New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-28
.Uuits Of any order ara expressed BY writing

~ factor is sometimes . fsotien," and some
| times it makes an equal amount OF trounic
| II fractions have a common Genomlnators
| find the difference in the denomination
| Interest on interest is confound interest,"
| though a man may sometimes DC conioundco Nv
! getting neither principal nor interest let inc
nrinoinal is after all of very little account II
Principal is not valuable like interest and
| is never paid =. .r
The rule for proportion Is 10 muiupS ~ W
all the terms" =,
Readers of history may think that they under
stand the motive of Wat Tyler. VINO neaoe oa a
rebellion against Parliament five hundred years
ago. The hero Of this insurrection is set forth
what Tyler was taxgatherer in, the reign
of Richard Second" And when we learn that
A Pole tax is laid Oh top of your head we
cannot so much wonder that he found hundred
thousand men ready to resent the injury, though
after all that is not so bad as battle-ax apphed
Yon can find a hypothesis if you have base
perpendicular, although that may depend some
what upon what kind of hypothesis you desire
When YOU multiply two numbers together
they had ought to be inst equal But things
are not always what they ought TO be, even ln
The parties are bound together in insurance
by policy" not the only parties who appear TO
be bound together in the same way
1.-THE underwriters the sure parties,
"A tax man is called poll tax when he
has not any property ,.,
mo man will live long enough TO be ensured
unless he has great expectation OF nie"
Children are taught much grammar, on the theory
that this is the only way by which to master the
construction of language. How often they COM
prehend the explanations they learn may be
gathered from such definitions as follow:
IAN adectiv tells you all about it." Eureka
At last we can solve the riddle Of the painful
earth, in a totally unexpected manner All
about it'll" What comfort for the curious in
that short and simple sentence. Truly, there IS
in hic mi huC p1
appears; but when we learn from the next paper
that
we are harassed with painful doubts as to the
real individuality and usefulness Of this particu-
lar sort of word
another kind of verb to tell something about
Adverbiblc phrase is when you have SEN
fence and YOU say something in it about some
thing and its adverb instcd of a noun o. pro-
non or verb or adjective than It's adverple
phrase
with truth I'm a-gropn. a-gropin."
THE difference between phrase and claus
It i i fhs phrase can IN 'n' 'l'u' an" SOMETIMES
One can hardly help specializing as to where
the phrase is when it is not in " the claus"
A conjunction is your very much surprised
at something"
Possibly at the definition.
"A interiection is throwing words in son
tence dear is intersection because you can't
pass it with anything"
Here are some more specimens of grammatical
definition.
"NounS denoting male and female and things
without sex is neuter'
"The cow jumped over tho fence is transivc
nuter verb because fence isenG the name o. any
thing and has no SEX"
A masculine noun is third person plural
number and has no neuter because 1t has Nd
gender sex"
THE degrees of comparison is I study you
study studys.7
4" lie speaks lowlv lowly is aiectiv of how he
speaks and is deprived from low and compard
low lowing lowerest"
Voice is the changing of our voice. We
have high and low voice. When we get hoars
we haven't much of voice
"The indicitivc mood represents the verb as
acting or going to. shall GO
The potential mode shows something that
may can or must be done. / m ght stay
The subiunctive represents the verb as pos
sibly it might be done If / can
" The infntivc is when the verb is going 10.
To dress you must hurry"
"TL- imperative is word in commanding
form. You shall"
1t is especially to be observed that children
learn to speak good English by learning grammar
They invariably retain the manner of speech which
they brought TO school, and which is that of the
social class to which they belong and whose mode
of talking they follow as a matter of course In
all the quoted grotesqucness here it will be seen
that the writers composed their answers and deini
tons in their vernacular-that is, in the speech of
their native streets-and not in such language as the
acquisition of grammatical knowledge is altogether
enormously, supposed to impart But if grammar
does not shine through its products no moro c.n
be said of geography as she is taught" to Judge
from the following examples:
"The interior of Africa is principally used for
purposes of exploration"
4 fpio hoe infnr "
plore it,"
The Nile is in New-Ycrk a country of Africa,
In some other statements we receive the fuil
value of " the sign" yet hardly grasp the
thing signifed"
The Gulf of St Lawrence rises in Itaska
Lake and empties into Mississippi
San Francisco is river in Brazil
The capital of Kentucky is Frankfort on
the Maine
Alexandria is the capitol of Russia
Another feature of this country is that
THE serfs Of Russia is lttlo animals all
white except the tips of their tails which is black
The CatslIili mountains are also in Russia
London is the largest city Of the United
States or Russia France"
If that particular pupil should guess again"
he might hit it,
One might we'll find himself in Egyptian
darkness" if
Egypt is in SYRIA" and
Syria is kind Of turpentine.'
Some persons may he surprised to find that
The greater antills are sugar, oranges, coffee
An alligator is the largest insect in North
America
Leopards. tigers, and elephants inhabit
North America
The camel grows in Greenland
There is snakes all over the frigid zone"
Bears are the growth Of tropical countries
The tropics produce great many kinds OF
wild beasts and figs"
Some geographical statements tend TO broaden
views. For instance,
"The climate of country is trading wth
other countries"
Domestic commerce is fishing. Foreign com
merce is fishing with pole"
Once in while child stumb!es upon express
Sions which might almost arouse suspicion of al
double meaning, as for instance when one wrote
The rapid growth of New-York City as a com
mercial centre can be accounted for by the fact
that Castle Garden is located there" But what is