RANDOM READINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 430, 29 November 1918, Page 4

RANDOM READINGS.

AX ANCIENT SiL\ hi:. COIN

A coin \\l)ii-u i> iegardeil a.i th< id• i; : rhwot Id v.* as re ceutly ni-covered by an archaeolo girl during hi • > Novations in Nortl Syria. It is n coin oi' pure silver icr a p.'-! feet Aramean in-'criptior of Par.ammu Bar Herub, King o: Srhanid. v, 1 a i. ienetl SOO years B.C l"n ;o the time I his coin was unearth ed I.ydaii ■ liatl always been re garded as she inventors of money, bu; ihi- !ind showed that ihe Semitic A;ani^anwho lived two uries before 'he Lvdinns. art- the oldest known makers of money, tiikke scitaris. There are ihree places named Sciiimii —one :n Albania, one opposite to Con fnnnnop'e. and one in Southrrn (J recce. li is curious that each name conn - from a uii!< rent or iginal form. Th- 1 Creek Scutari is otherwise Scatari; the Albanian one i- the lllyrian Scodra; and the Asiatic one i.s the Turki-h l.'skudar. This last means a courier carrying royal orders from station 10 station, and commemorate the 'if f li : place. the ancient Chry.-opolis. or ('i:y of Cold, was ilh' s; : n. ;m' .f the Asiatic couriers. Api men.t la not ace. The diiiieuhies oi' the English language are ell illustrated in the fol- ■ lov.ing (i< iuiiiioii j,ivt ii of a sleeper: A sle per N thai i:: vl.i«-:i tho sleeper Sleeps. lei p;• is tint o:i which th'"s! ,•,• : • .vliile the ; i . per sleeps. i in i t-ioi e whiie the :,l<-eper Sleeps iii the sleeper. ilm ' ei ; , r carries the s'.eepf-r ever the sleeper under the sleeper until 'in- pep . v.iiieh carries the sleeper jump the sleeper and v.akes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the cjier ~a the slei per. and there is no longer any sleeper sleeping in isie. pei i n ih - -deeper. SIIAKKSI'I-: \HE'S BEXIT vt'TOKS. Of the- millions who keep Shakespeare's memory pr .11 to-day. how n ar.v have e-. ». h ard I Vminge and Ciindei'? Ve'. < , !ii.labors e' the. e i . j. piuVeis w n'.ve the il: st alt- in;;-, i.) give the world a complete « .i■ ■ it..i oi' Sli.il;. spe.iic's plays. No colle-. ten edition of the pet's work was issti-d ia i,L, li.'.-iiai.-. nor did many of tlie phn s even liud their way to print, until .lohn !l -minge and litrv ('end M. S' -; 1 ■ p-env's intimate friends and loihr.v-af rs. took th" task of publication in hand. disclaiming "ata". L.i < ; .. r «»•' selfepi..tit or !::!!••• ei i 1 ::! i" ■ t';e desif !i." ami I eint mov id ■■ .> ... by desi: • • "til keep" ii. ' ||. 1 Ot Sll worthy a ii'i- ' 1 ! e a Was OUr Si.;. !>.--pe,i|'e." ami: I< AN Ml!.?.'<»V > iiti:s. The fashion of v. ho'-.- ale money giving .lurine 1 : >. a- • ! .tinci from legacy-. L if: a' d«'sr!i. ia • io lie c0:.1ic...l r:: ;o i ,li : !y io tie; | ie;.:! iai!!l jr.! ...!'- •d;:• ir ati'. born. It .v.. - ii.".' in IS " by Mr. (leorge I'oabody, an At erican banket and merchant d«>inic'ke in C-eut I'eiiain. who gave a. mi lion stifling for the I.- i>er lions in_ of the woikers of i.-iiidon. Such a ift novvaaa... vv.:..i •.. • no mere than ;i lipph. of e\;eeeim-nt. bin at that tint" millionaires were no: so coiiiinun as i!iev iia.e .-- i: n• ■ become, and millionaire phifintfro-pi.-ts were pt adi<•Jit'l\ unknov. n. Pea boey's !iam ■ vas on eve; . :.->dy - li[i . (Jn. i n Vict nia sen l him an an; jgtaph letter of thanks, in <hori. he leaped io fume in an hour and by a single act. His, n;::ae is per peltiated io :li day in i •indoii by the blocks of vvo; knieifs dwellings nai.:ed after him. and in .vmi-tii a by the model tow ii of i'cabod... in Ma -- sachuseiH. which he found, d A SI'IKLD MOt'NTAIX. One of the mo-t remarka'de geological freaks in Mexieo is a mountain situated near Pa-huen. vvhic'i present-; <he appearance ,m a distance of being covered with .-pikes. Tic side- of the mountain ;it• • cheeh siud.i.d ith stone columns or p;.'i •. : The-e columns are r.ji. to iL'ft. lonu- and as large around as. an ave:-;iee niaa's (body. It is a remarkable uplift of Nature wiiicli has tin- ;ipp. aiaeee. however, of being the handiwork o' human beings. One side of i:e- nioaii tain i.s almost perpendicular and '.be stone columns protrude from tie- surface at right angle.-, torniinu an impressive picture. Pachucn is one of the tno-t noted mining districts in Mexico, and it is , said by geologists that this f markable spiked mountain is out of keeping with the remainder of the formation of the mineralised region. The stone is as hard as (lint, and litis withstood the elements for ages. spikes form a natural battlement makes the mountain appear from distance like some ancient fort. mines of the I'aclrucn iii-1 are luated not far from liii- vv freak of Nature, hut the lorniatien Countered in their re.-peciiw mi proiind workings is of an entirely fereni kind from tli.it of tin- pali.-ade.^B