Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-14
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Last week the weather w.s coo,
really chilly but this did not ~.
vent the people of our burg from
'a"spiring or perspiring quite freely,
ana getting right down sometimes tn
tne work OF exemplifying the defini-
ton OF the more vigorous wo,d sweat.
Ihey were debating in business
houses, law Offices and on all corners
tne question Of the rightfulness Of the
decision Of the Barker DroIlinger bet
on the words transpire and perspire,
ana their meaning as compared with
sweat. The debaters would begin
with gentle perspire or transp,re.
and as they became warmed up with
the caloric Of discussion and exercise
OF jesticulation they really sweat;
no such mild words as transpire or
perspire would express the copious
outpour OF moisture from excretories
OF the skin. In Banner this discus.
sion led to big bet, the decision of
the bet brought on a difficulty in
which miners candle stick played
part and drew blood, and this led
TO case of assault and battery be-
fore Judge Marsk. The transpire
question has not been legally decided,
but it is hard to tell where this thing
will end. 1t is probable that the
question of whether the money was
rightfully turned over to Barker, who
held that transpire could be properly
used for perspire, will be brought into
the Probate Court for settlement. If
IL is it will not stop there, but will
go on into the District and Supreme
Courts and then we will know wheth-
er we transpi'e as well as perspire
and sweat, from a legal standpoint.
Webster is not perfectly clear in de-
fining the three words, and to decide
a oct of the kind mentioned great
deal would depend on the exact word
ing OF the proposition on which the
bet was made. There is not an agree
ment all round as to the precise ba-
sis ON which the wager was made.
The word sweat can properly be used
for one definition Of perspire, one
definition of transpire agrees with
one given of perspire, but whether
transpire can be used in any sense
for sweat is debatable. To transpire
is to emit through the excretories of
the skin; again it is to emit through
the excretories of the skin in an in
sensible vapor. If to "emit through
the excretories of the skin J"
would include a fluid as we'll as a
vapor, transpire could be used for
sweat very properly. Another ques-
ton is-does the second sentence
qualify the first, both coming under
one definition? Some would claim it
does, while others would contend that
to emit through the excretores of the
skin would not limit the meaning of
the word to an insensible vapor-
that if it was to be so limited the
first sentence of the definition would
have been omitted; that it would
be superfuous, and there would be
no necessity for any but the last SEN
tence defining the word; that if the
second is the precise definition and
limits the meaning, the first is super
fluous and misleading, and it would
hardly be placed there if the second
is intended to wipe out its expressed
meaning. This is debatable ground.
To sweat is "to cause to excrete
moisture from the skin; to emit or
suffer to flow from the pores; to ex-
ude. Now if insensible vapor " is
moisture you can transpire instead OF
sweat, and so you can if vapor can
properly be said to be emitted, or to
Aow. There are other definitions OF
sweat which differ considerably from
those of transpire, but these do not
affect the definitions given. Now,
another definition of transpire closes
with this illustration: GAS, fluids
transpire from the human body" 1t
would appear that transpire and per-
snire mean the same as sweat. 10
sweat does not necessarily imply that
sufficient moisture must be emitted
to form liquid drops. If you sweat
copiously, you just simply sweat, or
perspire, and probably transp're'
freely, but if you sweat mildly you
transpire or perspire. There is scarce
" any room for doubt that perspire
can be used for sweat, transpire for
nerspire, and transpire for sweat, TAX
;no certain definitions of the two