The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26

which, by comparison with the numbers above. it will appear that little Grace on her day of trial used about one-eighth of the nouns she knew. Of her total stock ofv erbs more than one-fourth, of her available adjectIves leses than a third, of her adverbs nearly a half more than half her propositions and nearly all her pronouns and conjune- tions.
 Professor zJegi's next figures refer to the vocabulary of a child six years old. He puts this down at forty-six hundred different words. and bases the estimate on the records kept by Mrs. Wingield Hall in the case of little Albert Hall.
 During the first six months that AL bert was six years old" says Mrs. Hall, paper and pencil were distributed all over the house and practically every thing that the child said was written down. After two or three dayse these were collected and the words put under their respective letters in a book kept for the purpose"
 The next step was to get an estimate of the voca bulary of an average school boy in the early teens. Mir. Jegi exam ined the compositions written by ten pupils of the pupils of the eighth school grade. The written matter averaged during the year forty pages for each pupil, and the summaries showed that each used from 1900 to 2,500 different words. The professor, in view of the very restricted range of composition subjects and the fact that a boy within that range could not in the space of for 1 ty pages use nearly all the words he
 knew, felt safe in multiplying these fig
 ures by four, and, saying that the vo- cabulary of an average boy of fourteen would range from seven to ten thousand different words. Then the investigator i got a normal student aged nine teen to l give him an estimate of his vocabulary
 "TIe took" says Professor Jegi, Webs
 ters International dictionary, and, go- l ing through it conscientiously marked each word which he remembered having
 used. He was thoroughly honest about lit.'' The result was for such young man sixteen different words. Finally
 Professor Jegi got another professor tc give his estimate of the number oi words in his (the other professor's) vo- I cabulary, and the figure was put al thirty-three thousand different words Then from this professors observations and his own Professor Jegi ventured tc
 put the vocabulary of man of ordina- Try culture'' at twenty-five thousand diff ferent words, exclusive of all proper nouns and scientific terms.
 Hence the following summary: Child of two years-- 200 different words.
 Child of four years 1900 different words.
 ] Child of six years-4,Ooo differen words.
 Pupil in eighth grade, fourteen years l-S,OOO different words.
 Student of twenty years attending normal school-1eO0O different words. Man of ordinary culture-25,O 900 differ ent words.
 Learned nan-Ss, 900 different words
 All of which, when it is recalled tha
 Shakespeare, according to Professol Swinton, used only fifteen thousand words, Milton only eight thousand anc the Authorized Version less than si1 thousand seems in Professor Jegfl mind, eloquent of the growth of th' ] English word supply. Chiefly startling however, is the number of words at tn lcommandsof the little toddler with tn doll about whom the question was asket at the beginning g.-New York Times.