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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1882)
‘ V\ - / f 12 • i / *.* ? ■ i.' 5 / ■ ■ * u/ » --------- . ;■-//' / I • * * • ”/ / / - -, . ' ••••.. ' --'i / ' ‘ ' ' CHRISTIAN HERALD. ♦ • > TT l Educational Department. I once living near its mouth, and af Kansas is named front itsTprinci- extraordinary amount of elasticity terward driven into the interior. pal river. — .Teai-hrti»; pchocil-offlcors and frjends of Èdn- «* * The latter is named from which is available for .tightening' Iowa is na'ined frorSthe river of the-tribe of Indians Called the Kon- machinej yy helcing on pulleys. As rXTin fruiii all. parts of J he. Pacific Coast are invited to contribute to this Department ; dia- that name, and tlu* river from th a yas, who live upon its shores. fact , illustrating' .a. this statement, ■_<«- the ■■»*.•. rnSsions, essaya, proceedings educational., Ioway Indians, who, after many ; is shown- that a piece of chromo Colorado is named after the i meetings, queries, A-e. Address, .Monmouth, ' Oregon. . J migrations, settled, on its banks. great Rio Colorado,-which rises in leather bore' an ultimate stress of In the AHaat'tc Monthly it is infi the Rocky Mountians and falls 3,297.pounds per square iiich, while . * Names of the States. > mated that Ioway is' contracted into the Gulf oj California. The a piece of bark leather only bore an £ . • * i .____ • from Ah hee-oo-ba, meaning “sleep- name signifies in Spanishruddy,” ultimate stress*of 2,672 pounds per ORIGIN AN15SIGNIFICANCE. ers. ‘‘ blood red,‘',jnk„a;seciAldn,T^ "* T l'exas, tormerly ^panisiT- territd ry - colored, in allusion to the color the lam pie of chromo-tanned leather - ‘ (Conti n tied front last v'cek.) then Mexican, and later an inde of its water’s. to be stronger than thebarktaimed - . . ' r> ■ . J iidi,-ina- derives-its .name from pendent; State, is,the only State ac Alississipph is named'Tfftrr-the ~by/sDme fifteW^er cent, N. JT. one of the old ante-revolutionary quired by annexation. There-is a great river. Mr. Atwater, a mem land’ companies wdiich had claims cohiiict^oX opinion over its ljame. ber of this society, gives ;the .Indian —Herr A. Gentjlli, or Vienna, ■ ’ dn that region. ~~"■ c Johnston^ACyclopiedia states that name ol tim river Meesysec-pee, has invented an instrument—named Illinois is iiamed from its prin,ci- “■ it is now proved conclusively to “ the great water.”. “That the In lìy him .the. glossograph consist- . . . . . . ¿- - ' _ - ’ • —-“rpa1 rivcTgrtfrr“TTThiois. The ' ri ver be an Indian derivation, the gener dian' word signifies the ’■‘/Tatliei’ of iiigof an ingenious combination.of’ is named from the confederacy of ic titk- of numerous tribes km .delicate'Je^tfrs and blades which, , ’ isrurroheous.’. '• dndian /trdje» called the Illinois to Sallé on his visit in 1G85/’- Gn piaceli irpon t he tongue and lips and <Confederacy, which had its seat in Seale’.^'map, 1704)^ the center of the : . Science Notes. tinder the nostrils-of the .speaker, "" tho Ccnti.it part (.FtlicState. CFalla- to rritory , i s occupTcd by dndians —The invention of .fire-pioof- af --viIirnted’by;the hiovements/of _ tin gives the definition of the word called the Tcxas, which lnay-bc the. papers seems to leave no excuse for tly !/i;)H'-r and the breath Mowing J lirhnW-^Mixvl'm c n/‘snpojiur-men, A | generic-title referred to' But Air. the destruction.'by lire of public ii/'ni tlie latter.’ The ’fibration is from tire word, Ledo, Lcni, Jilin, Bryant, in his “ lli-slory of the records and other valuable inaiu.i i trail initted to pencils, which trans- Illini ,’as it is variously written. I nit -e d- States/ s ay s-:— “ 11 is sup-~ scripts, ‘ cril.'C the Several'signs produced by. : Lampan, in bis, “ Red Book of posed that-the name Texas 4k-from A U experiment lai !><•. u made •ITie action of the tongue and lips /At ieh'igan, /derives-"tlie name trf the . Spanish Tejas^ iii"a11nsron to bica-th- from the ..nostrils between Melbourne aïid Alburv 'amtTTTe “-that State liMíTAhé Indian-word < ... ' r , the covered houses,” fdrfnd by La which shows tli.it ordihaev . I • I- uppn a xtxtp ()| paper moved by a _ Michsauycgan, signifying Lake . Salle on his visit in_ l<>85, - * ; Country? ... Johnsthn’s Cyclopaedia _The name' Florida is a matter of graph wires win, fol- a distance of ii^ciiajjica! iti-iangement. Similar derives the name from the Indian I geiu'ial agreement among historiair» 200 miles, serve 4a eiirv * f. p to horthand a special systein of ÂS Î;.iiitM’. v'i. lK -’l HHIV l i t l i t l^y tmi l TClt £AJL1- -i n—XA 1 .-I . i . ‘*® ’<T — h-Mitelli. S hi igvein -- . ___ . V» ___ • o T~~;t or} of I'mi c e, dir^o ir sai l ing- phomc m< ssa^i: .l_:— C J lie latest impi'ovi in. ot in j ghx. .¿.grapliV. is produced, based .Lake < 'Ountry. 1 regard tjiia^is a I to the West in 1512 in search of jfk telegraphy is a imchanfeil <b \iU.-: upon the. principle (if syllable c^n- • - 1 ' ouesti' hifblc del ivatioh. .'There ■T * are the fountain of youth,' scci-irg land -an- i combinat ion of 'cdtfT * /~7 r hereby 7X-tyf.e-X^Mtm^WT^'p/bi't/ s- ,._good -tor svoppoHin;; .4 Idti Pascua Florida or I on rlowery •that >late derived its name from I Easter,' and on account of its pro connected by ii AV.ii'- -v iii. , i;. ihg •sHrrkrt f. ' V . • Lake Michigan-and .not from its' fusion of flowers naming.it Florida, instrument y.t apothi i- n<i ■ wiit Weather Report. . out any nicssage ’ ’ s''hK' w.iJt, wifh .. being nearly enclosed by lakes, ’ is familiar to all. J/iii in?/ Alav, 1882,_ thore were v -- ¡le- li. uiF Wisconsin was named after its The name California ’appears to out the interwntrnn 7 days during which rain folk and ~ yirineipu trrvwr—I ntd-quite recent— be tukeiilrom a Spanish romance, telegraph opciator. A^c, .n w'Lo’ J 51 in. of water, 14' clear and 10 -h. rim „k called the j -(.»s Scigus <R '¡¿i.laudia... ”i Hl can use a type-writer^anwsTnd^T^ cloud ydkyT othTT~~thait--thojie-.on < ^uiiconsin', which is said to mean whipliis described * Um great is own message.- C'/tH-ioyo 1 ijfmtit. which rain fell. ’ . ’ The English wi igL-t.s and irn.a- “ westward llniying. -Ouis is evi land of California where a great ■ I he. mean temperature for the dently .-’ Ib.itened fr«m the French abundance of gtfd amL.pieçious suicb in common -nic. rti m:<rl ■ t re- ports or agricultural produce a.re rrr*»dh wa - .’>3 35. 11 igh/ t -daily ■** “.Oil' st.' Mt. Schoolcraft says that 1 stones is'found,” - ratin e for tire month • > f • I mean ". localoy was given irr the Atgdh- Nevada’takes its name from thei thus defim.d : A im <,* iraw • >b ■ 70 .ou the ¡1st, • L > w est Mail y -quin 1 y.’in--,'.meaning at, ip, or Sierra Nevada Mountains, 'which pounds ; a truss of old' hay, >m< an Lmpci ivtuiv 12 on tlie—V by .a e, | .cmis ¡ng. The name is line its western frontier, the lnOiin- pounds,; a truss of gtw hav co? w Thirty six tin tin- -'. • t-i.-l, i Jfth. Mean temperature fqj" the ’j'ruiiaby of-mixed origin.- 'tains hi their turn being named pounds. Thirty-six- month at 2- o’clock/ / P. M. 65.30. c « ■ Ti.i name Lmii>iana, now confin- from the Sierra Nevadas of Grana- tute a load. . < )nc -.’tone <4 tmf<,-_h. i I' '-di1 I tt.-mp» ra Lu re for the month cd t'j Stat ol .liiatjfnion, w’iis Olig- (da, whioh-they-^-«aid tr> resemble _meftt Js_ 8 puni d-.__ A ll ‘iiadiiiary ' ■'• I lit 2 vclock it St. on th(^22iid. „ iriaJy* v< n t’» (he entire French 1 in the serrated line-of the summits summits. stone is 11- pounds, a quarter i :. S I 4 > V» temperature 30 at 5 o’clock i ".s>cs.-K ns on the west bank of the Minnesota-in named fiurn the pounds, a hundred-weight i, fmn oq the 8th. ”, ■ /• ■ . Al i."i«;'ippi by- La Salle, in 18G2, Minnesota or Sr. Peter’s river, the quarters, or 112 pounds, a busuel. of Ernsts nccirrred on the 8th and”, In lgnor of Louis XI \ .principal tributary to tlie Mississ flour 5G pounds, a sack of- Hwir?w -Oih. . t Arkansa- takes it name from its ippi within its limits. The Indian five .bushels, is 280 pounds. lu dry The prevailing winds for the ■piincipad river ; the river from' the word is Mini-sotah, signifying measure three huslu I- < quad one. uioixth were from the Soli th .during iribe ’of Indians formerly living “slightly tu0>id water/ or as Min sack; of grain fopr-Lu-LM : tw>-’< niear its month. Till quite a recent nesota historian more fancifully sacks equal one chaldron ; right G dayBT’ 'Southwest 4 days, Sorth bushels or two sacks equal one I 8 days i Northwest 2 days, West ■pi riod the river was called Arkan- puts it, “ sky-tinted water/ -Nebraska'is ntimed from the quarter, and five quarters equal oik I day.. >a:^and the tribe the I Arkansas Urfi iiig M,ay, 1881, there were” G •tribe. Mi Schoolcraft says that braska liver. A writer in the load. —Ch icikjo TiineK. 7i"th th ■ names,.Arkansas and Mis- < A or th' AniertCd.ii- lociev:, on “ the Experiments_blipw that il;u- rainy day s-and 1.01 in. of-water, 17 tout i embrace aboriginal lxiots, but | Missouri Valley,” says’the- Word is new chromo leather ^the result of e' ar and 8 cloudy days.’ Mean •v. eheah' the sounds as modified by i Indian, ^pd is compounded of nee thé new tinning pi,oce>’> l»v l-ic'in>- tempe rature for the month, 53.87 . “river, and bask,- a “ shallow/ niate ol potash excecii.-; m tensile- IL_jile t daily, GG on the 18th»- j Tcncli orthu py and enunciation. Missom i was named from the _ Mr. Hale says thy fíame undoubted- strength ' thé ’ barkfiiPïFd art .ijc 1- w- t daily-f IS on the lOtli” artd 28(11. , . ' river<jf that/name, and the river r lyTcfers to the flatness of the coíin- j ■also, that after it, hus’.-d-t under tht at-'.-l!' from the Misijouris, a tribe1 p.cciis..ary dress, it ,-f ill retail.- mr i -- — * rr ~r------- 7 • ■ *■ -, • a ,',- ! i I -J' -1.