Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-21
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Bill Nye says: 81 presume that | cOult
write an entire library of personal reminls
cences relative to the eminent people with
whom l have been thrown during a busy
life, but I hate to do it, because l always
regarded such things as sacred from the
vulgar eyes, and felt bound to respect the
confidence Of a prominent man just as much
as would that of one who was less before
the people.
81 remember very well my first meeting
with General w. n. Sherman. | would
not mention it here if it were not for the
fact that the people seem to be yearning fol
personal "reminiscences Of great men, anc
that is perfectly right, too.
"It was since the war that | met General
Sherman, and it was on the line of the
Union Pacific Railway, at one of those just
ly celebrated eating houses, which un.
derstand are now abandoned. The colored
waiter had cut off a strip Of the omelette
with pair of shears, the scorched oatmeal
had been passed around, the little rubber
door mats fried in butter and called pan.
cakes had been dealt around the table, and
the cashier at the end of the hall had just
gone through the clothes of party from
Vermont, who claimed a rebate on the
ground that the waiter refused to bring him
anything but his bill. There was no sound
in the dinning room except the weak re-
quest of the coffee for more air and stimu'
Iants, or perhaps the cry of pain when 5[ the
butter, while practicing with the dumb-bells
would hit child on the head; then all
would be still again.
"General Sherman sat at one end of the
table, throwing a life preserver to fly in
the milk pitcher.
ave had never met before, though fol
wears we had been plOdding along life's
rugged way-he in the War Department,
in the Post Office Department. Unknown
to each other we had been holding up op'
poste corners of the great national fabric, il
you will allow me that expression.
81 remember, as we'll as though it were
yesterday, how the conversation began
General Sherman looked sternly at me and
said:
81 wish you would overpower that but
ter and send it up this way
"All right said /, IF you will please
pass those mOlasses.'
''That is all that was said, but / shal
never forget it, and probably he never will
The conversation was brief, but yet how
full of food for thought! How true, how
earnest, how natural! Nothing stilted OF
false about it. 1t was the natural expires
sion of two minds that were too great to be
verbose or to monkey with social, conver
sational fap-doodle."
A LIST OF LONG WORDS.-A correspOn
dent of the st. Louis Republican asked fol
the longest word in the English language
There have been large number of answers
some of them quite amusing. Here is
list of words. with the number Of letters ir
each: Philoprogenitiveness, 20; incompre
hensibleness, 20; disproportionableness, q
uticonStituti0nalist,2 81; ; honorifcibilitudin
ity, %; Velocipedestrianistical, %; Tran
observation-disclosures, %; Proantitiansubstan
tiationist, %.
Only the first three words are to be fount
in the last edition of Webster's dictionary
and Observation-Disclosures is undoubtedly
the longest word in that volume. The cor
respondent who originated honorificibilitu
dinity defines it as honorabeness, but j
certainly has not hOnOrableness enough t.
entitle it to nest in the unabridged. We
Ocipedestranistical likewise lacks age anc
respectfully, but it might find its way
into Webster in time; it certainly has gooc
locomotive powers. Suticonstitutionais
is doubtful, and we do not believe even {
mandamus would get ii into the dictionary
Observation-Disclosures might get there i
Webster wasn't looking. The man who in
vented oantitianStantlationist says it is {
SOOu LHSllSn WOIu, ueIlNeu llOll q SIlol
and simple Latin root, and means one wht
dissents from the doctrine or dogma of th'
so-called Real Presence" That may all be
but he ought to be condemned to pronounce
the word twice day as long as he lives, i
he tries to introduce it into the speech 0
honest men.
But speaking of long words, what is tht
matter with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bwIlgerchwyrmbyl lgogerbw lzanttosiliogo
gogoch, the name of village in Wales
Rochester Post Express.