Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-04


preparing for college. and three for
course of professional study; a fisherman's
outfit is rod, line and hook, and the
dude is fully equipped when he has an i'll
| fitting suit of clothes, an eyeglass and a
cane. A journal has three departments,
the editorial, mechanical and business.
Judas betrayed the Saviour for three
times ten pieces of silver The national
flag and the BARRIERS pole have three col
ors each, three-story houses are most
numerous. lemons, sugar and water are
the ingredients of a refreshing drink. \
pretty objection to three is found in the
lines
How happy could / be with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away.
A major generals coat has two rows OF
buttons arranged in groups of three each,
and the shoulder strap of lieutenant
general has three stars. Triweekly pa
pers are common, the solar system has the
sun, the planets and their attendant
moons. Matter exists in three states, the
solid, the liquid and the gaseous. Two
malefactOrs were crucihed with Christ;
pen. ink and paper are needed for writing,
and Methodist Church ministers may
serve three years in one church. We have
triple expansion engines, there are three
series of strata in geology called the
Trias. In trice, or while you count
three and one, two, three, fire or go, are
common expressions The three ships of
Columbus. the ancient trireme, craft
with three banks of oars the three barley
cOrns which make the inch, the three feet
in Il yard and the three miles making
league are familiar matters. Triglyph.
trigraph. triclinic, tridactylous, trien-
NAL. trifallowing, trimester, tripctalous,
triphthong. triplet. tripod. trisyllable, tri-
umvir are only Il few of the one thousand
words in the English language which
have tri as Il first syllable. In mathemat-
les we have three dimensions of extension,
length. breadth and thickness. Three
compounded with such words as leaved.
bodied, coated, legged. toed, stringed,
makes many words. TrilObitc, trilobatc,
tri-lemma and trihedral are much used
words. a speech has a beginning, mid
die and an end. Triumvirs and the tri
umvirate are mentioned many times in
ancient history England. Ireland and
Scotland constitute Great Britain, GALL
nacious birds have three toes. Europe,
Asia and Africa constitute the Eastern
hemisphere, or the old world. and North.
Central and South America constitute
the new world. In the philosophy of
C0mte the assumption is that the dcvel-
opment of mind has three stages, the theo-
logical. or supernatural. then the meta
physical and lastly the positive, in which
the mind rests in the observation and
classification of phenomenal This is call
ed the law of the three stages. The ''song
of the three children is an addition b.
the Apocrypha purportnS to be the prayer
and song of the three Hebrews imshe fiery
furnace. Certain fevers run three weeks.
the tricycle. and the three horses attached
To Russian vehicles and the three wickets
of the cricket game are well known. The
Pythian sat on Il three-legged stool. We
usually have three meals day, and on
public work and in mines days work is
usually done in three shifts of eight
hours each. The sun is Sol, Apollo and
Liber, and the moon is Luna, Diana and
Hecate. The Sabines prayed three times
day, and Mohammedans do likewise.
Three years is IL common term of service
for members of municipal boards. Old
medical books tell of remedies to be shak-
eli three times, To be filtered three times
into three dishes or bottles, and to be
taken or applied three times To effect n
cure. At the surface of the earth we
have air. land and wafer Two eyes and
one mouth make the three flat openings
of the face, and the ears and nose make
the projecting features of the head Yes
tcrday. to-day and forever. or the past,
present and future. constitute the three
common divisions of duration. Bread,
meat and potatoes comprise the leading
articles of our food, and water, tea and
coffee are our common drinks. The prom
inent features of Il meeting of an aid or
sewing society are giggle. gable and COB
bic, and Il circle may be made to pass
through any three points not in the same
straight line, and Il Masonic blue lodge
confcrs three degrees.
The three LIS, Lead, latitude and look
out is Il phrase used by seamen and
comprises Il careful use of the first iii
sounding, knowledge of the second
and a vigilant performance of the
third. for in this way accidents
Mt sea can largely be avoided. 'The
three sisters is name merely for
the three fates, ClothO. Lachesis and
Atropos; the three furies were TisphOne.
Alccto and Mcgacra. We also have
what is known as the ''three-feld sys
tenn" and 1.-The three estates" were orig
inally n division of the population into
nobility, clergy and the people, but now in
Great Britain into lords temporal. lords
| spiritual and commons. We have 1.-The
| three wire system" of distributing con-
ductors TO economize the cost of copper
| The phrase three trees was long used
for the gallows, consisting as it did of two
uprights and n cross piece. All are famil-
lar with three coat work in painting and
plasterng. also with the rule of three in
arithmetic, three per cents. three decker
ships and brains and three ply carpets.
''Thrce hours service. three hours
agony, is n church service held on Good
! Friday in Roman Catholic and in many
Anglican churches in commemoraton of
Christs sufferings on the cross from noon
to three o'clock. the time answering TO
that recorded in the gospel of St. Mat
thew. We have the harmonic triads, and
| the three kings of Cologne, Il name given
to the three wise men from the East y
| (,aSpur Roltho zor and Nelchior '"rhree