, 1880-07-11

AfA4 VIZ !lEt stE kut NlA1He. HI" SIG llCkH liG
now she attacks the helpless Flshwifc's rout,-
she burns him up all bur tho BY Toe and even
SH IS partly consu1ncd; ind still she spreads still
she waves her iiery Tongues; she attacks the
Flshwtfcs Leg and destroys it; she attacks its
Hand and DESTROYS her; she attacks its poor worn
Body and consumes him: she wrcatncs herself
about its Heart and It is consumed; next about
ender nf5s nax sa a rcaces m It's soes: se IL
other aiouept, except Help co,nc, the Fishwifc
VIII be na more: Tine Presses-is there non; o to
s!lceor sild save? Yes! Joy. Joy. with flying eeet
the sne~ Engllshwo,n;.n comes! But alas, the
generous sEe-Fcnac is TOO lnte: where now is
fcrings, it has gone to better Land; a!l thnt is
left OF il for its loved Ones to lament over, Is
thus poor smoldcrins Ash-heap. All, woful,
royerentiy, upon tho lowly Shovel, and bear him
his long Rest, with the Prayer that when he
rises again it will be in i Realm where he will
it ali to himself, inste;el of having II nanny lot
OF assorted Sexes scattered all over him in Spots.
There, now, the reader can see for himself
that this plonoun-businessi IS a very awkward
thing for the ullaccusl omed tongue.
larities of look and sound between words
which have no similarity in meaning are Il
fruitful source OF perplexity to the foreigner,
1t is SO i'll our tongue, and it is notably the
case, in. the: Gerlnall. Now, there is: that
close rcselnblance-either real or fancied--
to three or four. other words, that: l
never know whether it means despised,
painted. suspected,, or married; Until l
look in TIE t!IetIonEaFy, and tlSn I i tlnd lo it
words, and they arc great torment To IN
crease the difficulty there are words which
seem to resemble each other, and yet DO not;
but they make just as much trouble as # they
did. For instance, there IS the word veI'n'le7
ts,. Ito let to Lease to hire]; and It the s, w9rd
to qnar71).. I heard Of an. En-
gllshlnan who knocked at a mans
door in heidelberg and Proposed, in
the bfSt Gsrn 1t he eoa tha1a to yer
words which meal! one thing when you eln-
pllasize tho first syllable, but mean something
very different if you throw the emphasis, on
tie last syllable. For instance, there is q
elaactnS through a book. according to
@ another % Word Which Signifies to
associate with man, or to apoid him, ac-
cording to where you put the emplnsis,-.and
you can generally depend on a, putting tt,, IL III
There are some exceedingly useful words
in this language. ScJllNg for example; and
Zug. There are three-luarters If column
Of Schlass IN the dlctI9nary. ! nna % q 2 column
and alf Of Znss TlIe word %a schhag msans sia1
Time, Bar, Coin, Stump. Kind, Sort Manner,
FisId, Ms{i Fsorestclearing. Ills Is is Simple
and c1act meaning, is to say, its re-
stricted its lettered meaning bat efe tat are e
can soar away, as On the wings OF the morn
ing, and never be ut rest. You can hang any
word you please to its tail, and make 1t mean
anything you want to. : You can begin with
can cal't hang % on the Whole dictionary. word by
word, clear through the alphabet to SchlAO-
qcdsseT, which means bflge-Water, and in
cluding Sc}.lug-nlutter, which means moth
er-ill-laW.
Just the same with Z1tg. Strictly speak,
sfSn, | 1a Marrh sai Progress r; Fiedt Diecto IL
Toucll, Rs,f Line, Flourish, Trait Of Character,
Feature, Lineament. Chess-lnove, Organ
stop, Team. Whit, Bias, Drawer, Propsl!s- ,ili-
which it does mot lnean,-when all it's leglti-
mate pendants have been hung on, las not
been discovered yet.
One cannot overestimate the usefulness OF
Sclilag and Zug. Armed just with ttleso
two, and the word disc, what cannot the
foreigner on German soil accomplish? The
Gcr1nan word also is the equivalent Of tile
English phrase Is You know. and does not
mean anything at all,-in talh, though, it
man opcns his mouth an Also falls out; and
every time he shuts it lie bites one in two
thnt was trying toget out
Now, the foreigner, equipped with these
three noble words, Is master Of The situation.
Let.him talk right along, fearlessly; let him
pour his Indifferent German forth, and when
lie lacks for word. lot him heare ScltuU
into the vacuum; all the chances are, that it
fits it like plug; but If it doesn't let him
promptly heaye. q Zug after it; the two to-
foSt TIL lapfA Init
If, by miracle, they should fail, let:him
simply say AlSoi and this will give him i
moments chance to think 'of the neeIfnl
word. In Germany, when you loud your
conversational gun it is always best to throw
cause it doesn't make any difference low
much the rest Of the change may scatter, you
are bound to bag something Will them.
Then you blandly say Also, and load up
again. Nothing gives such an mir Of grace
or an English conversation as to scatter 1t
full of "Also's " or IS You knows"
In my notebook | tind. this entry:
: Julu1.-ln the hosptal Yesterday u word Of
from paticnt,-a North German from near
Hamburg; but as most unfortunately the sur
gcons hid opened him in the wrong place, UNDER
the impression that he contained panorlllna,
he died. The sad event has cast q: gloom over
the whole community:
That paragraph furnishes text for a few
notable features Of my subject,-the length
of German words. Some German words are
so long shat they have q perspective. OBJ
serve these examples: .
Observation-Disclosures
Djlletantenau ufdringlichkciten.
St.dtrcrurdncteuser5
These things are not words; they are
alphabetical professions. And they are not
rare; one can open 4 Gerlnan news
paper any time and see them march: