Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — A Learned Celestial’s Work. [ARTICLE]

A Learned Celestial’s Work.

A Chinese guide to the English language, compiled by a learned Celestial, has been published in Pekin. The student of this quaint little volume, however, will not make himself easily understood in English conversation by such sentences as the following: “Diligent learn of English words no difficult. To do good virtues become rich and know. He himself no have got. Fear inside have little false. Run come too much refugee. Can do biting. Why you count want mistake.”

Tire idea of Yale authorities in admitting women to postgraduate courses only is probably founded upon a desire to let the young gentlemen who knocked down an actress with a hard snowball finish their course before ladies are invited to enter. The Spartan idea that it was not wrong to steal, but disgraceful to be caught at it, seems to have prevailed among the Chicago aide: men. The Standard Oil trust issaid to be wound up, but like a cheap clock, it will get in its best work after it is wound.