The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-11
curious Queytlons and Answers.

Curious Questions and Answers.
from Noah's Times and MeSSCnQeF)
O.-Give me good mode Of growing
thin, either by dieting or any other way.
A.-Become so poor that even "good
square meal" once q month must be o
novelty, and you will discover yourself
growing quite as thin as you desire. The
"Banling process" consists In abstainiDg
from butter, all kinds Of fat, sugar, and all
kinds of sweets, cream, milk, fresh bread
or cake, and so on. Dry toast and plain
coffee or tea, as well as meat without
Juice or gravy, constitute the diet OF those
who, like BAnting, insist on becoming
delicate. Death Is very apt TO ensue, US
the consequence Of such a reduction in
provcnder.
Q.-Iniorm me whether you ever heard
that George Washington was prolane
syearer, as l have heard, TO my great sur.
prise, from good authority that he was?
Awe have heard that, when much
excited, he occasionally INDUCED III an
expletive not regarded as piOus by most
people; but, us general rule, his con.
versation was exempt from all such
CoRrsencss. r....
Q.-What do you think would become
OF person II he attempted to live upto
all the prccepts and proverbs which an.
Cient and modern writers of fiction and
philosophy are the authors Of?
Ave think he would soon retire in
disgust from the worlds meanness, ter
giyCrsatlOn, and mendacity, To enjoy
social life you must frequently close both
your eyes and your cars, In hgurative
sense, TO unpleasAntnesses, and affect not
TO know what it may be Objectionable 10
recognize.
O.-What is tho opinion OF writers on
the subject Of marrying early in LIEF DO
they recommend such course, or are
they in laryor Of persons waiting until
more advanced ageP What is your opln-
ion on the subject?
A.-As general rule, discreet writers
are in favor Of carly marriages. We sim
ilarly favor such unions, provided those
who undertake to wed young have before
their eyes definite means for their mutual
support. BY marrying early, they escape
many temptations TO err, and many at
tiiCtiOps, while mutual love strengthens
many an honest couple in good infections,
teaches them to bear and lOrbeHr, to grow
up less selfish, and 10 find that pleasure
at home which the unmarried seek
abroad, too often to their own destruc-
ton.
OH one of your issues, dated Jsnua.
nv 10, in answer 10 "Ignoramus," you state
the pronunciation OF the wOrde Credit
MOJllier should sound thus Gray dec No
.JeeL ga, while your Times states, February
90, in reply TO "MajOr O'Shaughnessy,"
thst the above should sound thus, Cred.ce
No bee lee gall. The two very different
renderings confuse. Please decide. 2
Give me the pronunciation OF the follow
ing: Cui bono, fin, table d'hote, atlaire
glamour, aflairc d'honneur.
A-The yah" and the "yA" should
have been given as ydy-so as TO suggest
the broad sound Of a, and then the only
difference between the two exemplifCa-
tions would be the "lee" in the last. sylla-
BILE but one-a sound which Is only heard
when the word MohHcr is slowly pro-
nounced. For all practical purposes, the
illustration first given may be accepted as
correct. 2. 1t is next 10 impossible to t1nd
English sounds adapted 10 give the eye a
clear idea OF the pronunciation Of the
French nasal n, hence the sound Of a fin
cannot be put upon paper. The Latin cut
bono is usually pronounced as II spclt in
English ky bono. The French words are,
as nearly as we can approach them, in
English, tdrJle d0t9, affair d'GrmoOr, affair
d'OHner, slightly accenting the flnal'sylla.
hle and giving the letter "r' the rough,
vibrating sound, common 10 It IN the
mouths OF certain HibefniAns,
-R-Be kind enough 10 settle little
difference of opinion (regardiDg quCS-
ton OF grammar) "rho indications are
1t will rain tomorrow PrOnOuns are
words used in the room of nouns; that be.
ing the case what is the noun for which
it stands in the above sentence? My
friend and myself arc blocked COM
pletely. Neither of us can suggest a
word that Is satisfactory to the other.
A.-Grammarians have disputed so fro.
quently and so long upon this point that
VIC cannot be expected 10 decide 1t. The
word "it' in this case, as in many others,
("H is clear this morning." for instance,
vt is said" "N seems TO me" and 80 on)
has Specification well enough understood
by everybody but not so easily expressed.
In fact the at" by no means represents
the same thing on all occasions, Some.
times it represents tho place that follows,
In at is clear this morning." the "it" re-
dundantly stands Tor "this morning." and
hence "This morning is clear is the exact
equivalent Of at Is aclear morning." In
ut VIII rain tomorrow" the "iT" seems
TO represent sort perSoniticatiOn Of the
atmosphere, VT will rain, and "There"
will be rain, belong to the same category
Of questions, and to parse u sentence Of
either kind, honestly, demands about as
much ingenuity as knowledge, English
grammar being, in itself, such medley
Of tnNOpptoInnf fnnnnufuN nnEind