| Show names of children tho th records of births and christenings christen ings for tho past month it Is said by those who have occasion to examine them chow enow a distinct mark of tho the columbian year this will become apparent in the school records of four or five years hence when the babies of today then master columbus and miss columbia begin to learn their letters cheso waves of A popular nomenclature sweep over she land with much regularity in their rise risa and fall the george have mostly gone to join their namesake ia in the silent land he was honored in ehla way by a generation which is past and survives Bur vives as a patron saint only among our colored population the same may be said of napoleon bonaparte and andrew jackson although wo we occasionally meet one of these william henry harrisons and john quincy adamsey we have with us still but they are now middle aged no more cables babies take these names the crop of ulysses grants and abraham lincoln is yet growing but the fashion itself has to some extent passed away md only such a case as that of the columbua Columb na celebration could revive it in the way which now appears doston boston common ire alth |
