Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — How He Didn't Know It All. [ARTICLE]

How He Didn't Know It All.

He was a practical, but rather pedantic, sort of a man, and said he did not believe language was made to conceal thought. More thanthis, be did believe that the dictionary was a work made to use, and that every man should be familiar with its minutest contents. “ But,” said the student, “ that would be impossible for any man.” “Nonsense!” exclaimed the practical man: “why, there are tew words that couMJie mentioned that I wouldn’t be perfectly at home with.” “ I should like to give you a few samples,” replied the student. “I believe I could commence with the beginning of Webster, and stump you before we got through the A’s. “Goon with your sample A’s,” demanded the self-confident one, “and then tackle the B’s and ron on to the Z’s.” “ I’ll try,” said the student, calmly, “ by first giving you a few sentences n A.” And, squaring oft for the work, the student asked the practical man to please bear in mind and translate, when he had done, the few sample sentences following: “ Approach, adorers at alliteration’s altar. Assemble abd&ls and abderian adepts, and analyze an ambagitory and amphibiological allocution. Accept, as an apparently acataleptic and absonous arrangement, an alliterative aggregation, actually anagogeiicel. As an acepfcalist, abjure all aascititious arts and adventitious aids as addititious; and ardently advance. Ablepsy and audacity are alike anatreptic and adiaphorus, as adjuvants and anamnestic adhibitious at abstringing and ablaqueating all abstruse anfractuosities and anagogics, as all adepts are aware. Avoid anastrophes as anacoluthic and anisomeric; and abandoning abditories, advance against apparently antiphrastlcal anagraphs. Apply apornecometry, and arrive at an apodeiclical anagnorisis; and accept an author’s acknowledgments.” “There !”'demanded the student, “translate that, and I’ll commence with the B’s and run on to the Z’s!” But the practical man, who was so intimate with his own language, had fled.— Chicago Journal. Statistics taken in France show that the mortality of infants nursed by their own mothers never exceeds 10 per cent.', seldom, indeed, rising above 5 per cent.; that of infants suckled by other wet-nurses averages about 20 per cent.; whilst in “ hand fed” children the death-rate ranges from 50 to 00 per cent. , .