Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-08-21
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COMPOUND WORDS.

COMPOUND WORDS.
The forthcoming Standard dictionary Is
expected to contain mary details OF
special merit and TO be q work OF surpas'
sing fulness and accuracy. It will be noted
with particular interest chat IN 1t a
studied attempt is to be made to solve the
perplexing problem of compounds. ms
department has been placed in the hands
of Mr.. +. Horace Teal, the author OF the
new book on The Compromising OF English
Words. Mr. Teal has been doing for
wears similar work on the Century die
tionery. His labors will be regarded with
more than common interest by that
large and growing class OF newspaper
and other writers to which the proper use
of compounds has forever been very
troublesome.
The matter is of great importance to the
language, not simply because this partlcu'
lar dictionary purposes to formulate II
system covering the subject but because
it's work will have a tendency
to cause greater thought on
the part of all toward the confusion which
is now threatening the kings English.
No uniformity whatever exists among
writer's as to the employment OF the by.
phen in c0mpounding. "To.day, ITO
morrow" northeast" 'south-west, y
corporation" and multitude Of other
words whose hypbenated form il sane
toned by Webster ere made subject to
different rnles by different writer's. There
ia an obvious learning, however, by
many Of the progressive scholars of the
present time TO use all this class of
words in the simple form, aud IN the in
terest of symmetry and beauty that form
certainly possesses q decided advantage
over that which puts the hyphen in n
thousand places whore it offers little aid to
the pronunciation and less TO the under
standing.
FARM ERs PRAYED TO FOR M ERCY
The Russian ul,ase forbidding tho OK.
portation of rye from the domains Of the
ear il heroic measure in the interest Of
sef-preaervntion and shows NJ no other
act has shown the exceptional shortage in
the breadstutl supply of Europe There
il usually a great excess over the needs in
Russia, which is relied upon by various of
the other countries of Europe to Offset
the domestic shortage. This ukase,
therefore, creates almost u panic,
especially in Germany, where rye is uni-
versally consumed and takes to n great
extent the place of wheut. In that coun
try Tho price of the two grains is now
nearly the same.
The situation abroad will prove of tire.
mcndous advantage in America, where u
bountiful crop ia being harvested, The
eyes of the people of the old world who
are now threatened with famine are
turned nppealingly to the new world. AS
"A Berlin paper well says "the farmers of
America are masters of the situation and
it is to be hoped that they will use their
strength meroifully."
Information since the above was put in
type is to the effect that in Germany rye
has actually risen above wheat in price,
while enormous quantities of the latter
cereal have been sold mt Sl0i and $l,05
per bushel Even in The American
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aud this, r. time whom
the product of e present. season
il only to limited extent ON the market
With "dolmr wheat ut this early period
there is no telling to what heights the
king cereal win take its flight in the
course of n few weeks when the harvest
will he completed and the threshiug done.
The crops even in the remote purts of
North Dakota and Minnesota are practic.
ally out of danger. An carly frost is
the only menace which merits reeogri-
ton, and there is now no indication which
will justify apprehension on that
score, The yield, it is gen
orally agreed, v i'll be enormous, 1t is
very probable that the expectation of the
most hopeful of mortals rs to the product
per acre will be more than realized
and the American surplus is
certain to aggregate several hundred
million bushels At one dollar per bushel
it can readily be believed that tn
golden stream flowing westward from
Europe ere long will be broad. deep and
ong continuous.