"The Southern Religious Telegraph" was publishing an impassioned address to Kosciusko; standards were being consecrated for Poland in the larger cities; heroes, like Skrzynecki, Czartoryski, Rozyski, Kaminski, were choking the trump of Fame with their complicated patronymics.

Mr. Smith seems to us well worth knowing as the type of a great class of Englishmen,that class to which the author of "School-Days at Rugby" gives the comprehensive patronymic of Brown,a class bold, honest, energetic, not too affectionate, not too intellectual, perhaps, but, by virtue of their strength of hand, head, and will, and their inborn honesty of soul, the masters in some important respects of all the men that live.

Yet we know that for centuries past such names have been numerous in Ireland, and there are many Irish families so named who are of as pure Celtic blood as any bearing the old Gaelic patronymics.

His name is not to be derived from sordidus, but from Surdus, a not uncommon patronymic in North Italy during the thirteenth century.

FOR SPORT!A well-known chartered accountant, with a vulpine patronymic, complains of the unkind treatment he recently received in Cologne at the hands of the German police.