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Newspaper Page TextNorth Georgia Times. I. R. HIX, Publisher,. GRAMMAR, ET CETERA. English, and American English . [By Prof. Richard a. Proctor.) An American friend of mine, in re sponse to the question by an English man (an exceedingly positive and dog matic person, as it chanced), “ Why do Englishmen never say ‘I guess ?’ ” re plied (more wittily than justly), “Be cause they are so positive about every thing.” But it is noteworthy that whereas the American says frequently “ I guess,” ■frequently lards his discourse with the expression “You know,” wliich is per¬ haps more modest. Yet, on the other side.it maybe noted that the “ down East ” American often uses the expres • sion “ I waut to know ” hi the same sense as our English expression of at¬ tentive interest “Indeed." Among the other familiar American¬ isms may be mentioned the following: An American who ls interested in a narrative or statement will say “ Is that so?” or simply “So?” The expression “Possible !” is sometimes but not often heard. Dickens misunderstood this ex¬ clamation as equivalent to “It is possi¬ ble, but does not concern mewhereas in reality it is equivalent to the expres¬ sion “ Is it possible ? ” I have occasion¬ ally heard the expression “Do tell!” but it is less frequently heard now than of yore. The word “right” is more frequently used than in England, and is used also in senses different from those understood in our English usage of the word. Thus, the American will say “ right here” and “right there,” where an Englishman wmuld say “just here ” or “ just there,” or simply “here" or “ there.” Ameri¬ cans say “right away” where we say “directly.” On the other hand, I am inclined to think that the English ex¬ pression “ right well” for “ very well” is not commonly used in America, Americans saj% “yes, sir,’’and “no, sir,” with a sense different from that with which the words are used in En¬ gland ; but they difference tna -• tb<> of intonation. bi-usb by a Thus, if a question is asked to which the reply in England would be simply ‘ ‘ yes ” or “ no ” (or, according to the rank or station of the querist, “yes, sir,” or “no. sir,”), the American reply would be “yes, sir,” or “no, sir,” intonated as with us in England. But, if the reply is intended to be emphatic, then the in¬ tonation is such as to throw the empha¬ sis on the word “sir”—the reply is “yes, sir,” or “no, sir.” In passing, I may note that I have never heard an American waiter reply “yessir,” as our English waiters 5®. The American use of the word “quit” is peculiar. They do not limit the word, as we do, to the signification “take leave”—in fact, I have never heard an American use the word in that sense. They generally use it as an equivalent to “leave off” or “stop.” (In passing one may notice as rather strange the circumstance that the word “quit,” which properly means “to go away from,” and the word “stop,” which means to “stay,” should both have come to be used as signifying to “leave off”) Thus Americans say “quit fooling ” for “leave off playing the fool,” “quit singing,” “quit laughing,” and so forth. To English ears an American use of the word “ some ” sounds strange—viz., as an adverb. An American will say, “I think some of buying a new house,” or the like, “for I have some idea of buying,’’ etc. I have, indeed, heard tho usage defended as perfectly correct, though assuredly there is not an instance : u all the wide range of English litera¬ ture which will justify it. So, also, many Americans defend as good English the use of tho word “good” in such phrases as the follow ing: “I have written that note good,” for “well;” “that will make you feel good ” for “that will do yon good ” and mother ways all equally mcorrect Ot course, there are instances in wind, ad jectives are allowed by custom to be used as verbs, as, for instance, “right” «***.* .to, but ......... ...... reason for substituting the adjective .£ohl.., “good” in place P of the adverb “well,” ,bo«. w„d. end equally euphomous. The use of “real” for “really,’as “real angry, “ rea 1 nice,” is, of course, grammatically hide fensible. The use of the word “elegant, for “fine” strikes English ears as strange. For instance, if you say to an American, “This is a fine morning, he is likely to reply. “It is * u elegant morning,” or, perhaps oftener, by using simply word “elegant.” It is not ft use of the word. SPRING PLACE, There are some Americanisms which seem more than defensible—in fact, grammatically more correct than our English usage. Thus, we seldom hear iu America the redundant “got” in such ’ ex P re «»ions as “I have got,” etc., etc. ^ lere the word would not be rednnd au b it is yet, generally replaced hv the luore euphonious word “gotten,' 1 now acarce 'y eV( * r heard in England. Yet again ’ we often hear in America such ex l ,re ssions as “I shall get me anew 1 ^ ^e that,” and the hke. This use of “me” for “myself” is good old English, at any rate. I have been struck by the circum¬ stance that neither the conventional, but generally very absurd, American of our English novelists, nor the conventional Englishman of American novelists, is made to employ the more delicate' but at least equally-absurd, American¬ isms or Anglicisms. We generally find the American “ guessing ” or “calcu lating ” if not even more coarsely Yan¬ kee, like Iteade’s Joshua Fullalove, while the Englishmen of American novels is almost always very coarsely British, even if lie is not represented as using what Americans persist in regard ing as the true ‘ ‘ Henglish liaccent, ” Where an American is less coarsely j drawn, as Trollope’s “American Sena- j tor, he uses expressions which no American ever uses, and none of those j Americanisms which, while more deli¬ cate, are in reality more characteristic, because they are common, all Americans using them. And in like manner, when an American writer introduces an Eu gliskman of the more natural sort he never makes him speak as an English¬ man would speak ; before half a dozen sentences have been uttered he uses some expression which is purely Ameri- ! j can. Thus no Englishman ever uses and American be recognized at ' an may once by using such expressions as “I know it,” or “That’s so,” for “It is ! true,” by saying “ Why, certainly,” for ! “certainly,” and so forth. There tire a great number of «.««. «U«hf. hm. el*—- ; «»r»v-r» u, rensne 7 *»ov”»r> .ecTmaii.,ies flvf it*a nf or American A 11 Glltl ana i x Eno-Hah liiigiisli TSn<rliab Eingiisn. : UTVIWPHOBXA. , Researches into the subject of rabies j havenot thrown much light upon the obscure and dreadful disease. It has j been demonstrated, however, that the j brain substance as well as the saliva ; contains the virus and will produce the | disease as effectively if used to inoculate j healthy animals. Matter from the j I medulla oblongata and the frontal por tiou of one of the brain hemispheres and the liquid of the brain have thus been used with success. The uncertain de velopment of the disease after inocula tion, and the variable and often very long period of incubation, have been among the chief difficulties in the in vestigation of rabies. M. Pasteur, an miinent French scientist, is now able to communicate the disease surely, and to shorten considerably the time of in cubation. His method is to inoculate directly the surface of the brain, using as inoculating matter the cerebral sub stance of a mad dog as pure as possible, In that case, it is said, the first symp toms of rabies appear infallibly in a week or two, and death ensues in less than three weeks. A NEIGHBORLY FAMILY. A family from down in Indiana moved into a house in Detroit and before night had borrowed tea, sugar, eggs, milk and kerosene from as many different neigh¬ bors. After three or four days the new family ceased to borrow promiscuously, and settled down on one particular neighbor. At an early hour in the morning a small boy appeared and said: “Say, we are out of tacks and want to put down our carpet. Ma wants to know if site can borrow a few ? ’’ A hunt was made, and the request j granted, but in ten minutes the boy re j turned, Say, and said vemmlatd : tack hammer “ we our and ma wants to borrow yours. He got it, and this time it was twenty minutes before he returned and said: »*». -S pulled her led, ...t pulling Lnowlf on that carpet. Slio wants to you won’t lend her one of your I One of the boys was sent over, bnt it j was the an obstinate vith: carpet, and back came j messenger husband home? j “ Yes; Say, ain’t what, your do want ? | you , “Well, rna’s mislaid her husband j somewhere, and she wants to borrow yours to pull one eiul of the infernal ' carpet through two doors and across a j hall.” | The line had to be fixed somewhere, and it was fixed here.—Detroit News, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 188!. 7T~ A STOUT OF “ WILL HILL.” ’ * Wild Bill was one of the “ genuine^ Indian scouts” of Gen. Custer. He was a fellow of most singular temperament, and was known on the plains as Wild Bill, albeit his actual name was James Hiekok. Wild Bill, under circumstan¬ ces of particular aggravation, shot and killed a desperado in Missouri. Years afterward, Bill became a member of Buffalo Bill’s droll theatrical company, and, in compliance with the story of the. play had to repeat every' night upoh ttle stage the killing which, as a reality had made him famons. Bill watched the first rehearsal patiently, then he went to the stage manager, “I can’t kill that thar chap, no how,” quoth Bill. “Why not?” inquired the man¬ ager. “Well,” said Bid, tranquilly. “ Buffalo slings him around in the first act, and Maeder clips him in the ear in the second act, and Mrs. Maeder drives him out of tiie ranch with a broom in the third act. Then I’ve got to kill him after all in the fourth act. Why, I nev¬ er killed such a coyote as that in my life 1 It’s all wrong, pardner 1 It’s all wrong making him out such a squaw man as all that. By goll, sir, he was the biggest gentleman I ever shot 1” Although lie carried a dozen bullets, more or less, deeply imbedded in his flesh, Wild Bill never sustained an in ternal wound. He w was killed, ,,, , while playing cards, by a scoundrel wlio, for ® rAA it olood-money t paid ., him .. . by gam biers, sneaked up behind Bill and blew' t- bis i, brains • out. . t>-ii Bill strangely i , was, ° J enough, i a very' honest , , and , courageous fdlGw, who, in his office of Marshal, wast.hetemm of ne crooked gam era of the iemtoiy. The post-mor ' em examiuatlon ot 118 remams ex " }^ b ! ^'*° d his ,uuK immunity 11 "‘ Ls from dlscov penetrative ^ ed tllat h 8 11 )s welded togetlier ’ the mter ‘ “ ^ et Ci ^ n, la lmigs ^ a ^ and heart, having therefore, os * liatuiaJly protected by a cuirass of bone. fS»Mh |J» <to4 lw ill'll Will CXI lJlll COlllU llfftW XUS iJlStoi 1 that, . the sudden ,. death which even in oefell him, he . , had , time enough , and , b ™ to put his hand upon the butt of lua _£?volvei.-- oolv Ayn sTLiEE In antiquity gold was abundant enough, and yet a pound of gold was worth rather less than it is now, say 13 j or 131 times a pound of silver. In the j middle ages there was hardly any pro- j duction of gold at all, and still it loses much of its value, for it is hardly worth more than ten times its weight in silver. After the discovery of America, at first it is gold which flows in, and yet it in creases in value so as to be worth 11 and 11J times silver, instead of 10 times, as in the middle ages. The production of silver rises from 53,000,000 to 75,000, 000 of marks between 1561 and 1600, and for all that the value of silver does not go down. From 1600 to 1700 the pro duction of silver falls from 75,000,000 to 60,000,000, while that of gold rises from 20,000,000 to25,000,000. Gold ought to have gone up and silver to have g»ne down ; exactly the contrary of this is what took place. During the eighteenth century the production of silver is tri pled, and yet its value, which ought to have gone down, goes up, and if it falls from 1785,it is because the ratio of 1 to 15 J, which Calonue established in France, increased the legal tarification of gold. During the nineteenth century, a fact more conclusive still, gold is produced in ten-fold annual quantity between 1840 and 1860, without any effect, on its val¬ ue. According to the Indian Memoran¬ dum there must have been in the world m 1850, 15,557,530 pounds troy of gold, an d 339,828,926 of silver, and in 1878 : 29,809,725 of gold and 480,506,OSO sii ■ ver. The mass of gold doubled; that of silver remains stationary, and nevertlie i e8 s gold loses none of its value. Tiiese figures prove beyond refutation the error of those who make the relative value of precious metal depend upon producrion; it is solely the effect of the law, as I have proved elsewhere. The French Minis ter of 1803, M. Gardin, has summed thi. up to . toul.u... ••The price o, the precious metals in commerce always regtdates itself according to the price of ; j n Fortni ghtly Review. Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, and one of the fieven deaaly s to 8 , the cushion upon dev jj chiefly reposes, and a cause, not only of nielauoholy, but 0 ji, cr diseases ; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it be not occn pi e <j about- honest business, it rushes j into m j 8 oteef or sinks into melancholy. HOW EAST IT IS TO VIE. If Iliad strength to bold a leu, J would write how easy and delightful it 18 to die,” were the last words of the celebrated surgeon, Wm. Hunter; and Loins XIV. is recorded as saying, with thslast breath, “I thought dying bad been more difficult. ” That the painlessness of death is Ls owing to some lienumbing influence act- ' ing on the sensory nerves may he in Ternal {erred ISoundtUg, faan the tact that untow ard ex rarciy trotmt* dying, On the day that Lord Collingwood breathed his last the Mediterranean was tumultuous; those elements which had Ijeen the scene of his past glories rose und fell in swelling undulations and seemed as if rocking him to sleep. Capt. Thomas ventured to ask if lie was <Us turbed by the tossing of the ship. No, jonia , e ansaerei , am now in a .state t m not ing tan i.-tuni iu( more lam tiring, and lam sure it must la c .iisolatorv to vou and all that love me tu see how comfortably I am coming to my end.” In the Quarter^ R. ,-;, w there isrelated an instance of a criminal whS escaped death from hanging Uv the breaking of the rope. HenrvlV „f Fiance sent his physician to examine liim, ’ who reported r that after a moment's ^ftenng.the fire across which man appeared saw an appearance a most beau- like tilul avenue of trees. When a pardon 1 was mentioned , the , . coolly prisoner re plieu that it was not worth askincr ° tor ‘ I hose who , , have , been near death , % from drowning, and afterward , restored to eon sciousness assert that that the dying Mifier but little pam tions C^it. at one Marrj time att when states neariy that his drowned sema. were rather pleasant than otherwise, ihe hlht stn, fg le tor life ouc « ovt r - * 16 water closm 8 Moimd me assumetl the appearance of waving green fields, - It is not a teeliug of pam, out tfiiDs like sinking ilowu, overuj^iv till. Cv . lli.CUdO'^. Now, tms , . precisely . . the , condition ,. is presented , ■ deafh , from disease. Iu- _ 1 in * sensuality ...... comes on, the mind - , loses o>um o tsness ot external objects, and ^ ta aspnyxia. A plucky troXAir editor. She lives in Durango, Co!., and is a woman of energy, ability and versatility. She can manage business, write politi ( . a ) leaders, climb mountains, explore mines, write a glowing account oi a danei'-g or donation party and captivate a legion of prospectors. She came liere with the Record outfit in the dead of winter, had over 100 miles of wagor ride through deep snows, one break down, necessitating a considerable walk at an altitude close upon 10,000 feet: through it all, the driver avers, she nev er u t(, re fi a complaint, but arrive-.' ai good trim, ready to assist in starting a daily newspaper in a tent on ground -j us t cleared from snow. The first num ber v , s issued Dec. 29, 1S80, and the daih has euaigei , taiii ... inns Kiuf that date and the weekly once. The Record has a large, well-stocked job office with steam presses.— Colorado Minit.r/ Journal. Maud S.'s performances during three years summed ftp as follows : A private trial of 2:171 as a 4-year-old; 2:13 J over the Chicago track as a 6-year -old, against Trinket and So-so, then and now the best trotting performance in a race agaiukt other horses; 2:11J the same yearln a time trial with St. Julian at Rochester—in which St. Julian made precisely the same time, but which he loweied a quarter of a second at Hart ford and kits been unable to beat since; 2:10} at Chicago the same season ; 2:10} at Pittsburgh, in June of this year; 2-10} at Buffalo; 2:10} at Rochester, the of her contest- with St. Juliana ^ ^ J J CTn-n' she tas put to n three vear • the lost heat 4->u . a. .1 > . 1 1 heat, as a 6-year-old; n\e mats aster • paced, one ot them t * 5 1 ’ ! the fastest heat in a race with other W: i ttnri! beats, tne - - i j ' V l j. U \ more is needed to ^ riem TiVoVVombL'd t ’ animal j J UH over anv , or ' eai '__________ T ie patent clay pigeon, wliich proven so successful since its tion as a substitute for live birds, is be ! ginning to attract, the attention eportsmeu in England as well on I continent. VOL 1 NEW SERIES NO. 42. ETIQUETTE. Civilize! society has laid down certain niles , to which all its members, cou M . ious ] v or unconsciously, conform ; an ,l the more these rule,, are observed, the kttej . claim thev ^ to refinement, As the social scale* ascends, the more definite and imperative these unwritten laws become, until in the highest circles of all they rule with a desjxuie sway. We do not , ’ i Ritual ” possess a or .< \ <;a ,iemv of Manners ” as do the ' but under the name of ^ti¬ quette we have laws equally binding. jfor are these confined to civilized na tion8 . have th-n manner., and customs, however uncivilized thev may appear to us, but it would not be thought | rie ndly, much less goA breeding, to p U u t | le fi n g erfi ot those we salute till t h ( v cru<-k, as do some negro tribes. A curious account Is told of two dusky monar clis, who, when making a visit, greeted each other bv * snapning " thr. * .• " „ ® .. ^ , t!a . ' “ “ ’ \ w f th ? 01 llmta ?°“- ^ me f ™-' : take the iianu . or loot of hitn , aC ., Y * 1 . . „i y m - o , ir • ' . - - f be rather weansome to a .u ^ monarch-wlnie others vigorous "• l> e ..... V 1 ‘ u - * son they are greeting. Ollier saint a tioM Me llr illcommodior , ' iuful md wonkl reoui - re ‘ to enable a stranger to be polite m rs, t „ , , - \ . i Herl>ert *, bpenc-er ^ has shown that there . h, nevertheless, ,, , always , a reason :-*r tljese , t e cvmtow* etiqnette is ne0eSs;trv iu roval palaces lor keeping order at cun: though iu Spain it was earned t ■ ,uch j j-^' eno *ths that it made m^rtvr< of tL i 0 ue of them was once seated bv the fireside ; the fire-maker of the court had kindled so great a quantity of wood ^ fte r<x , r monareh was b ,.* r!v suflo . (ateJ with heat , yet his dignity -•*" would ....- * % f,, n . ; __ t nor could the dona lie- presume to enter the ,t apartment, , j because it - was against . . etiquette. ,- u At ... length a courtier appeared, - and , the ,, King T - orderea , - him , to ^ the fire . bnt 1ie excllsea ilin .self, atleging that he was forbidden bv eti to perform such a function, for wliich a brother noble ought to b ,^iwi upon, as it was his business, phis nobleman was unfortunately ’ away from the palace, and the fire burnt j ercer; yet the King endured it radier ^Ris dignity. The result was that his majesty became heated to such a degree that fever set in the following n ud lie died a martyr to the rales 0 f etiquette. - -------- get. UAZEX’S EXTURTEXCr WITH A WOUXD. ■‘It was during the Indian fight in 1859,” said the General. “ I was then a Lieutenant, and during a charge I was shot with a revolver in the bands of a redskin. The savage was about ten feet from me. The shot struck me in the middle of the left hand, and, passing through, entered mv abdomen, passing e j can through and lodging in the ^ muscles of my back. The ball carried \ away part of the rib, and the same feat ure noticed in the President’s wound followed—the high intermittent fever ! and increase of pulsations, the formation ’ of pockets, and the irritation caused pus 1 by the shattered Lone. I had to raider : go the same operation lor the removal of the splintered bone, and the incisions to ; give an opening for the pus. The j wounds lieaied, that in my hand, how ; ever, giving me the greatest trouble, it j being eighteen months before I could j use it at all. The bail never troubled me until fifteen years after. In 1872 I 1 fell on the ice. aud the cyst inclosing the ball broke, and it began to gruvi j fate. I noticed a severe pain, but did not imagine it was the ball, until it be | came so unbearable that 1 was com- 1 worlc loured It grew and and almost ; exomciatiug agony. It lodged again so : . lomoriU that ! ‘ ; uerves lm ‘ , , , . . : ng it eg pm-.uy.. , am was mu | ““IT, | ball ceased , to trouble \ , and , it . . , me. .. '*'*’“*■ “P.vT,”saia a gentleman who is | °* us ’ n 8 high-sounding pffiraseology his man-of-all-wark, “I am going town at 10 o'clock, and shall weed the cucumber beds in the “Interim?” tliought Pat. “ That’s I mighty quare name for a garden, how!” “Is Mr. Smith at home j asked a visitor who called shortly | in ward. his interim “Yis, sorr; there ye’ll lieyaut,” find him at | Pat. i PLEA SAS TRIES. A robber’s cave—A burglar’s confes¬ sion. Oabsmes have to have pretty long arms when they hug the shore. “Let’s strip the light fantastic toe," said the chiropodist to his patient Whex you find yourself with wife and .youfc mother-in-law, to whom ! should you give your arm ? An Irishman tells of a woman who ' ; was s.j ciuss-c-yod that she put her spec¬ tacles on the back of her head. A certain musical critic is so full of I music that he finds it impossible to eat I his meais save with a tuning fork. The average woman is composed of 213 bones, 169 muscles, 1 pair garters, 22 old newspapers and 210 hair-pins, A Michigan chiropodist offers to chirop with any man for 3100 a side. If beaten he will acknowledge the com. The higher you are lifted by the re marks ° f a thfe ; feel when you come down to the truth a(ra *° fn Going to the root of the matter when a dentist extracts an rt>ld fang. faring the crown-When he files the top of a tooth. A jawbreaker—The for ^ loc can t.both eat your cake and have it ,—Ancient Proverb. No; ’ but you can take , your drinks , and , have t em _} iave » em ^ a j — Washington ^ Critic. ■ A xelephone-operator, when asked ! to say grace at a dinner, horrified the 1^. a fit of absent-mindedness, bowing his head and shouting, ‘Hello! hello :* 5 An English girl writes that no man will stare long at a woman who does not stare back. That sounds very well, but if she does not stare back how is she to , knmy j whether the manrias * 4 ^ .■ ■■. —• « A comet never wags its tail in token of welcome , to me . telescopes , , numerous r pointed * , at it bv • astronomers. Prof. Muddiehead ,,, , , infers . . from tim ... that comets . are not inhabited, and that their tail. are not ntilia d in flv time. You can tell a new paragrapher inquiri in a miEl , t<? vjy, ^ if ** Dr ' ioke-^m< ffral-vhabet T , . r c9i .. e xbb " 01^2 "v To --i.-tphi- te 'XCmtten.- and ! primer “pC-'us?* *' * v> . H■ ■ •<■*•■■■ ‘‘How fiknelet taat =m xe goes up, tenanted Job Snatoe tms ^morning, “ Tvs, it dues, reph..-„ me olue-i boy. , and they Ixnn retued to auu.v ihe puns time to crystalline on the tragi ant air. _Vw Haven Register. Yor frequently hear of excitable peo¬ ple being transported to the seventh i heaven by a little temporary happiness. ! A day after they would give anything in the world for a certainty of being able to make a landing in the first ; lieavem : j CURIOUS SOCIAL ECCEXTBICIIT. ‘ A London correspondent, dining at 0 the house of a wealthy manufacturer, was astonished to see the hostess take ! au apple and the daughter an orange, and, having removed the skin of both. j cut them into small pieces. The head butler handed them around on separate plates to the various guests, each taking his or her diminutive share. The idea suggested, that economy was being ; carried to meanness, was dispelled by the alacrity shown by the host in bring ing, later on, from his cellar, bottle j after bottle of wine, grown in vineyards during exceptionally favorable years. The Cleveland Leader wishes to know what the revolver has done for i mankind that its crimes should be-oon '^ned. denounces the weapon as the-en emy of peace and good order, and calls !ov tl'v enactment of a law for the sup. l^ion of the pistol habit. This pro posed ^ should be so formed as to prohibit the purchase of revolvers or d ea dlv weapons except bv per¬ ‘ authorized bv permit to bnv the authority de<dsnated MaX ^1 bv law o7^oii“ sav in o ot the State the Judges of the inferior | courts. The sale of weapons,the Header i proposes, shall be farther restrained by j fesoiug permits only to well-known and : law-abiding citizens, and those allowed ' to purchase them for house protection should guarantee not to carry their i pistols on their persons. Any plan that looks to the abolishment of the practice j of aged, carrying and this weapons should Ire be encour- feasible seems to a one.

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North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891, October 19, 1881, Image 1