Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — A Master of Many Languages. [ARTICLE]

A Master of Many Languages.

John Fiske, the historian and oollege professor, is well versed in languages. When only 18, besides hie Greek and Latin, he could read fluently French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German, and had made a beginning in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon,. Icelandic, Gothic, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Sanscrit. A ooERF.sroNDENT asks; “How ought temperance fanatics to be treated?” You ought never to treat them &t &1L— Boston Post.