The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-10

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Were t'other lear charmer away
A major generals cont has two rows u
buttons arranged In groups OF three eau,
and the shoulder strap OF u heute"""'
general has three stars. Triweekiy p"
pers are common, the solar system mas '"'
sun, the planets and their attehuah,
moons. Matter exists in three states, th'
solid. the LIQUID and the gaseous. IVY
maIefactors were crucihed with ChrlSti
men. 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 thres
seriea OF strata in geology called the
Trims. In a trice, or while you couh'
three, and one, two, three, hre or 60 "rs
common expressions. The three ships o.
Columbus, the ancient trireme, O crai'
with three banks Of oars, the three oariey,
corns which make the inch, the three tee'
In a yard and the three miles making q
league are familiar matters. Triglypht
trigraph, triclinlc, tridactylous' t,ienf
nial, trifallowing, trimester, tripetaious
t%riphthong, triplet, tripod, trisyllaOie' 'ri
umyir are only u few of the one thousahe
words in the English language Whicl
have tri as a first syllable. In mathemao
les we have three dimensions OF extension
length, breadth and thickness. IhFe'
compounded with such words ns leaVed
bodied, coated, legged, toed, stringed
makes many words. Trilobite, trilobate
tri-lemma and trihedral are much USED
words. A speech has n beginning, a mld'
die and an end. Triumyirs and the tri'
umyirate are mentioned many times IN
ancient history. England, Ireland ana
Scotland constitute Great Britain, gallf
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 oil
Comte the assumption is that the deyel'
opment of mind has three stages, the thee
logical, or supernatural, then the meta
physical and lastly the positive, in when
the mind rests in the observation ana
classification of phenomena. This is call
ed the law Of the three stages. The SONG
of the three children" Is an addition to
the ApOerypha %purporting to be the prayer
and song Of the three Hebrews in the merry
furnace. Certain feyers 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 a three-legged stool. we
usually have three meals q day, II on
public work and in mines n 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
n day, and Mohammedans do likewise.
Three years is a common term of service
for members of municipal boards. Old
medical books tell Of remedies to be shak.
en- three times, to be filtered three times
into three dishes or bottles, and to be
taken or applied three times to effect a
cure. At the surface of the earth we
AVE air, land and water. Two eyes and
one mouth make the three fiat openings
of the face, and the ears and nose make
the projecting features of the head. Yes
terday, to-da" and forever, or the past,
present md 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 q meeting of an aid OF
sewing society are giggle, gable and COB
BILE, and a circle may be made to pasi
through any three points not in the same
straight line, and a Masonic blue Lodge
confers three degrees.
The three LIS, Lead, latitude and look
Sut," is a phrase used by seamen and
comprises a careful use of the first in
sounding, a knowledge of the second
and a yigilant performance of the
third, for in this way accidents
at sea can largely be avoided. THE
three sisters" is a name merely for
the three fates, Clotho, Lachesis and
Atropos: the three furies were Tisiphone.
Alecto and Megaera. We also have
what Is known as the "three-field sys-
tenn" and 1.-The three estates" were orig
inally a division of the population into
nobility. clergy and the people, but now in
Great Britain into lords temporal, lords
spiritual and m We have 'the
three wire system" of distributing con
ductors to economic the cost of copper.
The phrase three trees was long used
for the gallows, consisting as 1t did of two
uprights and a cross piece. All are famil-
lar with three coat work in painting and
plastering, also with the rule of three in
uiituhttiNt hlt PO& tCitbl thicc ucCkGI
ships and brains and three ply carpets.
"Three hours" service, three hours
agony, Is a church service held on Good
Friday In Roman Catholic and in many
Anglican churches in commemoratien Of
Christ's 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. a name given
to the three wise men from the East"
Gaspar, Balthazar and Melchior. "Three
sheets in the wind" Is a common express
sion for drunk" or very tipsy. The TH-
sagion Is a hymn Of the early oriental
churches. The anthem used In the An
glican burial service beginning: 'Yet,
o Lord, God, Most Holy" represents a
form Of the 'trisagiop." The triads Of
Hegel were supposed to have introduced
a harmony into his transcendental philo-
sophy. The Trivium. q term onss much
used, consisted of three parts, grammar,
rhetoric and logic. Gunpowdsr h made
Of sulphur, charcoal and saltpeter. The
three graces, the tricycle., tsiplete, trieeps
muscles, trio, trinitarianism are examples
of the common use of the number three.
The thunderbolts Of Joys, the trident Of
Neptune. the tisula of Silva and the hay
forks used by farmers have thres pnonga
or tines. Man has a thorax and twA arms
moving a triple arrangement Of torn. TAs
expression, 'the three chaptsfs,s has ret
erence to an edict Of ~Juatutan. A. b. MH.
which condemned the Writings oS Thso-
doret, Theodore and Cyft. yhs sTArss
FS' refer to the demands e4 the hish
Land League for fair rent, frss sale and
kitty Of tenure. All arc familiar with
What is known as the three 81, Realm;
Ritin' and Rithmetic. Thea there q thse1
rard monte, the three NJ brace and thu
three mile water line from the shore Of
'eas which a country. bounded by q sea,
controls, the waters beyond this thres
nile limit being open sea. The triassic ID
the lower of three geologic formations OF
fossiliferous rocks above the Permian and
be Jurassic. Running through