Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-08

Bishop F. D. Huntington, in recent ad- dress before young woman's school, spoke thus of the importance of the use of correct language: Probably there is not an instru. ment in common use. from 8 pencil to a pia no, which is used so imperfectly as language. You were well taught here, and most of you have been using the English you learned for some time since you graduated But ffsyou will let me be plain, suspected that it would be safe to offer gold medal as prize to every young lady here who will not before to-mor- row night utter some sentence that cannot be parsed; will put no singulars and plurals into forbidden connections will drop no particals double no negatives, mix no metapors tang le no parentheses, begin no statement two or three times over without finishing it, and not once construct proposition after this man. ner, When person talks like that, they ought to be ashamed of Wea all repeat and perpetuate conventional blunders and heredit- ary solecisms without once applying the study of four or five years in syntax and conjuga- tion to our current speech. Where is the re- form to begin? l say emphatically. Set about grammatic correctness, first of all. Watch yourself. Criticise yourself. Be insolerant with yourself. Get s0me house-mate to ex- pose you. Say over the thing correctly till the mistake is made impossible. It would be
 
 to finish picture out of drawing or to mis- spell the name of one of our Territories. or to mistranslate line of Virgil or to flat in music, than to confound the parts of speech in a morning call. . Nothing is to be said Tn this presence of slang. If were to exhort those who gre here on that matter, it should be only to forbearance, in that they are obliged to hear it from their ill-bred acquaintances Awful handsome and 'horrid nice and jolly oIlt t<xso weak heads and early neglect, we shall have to bear with till select and high-toned schools, like this one, have chastened the manners and elevated the spirit of the better condition ed classes and through them, the improve standard will work it's way outward and down. ward into the public schools and the homes of the people. Unexpected hyperbole is often witty; but nonsense is not nor are stale repetitions of nonsense. An ill-natured bach elor sbamelessly reports that he has entered in his diary thousand scraps of talk of young women overheard in streets and houses, of which seven hundred and eighty begin with Says I or Says he, and a hundred and twen- ty contain the combinations just splendid stuck up, and perfectly lovely"
 RELATIVE SIZE OF STATES. The figures commonly employed to indicate the area of the several States of the Union have been found to be incorrect, and the Census Bureau has issued an extra bulletin correcting the pre- vaIent errors so far as it is possible to do so from the data at hand. According to the est innate the area of the United States, exclusive of Alaska. is 3.O29 494 square miles accord ing to the new estimate it is 3,025 500, of which F, 200 are coast water of bays, gulis, sounds, &c.; IA, 500 are made up of the areas of rivers and smaller streams, and 23,900 of the area of lakes and ponds. There remains total land surface of about 3, gro, 900 squares miles. Virginia in the old estimate has a to- tal aroa of S8, 348 squares miles, in the new AZ, 45O, including total water surface of 2, 325 square mics. It is of interest to observe the wide contract in area between, for example California. with her 158, 360 square miles, and Rhode Island with ,250; or between Massa- chusetts, with 8,315 square miles, and Texas with 265, 780 Azornia has 113,020 square 149, 100. Montana 146, ,OSO. Neveda no. TOO. New Mexico 122, 58O. Delaware has 3, 15O and the District of Columbia 70. New York, which has 49, 170, is not as large as North Car oiina, which has 52, ,240, and lacks nearly 10,- 900 square miles of the area of Georgia
 According to St. Louis newspaper the Ju- dicial Conference which IS to pass upon the case of the Rev. Dr. Thomas will meet at Ierre daute, 1nQ., on NOvemDer SU. To correspondent Dr. Thomas admitted that he had been informed that this was the date of and place for holding the conference. He was vigorous and outspoken in commenting upon his work and the outlook for his case "To tell you the truth" he said, ''I am sick and tired of the whole thing, and welI-nigh disgusted with the abuse and want or argu- ment and unfairness on the part of the prose- cution, and yet, as matter of principle, hav- ing filed our appeal, we will follow the case through" When asked if there was not some question as to whether or not his appeal would be heard, inasmuch as he had continued to preach after hls suspension, he replied :s'Yes, believe there is. 1 have gone on with my work here, and whatever may be the result of the appeal. shall continue in the field. To tell you the truth, my love for MetLodism is not quite as ardent as it was six months ago. It is all l can do to keep from getting mad al the outrageous proceeding of turning man of my views out of the ChrstiaA Church, and that is about the policy of the church. don't want to stay with them One man has no chance against a whole organization. He will be represented before the Judicial Con- ference by his old counsel - Trt6nne