The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27

one has avery extensive correspondence
throughout the United States, he will be
lucky if he does not, sooner or later,
stumble over the orthography of some
wretched Indian name, somewhere be-
tween Winnipiseogee. and 'sYo Simmity, =
as l once saw it spelled.9 What, for in.
stance, is q man to do when he encouters
such an orthographica1 monstrosity as
aYoug ghiogheny," but cry, , 'Avaunt, quit
my sight, let the earth hide thee ~ as a
certain wicked Scotchman once did, who
was frightened at something not half as
horrible as that word.
Rufus Choate, or somebody else, said
that the ways of Providence and the de-
cisions of a petit jury are past accounting g
for. We may safely say the same of the
spelling of the latter, since a Pittsburgh
Jury handed up to the Judge a comm uni
cation endorsed, ITO the onorable gug. y
The proprietor of q country store once
worked himself nearly into q brain fever
endeavoring to make Ineligible the fol-
lowing note, given. to him BY small boy,
the SON of one of his customers: slil
mister GFean- <, 8 7.sss7-tis5 ieszf Il
t.k .z.i'ilW ''i.Wunt you let my boayl hcv
a pare of .Esy toad shuz z,
However, he was probably not more
horrified than the setoolmaster who re-
ceived letter from man who wrote:
Il have desidedr to inter my boy in
your sculI. -..-.z...-5.
The letter which SOME person wrote to
an editor, when discontinuing his paper
contains internal evidence of the truth
of its assertions, s,f.,-
~ think folks ottent to spend their
mummy for payper. my dad diddent and.
evary boldly sed he wuz the intelligent
est man in. the country and had the
smartest family of boize that ever dugged
taters.
/ F''This house for SAIL" was the. an
nouneen1ent a traveller saw nailed over
the door of humble dwelling in New
Hampshire. He called thesgroprietor to
the door and grayely Inquired w hen IS
your house going to sail When some
TELLER comes along who can raise the.
wind" responded the man. with a sly
twinkle in his eye, and the traveller
moved mournfully on. =, atss
my son, spell ioeatker,' = said a school
teacher to little eight-year-old :" We-t-h-
y-e-u-r. weather, astammefed young hope
full ,"Sit down. said the teacher, sadly;
that is the worst. spell Of weather we,
have had for some time
The following is o letter picked up in
a little town. i'm " erm6nt:i sa3 tah =
"FR1END MEED-I sheer-that 700 hav
Bot out george Hill / wish to no whaF he
is If 700 SeeIhin 700 putla Fleefinte his
head on thesSly il he is at yoor place.
send him up hear Wright by the next
male II. A. GILBERT
'i71d A +-i si4 H,'2 l--s''-% %'St Adams
Hi"Put q Flee into his head is delicious,
and it would doubtless be- a very inter
esting operation toa witness Yet the.
above is only a fair specimen of letters
which men doing business with the back
woodsmen and illiterate jobbers' are con
tinually in receipt of.Eoo .gHsg 8 ia0de
But i will bring my orthograPhioal IN
vestigations to close, by observing that
any "tree-born American" who, now and
then, covers himself with discontinue by
o blunder in spelling, may lay the flatter-
ing JUNCTION to his soul that even the
great Washington was, if report is true
not iminaeulate in this respect, Tor in his
viii, written by himself, there is said ITO
be misspelled word. u. .aessh s