PEPYS, THE DIARIST.
Pronouncing the Nam of the Garru
lous Old Gossip.
Lovers of Pepys often dispute over
tbe correct pronunciation of his name.
The form Peeps Is the one that has
chief authority on Its side, and it is
according to analogy in other like
spellings, such as Wemyss, pronounced
Weems. Peeps still holds good at
Cambridge and dates from its bearer's
own time. It is also retained by the
representatives of Samuel's sister, the
Pepys Cockerell family, who are heirs
to his fame and some of his property.
The late Rev. J. W. Ebsworth. an in
defatigable collector and editor of bal
lads, adopts this pronunciation in his
pleasing stanzas on "A Gossip at Dept
ford." For Instance:
The state has no servant of all whom she
keeps
Like my squab little friend, who no la
bor does shirk.
The pattern of quill driving clerks. Sam
Pepys.
A disturbing element in the discus
sion is that the branch of the family
represented by the Earl of Cottenham
pronounce the name Peppis.
No bearer of the name has ever been
known as Peps, though Ashby Sterry.
a respected member of the Pepys club,
follows this common but erroneous
pronunciation in this excellent epi
gram, published in the London Graphic
November, 1891:
There are people, I'm told some say there
are heaps
Who speak of the talkative Samuel as
Peeps,
And some, so precise and pedantic their
step Is,
Who call the delightful old diarist Pepys,
But those I think right, and I follow their
steps,
Ever mention the garrulous gossip as Peps!
Woes of Translators.
The way of translators is hard, es
pecially where African native lan
guages are concerned. Favorite Eng
lish hymns, translated for tbe benefit
of the natives, sometimes contain ren
derings not altogether faultless. "Go
labor on. spend and be spent." was
given as "Go blunder on." etc. The
most extravagant instance, however,
was the hymn. "Lord. Dismiss Us
With Thy Blessing." which the na
tives were exhorted to join fervently
'in singing. Months later tbe mission
aries discovered that what they really
had been singing was. "Lord, kick us
out. softly, softly." Glasgow Herald.
.To Meet an Emergency.
"Madam, have you any old clothes to
give away?"
' "I have a suit belonging to my hus
band, but I fear it is too big for you."
, "Oh. that will be all right. You just
set me out a square meal and watch
me eat enough so that I can fill it."
Washington Times.
Domlnccs First Played by Monks.
x ; rcamo of dominoes was the in
ve'iiion of two French monks. In the
tcginning they" found amusement by
; aying at a primitive form of it with
. ijll ttai stones they had marked
i U spots to designate them. When
i inline was finished the winner was
f t.: ,10 declare his victory by reciting
i; t fli. t line of the vesper service
' i it x i r. Dominus Domino meo." Be
lore lot all of the monks In the mon
inter. v immd recreation in the game,
und pretont'y the vesper line was cut
down, for brevity's sake, to the one
word "'Domino.'" thus furnishing the'
name which has clung. to the game
ever since ' "
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First Aid.
Speaking of the necessity for wide
spread education in first aid to tbe
injured, the St Louis Times says:
"Perhaps it will not be taken amiss
if we call attention to the obvious fact
that nine-tenths of all the trouble in
the world is due to Ignorance of cer
tain simple things. It might even Jbe
said safely that all mishaps of what-
ever kind mental, physical and spirit
ual are due to a want of experience
and training. Accidents of a thou
sand varieties, from drowning to the
taking of a dose from tile wrong bot
tle, are in a majority of cases fatal
simply because there whs not present
some one who knew what to do. In
juries which almost tear the body to
pieces are curable if the man of train
ing and experience is at, band. The
simplest injuries often prove fatai
when they are not properly attended
to, when tbe Injured person does not
get the benefit of a little simple help."
How a Great Surgeon Died.
While Bichat. the famous surgeon,
was dying of typhoid fever he turned
to an old colleague wjio was sitting1
beside his bed and said to him:
"My friend. I am lost, but it is some
consolation to know that my case is
Very curious. During the last few
days I have noticed some odd symp
toms, and 1 am studying them care
fully." "Oh, you may recover yet." said the
friend.
"That' is impossible,- replied Bichat.
"and if it were not for one thing I
would be quite willing to dla"
"What is that?' asked the friend.
"I am exceedingly sorry," answered
Bichat, "that 1 shall not have an op
portunity to perform an autopsy on
myself after my death, for I know
that I would make some wonderful
scientific discovery."
An hour later be was dead.
When the World Was Drunk.
Nowhere in all the world today c&fi
be found as many confirmed dnink
ards as there were among the Thra
clans. the Iberians, the Celts or the
Scythians. The man who didn't get.
drunk every day or two was regarded
as queer. The Greeks' were moderate
drinkers until they began to copy the
luxury of tbe Persian feasts. The Ro
mans imitated the Greeks. Then the
whole world went on a mad drunk. It
was a saturnalia. Caligula owes,yhis
niche in the hall of fame to tbe drunk
en banquets with which he made even
Rome marveL The excesses made
fashionable by such potentates as Lu
cullus. Nero, Verres. Tiberius. Caligu
la, Vitellius and Domitian really began
in the days of Pompeii, and they mark
the beginning of the end of the repub
lic. Argonaut.
Shekels and Half Shekels.
The early Biblical references to
pieces of silver do not In the original
convey the idea of coins, but of
weights, shekels. The Mosaic "obla
tion to God" was a half shekel, and
the shekel is explained by Josephus
as equal to four Athenian drachmae of
the value of about 55 cents in Ameri
can money.- Tbe first Jewish coinage
under authority was. It Is believed,
struck by Simon, the Maecabee. about
the year 140 B. C It consisted of
shekels and half shekels. This coin
age had Its value signified upon it,
"Shekel Israel," In Samaritan charac
ters. .
Honor Above All.
Believe it to be the greatest of all
Infamies to prefer your existence to
your honor, and for the sake of life
to . lose eyery tnducemgnt tp Hve.
Juvena,
