July is so called from Julius, who was also named Caesar, which in Punic means elephant. Hence intending tourists do now pack their trunks. Julius deserved a month to his name, for he reformed the calendar, and set the almanack by the sun so cleverly, that things have have gone on ever since much as he left them. But the Astronomer Royal who put J.C. up to all this was one Professor Sosigenes, of Alexandria, of whom scholars only hear, while his master gets all the credit of the scientific operation. Mr.Punch now sets that matter straight, and ordains, that instead of the year being called the Julian year, Caesar shall be content with his July, and the annual period shall be called the Sosigenean year. Remember the name by sausages.
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