Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-03

The petition of O sentenced murderer for par
-t6n or reprieve is not proper subject for mirth
yet it is hard not to be amused at the seemingly
unconscious assurance of RuIloff's appeal to
Governor Hoffman. In the first place, he claims
that be was unjusty convicted, because, even if
il were true that he fred the fatal shot, which
he denies, it was not done with malice or in the
prosecution of an unlawful purpose, but in de-
fence of himself and his companions from the
wrongful violence of the clerks. The unlawful
enterprise had been, as he claims, abandoned,
and he and his fellows were trying to escape,
when he returned to rescue his comrade from
the young man, who meant to kill him, and in
the struggle the shot was fired. This view is
urged with some ingenuity and considerable
parade of legal learning, but is not calculated to
have much effect, especially as the questions of
law and fact involved in it had already been
directly passed upon by the court and jury.
Rulloff evidently does not expect this argument
to prevail with the governor.
But he has another resource from which he
seems to derive more hope. 1t is undoubtedly
the most remarkable appeal ever made by
man in bis situation. 1t is based on the value
of his pathological discoveries, which, he says,
have cost him many years of labor, and are, be-
sides their intrinsic interest, of the utmost i'm
portance to the cause of education, since they
raise the character of pathological study and
enhance its value as a mental discipline; they
show artistic relations between different words,
render their study in the highest degree pleasing
and interesting, AMI, when the method has once
been fairly re-establshed, children can be taught
the very origin of every word they are required
to learn. To enable the governor TO form some
conception of the nature and merits of his dis
ccvery, Rullof descends 20 some details of his
method, which indicate, as he thinks, its com
pleteness and fundamental character. The fol-
lowing extract from the petition will give our
readers probably as good an idea as can be con-
veyed of the pathological side of Rulof's char
acter and the nature of his discovery:
With the return of Bacchus from India, the
letter r was brought into Greece and was there
employed in the application of language. The
introduction Of that letter was one of the most
important events in the history of the human
race Few single occurrences have done more
to awaken intellectual activity or cultivate artis-
tic perceptions To the introduction of that
letter was ascribable, in great part, the enrich
ment of ancient language; and with the same
remote fact, in manner which is truly wonder
full, but which cannot be mistaken, are connect
ed leading ideas in the formation of the English
language; particular letters in every sentence
we employ, and the type of numerous words
which are still peculiarities of the language we
are now speaking.
Previously the only words IN ancient Greek
had been plain and simple formations upon Mn
and L, as
Mello, tello, penomai, genomai,
nlala, liam, polu, ETC., etc.
With the return of RapPhUS from the east was
Introduced the letter r and the great root IL,
Mn and r.
KRE-MBA-LIT,
as seen in the words:
Krembaliazo, beat musical instruments
Kramballazo, laugh aloud.
Kfaipalao, revel
That this root and these words were really in.
troduced by Bacchus, is proved
a. By the obvious resemblance of the words
by their Specification, and by the fact that Bac-
chus was god of music, of revelry, and of
mirth.
b. By the fact that from each of these words,
with equal propriety, two OF the principal names
Of Bacchus may be at once and easily derived, as
BAK-IAK; BACHOS-IACH0S, seen equally
in Krembaliazo, Krambaliazo, an Krapalao.
(p.-b.D
c. By the myth that upon his return he was
accompanied by numerous animals. The ex.
PLANTATION being that new names for these ami
mails were made by employing the new letter
A newly concurrent event was the introduc.
ton Of the new letters phi, oh, tn, ps etc., etc.
Their introduction was, also, a powerful incen-
tive 10 che formation of language. The mode
OF their employment was so perfect that from
the day of their introduction, every step in the
formation of cultivated language can now be re-
traced with mathematical precision.
Inc original root krembalit was, in fact, taken
as directly or indirectly, the material of most
WORDS subsequently formed. And in this con-
hecuon we nave, again, the significant fact that
by metathesis
-. Krembalit-=material.
lhe modes OF formation were various: some
utnee " making other words directly from the
s;si root; sometimes by the interposition Of
other words were more Immediately derived
Examples in both modes are very numerous
al Win STEADY reference TO tue original root.
kre-mba-lit
Krambaliazo, laugh aloud,
Klauthmurizo, wall,
From which as correlatives,
Makar, happy; chairo, rejoice,
charma, charm; aehos, ache; ania, pain;
mermeros, sad; terpo, delight;
Eng. merry, mirth, cheerful, wretehed
from Klauthmurizo,- laugh, lauk
klaio -wail-uajl.
Krembaliazo, make noise,
from which
bremo, fremo, frendo, etc,
brazo, kraso, razo, bauzo, bark,
kaleo, klazo, glazo,
call bawl, squat, squeal, ETC., etc.
krambon, dry.
Sorrelative Of nektar and ambrosia, from
wnlce words okeanos, ardeuo--ocean, water
oleaas meat, steam, and thousands of related
Lampo. shine
BOOT Of lamp, candle, nambeau, fash. fame.
Heos, selene, tsalana,) ETC.,
klambos-lahm-laene
variations,
himple, hopple, limp, hitch.
krambos, screaming
variations,