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In this calm haven rocked to sleep All night they swing and sway, Till mantles o'er the morning deep The golden blush of day. Here. safe from all the storms of fate, From worldly rage and scorn, Thus let me fold my hands and wait - The coming of the morn; While all night long o'er moon-lit turf The wind brings in from far The moaning of the baffled surf Athwart the harbor bar. -William Winter, in Harper's. SPOKEN ENGLISH. A Lecture Delivered by G. 3. Cromer, Esq., in the Hall of the Y. X. C. A., Oct. 17, 1882. (The following lecture was prepared by Mr. Cromer for a class of students in New berry College in 1880, in which institution be was at that time teaching:) My purpose is not to display a critical knowledge of the English Language ; it is not to recite a les son, or any number of lessons in English Grammar ; but it is to point out some abuses of the Lan guage, and try, by a few simple suggestions, to arouse in you a spirit of inquiry. Much more than I shall say you could learn from books ; but- in choosing my subject I was influenced by the fear that you will not search for it in books. I speak without the aid of authors bearing directly upon the subject of this lecture. In saying this I do iot seek to reflect credit upon myself, but simply to show that the opinions which follow are formed from actual intercourse with men and books. I shall speak of the English Language as I have seen it and heard it.; not as it has been treated by the grammarian. You well know how desirable it is to be able to speak our own lan guage with accuracy, elegance and force: it is especially desirable on the part of college students. Al though I am not inclined to think with the world, that the college graduate should be a walking En cyclopedia of universal knowledge, I do think that his attainments should be commensurate to his ad vantages, and that he ought to be able to speak his own language with at least ordinary correctness. Many scholars have indulged in extravagant praise of the beauty and richness of our language, giv ing as examples, the poems of Milton and the speeches of Burke. Viewed in this light, our language is beautiful; but take the Paradise Lost to pieces-resolve it into its elementtary parts; then take the a,b, c's, and construct a heroic poem of your o wn, and y ou will abate some what of your admiration of the EnglishbLanguage. Tbe paintings of Zeuxis were charming ; but shading and eoloring that gave ex pression to their ideal beauty were common paint. We have to do with the elements-the characters.: the subtle genius of Milton was the magic wand at whose touch the alphabet became a Paradise Lost. I am ready to admit, how ever, that no language, living or dead, is more remarkable than the English-for complexity and ir regularity. In childhood we should uncon sciously form a habit of speaking correctly were it not almost uni versally true that our parents can not, or do not, speak grammatical ly ; that we are placed in the care of nurses whose wantof a coherent language is supplied with a detest able dialect, and that we associate with persons as little cultivated as ourselves. At school we must un learn much of what we learned in early childhood ; we must learn that our parents are not infallible ; we must discard forms of speech to which in infancy we became ac customed, and begin a critical study of the language which should be our willing servant. in childbood, w'hen we should form such habits of speaking as would render the study of grammar un Decessary, our mothers fondly in form us that we are "itsy, bit.sy sings"; bail us with "cootsy, coot sy coot.a": implore us t.o show "muzzer its toofie" ; flood us wil other heathenish jargon whic only serves to prepare trouble f< the coining school waster. Afo a time we lose the voices of oi mothers and give ready ear to ti gruff, growling and less affectio ate, but more grammatical toni of the world. Whdn we rea. college, we have perhaps learnt to define the nine parts of speech and eight ot the definitions m fail to understand-we are, in of own estimation, "fraught with a "earning" ; our grammars are n< satisfactory ; our dictionaries at not uniform ; and trouble begit in real earnest. And we are ni slow to find out that one may we make the English Language, 1 which pronunciation is by r means the least difficult part, ti study of a life.time. The subject of the remarks Spoken English, but much of whi I shall say applies with equal for< to written English, which is mor exact and polished. In speakin we encounter difficulties that d not present themselves to the wi ter ; we must not only show true acquaintance with Englie grammar, but we must also pr nonoce with reasonable correo ness. Here arises the difficulty which I spoke a moment ago: % would speak correctly, but there no uniformity of pronunciatic among the best scholars of the ag Worcester claims to give the pr< nunciation approved by a majorit of the best scholars ; Webster an Walker claim the same meri Yet Worcester differs from Web ter and Walker,and Webster diffei from Walker and Worcester, c the subjeet of pronunciation. I many instances all fail to give ti pronunciation to which de are a customed ; and it is a question i my mind, how far we ought I follow the pronunciation of an Df them. It is not likely that the came very far south of Mason an Dixon's line to ascertain the pr nunciation in use among scholar at the South. Uniformity of pri nunciation is highly desirable, ba there is small probability that will ever be reached. The questio then presents itself, when doctoi disagree-w'hen orthoepists' difff -to whom shall we turn ? 1 was formerly accustomed to sa suvereignty. On hearing a gei Leman pronounce the word soye signty, I examined the dictionar' with this result: Webster, in hi Family & Counting House Diciioi ary, gives preference to the pri nunciation sovereignty ; in b Common School Dictionary, t prefers sovereign ty ; but in h Unabridged, he gives preferent to suLvereignlty. In the face of palpable a contradiction, we ai puzzled to know how to pronounc the word. Tbis, however, is a isolated instance, and as we mui have a standard to which we ca apply all words under dispute, com mend Webster, for want of better. If we would speak t.b English Language with comment able propriety, we must early fori a habit of critical observation, an make our dictionaries our.compar ions. As I have intimated, a mustgfnd out that we know muc less than many of our fellow-wet a e must dismiss, as far as v,e ma 09 able, that false pride whic would have a thing true becaus fosooth, we say it is true ; an we must be willing to get info mation from any source, for makes no difference how low tU source of knowledge may be, iti in one respect, -always high4 than those who are igncrant 4 what it gives for them. Whet ever you hear a word pronounce differently from your accustome pronunciation, hunt it down-p to your dictionary. I have fc lowed this plan with much profi In speaking to a lady, some tin ago, I used an expression som what like this: 'His is a despic; ble character.' She used the woi despicable in her answer, and ti intonation of her voice plain! said 'you mispronounce, I sa despicable.' We should not he itate about admitting that wec ten mispronounce our own la guage; indeed, it is not possib to correct our pronunciation, unt we are brought to a knowled; ot its incorrectness. ,h In studying grammar, by which h I mean a correct use of the Ian. or guage, you must study the dic ir iorary closely, to learn the true ir force and significance of words; e and you must read literally and 2. critically. Here common sense must play an important part. h Study grammar as a guide, but d make no grammar your standard. - Study the best authors, it is the e business of the grammarian to re r flect the usage of the best schol 1 ars, and I should have you to t study grammar in its source. I c find it interesting as well as pro s fitable to criticise passages from >t well known authors, in their use 111 and arrangement of words. I sug )f gest that you do this; not with o the view of doing the author e whom you criticise any injury, but for the purpose of improving your is own use of the language. To find Lt fault with an author in whom e rich truths 4bound, on account of e the inaccurate use of a few words, g would, I admit, showing the slit o tleness of carping criticism;' but i. by learning to see a writer's in a accuracies and glance, you become h able to close the links in your own y. harness. You remember, the ar row of the effeminate Paris reached )f the heel of Achilles, his only e vulnerable point; and the great 8 Grecian was laid low. 'Had the r: little crab never nibbled at the D. heel of Hercules it would not now y. hold a place among the constel. lations. I do not mean, that by d finding faults of great men, you t. will become learned or be counted 3. among the stars of~ the literary .s world ; but you will improve in n point of precision. Men of emi n nence may disregard accuracy in e small things, but it is not to be ig 3. nored by those who may never a have any other distinguishing ' merit. On the subject of grammar, I y am not willing to accept any man d as final authority. I have heard even Shakspeare quoted as au , thority on the subject, while all y. who have rightly read the great a bard, know full well that his t merit is in the drama. Perhaps n he was authority in his age, (I -s doubt even that); so was the r author of the Canterbury Tales, in his age ; but we live in a diffe rent age, and our language is con ~stantly changing. Poe she wed a Scritical knowledge of the EInglish Slanguage but he was not faultless. SMacaulay, speaking of an in dividual, says 'What he calls his ~opinions are merely his tastes.' , oe criticises the sentence anid e abapes it so a.s to read-'His opin ,ions are nothing but his tastes.' e Poe is in fault, why? Because, oan opinion cannot be a taste, e though what one call his opinions 6 may be merely his tastes. Sir a Walter Scott says-'His own feel Sings would bave prompted him to n have left immediately.' He means ~ His own feelings would have a prompted him to leave (not 'to e have left') immediately.' A wri . ter on grammar, whom I1 read nsome time ago, uses the following d forms of speech : 'A pear tree a. diminutive in size;' (did you ever e see anything diminutive other h wise than in size?); 'an unlucky .thorn pierced my thumb,' (does it ,not seem to you that the thumb, h not the thorn was unlucky ?); I a, trained a woodbine over the front d of my little homestead' (is that e. possible ?) the writer means dwel it hing-house. Joel T. Headly, speak e~ ing of the death of Moses, says ~ Moses laid down to die.' As the r reverend author fails to inform us what Moses laid down, we are -. at liberty to sappose that Moses d lay down to die' I mention a few d instances merely to show that *those who presume to teach are Inot above suspicion ; and I am Svery far from being without sin, ethough, in a metaphorical sense, I .- am casting stones ini all directions. ~. Having iriven you my opinion d as to the best man ner of studying e Orthoepy, I shall now call your y attention to a few words common y~ y mispronounced. Some of you s. expect to become graduates ; if .f after graduation you have any - regard for distinctions of sex or e gender, do not call yourselves il alumnae. The graduates of Ne w e berry College are alumni; femaled grardnates are properly called alumnae. If you ever saw a lady who did not accent the word ex quisite on the second syllable, you saw a miracle. When accented thus, the word has a certain rich ness of sound tbat makes it very attractive (I had almost said ex quisite), but our aim being pre cision rather than euphony, lot us agree to procounce the word ex quisite. The following words are pro. nounced-Esther (h silent), Ural, us, . ulus, gratis, data, strata, horizon, abdomen, verbatim, pa. tent, patent-right, habeas corpus, alias, literati, bankwit (banquet), conkwest (conquest), construe, opponent, pleiades (ia has the sound ya), conversant, extant, sac rifice (ce having sound of ze) posthumous (h silent,] leisure, patron defici't, alternate (noun), is olated. I now ask your closest atten tion while I mention some impro prities of speech that are very common, and have recently come under my own observation. It is not correct to say William is more perfect than James. Noth ing ,an be more perfect; because perfection does not exist in differ snt degrees. On the same prin. ciple 'absolutely' is superfluous in the expression 'It is absolutely necessary.' Avoid the use of 'equally as.' Say that book is good, but this is equally good; or This book is as good as that. Do not use 'but' after else. Say, I saw no one but John-or I saw no one else than (not but) John. A certain lady when asked how she enjoyed a ride, exclaimed Oh ! I had a gorgeous time !' Shade of Webster! What kind of a time had she? Another lady, on being asked how sbe enjoyed an enter tainment, exclaimed, '0, 1 had a delicious time I' One saw her time and it was gorgeous; the other tasted bers and it was delicious. A very common error is the use of a plural adjective with a singular noun, in sentences of these kind; I say these kind, I mean this kind : 'I don't like those kind of men,' 'I am not fond of these sort of apples.' If you may correctly say, those sort. or these kind, it is correct to say those boy is awkv ard,' tLuese man s kind.' Never use 'over' when you mean 'more than.' Siy 'T saw more than twenty men ;' 'He is more than fourteen years old.' Do not say 'There were less than forty men,' when there were fewer than forty men. You allude to a thing when you advert, or refer to it in a playful manner. The Latin is ad ludere. When one says 'I feel badly,' I at once think that his sense of touch is defective. Yet, persons who are never guilty of saying It tastes goodly-She looks beauti fully, I feel sickly, are habitually guilty of using the forms, I feel badly, she felt awk wardly. When you think or suppose you neither reckon nor guess. When your Dulcinea says 'ex cuse me, I have a previous en gagement,' she means that she has an engagment previous to what ? It is enough to say 'I have an engagement.' Even that l often too much to be perfectly agreeable. When you mean that a state mcnt was oral, do not say verbal. A verbal statement may be either written or spoken -Use the forms-He told us (not we) boys-There's nothing be. tween him and me (not I), Lets you and me go. You would smile if I should say I went to a party last ~night, and saw twelve parties. Do not use 'party' for 'person.' 'If any membe of the cong~re gation wishes to connect them selves with the church they will come forward while the choir sings.' Who will come forward ? Ttiey I Any member ! The clergy men begias with any member, but afterward speaks of him as they. In sentences of that kind it Is bet ter to use the pronounce he as of common gender,-If any member wishes &c., he will come forward. Each of you is (not are) a stu Never use 'except' for 'accept. A young friend of mine was once desperately in love with a dark. eyed damsel who knew more about the bloom of youth than about correct English ; but wben she sent him a gift, and the ac companying note contained the words, 'Will you except this pre. sent?' she killed love as dead as a smelt ? (Pardon the slang). Per haps his was love grammatical. - Have a care in the use of 'lie and 'lay' Never say I laid down, -but I laid my book down. Watch 'act' and 'sit,' or in an unguarded moment they will set you awkwardly back. Instead of 'I had rather go,' 'we had better cross over,' 'I had rather be a dog and bay the moon,' say 'I would,' or I should rather &c. Milton believed that there is (not was) a God ; Cato believed tbt the soul is (not was) immortal. In expressing a univer sal truth, use the present tense. Bill Arp says a Georgia girl will not marry a boy who says 'I taken. Georgia girls show good sense in their effort to teach boys the pro. priety of saying 'I took.' Carefully examine 'Expect and Suspect,' and remember that there is no such verb as suspicion. Say 'I suspect him ;' never 'I suspicion him.' Axpect means await. It is correct to say 'I expect him ;' but incorrrect to say 'I expect that he will come.' There is in our language no such word as unthoughtedly. When you mean that you acted thought lessly or unthinkingly, do not say unthoughtedly. Say-I differ from other men; I differfrom the gentlemen. it is usually thought correct to say '] differ with you in opinion but I 'differ from you in appearance. But the Latin defero eustains me in the opinion that we should use from instead of with. On the same principle, s.y one thing is different from (not to) another. And say I parted from (not with) my friends.' Never use 'got' for must. Say '1 must go'-'you must do it ;' not 'I've got to go.' When you say-'My sweetheart has got beautiful hair' you do not pay your sweetheart a com pliment. Any one could get beauti ful hair. In*' the economy of the lan guage, we have I, you and we don't-'or do not; but we shlould say he, she or it doesn't (not don't). Never use the expressions, pass by, approve of, follow after, assem ble together, reflet or return back, continue on, rise up, and loom up. When you mean that you can do a thing with difficulty, say-'I can hardly do it,' ir'stead of 'I can't hardly do it.' Say one thing corresponds to another. Say 'the river abonds with trout,' or 'trout abound in the river.' Did you ever try to learn a per. son anything ? If so, you failed. You can teach others, but every one must learn for himself. 'What is the -use or having a book with out you expect to study it ?' Never use without for anless. Distinguish carefully between so and such. 'I don't like so hard lessons'-is what you mean when you say, 'I don't like such hard lessons.' When I was a small boy, I once asked my teacher-'Can I gc out?' He quickly answered--'] suppose you can, if you try Since that time, I have used may. in asking for permission. Some time ago I was dining out, and my fair hostess, pointing to the chicken, persistently asked-'Oculd I help you to some of this fowl?T I felt a wicked inclination to an swer in the words of my old 'school master-- I suppose you could if you would try.' Do not use conversationalist for conver sationist ; agriculturalist.for agri culturist ; preventative for pre. ventive ; or inaugurate for begin, 'Pass those molasses, if yor please ?' The only thing thai rescues that sentence from con tempt, is the evident politeness o its tone. 'Pass' means go by, g< by those molasses, if you please. But molasses is singular, and we have the very singular request 'Go by that molasses, if you please.' The person who says those, or these molasses, says -Politics are.' The man who habitually says 'I am mad,' when be is angry, would not feel complimented if one should call hi;n a madman;and we should* not be surprised at hearing him say, 'I am aggrava ted,' when he means vexed, annoyed or irritated. 'Bury it so deep that it can never be resurrected' is a favorite expression among some of our po litical speakers, who seem to for got thax a thing cannot be resur rected-that a soul never was, and never can be resurrected. Do not say-'all mon are not honest; when you tean 'Not all men are honest.' But it is not my aim to ex haust either you or the subject; and I shall be satisfied if you re member the few inaccuracies to which I have directed your atten tion. There is another branch of the subject on which I have some thing to say; I accordingly pro. ceed to that. Every one has, or should have a style. Perhaps I should do wtfll to sbow what I mean by style. An author's style is that whiob distinguishes his writings from the writings of all others. That explanation is not satisfactory ; let me put it in this shape: You have read Macaulay and Carlyle-if not, do so at your earliest opportunity-and in read ing, if you read with any discrim ination, you noticed that while each does credit to his language, the two writers widely differ. That which most distinguishes them is style-the manner of ex pression-the choice and arrange ment of aords. Carlyle is dis jointed, nervous and energetic Macaulay, easy, smooth, and pol ished. Carlyle strikes with a bludgeon ; Macaulay thrusts with a rapier of Damascus steel. As I have presumed to advise you, let me go father. You wish to know how to form a pure style; how to -decide what words to use, and where to put them. Again I sug gest that you study the best au thors, and that you associate as often as possible with persons who have a proper regard for the beauties of our language, and who do not give way to its abuses. When I say study the best au thors, I am very far from meaning that- you should imitate any one. A literary copyist is generally hield to be contemptible. JEmer son is a distingQished writer, but even he would be more admired if it were not for a strong suspicion that Carlyle is his model. Make no man's style your ideal ; an artist never realizes his ideal. In studying the great men of the literary world do not forget who you are. If you falsely regard yourselves as Macaulays, you will imitate the easy flowing periods of Macau lay; if you look upon yourselves as Carlyles, you will try to adopt the rugged richness Qf Carlyle; if you think your selves Gibbons, you will imitate the stately diction of the great historian,-and in so doing, you will defeat the attain ment of the very end at which I sbould have you aim - individuality. Make many men your guides; no man your master. Study others, but be yourselves-be natural. In what I have just said, I did not lose sight of the fact that there is a difference between a literary and a colloquial style. T wo things I should especially enjoin upon you-simplicity an d perspicuity. Choose the simplest words that will convey your thought, and so arrange them that the wayfaring man though a fool, cannot fail to see your meaning. It readily appears that~the pur pose of language, is threefold; to instruct, to please and to per suade. Some persons speak to the fancy, others to the heart, others, still, to the understanding. AIn speaking for merely rhe torical effect, you may loiter by the way Eto cull sweet iowers of speech or iyou may tower upward, and still upward till you-dash your wings Sagainst the prison bars of the ha~ man soul. This you may do when E your sole purpose is to please the ei fancy, or to lead your bearers a P mystic dance through wonder 1 land; but Horace truly says, 'If you would touch the heart, you must refrain from bombast.' The first requisite of speaking well is to have something to say ; the second, to know how to say it. Many college students care far C more for sound than for,sense, f and we are often disgusted with a striving after effect, that shows D itself in woads a foot and half D long. I read somewhere, that an D old Grecian having been asked whether h. would rather see his daughter wed a wealthy man H witbout virtue, or a virtuous man without wealth, said-.'I should rather see her wed a man with out an estate, than an estate without a man.' So a man of G taste would much rather receive G rich truths and glowing thoughts, C clothed in the simplest speech, than high sounding words swell ing with nonsense. We should not be so silly as to give one a '' pearl hiddon in a profusion of flowers-we should not go to the w tree on whioh leaves grow most D luxuriantly to find fruit. The archer uses just enough feather to guide: his arrow to the mark- H and we should use just enough language to convey our thoughts. S The following example will show you the absurdity that marks the J style of those who always go on stilts : A lady asked an old gen tleman for a definition of the word periphrasis, and got this answer- T 'A periphrasis, madam, is a cir cuniocutory cycle of oratorical sonorosity,circumscribing an atom of ideality; lost in verbal profund ity.' When I say that definition F has sound, I give the sum of its merits. The same could be said e with equal truthfulness- of a bass tl drum. It has sound. Yet I have h heard just such language from commencement orators, who un happily labored under the delusion that the speaker must always T drive a coach and six--that every b noun must be attended with a a long line of high-sounding ad jectives. d I told you a while ago that our Language is difficult; on that h point, I presume, there can be but fc one opinion. None of you deny, then, that the language is difficult A in every essential particular ; in orthography-in orthoepy and in grammar. And yet, if the way to sj accuracy and elegance in the use e, of ~our Language were as broad tI and smooth as the road that leads ~ to destruction there are persons di w bo would depart from it in pur- R~ suit of novelties and oddities. Yeu ~ have doubtless met men, who e, make a merit of being singular; ti men w bo pique themselves on ei being different from all the rest b< of mankind. Such persons are T usually pedants; avoid pedants. re When the majority of uceholars ti agree that it is correct. to say , either, I conjure you, by your re- pl gard for the good Queen's En- E glish, esche w that other pronuncia- ti tion ither. Be satisfied with the $ language as you find it in the v mouths of the best scholars ; and ti never try to make a show a of learning by using foreign phrases when you can express your thoughts as clearly and fora fi cibly in our own noble tongue. si .New and unnecessary words are u constantly coining, which tend to e make the language more difficult. d We should use as pure English as ri we can command, and be cautious o as to the manner in which we n touch the barbarous jargon, fitly b called slang, that so extensively prevails. There are human eut-~ tiefishes that would ren der the ;ti stream of language dark and im- tl pure, if it were as clear aud crystal z as the dewpearls that glisten in the morning sunlight. You should never use a word whose signifi- ~ canoe you do not know ; and ' when you employ the simplest words, you should see to it, that they convey thoughts, and that ~ they hold their proper places. - In much of what I have said, we may differ. I merely ask you1 to consider it. In conclusion, I commend to you a careful study of fou r things:t amlet's Instructions to the Play s-Horace's Art of Poetry ope's Essay on Criticism--and . rebster's Unabridged Ductionaiy. THE GIRFIELD CLAgS. WAsniI^,ToN, Oct. 17 -The "fol wing is a complete list of the celaim e ed. with the Board designated by )ogress to audit the claims arising om the illness and death of the las e resident Garfield. D. W. Bliss..........$25,000 .0 Hamilton................. 25,000 00 D. Hayes Agnew.......... 14,700 00 . Robert Reyburn.......... 10,00 00' . D. S. Lamb (for examination of the body at Elberon, N. 'J.) 1,000 d40 Susan A. Edson.... ..... 10,000 00 - . >tal Doctor bills..... ..... 86,500 00 enry S. Little, receiver of the Central Railroad of New Jer sey, for laying special track at Elberon and running spe cial trains................. 3,239 i ne & Proctor, of Washington, for furniture................ 162 56 .o. W. Knox, of Washington,, express charges.... ...... 18 00, G. C. Simum, of Washington, for drugs, &c........... iarles A. Benedict, of New York, funeral expenses, in cluding casket............. 887 80 B. Speare, a Washington, un dertaker................1,890 60 ios. Dolan and James Sheridan, messengers at Executive Man sion, each................. 300 00 illiam Gnin, messenger at State Department........... .... . . James W. Walslt, for em balming body.............. 50000 torge Tremain & Co., of New York, surgical instruments,&c. 86 217 L. Crawford, for sprinkling grounds of the Executive Man sion .................... ..27 00 H. Bailey, services at Man sion... .................... 900 .B. Moses & Son, linen, &c. 40.23 nes Goodwin, of Boston, for invalid bed................. i 00 m. 0. Dupee, messenger War Department. .............. 210 00 ngleton & Holke, of Washing ton, for carpet, &c..........122 44 ie National Capital Telephone Company................. 50 00 2arles H. Lee, messenger De partment of Justice......... .... imes Wilson. cooking, &c. 180.00 dependent Ice Company, for ice .... ............. 1,516 92 red. R. Moore, %essenger ser vice...................... 175 00 Margaret Nugent, cook, and the nployees of the Executive. Mansion, tree months' extra pay. No claim s yet been filed by Dr. Boynton. Congress appropriated $35,000 fr edical services and attendance, os 0,000 less than the doctors demand he bills as presented specify the num r of days each physician was in at ndance. Dr; Bliss charges for -his rvices at the rate of nearly $318,& ty. Dr. Hamilton nearly the-same, id Dr. Agnew about $300 a day. [r. Dr. Edson and Dr. Reyburn as r $200 a day. REPRODUCTIVE VOEET. The present comEt in the Eastern ~y, which can be distinctly seen by eryone at early morning, is certainly e most remarkable one, of all the odern comets ~ Prof. Lewis Swift, rector of the Warner Observatory, ochester, N. Y., states that the met grazed the sun so closel~ use great disturbance, so muchase tat it has divided into no less than? ght separate parts, all of which can distinctly seen by a good telescope. here is only one other instance ont cord where a comet has divided, tat one being Beila's comet of 1846, bieh separated into two parts. Ap iestions have been made on Mr. H. .Warner by parties who have.noted ese cometary offshoots, claiming the ~00 prize for eaeh one of them.. hether the great comet will ee nue to produce a brood of smaller mets remains to be seen. If you think it right to differ om the times, and to make a and for any valuable point of orals, do it, however rustie, bow rer antiquated it may appear; o it, not for insolence, but e onsly as a man who wore a soul f' his own in his bosom, and~ did . wattill it was breathed into im by the breath of fashion. Men who have the strongest in ~llects have the weakest memories; ey trust mnore- to invention than emiory. The moment a man is satisfied with icnself, everybody else is dissatisfied ith him.g There is some difference between reating the' poor well and the well The dissolution 'of forms is no oss in the mass of matter. The fox ends by getting into ha fnia. shop.