Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-12-24
CArs.-On cats 1 don't go very


cat, them fits.
They seem not to mind them and
allus recover.
l give my old Malty cat fits but
she faild to recover.
Not herself
/ / recovered her.
will let you into the effects of
tho case.
i hung her by the neck on an i'm
lproved gallus one day and one half,
and then put dirt over her.
But / he'd only hung eight lives
out of her, and / found her mex NOR
ming at the kitchen door waten for
her rations.
/ strateway took her remaining
life.
This l did by chopper hur he'd off
smooth.
The feelen quire have lost pow
erful tenor, and her voice is silent
perpetual.
When cats are first born tina are
seeless.
A CRATE many go in swimmin the
first thing.
Tha do it in an old bag as bathin
hab t, with rock tied 60 it-rockcd
in the cradle of the deep, as the say
ing is.
Cats are unsteady spoken ov by
| the poets as will be observed by the
cotashun;
Hi diddle diddle,
The cats In the fiddle & so 4th.
Cats live on mackerel heds, cold
peeces, young burds, chickens & so
4th.
If hard up for lunch they catch
mows.
They are very fond of layin under
warm stove.
Give cat fourteen fish heads for
dinner, and then let her stretch her
self under hot stove, and you have
q pa..ect picture of unalloyed bliss.
'l'ha are not ov very loving dis
Jsition. ana when in trouble are
not very kind each other.
In proof of this assertion hang
of them by their tales over a klose
line.
1 guess l doant no nothin more
to say about cats.
That is , say. my essa in now fin
ished
n. B.-The first cost of cats is as
cheap rs dirt.
Why are people who sit in free
seats not likely to derive much bene-
fit from the sermon? They get
good for nothing.
What axe holds its edge the long
est, cuts the closest, and is the most
Expensive for man to buy? A meat
axe
What is that which ties two per-
sons, but only touches one? A we'd
ding ring.
Why are ships called she? They
keep q man on the look out.
A scold and o block -head-brim
stone and wood-a good match.
After the siege of Antwerp, the
children played marble with grape
shot.
A New York paper, unusually fas-
tidious. thus defends the abomina-
bic termination list:
Fos instance, to say that certain
lady is 'talker,' means nothing now
that it did not mean a century ago. |
Women were takers then and they |
are takers now-so are men. But /
wEen they say that Miss Lucy Stone
Blackwell or Miss Anna Dickinson
is tallSist. the party whom we al
dress recognizes in moment the |
| exact idea we wish to convey-he |
sees the nice distinction between the
old and very general meaning of the
word with its old termination, and
the new form which bad its origin in
the idea which we would express by |
its use.
When Weston made his celebrated |
trip to Chicago, it became evide ut
that some new word was necessary
in our language.
We have had occasional 'pedestri-
ans but now that we use the word
so frequently we find the word too
long for printed, written, or telegra-
pho Communications. Walkist |
is the word.
There are many other little ideas
which this termination enables Us
to express in brief and satisfactory
manner:
A merchant-Sellist.
A POLITICIAN -Stealist.
Alady of the Grecian. bend-Curv
list.
A scholar-Readist.
A philosopher -Thinlxist.
A Observation-Disclosures.
A professor of chemistry-Chem-
ist C).
A theatrical manager-Showist.
a lady with beautiful teeth-Smi-
list
Horace Groeley-Honist(f).
And there is an indefinite list of
other terms which sustain our de-
Tense of list as a matter of direct
convenience. In an indirect way the !
addition of new synonyms to the |
language enables writer TO give
more variety to his style, and to find
expression for his thoughts more
readily.
We have ''writer," for instance,
and "autl or" both Of them short,
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