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Be it therefore resolved, by both Houses of the General Assembly, That the 

 only true pronunciation of the name of the State, in the opinion of this body, is 

 that received by the French word, presenting the sound, and that it should be 

 pronounced in three syllables, with the final " s " silent. The "a" in each syl- 

 lable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables being 

 the pronunciation formerly universally and now still most commonly used; and 

 that the pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of 

 "a" in man and the sounding terminal of " s" is an innovation to be discour- 

 aged. T. J. Churchill, 



Approved March 15, 1881. Governor of Arkansas. 



Hon. W. G. Ritch, in his inaugural address before the Historical Society of 

 New Mexico, mentioned that the first merchandise received in the territory from 

 east of the plains came from Kaskaskia, Illinois, in 1804. This is probably true, 

 but Mr. Ritch does not mention the fact connected with this beginning 01 the 

 overland trade. In the year mentioned William Morrison, a gentleman residing 

 at Kaskaskia, who was largely engaged in the trade with the Indians on the 

 Upper Missouri, fitted out a Canadian voyager named Baptiste Lalande, with a 

 stock of goods and sent him to the Pawnees on a trading expedition. Lalande, 

 after arriving among the Pawnees, found there some Spaniards from Santa Fe, 

 and, learning from them that he could dispose of his stock there to a good ad- 

 vantage, pushed on to that place. Upon arriving there he sold the goods 

 entrusted to him and, being pleased with the country concluded to remain there, 

 at the same time appropriating Mr. Morrison's money to his own uses. In 1806 

 Lieut. Pike explored the sources of the Arkaasas, and, encroaching on Spanish 

 territory, was taken into Santa Fe. In his command was one Dr. John H. Rob- 

 inson, to whom Mr. Morrison had entrusted his claims against Lalande, but by 

 this time the latter had squandered the money and was unable to maKe restitu- 

 tion. The fact was developed, however, that there was money to be made in 

 sending goods to Santa Fe, and the overland trade began. J. 



Does science to-day sustain the conclusion of Gauss of Gottingen, that the 

 centers of terrestrial magnetism are not the so-called '' poles ? " 



Are these poles the j^laces of greatest magnetic intensity ? 



If so, would not the presence of such physical force be unfavorable to any 

 or all of the now known forms of life ? 



This being true, would not such conditions preclude the possibility of ever 

 effecting the discovery of and direct approach to the so-called poles? 



What is the scientific opinion of the theory that the discovery of another 

 continent, as great in extent and resources as any now known, will attend the 

 discovery of the " Northwest Passage?" Anon. 



