The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-03-20
Curiosity Of. i, orthography.


A writer in the Cincinnati Time
and ChroRicls remarks that some o
the spelling that an editor has TO en-
counteris enough to harrow up hit
soul and freeze the marrow in hi.
bones. 1t means workdwith him, and
in that light the fun the thing dis
appears. Think of his horror wheI
he sees anxious" spelled ''alkshouse'
+ By some conptacent blunderer, sucf
an one, for instance, as can never dis
tinguish between cion, ton, and sion
can not see why fiery" should not bs
frey" or imagine why the second
syllable of necessary" should not be
spelled with C, and the third with
an s. -ftt @ g,eraGsos
Occasionally cases of bad spelling
crop out among the professions. and
some lanientabie instances oil weak
iiess in this respect come to light
among the humanitarians." For in
stance, young lawyer III an interior
city, one early morning, locked 6 his
Office door, and left upon it this mys-
terious legend ''Gon to Brexfus."
,e In 9 small New England town, a
druggist was surprised and disturbed
to receive at the hands of diftyolook-
ing customer the following prescrip-
fiong @Please give the bare. snmpthin
to fzick him 10 cts. worth.
During the war a letter written by
3 rebel soldier to- his sweetheart was
captured. in which the writer said :
"TWe will lick the yanks tomorrer it
goddeimity spares our lives"
3 Some W onderful things in the way
ofdirectiOns appear on letters passing
the mails. The postmaster att Schag-
hticoke announced some time ago,
that the name of the Office had been
spelled iii-thirty different ways upon
letters coming there. Probably ,...Sact-.
tycouk", was, the mesti remarkable
way of getting at 1t. Perhaps Scheh :
eetady has been nearly as badly used.
Ifone has a very extensive eorrespon-
dence throughout the United States,
he will be lucky ifhe does not, sooner
or later, stumble over the orthogra-
ply OF some wretched Indian name,
somewhere between Winnipesoegee
aud ''YoeSemnlity,s q as I once saw it,
speIled-ae What, for instance, is man
to do when he, encounters such an or
biographical monstrosity as AYoughi-
)gheny," but cry "Avaunt, quit my
tight, let the earth hide thee p, as a
,ertain wicked Scotchman once did,
who was frightened at something not
lalf SO horrible as that word.
Rufus, Choate, or somebody else,
aiG that the ways of ,Providence and
he decisions Of petit Jury are past
for. We may safely say
he same of the spelling of the, latter.
ince Pittsburgh jury handed up 10 !
he Judge communication endorsed, |
To the Onorable gng." 7d3 yes I
The proprietor of a country store
'nce worked himself nearly into a
rain fever endeavoring to make in
eligible the following note, given to I
'im by small boy, the son of one OF |
lis customers: fThs @1ai oar .sfgi1
.Snister Cream a. fedl -saae 3.lt |
aria 80. "Wunt you let my boay hev
pare of Easy toad shuz ?"
However, he was probably not more
orrified than the schoolmaster who
eceived q letter from q man who
rrote as follows: qOV
81 have desired TO inter my boy in
our scall ,<sif r iz----i4 - 3 "a =
The letter which some person wrote
. an editor, when disseminating his
aper, contains Internal evidence of
ne truth of its asreftions:
81 think folks ottent to spent their
lunny for paypers my dad diddent
nd every body sed he. was the intel
gentes man in the country and had l.
le slnartest family of boize that ever
ugged ,taters.Yd 19el j. sa9
'.This, house for SAIL" was the an.
ouncement a traveller. saw nailed
YER the door Of a humble dwelling in
ew Hampshire He called the. proc
rietor to the, door and gravely inqui-
ID, when is your house going to
Ill ?"il.o"When some feller comes.
ong who, can raise the wind" sre-
,onded the man, with q sly twinkle
his eye, and the traveller moved
along.giiai 3asw 8tnE A9iiI ,
But i willg.bring my orthographical
to close by. observing
at any .t,free born who |t
,w and then covers himself with dis b,
MIXTURE byaa a blunder in spelling, g
ayy lay o. fattering junction to his q
ul that even the great Washington n
rs, if reports are trHe, not immaeu-. l
te in this respect, for in his will, b
ritten by himself, there is said to be s
word, s.ts slt9.,f Z. s