, 1880-07-11

Assistant lIStrlct-AL[ofney Johnson re-
farS fur M to MT ht f IS tse Ct nay
justitiable comp0undilg; because it not only
saves no time or trouble, but confers title
on Mrs. johnson which she has no right. to:
But these instances ,nre tritles indeed, con-
trasted with the po1nderous and dismal Ger
together. 7 wish to submit the following
local item, fron Il Mannheim journal, by way
of illustration:
In the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observation-Disclosures
enS oSeSk SWR5 ne WIEN
tho fire to the Observation-Disclosures
Storks Nest reached, hew the parent Storks
Ncst ::Self caught Fire, strashtway, plunged the
ol1ic X turning h1nther-Stork into the Flumes
. a,la ,se! !, her Wings over her young ones out
Even the cumbersome German is not able
to take the patllos out of that picture,-in-
deed, it somehow seems to strengthen it.
This item is dated awaI hack y0luler months
ago. / could have used it sooner, but / was
waiting to hear from the Father-Stork. I am
"Aiso !'' If I have not shown that the
German is difficult language, have at least
intended 10 do it. have heard Of an Amer
lean student who was asked how he was
getting along with his German, and who an
swered promptly: - am not getting along
at all. I have worked at it hard for three
level months, and all I have got to show:
for it is one solitary German phrase
tZ7rci 0lus'' 1.-TWO glasses Of beer. lie
paused amoment, retlectively, then added
with feeling, But 1'ye got that solid ~
And If I have not a also SHOWN that German
ecution has been at fault, and not my intent.
I. heard lately Of a worn and surely tried
American student who used to fly to Ger
tain German word for relief when he could
bear up under his RESERVATIONS no longer,-;
e cry we,H 1T precios to his a
healing to his laGerateu spirit. This WAS the
word DlHtlt. It WAS oli1y the s0al7lu that
helped hi'n not me en- hieamlns an Mnd so, at last.
when lie learned ihal lle emphasis was not
on the rst sy!%ole ,,t T. hts ody stay and sup
port was gone, anu Ie laueu away anu 1lea;
| think that description OF any loud,
stirring, tunlultuouS eRls0ue must be tanner
IN German than Ill Ehslsh. our descrlp-
tive words OF TINS enafacter snit nave ave :, sucA
German equivalents % @ seem 50 thin, and
mild, and enerGyless', boon, DuIst, craSh,
roar, storm, bclloW, oloW, thunder, eXplo-
sion, howl, cry, shonl; yell, eroan; Dattle,
hell. THESE are nagnlucenl words, ,taey
naye fofce ana ,,I,ini, atfu,e tha 1l snund oe
their German equlvAlents would pc ever
so nice to sing Inc chl!dren 10 steep
with, or else my awe-lf1spir1ng ears were
made for display anu no5 1or superior USE
t.a IS "a IA baf{e Which % caed a1 ~
50 %';ai tame term as Se5.laehtS Or woald not
a aconsumptlve feel TOO my much bundled Up.
who was about to go out, IN shlrt collar
and seal ring, into storm which the bird
song word Gctolttcr vas employed to
describe Ad ene 5trongeSe Gd 1ne
several Gernlan equlialEgnts ~ TOT eSPloslon,-
4usbruch; Our word Ioothbrustl IS more
powerful than that IL seems 70 me tnat the
Germans could 10 worse than import u INTO
their language 70 aeScrlDe parllcnlarly ire
lllen.iots explosions WIN, Inc .Ge[unn
than anything else; tnerelofe, no" necesSl-
rily clipper, frivolous. and untlnpresslve 1t is.
It man were told III derman TO 20 there,
could he.really rise 10 the dignity ot teellng
lnSulted?
s.;.ncus lnHse na1 1r,t. iifa fi,osa yt;rh a,i
...i1, ms i,:e ~ on1, AMI ali forms frnm mere.
VIII iote III Any & i''1t 1,,nast salIsr;, % to,xer
htity reS s+ra,a,ar ca.aE E'u r. tn,,rtshin:
those o eh WhicI deal with outdoor u Nature, in its
sotest aia we Sirs VA ",ra, tn ~
lu tvies,S' ,,s s,,nst,;na n ~ s,,m,ner and The
Etal!eG alto ,,1f,,, ~ ,,;nt,r -; ;,h1s. @ j.,
% oo1iI. tn.a " yRich dea1 w;th any and u iii
s, Mu.u, " rc+ ra,,nsa and ,n.,ca: thos.s ,isn
Wlilch aea W.' n G iast,v AMI a i nh;etiv ss.a
=, ~ +iness iaes rnr,,s wh;eh exnress nathns
=. nc 1av,.ooa surnassinr1v rich
Me tias A5uase rhara uip"Hs.uso 10 carn,sm ,,
enp.e nln 1Shich e ,ssn n,ona stranrer tn the Ian
.guage eG cry: III That shows that the sound Of
tn1a me v;t1I tr,,th and viii Exacf,less: and 50
th ta en, I'VE js infnrned and throlle the ear the
tuS f,l'.,t ~ - "A'A'eA' SA11>'
119rtt. IT., c,r.,s 4, not eoan, n he afraid tn
rona.st I nc, wnmi WHEN = Is The ris]t one: They
r,1,o.t # eevaral ti1nes If fhev Choose. That
s IS wise. - M But in in EngIisll. when we have used
Il word couple of times in a paragraph, we
i,nagine wt. ART. growing Pathological, and so
We ire weak enough to exchange it for some
nfi,er ward. which ouiy apuroxin,ates exact
,,css tn eseane what We Wrongly fancy is a
greater hlemish. Repetition may be bad, but
snreiv ineyactness Is worse,
., ,>,a.,o - tho ,,orta ,p1o ,r;,,
IAeto are PeoplG 1f 80 liz w. W. .'',+ Nc tha
takE Efeat el ~ .to"IS ~ poa4v ,d c +hn',
lau!is ~ ~ ~ n,t s,',1.
go NlS anun. ,n un' an' ,sof ,Iat t;nd ~
gesIns any M +1.,t ~ 'tt'a t'a f.aro,,
peisoi. mt'e ';na s'Mm W. War. | vol % ar,
ready to reform it At 1east am an ready, TO
MAKE Tile proper Suege9tluu1's. t outh cpu4eT .4
as TINS might be lhlh9uese IN a1olnet, W. !
nave deEotea up"Alu2s ~ na1le ~ ts;,
1rst ana lasl, 10 eaielut anu cl,.;cd atuu,
81 TINS tongue, ana tnuS Sse y eo,.
ndehee u ny tnlitH ~ ;Lti ae.ytt ,'fnn; ~
mere supeillcla1 cu1lu eo"1o LID &c"
upon me. ,, $780,. H..
LII The flTSt place. N0ulu leaSG Dub LIE