laughed?

ROBERT RAIKE

OLD PARR'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. Amost singular document was brought to light, a number of years ago, written by the celeprated Old Parr who attained the almost incredible age of 152 years. It is written on parchment, and although upwards of 200 years of age, is in an excellent state of preservation. The following is an extract: "These do certifie yt ye undermentioned is ye method of preserving health, which by ye grace of Almighty God, has caused me to attain to my miraculous old age. Albeit in my youth I was afflicted with ye bloody flux and King's Evil, but which all have left me by using some days ye herbs as herein written."

Then follows the receipt.

"Moreover, I bequeath to my second Great Grandson ye method I employ for preparing ye medicament. Given this day, and in ye 147th year of my age. THOMAS PARR.

Winnington, Salop, Fanuary 17, 1630."

Thomas Parr was born 1483, and died 1635. This singular man, with one exception, is the oldest man that England ever produced. His biographer says: "He married his first wife at the age of 88; and he again married at the amazing age of 120; at 130 he used to thrash corn, and to do any laborious work. He had seen ten Kings and Queens of England.

QUEER NAMES. A woman who has been indexing deeds in Maine has made a list of the queer given names she found. Here are some of them: Ledoc, Generous, Passchal, Lupina, Mighil, Araunah, Squire, Deluva, Barzillai, Calvary, Hartson, Zophau, Philander, Mories Axiel, Hopestill, Piram, Jerathmael, Rancil, Hazareman, Sprout, Demeric, Bana, Angler, Uzza, Lilia, Cad, Luton, Cyprian, Ivory, Jacon, Kilah, Orra, Cadwallader, Galon, Loven, Diodamia, Grinfil, Mesbach, Liberty, Autumers, Haddassah Esek, Sahra, and Rispah.

A GOOSE-HARE SWAN. Recently a swan was cooked strictly according to the metrical recipe in Yarrell's "History of British Birds," and the dish is described as tasting something between a goose andga hare. The recipe for this dish is as follows:

Take three pounds of beef, beat fine in a mortar,
Put into the swan - that is, when you've caught her;
Some pepper, salt, mace, some nutmeg, an onion
Will heighten the flavor in gourmands' opinion.
Then tie it up tight with a small piece of tape,
That the gravy and other things may not escape;
A meal paste, rather stiff, should be laid on the breast,
And some whity-brown paper should cover the rest.
Fifteen minutes at least ere the swan you take down,
Pull the paste off the bird that the breast may get brown.
To a gravy of beef, good and strong, I opine,
You'll be right if you add half a pint of port wine;
Pour this through the swan, yes, quite through the belly,
And serve the whole up with some hot currant jelly.
N. B.-The swan must not be skinned.

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MOTION OF A CARRIAGE WHEEL. The old question as to whether the upper part of a carriage wheel in motion goes along faster than the lower part seems to have been settled by instantaneos photography which givee the top spokes indistinct, and the bottom distinct.

A FEW DEFINITIONS. Definition.

A definition is the resolution of

a complex idea into the simple elements which compose it.

Boil. A diminutive circumscribed subcutaneous eruption characterized by a pointed pustular tumor and suppurating around a central core.-Johnson.

Dandy. In modern usage, a male of the human species who dresses himself like a doll and who carries his character on his back. Webster's First Edition.

Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.-Johnson.

Garret. A room on the highest floor of the house; Cock-loft, the room over the garret.-Johnson.

Generous. In modern usage, a generous person is one who gives away useless articles he is anxious to get rid of.

Gentility. A servant who prided herself of having always lived with genteel families, was asked the meaning of the term; "where they drink a great deal of wine, keep late hours, and the gentlemen gamble and swear," she explained.

Gentry. In conversation with an American, an Englishman defined "the gentry" as those who never had done any work, nor their fathers before them. The American retorted: "We have that class in the United States, but call them tramps."

Journalist. A grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

Martial bearing. A constable in Delhi arrested some deserters. and explained to the magistrate that he recognized them by their martial bearing. "What do you mean by martial bearing?" asked His Honor. "Why, the men were very free with their money, were drunk, swore a great deal, and wanted to fight," explained the knowing officer of the peace.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.-Johnson.

Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.-Johnson.

Pathology. The art of road-making.

Pension. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.-Johnson.

Pensioner. A slave of state hired for a stipend to obey his master. [Johnson published his Dictionary in 1755. In 1762, with character

istic defiance of Mrs. Grundy, he accepted a pension of £300 per annum as a "reward of literary merit!"]

ing a savage.

Tory. A cant term, derived, I suppose, from an Irish word signifyOne who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state and the apostolic hierarchy of the church of England; opposed to a whig.-Johnson.

Whig. The name of a faction.-Johnson.

Window. An orifice in an edifice for the intromission of illumination. (Johnson, modified).

DJAFAR.

MONUMENT to HANK MONK. The citizens of Nevada are raising money for a monument to Hank Monk, the famous stage driver, whose body lies in a lonely defile in the Colorado mountains, near the Clear Creek road. The monument will bear these words :

HANK MONK

THE WHITEST, BIGGIST HEARTED AND BEST Known
STAGE DRIVER OF THE WEST

WHO WAS KIND TO ALL AND THOUGHT ILL
OF NONE.

HE LIVED IN A STRANGE ERA

AND WAS A HERO

AND THE WHEELS OF HIS COACH ARE NOW
RINGING ON GOLDEN STREETS.

IS THIS PLANET LOPSIDED? (Vol. V, p. 72.) A correspondent of the New York Sun, wrote to that paper a few years ago, from Baldwin, Wisconsin, stating that the southern hemisphere of our earth is denser than its northern; or, what is the same thing, the center of gravity is situated in a plane passing through the earth south of the equator. From this he deduced the consequences :

I. This is the cause of the inclination of the equinoctrial to the ecliptic, and consequently the change of the seasons.

2. It is the cause of the deviation of the magnetic meridian. Let us demonstrate by an experiment. In case the theory is true, a stone let fall from a tower north of the equator would fall in a southerly direction and at the same latitude south of the equator would fall due At the equator a stone let fall from a tower would fall in a more southerly direction than farther north of the equator.

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3. If true, the earth should contain the greatest ocean on its southern hemisphere.

4. If true, the velocity of the moon in its orbit should be slightly greater when south of the equinoctial, than when north of it.

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