Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-01-30
as YOU wished. and to render the tribute

his forthcoming WORK, give us the draIna Witi'ou
its hero or we wish the expedition and its hero
had chronicler as worthy as he would be were
| he not the principal character in the story. >
DIR. Kane's Narrative Of the Expedition, now
preparing, and in PROGRESS of publication By Messr;
Childs s. Peterson, of Philadelphia will embrace
the important discoveries made in the frtzen re-
giuns far beyond the re2ch Of all the predecessors
Of the American exploding party. and their peril
GUS adventures, crowded with romantic incidents,
which, in the language of Inc Secretary of the
Navy, '.not only excite our wonder, but borrow
nuvel grandeur from the truly benevolent conslde-
rations which animated and .nerved him 10 his
task ~ Grahan,,s Magazine, Feb, 1856,
Common Errors Corrected.
From the little volume "Five Hundred Mis-,
takes Corrected" ;" published by Burgess & Co.
New York. we select the following specimens o
the work: -,,.s5Gal
".Wanted. two apprentices, who will be treat
ed as one of the farylytgtaat practical difficulty
would be found in realizing such treatment Say
.as members of the family
".Ihai bourne from whence no traveller re
turns How often are precisely these words spo
kent They are improperly quoled from Shake
speare, in Hamlet, and corrected read as follows
.That undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns m
".He intends to stop at home for few days;
it is more elegant to say stay. II The time, now
ever, should be very brief stop would better ex
press the idea; as, 'We stopped at ElmIra aoou
twenty minutes"
".Please the pigs.'-,( Old Provsrb.) This i
a corruption from Please the pyr.' The pyn, Is
the receptacle which contains the consecrated wa
fer ON Romish altars: and the exclamation Is
eonal 10 please Gud.' This corruption is as Gu
riuus one as that of 'tawdry' from 't Audrey, OF
.at St. Audrey's Fair famous for the sale OF trip
pery-shnwy, cheap and worthless.
"lt is somewhat singular, that while t,e and
unite convey meanings directly opposite loose snd
,uloose signify precisely the same thing. Loose
is the original word, and mnloose is a corruption
both words, huwever. are now sanctioned by good
usage and may be ndiscrimlnaiely employed
without offence against pnnprety.
".The lecturer spoke 10 sererat points, say
spoke on several points. He spoke TO his audi
ence.
"tThompson was there among the resi- This
mode Of expression. which is very common, lite
rally declares an impossibity; The significatlor
Of The resi- is. those IN addition to Thompson
and of which Thompson formed no part he could
not therefore be among them. more correct
form would be Thompson was there tcih the rest
"'St Johns is abuut two days nearer England
than Halifax From an an account, in New
York newspaper, Of the Submarine Telegraph
Expedition, September, 1855 Dos it mean
that St. johns is nearer to Eng than HALIFAX
10. or nearer to England than Halifax
MANY persons pronounce words which have
no letter in them, exactly as though they had
as, dra,oring for dra,eiag; sa'cr Thomas, Tor
sac, &c. Some who do not insert full tuned
r, dn worse by appending an ali to almost every
word they utter. They would do well to recall
the reproof which the excellent Rev. John Grube
administered 10 brother in the ministry. whc
was uuil,y of this habit. That eccentric clergy
man addressed note to his friend. as follows -
Dear ah Sir af When an you ah speak an in
an nubli,,-ah, take all r,y ah advice ah and al
never ah say-ah ah ali i-JoHN All GRUBeR All.
"An obituary notice contained the following lu
d,crous statement: He left large circle u
mourners. embracing his amiaGle w3e and chill
drenl' Comprising should nave been used, IN
stead Of embracing.
=. Bills are requested 10 repaid quarterly;" tn
bills are not requested. but the persons ,rho o~'
h,m Say instead, IL is requested that bills b'
paid quarterly.
"Directing and addressing letters: Directing
desionates the person to whom, and the place e
which the letter. as a parcel. is to be sent: ad
dressing refers To the individual 10 whom, as a
communication, it is written. A letter addressed
TO the President, may be duected to hls secretary