VOL. Ill, No. ]8. CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.

VOL. Ill, No. ]8. CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.

WOODRUFF, COX & CO., GENERAL AUk;NTS. ~: ntered at the Post Office Itt Cincinnati. 0., as second·class. mail matter. T ERMS ' {TEN CENTS PER COPY . VOL. IlL, No. ]8. CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885. , . $3.00 per Year, in Advance. GENERAL GRANT. Holland'-:the ancient Batavia, a war­ Prussia, from P euzal, a Sclavonic race; and their chariots were their only habi­ like ' people-was so named from the but some writers supposed it took its tations. The first page of the GlIAPHIC this German iword "h'ohl," the English of name from Russia, and the Sclavonic Turkey took its name from the Turks week presents a reproduction by one of which is hollow, implying a very low syll able, po, which means adjacent or or 'l'urcoll1ans, which signifies wander­ Cincinnati's best engravers of a photo­ country. The inhabitants are called near. ers, and originally belonged to the Scy­ gr.aph of General Grant, pronounced by Dutch, from the German "deutsch" or Denmark means the marches, terri­ thians or Tartars. It is sometimes himself and his most intimate friends the "teutsch." tories or boundaries of the Danes. called the Ottoman empire, from Othman, best he has ever had t"ken. one of their principal leaders. The original is the pr.'p.,I·ty of Ho n. Enoch T. Carsun, of' WHAT SHRUBBERY this city. General Grant gave WAN'l'S. it to Mr. Carson in May, 1872, about the time he re­ "With our present me­ ceived his P residential nom­ thods, what is wanted to ination for the second time, bring back the shrub to its and stated then that it had proper position on the lawn," been taken in the Depart­ says a well-known horticul­ ment at Washington, and was the truest photograph turist, "is, at least, when young, free, loose ground. he had ever had. Mr. Car­ son was in 'Washington on a If this interferes with the regulation lawn," adds that financial mission to secure gentleman, "fringe the bor­ an additional appropriation for . the local post-office. ders of the shrubbery with hardy perennials of low 8aid Mr. Carson to a GlIAPHIC growing character, but by representative, " I have all means keep the grass known the General since 1861, and the picture is about roots out and the mowing machine man away from the the only good one of him I branches. Treated thus, all have ever seen." the stronger shru bs will The publication of the dis­ make a vigorous growth, and tinguished invalid's portrait is especially opportune . at when they have arrived at the smothering age, and can this time, as his sixty-third compete with thfl grass, birthday on Monday last was sometimes it !nay pay to the oeca~ion of a great re­ forsake the border and form joicin g throughout the coun­ a belt. It will be the grass try. In Cincinnati the dem­ that will usually suffer then. onstration was especially Finally, if anyone wants to noteworthy. There was an see what a shrub requires, immense and very enthusi­ astic crowd at /]'urner Hall let him go to a good nursery, and our word for it, if the and the nddresses were m08 t ground is kept loose and heartily applauded. friable, the weeds eradicated, and each plant given room OHIGIN OF NATIONr\ L to spread its branches, he NAMES. will find a perfectly sym­ metrical growth of luxuriant Irelan(l, which .f u Ii u s branches; and if this treat­ CoosaI' first called Hibernia ment is continued, the shrub -is a modification of Erin, will go on in the same way, or the co untry of the west. a thing of beauty and a Scotl and, from Scotia, a credit to any place, large or tribe which originally callie S\lln,U." from Ireland. It was an­ ciently called Caledonia, EDl'l'lONS OF SHAKES­ which means a mountainous PEARE. countrv-forests and lands. Portugal, the ancient Lu­ The position which Shakes­ silania, was so named from peare occupies in universal a town on the j'iver J >ouro, literature is evidenced by the called Cale, opposi te to number of editions of his which the inhabitants built works which have been col­ a city called Porto or Oporto. lected in the Free Library at And when the co untry was Birmin gham. At the end of recovered from the 111001'8, 1884 it contained 6,734 vol­ the inhabitants combined the umes, of which the English, words and called it the including 228 editions of the Kingdom of Portucale­ complete works of Shakes­ hence Portugal. peare, formed 3,877 volumes, Spain, the ancient Iberia, the German 1,847, French fr om the river Iber'ius; 01' 492, Italian 147, Russian 62, llispania, from the Phoeni- Dutch 85, Hungarian 45 cian Saniga, which signifies Spanish 31, Swedish 33' abounding with rabbits- Danish 29, Polish 22, Boh e ~ which animals are very nu- mian 20, Greek 14, Icelandic merous in that country- 5, Portugese 5, Croatian 2 hence Spain. F risian 2, Hebrew 2, Latin 2' Frallce, from the Franks, Flemish 1, Roumanian l ' a people of Germany, who Roumeli an 1, Ukraine l' Wallachian I, and Welsh conquered that country. Its ULYSSES S. GRAN'l'.- Sl XTY-THREE YEARS OLD LAST MO NDAY 1: ancient name was Celta, The library possesses a copy Gaul or Galia, Barechatta, of the folio of 1623, a few of the latter signifying striped F ROM A PORTRAIT PRESENTED TO I-ION. E. T. CARSON, CI~C I K~AT I. the original quartos, and the ,breeches, which were worn splendid seri es of hand-fac- by the natives. Sweden al:d ~or~!}'y. we re anciently Hussia is the ancient Sarmatia, which simile copies by Mr. Ashbee, which Dr. Switzerland, the lm cient Hel vetitt was call ed Scandll1avJa, ~\Ch the modern has bee n subserluently named Muscovy. Halli well Phil.lips is ~ u e d in forty-eight so named by the Austrians, who called antiquarians think means a country and It derives its present name from Russi, volumes, and III so llllllted an issue that the inhabitant8 of these mountainous woods which have bee n · bUl'l1ed or de­ a Sclavonic tribe who fo unded the Rus­ probably not twenty co mplete sets are countries Schweitzers. stroyed. The a.ppellation, Sweden, is sian mo narchy. T he origin al savage no w to be found. Italy received its present name from derived from Sintuna or Suitheod ; the inhabitants used to paint their bodi es in a renowned prince called Italus. It was native term N OTway, 0 1' the northem order to appeal' more terrible in battle. Church music is easy to a choir. called Hesperia, from its western locality. way, explaining itself. They generally li Ye d in the mountains The type-righter-- the proof-reader. THE CINCINNATI GRAPHIC. VOLUME III, No. 18. THE CINCINNATI GRAPHIC. HON. GEORGE H. PENDLETON, the new ings that have been eye-sores to tourists JUDGING from the reports that are Minister to Germany, was tendered for .years will disappear under the new received by the National Board of Health, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. -BY- another brilliant reception at New York, regime and the only attempt at park at Washington, extensive preventive O. O. HALL & CO., -on-'l'uesday, by Le friends of Civil Ser­ making will -be to allow nature to have measures against cholera are being made Rooms 7 and 8, Hammond Building, N. E. Cor. vice· Reform. Mr. George William Curtis bel' own course_ The property to be re- throughout the country, with the possible Fourth and Vine Streets. presided and amongst those present were served consist/? of Goat, Bath, Bird, Luna, exception of Cincinnati. In some of the many of the most noted men of the TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Chapin and the Three Sisters Islands states, the house to house inSpection is country. The affair was given at Del­ and small ones adjacent; the bed of the being adopted, while many of' the large Tbe postage on all subscriptions by mail is pre­ paid by the publishers. monico's and was the most important of river between these islands and the New cities through their health authorities THE CINCINNATI GRAPHIC will be fur­ nished to subscribers, by carriers, every Saturday, the year. 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