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Show Ex Governor Horatio Seymour, tho Utica Herald says, finds amuso-mont amuso-mont in confining himself, in his correspondence, cor-respondence, aa fir aa possible, to words of onu or two syllables. He recommends this ns a profitable and euteruuuing practice to young writers, and says that in searching for short words tho studonts will learn many things about common word- and their meaning. He also says he has learned a great deal from the Bimple forms of speech used by his Indian friends ol the Oneida and Ononeaga tribes, and praises their style as a model of simplicity and expressiveness. |