Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — A Lesson in Orthography. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson in Orthography.

The following story from St. Nicholas is nearly right when you hear it read, but when you read it yourself there appears to be something wrong. The words are all spelled correctly—just as they are spelled in the dictionary, but many of them are sadly out of place. It will be a good exercise for boys and girls to straighten out this story: THE BTORY. A rite suite, little buoy, the sun of a grate kernel, with a rough about his neck, flue up the rode swift as eh dear. After a tyme he had stopped at a gnu house and wrung the belle. His tow hurt hymn and he kneaded wrest. He was two tired two raze his fare, pail f4ce. A feint mown of pane rows from his lips. The made who herd the belle was about to pair a pare, but she through it down ana ran with awl her mite, four fear her guessed wood knot weight. But wen she sore the little won tiers stood in her ice at the site. “Ewe poor deer! Why due you lye hear ? Ah yew dyeing?” “ Kmow,” he side. “I am feint to the corps.” She boar hymn in her alms, as she aught, to a rheum ware he mite bee quiet, gave Inm bred and meet, held cent under his knows, tide his clioler, rapped him warmly, gave him some .sweet drachm from a viol, till at last he went fourth hail as a young hoarse. His eyes shown, his. cheek was read as a flour, and he gambled a hole our. It appears by the returns of one of the principal railways in England for the last year that their locomotives average a run of about 15,000 miles a year, ana that the usual term of service of a set of chilled wheels is about seven years, or a run of some miles, being a little more than four the world. Passenger cars, it is stated, traverse about three times the distance each month or year " that an engine does. First-class | cars are not subjected to auch continuous wear as is the case with inferior ones; more rest is given to the wheels. Such ears are heavier, and consequently bear harder on the axles and hence are more liable to heat