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Yea#; . latest and small "lariy AiiowErrat enongj I ORGAN. ^ Price $22. BABY ORGAN ROBEET A, MASSEY, Editor & Proprietor. TWINKLE, 1 WINKLE LITTLE STAR.” $1-00 prAnn n- VOLUME III. DOUGLAS VILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1881. NUMBER 80. GRAMMAR, ET CETERA. English, and American English* [By Prof. Richard A Proctor.] An American friend of mine, in re- »ponse to the question by an English man (an exceedingly positive and dog matic person, as it chanced), “ Why do Englishmen never say ‘I g-uess?’” re- ! plied (more wittily than justly), “ Re- i cause they are so positive about every- ; thing.” But it is noteworthy that whereas ; the American says frequently “I guess,” j meaning “I know,” the Englishman as ; the ! per- modest. Yet, on the other side, it maybe noted that the “down East ” American often uses the expres • sion “ I want to know ” in the same sense as our English expression of at tentive interest “Indeed.” Among the other familiar American isms may he mentioned the following: An Ameiican who is 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 me;” whereas in reality it is equivalent to tho 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 “fight” 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 would 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 say, “yes, sir,” and “no, sir,” with a sense different from that with which the words are used in En- | gland ; but they mark the difference of Sense by a difference of intonation. Thus, if a question is asked to which the j reply in England would, be simply j “yes” or “no” (or, according to the rank ] or station of tile querist, “yes, sir,” or “no, sir,”), the American reply would b£v‘yes, sir,” or “no, sir,” intonated as with ns in England. But.' ^if the reply is intended to be emphatic, their the in tonation is such as to throw the empha sis on the word “sir”—the reply is “yes, sir,” or “no, sir.” Iii passing, I may note that I have never heard an American waiter reply “yessir,” as our English waiters d®> Tire 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. Ad American will say, “I tBink some of buying a new house,” or the like, “for I have some idea of buying,” etc. I have, indeed, heard the usage defended as perfectly correct, though assuredly there is not an instance hi all the wide range of English litera ture which will justify it. So, also, many Americans defend as good English the use of the word j “good” in such phrases as the follow- j ing: “I have written that note good,” for “well;” “that.wilt make you feel good,” for “that will do you good,” and in other ways all equally incorrect. Of course, there are instances in which ad jectives are allowed by custom to be used as verbs, as, for instance, “right” for “rightly,” etc., but there can be no reason for substituting the adjective “good” m place of the adverb “well,” which is as short a word, and at least equally euphonious. The use of “real” for “really,”as “real angry,” “real nice,” is, of course, grammatically inde 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 an elegant morning,” or, perhaps oftener, by using simply the word “elegant.” It is not a pleasing use of the word. There are some Americanisms which seem more than defensible—in fact, grammatically more correct than our English usage. Thus, we seldom hear in America the redundant “got” in such expressions as “I have got,” etc., etc. Where the word would not be redund ant, it is yet generally replaced by the more euphonious word ‘‘gotten,” now scarcely ever heard in England. Yet again, we often liear in America such expressions as “I shall get me anew book,” “I have gotten me a new dress,” “I must buy me that,” and the like. This use of “mo” 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 blit 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 Reade’s Joshua Fullalove, while the Englishmen of American novels is almost always very coarsely British, even if he is not represented as using what Americans persist in regard ing as the true “Henglish haceent.” Where an American is less coarsely drawn, as Trollope’s “American Sena tor,” he uses expressions which no American ever uses, and Hone of those Americanisms which, wteSs 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 En glishman 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 can. Thus no Englishman ever uses and an American may be recognized at" once by know true,” ( ( great a English limit o pm oma . Researches into the subject of rabies have not thrown much light upon the obscure and dreadful disease. It has been demonstrated, however, that the brain substance as well as the saliva contains the virus and will produce the disease as effectively if used to inoculate healthy animals. Matter from the medulla oblongata and the frontal por tion 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 variables- and often very long period of incubation, have been among the chief difficulties in too in vestigation of rabies. M. Pasteur, an eminent 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 njsig rru orl r family. A family from down in Indiana moved into a house in Detroit and before niglrt had borrowed tea, sugar, eggs, milk and kerosene from as many different neigh bors. After three sr' 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 she can borrow a few ? ” A hunt was made, and the request granted, but in ten minutes the boy re turned, and said: “Say, we’ve mislaid our tack hammer and ma wants to borrow yours.” He got it, and this time it was twenty minutes before he returned and said : “Say, ma’s pulled all her teeth out pulling on that carpet. She wants to ! know if you won’t lend her one of your i boys?” One of the boys was sent over, but it was an obstinate carpet, and back came the messenger with: “ Say, ain’t your husband borne? ” “ Yes; what do you want ? ” “Well, ma’s mislaid her husband somewhere, and she wants to borrow yours to pull one end of the infernal carpet through two doors and across a hall.” The line had to be fixed somewhere, and it was fixed here.—Detroit News. A STOUT OF “ WILD BILL." ^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 j Hickok. Wild Rill, under circumstan- j ces of particular aggravation, shot and | killed a desperado in Missouri, afterward, Bill became a member Buffalo Bill’s droll theatrical and, in compliance with the story of play, had to repeat every night the stage the killing which, as a reality had made him famous. Bill the first rehearsal patiently, then went to the stage manager. “I kill that thar chap, no how,” Bill. “Why not?” inquired the ma ager. “Well,” said Bill, tranquil] '* Buffalo slings him around in the fiqff act, and Maeder clips him in the ear the second act, and Mrs. Maeder cb him out of the ranch with a brooi the third act. Then I’ve got to kill after all in the fourth act. Why, I er killed such a coyote as that in my life ! It’s all wrong, pardner ! It’s ali wrong making him out such a squaw- man as all that. By goll, sir, he was the biggest gentleman I ever shot!” Although he carried a dozen bullets, more or less, deeply imbedded iu his flesh, Wild Bill never sustained an in ternal wound. He was lolled, while playing cards, by a scoundrel who, for $500 blood-money paid him by gam blers, sneaked up behind Bill and blew his brains out. Bill was, strangely enough, a very honest and courageous fellow, who, in his office of Marshal, was the terror of the “crooked” gam blers of the Territory. The post-mor tem examination of his remains ex plained his immunity from penetrative bullet-wounds. It was discovered that his ribs were welded together, the inter- ..eostal cartilages and muscles His lungs and heart, naturally protected by a Such was the wonderful which Bill could draw his even jn the sudden death Is him, he had Bine sense enough to put his hand butt of his revolver. AN ENGLISH IDEA OF Id INALS. THIS ABOR- SpSfking of his visit to England, John T. Raymond said at a London dinner- party the lady he escorted- to the table said to Mm iu a very earnest voice : “ Mr. Raymond, are you really an AmgSean? You are not in the least like jpyMea of one ! ” m an American, but not an responded he. riginal! You mean an In- reminds me to ask if you trouble with the Indians in ?” •have got them pretty well ” was the reply, they—do they dress as yon ; in Hew York city they are but at Niagara falls they in the simplicity of nothing- 1! ” murmured the lady; Stanley wrote so glowingly and never said a word about it,’’—Cincinnati Enquirer. ANOTHER COMFOSXTlON. The discoverer of celluloid is reported to have composed a new composition for buttons, boot heels and other like pur poses. A foreign contemporary gives the following as the ingredients and process of manufacture: Leather cut tings are soaked in hot water to remove the oil, and then dried and ground to powder. The powder is afterward sub jected to high pressure in suitable molds, at a temperature of 240 deg. to 250 deg. Fall. This produces [surface hardening, leaving the interior of the ocsjftmg in. an elastic state. If the powder is mixed with any other ingre dient, a temperature of 290 deg., to 310 Beg. Fah. should be employed, so as to secure partial fusion of_the leather. R' OBEKT A. MASSEY, Attorney at Law, DQUGLASVILLE, C«A. Will nrsetice regular!; iu the Superior Courts of Don;!■■«, OampbfJl, Crrroll, Cobb and Paulding counties, and in the Supreme court at Atlanta, mmftm IRON" _ BITTERS act like a charm on the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as tasting the food, belching, heat in the stomach, heartburn, etc. - 1 GOLD AND SILVER. In antiquity gold was enough, and yet a pound of worth rather less than it is now, say 18 or 13 J times a, pound of, silver. In the middle ages there was hardly any pro 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 11) 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 io 60,000,0.00, while that of gold rises from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000. Gold ought ta have gone up and silver to have g«me 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,itis because the ratio of 1 to 15), which Oalonne established iu 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 in 1850, 15,557,530 pounds troy of gM and 339,828,926 of silver, and in 1878 29,809,725 of gold and 480,506,080 sil ver. The mass of gold doubled; that of silver remains stationary, and neverthe less gold loses none of its value. These figures prove beyond refutation the error of those who make the relative value of precious metal depend upon production; it is solely the effect of the law, as I have proved elsewhere. The French Minis ter of 1803, M. Gardm, has summed all this up in a sentence: “The price of the precious metals in commerce always regulates itself according to the price of gold at the mint.”—Emile de Laraleyc, in Fortnightly 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 tho seven deadly sins, the cushion upon wMch the devil cliiefly reposes, and a 1 great cause, not only, of melancholy, i but of other diseases ; for the mind is I naturally active, and, if it be not occu- ! pied about honest business, it rushes i into mischief or sinks into melancholy. BY ORGAN. THAR 100 STYLES OF THE & HAMLIN o r a A N 3 are now regularly made, from style 109 (shown mihe cut), tire size, popu- -feo -BARY- at only $22, to a large ORGAN at 890ft Twenty styles at from $221* each; sixty styles af to $160; eokty styles at to$500 and up; cash prices also for easy payment^ from $3.38 per quarter up. 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