p. 1. - There is hardly anything in vogue which did not have its origin in Greek history. Some weeks ago one of our readers sent us a letter inquiring about the origin of shorthand. Our answer to him was more explicit than the Brooklyn Eagle's, which says:

"The ancient Greeks and later the Romans knew shorthand and used it freely. Each Greek word in stenography was represented by a single symbol. In the second century A. D. the Greek orator Flavius Philostratus used the symbolic figures which are the symbols of our modern shorthand. Origen, the religious orator of Alexandria, wrote his manuscripts in shorthand. Chrysostom also used shorthand."