Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Words, Words, Words. [ARTICLE]

Words, Words, Words.

Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England, in his article in the December Scribner’s says : “Never since the creation has there come upon the earth such a deluge of talk as the latter half of the nineteenth century has heard. The orater is every where, and has all subjects for his own. The writer stayeth not his hand by day or by night Every oticcessive day brings forth in the English tongue more discourse than all the great speakers ol the past have left behind them, and more printed matter, such as it is, than the contents of an ordinary library. We certainly seem to be npproaching the time when hardly anything will he left to be said on any subject that has not been said before -perhaps many times over; when all known topics will begin to be exhausted.”