The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-02-28

"A sling is something made from an
old SHOE is evidently an original declar-
alton, and not borrowed from books, but
there is suspicious flavor about 'Teu-.
tonic, very strong sort of spring medl-
cine.'
} "A definition is something you find
out
{" 'Headstrong is to drink too much
whiskey.'
" Frantic is something up in the gar
ret
Language and thought are INSOFAR
able says Max Muller. Words with.
out thoughts are dead sounds; thoughts
without words are nothing. The word
is the thought incarnate.' as, for in
stance
"a protuberance is an effervescence.
Ethereal is something relating to
the lower regions
"a somnambulist is man that talks
when you don't know where he is.'
"a pully is sort of chicken.
"A rattle is kind of gun.
Ventilation is letting in contami-
mated arr
{" 'Mastication is moving the jaws all
round
'Akalie is acids mixed up
ga rehearsal is what they have at
funeral
'Gladiators grow in my mas garden.
"'An incendiary is when you go
round preaching and singing hims,
'Expostulation is to have the small
pox.' .
"A turbot is a kind of rhetorical
style
1.-the Romans had made no naval
conquests because they possessed no
feet
1.-The soldiers marched down the hill
pantaIoon after pantaloon.'
"'Ca thage was taken by Cicero who
was set on fire and continued to rage for
seventeen days
"The Crusades we're military expedl
tious undertaken by the Christians
"'The cotton gin was invented by
Whitney in 1894
"'At the close of the last war the
Federal Army nominated and numbered
one million men,
The Indians were of weak consti-
tuition and morality was great among
them.
"When the news of the Stamp Act
arrived Boston was muffied and rang a
funeral peal.
Brokerage is the allowance for the
brokerage and leekerage of bottles
" Insurance is when you die or burn
up your money and the insurance office
pays you for it,
" Exchange in Europe is when you
go through London, Paris and other
places
"'When you exchange money all you
have to do Is to get the right change
" The payment of note on the back
is called an enforcement.
"Accurate interest is according to
the number of dates, the days, and the
intrest.'
1.-The metric system of waits and
measures. Its just acoming into fashion
in the U. States.'
IF there are no units in number
you have to fill it up with all zeros.'
"'Uuits of any order are expressed by
} writing in the place of the order
"a factor is sometimes a faction,
} and sometimes it makes an equal
amount of trouble,
"'If fractions have a common denom-
inator, find the difference in the denom-
inator.'
Interest on interest is confound in
terest, tho man may sometimes be
confounded by getting neither principal
nor interest. Yet the principal is, after
all of very little account if
"'Principal is not valuable like inter
est and is never paid
1.-The rule for proportion is to multi.
ply it by all the terms
Readers of history may think that
they understand the motive nf Wat Ty-
Ter, who headed rebellion against Par
lament five hundred years ago. The
hero of this insurrection Is set forth by a
pupil as
"'What Tyler was a taxgatherer in
the reign of Richard Second And
when we learn that
"a Pole tax is laid on top Of your
head we cannot so much wonder that
he found a hundred thousand men ready
o resent the injury, tho after all, that
ls not SO bad as battle-ax applied to the
same place.
"'You can find hypothesis if you
have base perpendicular
"When you multiply two numbers
together they had ought to be just
quail
:" The underwriters are the same
parties
"a tax on q man is called a poll tax
when he has not any property
"'No man will live long enough to be
ensured unless he has great expectation
Of life.'
"An sdjectiv tells you all about it,"
"An adjective is an objection to
something we are harrassed with PAIN
ful doubts as to the real individuality
and usefulness of this particular sort Of
word.
"'An adverb is some sort Of a verb
put onto another kind Of verb to tell
something about it,
"Adverblble phrase Is when you
have a sentence and you say something
in 1t about something and it's a adverb
instead of a noun or pronoun or verb or
, adjective than its adverble phrase
! 1.-The difference between a phrase
and claus is the phrase can be in the
claus and sometimes il is
"'NOuns denOting male and female
and things without sex is neuter.'
"The COW jumped over the fence is a
transive nuter verb because fence isent
the name of any thing and has no sex
"a masculine noun is third person
plural number and has no neuter because
1t has no gender SEX
1.-The degrees of comparison Is
study you study we studys.'
"'He speaks lowly lowly Is a ajectIv
of how he speaks and is derived from
low and compared low lowing lowerest.
"'Voice is the changing Of our voice.
When we get hoars we haven't much Of
a voice.
The indicitive mood represents the
verb as acting or going to. shall CO.
"'Tne potential mood shows some
thing that may can or must be done.
might tsy.'
1.-The subjunctive represents the verb
as possibly it might be done. II can,
J THE initiative is when the verb is
going TO, To dress YOU must hurry