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North 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.
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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.