Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — Ways of Telling a Man He Lies. [ARTICLE]

Ways of Telling a Man He Lies.

That a man who lies is a liar admits of no doubt; but the time was not far distant when it was considered advisable to give expression to the fact, when applied directly to the individual, with something of prudent euphemism in the choice of the particular form of words chosen for the occasion. Many delicate methods of getting around the difficulty have suggested themselves to ingenious and inventive minds. A man suspected of nntruthfulness has been characterized as one “who says more than his prayers;” whose word is “not exactly gospel truth;” whose “methods of stating a fact are not in logical harmony with the strictest demands of veracity;” whose “practical sympathy with the leading characteristics of Annanias’ views of truth is unquestioned,” and so on. But we have entered upon an era in which these polite methods describing mendacity are deemed weak, unsatisfactory, and superfluously polite. Hence the word “liar” has come into general use, and is bandied from one end of the land to the other, and with a frequency that promises to deprive it of the emphasis it has hitherto enjoyed by making it too common. — Boston Gazette. The Mason & Hamlin Company, long the moat famous manufacturers of reed organs in the world, have commenced the manufacture of Upright Pianos, having effected an Improvement which they regard as the most important introduced in many years. An ingenious arrangement fastens the strings directly to the iron plate of the instrument, giving greater clearness and purity of tone, with absence of all mere’noise. At the same time it renders the instrument more durable, loss liable to get out of order. The Mason & Hamlin Pianos are certainly exquisite instruments, and, coming from these thoroughly well-known makers, may be depended upon to be all they represent them.—Boston Journal. -