The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-20

n pfOIuDeFalltt IN III tlIeTNfottICts
Ethereal is something relating TO the
| lower regions"
"A somnambulst is man that talks when
| you don't know where he U.s."
We may sometimes find ourselves taken
unawares by such information as
"A pully is a sort Of chickin."
"A rattle is kind of gun"
Ventilation is letting in contaminated
air."
Justification is moving tho jaws all
round"
"Alkalie is acids mixed up"
"a rehearsal is what they have at fu-
neral"
'Gladialors grow in my mas garden"
"An inccndiary is when you go round
preaching and singing hims."
'EXpostulation is TO have the smallpox,
and
"A turbot Is kind OF rhetorical style"
''Thc Romans had made no naval conquest
because they possessed no feet
"The soldiers marched down the hill pan
taloon after pantaloon.'
Carthage was taken by Cicero who was
set on fire and continued TO rage for seven
teen days"
The Crusades were millinery expeditions
undertaken by the Christians"
The cotton-gin was invaded by Whitney
in 1904"
AT the close Of the last war the Federal
army nominated ana numbered 100000
men"
"The Indians were Of weak constitution
and morality was great among them"
"Whon the news OF the Stamp Act arrived
Boston was muiilcd and rang u funeral
peal"
What one young victim, with uncon-
scious sarcasm, called "thc sins Of num-
bcrs' has produced and is producing far
more than its fair share OF bewilderment
and torment among the young. 1t would
really seem sometimes rs though the
makers Of arithmctics were kind OF en-
venomcd misogynists. who took malgn
pleasure in setting traps for the feet OF
the children, and in confusing them with
problems the solution OF which can under
no conceivable circumstances be OF future
use 10 them. Here are some OF the pro-
ducts OF the patent methods in use:
satisfaction Is the minucnd and the sub
stmctcd end
when there are equal numbers II Is called
multiplication.
"a partial product is one OF the things
you multiply WITH
"A quOticnt Is prime fncter and h always
q number or some part of a number
- composite number Is just the same rs
prime fnclcr."
Eagles dimes and mills make all q mans
money, aud sometimes ho las not got any
Mills
And ngnil:
brokerage is the allowance for the brakor-
ngc and lCckcrngc 81 bottles
Insurance is when you die or burn up
your money aud the insurance Office pays
you for IT,"
Exchange IN Europe Is when you go
through London, Paris aud places"
when you exchange money all you have
To d0 is Ia get the right change
The payment II note on the back is
called an enforcement
Accurate interest Is according TO the
number Of dates, the days, nnd the intrcst."
~This is how tho young idea catches on"
10 the explanations OF business transactions
and methods given IL in school, aud how
1t develops Us mathematical capacity.
"Thc metric system Of waits aud measures
It's just coming into fashion In the u.
States
Perhaps other equally pcrspicacious def
nitions came into fashion when current
practice" made a start In this wrong di-
rcction.
III there arc no units In a number You
have 20 OIL Il up with all zeros."
Units Of any order are expressed by writ
ing Ia the place of the ORDER
"A factor Il sometimes a faction" and
sometimes IL makes an equal amount Of
trouble
III fractions have a common dcnomirator,
lind the difference IN the denomination"
Interest ON interest II coniound interest, ="
though a man may sometimes be couiUundcd
by getting neither principal nor interest
Vet the principal Is, after al, Of very little
account II
Principal & not valuable like interest
and Is never paid"
The rule Tor proportion Is to multiply 1t
ly 40 the terms"
Reader, NJ history m,v think That they
understand the motive ~ Wa Tyler vii,
headed rebellion against Parliament 900
years ago. The hero ot this insurrcutiun il
sct forth by q pupil "a,
"Mhnt Tyler was a taNmthorcr In the
rrign OF Richard H. Aud when We learn
/ that
"a Pole tax u laid on top n your head. 4"
We cannot -D much wonder That hc found
| 10000 mrn ready io resent the injury.
| though. after nll that u not 20 bad ~ a bat.
| tlc.uN applied a. the same place.
You can lind hypothesis u YOU have
/ q base perpendicular although that may
/ depend somewhat upon What Kind u a hy.
poth,.i. you desire 10 lind
when you multiply two numbers to-
ruthcr they bad lu .hi tu hU Just equal But
Thug. ARE not always what they ought TO
hg, even ln The exact sciences
The parties are bound together IN insu.
rance hy policy not the only parties who
nppcar To be- bound together in the same
/ wsy
''Thc underwriters are the SURF parties q"
"a tax un u man h called poll taN when
/ lie hls mot any pfuporty'
NO mau Will live long enough t1 be- Co.,.
snrrl unless lac has great expectation u
life"
Children arr taught much grammar. on
| the theory that this b. the only way by
/ which 90 master the construction 81
q language. How often they comprehend
/ the explanations they learn may bc gath
cred from such definitions ~ follows
AN adjective tells you all about g."
| Eureka AZ Last We can solve the riddle OF
/ the painful earth in totally unexpected
/ mauner. IAN aInutit'" What cnmfnrl Tor
! the curious in that short aud simple SEN.
! tonrt Truly There is more in THIS much
| abused science than NJ first appears but
| when wc learn fmm the next paper that
'Au adjective ~ nn objection to some.
| thi We are hun.cd with painful
| duU.ls o. IN che rial individuality aud use.
| iuiuC.- ut this particular aurt ui worl.
An alyvfb ~ SOME slu 81 n verb put
/ onto another Kind OF aNcrb 20 tell something
| about i''
"Ad,crb.hlc phrase D. when you have a
sentence and YOU siy something hoo h about
something aud iis hiVyrb inst,d nf n noun
OF ptunuun ur verb or adriiyc than its ud-
! ,DrhlH phrase
Like "ropr Io," thls boy might have said
] With fruth Il m a.TfbU. a. Ia .sHlttIufW