Sketcher.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 16 June 1904, Page 7

Sketcher.

; ; n , ABOUT NAMES -- •U X? SOPOUBLE, treble, and even qundruple jlrffi Christian names have been the fashion, for some time, but the first Englishman tbat: ever bore two Christian names was Henry Algernon, fifth E»rl of Northumberland, born 1477, and it is probable that he was not so christened, but took the nickname Algernon, which means ' having a moustache ' from his ancestor in the days of William Bufusi Qaeen Mary-called her godsons Antony-Maria, Edward-Maria, and so forth; and Camden says •I* only remember now his M»jesty, who was named Charles James and the Prince his sonne, Henry Frederic; and- among private men, Thomas Maria Wingfleid and Sir Thomas Posthumus Hobby. Also, the first Earl of Shaftesbury, born 1621, says in his autobiography,«l was christened by the name of Anthony Ashley/ Between 1671 and 1825 there were 2,222 students,admitted to the Inner Temple, and there, was not a double name among them. But the Court set the fashion. In 173Q, G?orge 111, was baptised George William Krederic. Oliver Goldsmith, In the ' Vicar of Wakefield,' ridiculed the growing folly by introducing'that charming and elegant person, Caroline Wihelmina Amelia Skeggs. In 1781, the oustom must have grown decided, for a Wiltshire register, contains the entry, ' Charles Caractacus Oatorius Maximilian Gnsfcavas Adolphus, son of Charles Stone,,tailor. ~

HOW FOBTUNES ABEMADE. la the South African diamosd mines the rough gems had until recently to be separated from the hard earth and other mineral substances by hand. The whole mass was dried and softened in the air; and then shovelled into washing machines, where the soluble earth was removed. Among the employes in the sorting room was a young boy, ;Oie day noticed a diamond and a garnet, both in the rough, on the end of a small board.' He tilted the board, garnet .rolled\xff„bnt the diamond stuck* fast. Looking more closely he saw that the board' was greasy. This gave him an idea. He got a larger board and tried several kinds of minerals. Invariably the other Btoties rolled off with s, shake or : two, while even a thin coating of grease kept all the diamonds in tbeiri placeß. i sThen this wideawake boy wenta to work and invented a machine that is now- successfully doing the work of diamond piokrag. for all the. Sooth African mines,, and, needless to say, the Tojnng inyenter has' iaade an, independent, fortune, just because,he kept his eyes opsnjand; his" wits about that day when he first noticed thai difference is the ' sticking qualities' of the gems, THE TUBE'S UNMENTIONABLE V..r .. wives. Although of late years, among Turks highly placed (says a writer in the 'Century'), it has coma to be considered AS far morecflle to have only one wife, yet this laudable increase in the practice of monogamy does not tend to a complete emancipation from certain well-estab-lished Moslem traditions. The mention of one's wife to a foreigner is nowadays made the easier when one may truthfully speak of her in the singular number. A Turk may, after some months of.semiintimacy, talk somewhat freely, indeed, of his domestic life, provided always his household is modelled after the European plan of life. The social line is drawn at the point of asking even a lady to call. Frequent visiting between European and Turkish wives, when these" are in the singular number, is possible only after a somewhat prolonged residence; and much friendly intercourse. sj- To the casual, visitor there- is an unexpected embarrassment in finding almost all the Tmks one meets in society married to one wife only. The singularity of this < aingleneea is aa tryisg, apparently, to the Turk, on certain occasions, as it is eminently disappointing to the European