| Show AL wanted wa WANTED A want of knowle knowledge dge of a language abonce at onee once brinks brings the philosopher and the fool very much on a par when they both attempt to communicate with the foreigner who speaks that language alone also if a stupid person speak a foreign language well and a clever person speak it badly the stupid person has tho the better chance of telling most to the foreigners while white the clever person is like one who Is ia dumb from a very considerable experience to in connection with education we are convinced that it requires a very small amount of brain power to be a good linguist it requires ear and a sort of parrot arbot like ilke method of imitation but it doeg 0 es not require reason or deep thought in fact there are so many absurdities in connection with languages so much that is merely arbitrary both in conw con st ruction and f in n other details that the reasoner is often stopped where the thoughtless will advance rapidly let us take taken a few examples in connection with masculin es and feml femi nines alnes in france and germany the french have but the masculine and feminine or neuter the common sense appears with the german consequently a student baa has to learn when studying french what the french people have chosen to call masculine and what feminine and in this there is no teason reason to guide gulde him it is true a man is called masculine and woman feminine but why the bun should be called masculine and the moon feminine Is explicable on no reason whatever and so we may proceed gudin dudin finding g the most arbitrary rules for tor this selection a breach of any one of which causes the breaker to become a subject for ridicule but again if this selection tion of the bexes sexes of words wera gai cai sal there might be some hopes for a student of many languages I 1 but whai what the french class as feminine the germans often put down as neuter and the italian as masculine thus the bun bon in german is feminine and wand the zhe moon masculine for what temon eason a it is impossible to say confusion reigns supreme in this subject to the che total exclusion of reason our own case will we believe be found similar to that of hundreds of thousands of other people As aba asa a boy v we e were taught greek and latin such an amount as af J enabled us to read a greek testament with the use occasionally of a lexicon and 1 to read freely ovid and virgil but our oar future career was selected to be one in which greek and latin were vere not subjects for examination but french 9 nd ald german paid well conse consequently que nt four years were devoted to the study of these two languages at the end of of which time we found ourselves in south africa where the only languages of any practical nac rac tactical use were dutch and caffre to dutch and caffre consequently we turned tamed our attention and after rather more ore than a years study we were able to converse imperfectly in both these but again were we on the point of finding these latter labors useless for there was every prospect of our services being transferred to india and we heard from good authority that we were not likely to get on there unless we could speak hindustani and perhaps understood sanskrit bans Sans erit crit or persian here then were greek latip batir french german dutch caffre hindustani persian sanskrit Sans crit all ail to be learned I 1 in order that ones own aown thoughts and wishes should be made intelligible to another person in oun our oun judgment this is not only a mistake I 1 but it is a slur upon the common sense bense sense and add civilization of the world ru in music there is but one language the composition of a german composer 4 can an be at once read and translated into bounds sounds by the musicians of the whole world to an english musician it is a matter matten of indifference what was the nationality of the composer there is in usie butone language and thavone simple and intelligent and yet what is the importance of making musical sounds compared to the importance of conveying thoughts to other people and making them intelligible yet there are a thousand different ways of doing the iatter latter instead of one and unless a person knows at least four or five of these that is unless he employ some four or tive live years of his life in acquiring a knowledge of these languages he is dumb in many countries unfortunately also unless a person i keep neep perpetually practicing a language he eoon qoon forgets it and all his past labor or at least a great part of it has to be cone gone over oven again chambers journal burnar 7 0 j A wey wry STATE K tho the rain oain in california Nd november vember and march it e es interesting to lookaround ruid and raid 1 r has hag b cenath e rain rainfall fald faid present season beason ason throughout the state A that the state Is ia i pretty 1 wet indeed the people everywhere except ID 16 the extreme southern counties were dib dis disposed posed to cry enough two wo or tor three weeks ago the sun sud when he be reappears in unclouded llory glory will be joyfully welcon welcomed led with ith the hope that hib his face will bot riot a adain again aln be gamad vai val ledfor for a month at least it will take that length of time to geu ged the northern and central part of the state thoroughly i dry up to march aa the rainfall for the season at thib fhe points named below was as foi fol follow lowE visalia visa lia iia inches nearly dou double ble that of last season near turlock stanislaus county 1316 inches pearly nearly three times as much as whole of last season 18 76 inches three times as much as whole of layt last season at sacramento 21 29 two pud a hali hail halt hait times all of last lasts easop at petaluma Pet aluma 28 2841 41 inches at san inches two and a half times all of at last season at auburn 35 inches luches double all alf of last lost season beason at grass valley inches and at lewida nevada city only four miles from grass valley inches at shasta they dont recko reckon ll 11 by inches any longer the rainfall rai ral nall nali at sit that place amounted on the first of this thia month mouth to just seven pin find d a hay aay jeet feet in addition to the above we have bave comparatively ively recent information from some other important points on feb oth the rainfall at contra costa lacounty county was 22 inches and at san rafael martn carlu county at the same date luche inches at napa two weeks ago it amounted to 46 anchet In chut chus at ukiah mendocino county about the tho saml bame same bame date 41 44 inches nichos at big dry creek in fresno county tha the fall to february aoth wag waa lg ig 16 10 87 inches and at los angelea the fall about two weeks ago had rench reach reached ed 1065 inches february opened wi with alth a dismal prospect for rain in the southern counties kern county for instance had received even less lesa than fell there up to the corresponding date in the last dry season the late rains however were a godsend to those couil coull counties ties and good crops are assured PS it rains we despair of getting dry before the ath of olt july old shasta j will complete campli ete her tenth foot sure sacramento reporter march 5 che the washington Wm hington star says 1 the administration of justa justl ice iee so called in new york Is ia peculiar criminals are allowed to go at largo while the witnesses of their crimes are locked up murderers instead of being tried prosecute the grand grana juries who indict them a man may kill another if he be does not use a murderous weapon to do it with and police officers who do their duty receive nor for their reward the crown of martyrdom we might elve eive fi ive lve copious illustrations of these and m many any other anomalies in legal proceedings and criminal practice in that city we have had a now vork work judge in utah sowe BO we know how it is ia ourselves that class clasa of judges j out york new york yo rk when they get to utah FEEDING fending CHICKENS in feeding wheat screenings as obtained from the mills they should always be soaked in water eight or ten hours or at least washed wished before feed ing lag to soften the caps swell the bunken sunken kernels and destroy the poisonous dust i corn meal should always bo be mixed with boiling water for chickens onions tops as weil weli well weli as bottoms should be cut fine and fed dally daily they are very stimulating and superior to many medical preparations re commended for sick chickens A dally daily feed of onions tends greatly to ward off disease E ET er T juse JUST fish bros brosl celebrated freight and farm wagon all sizes to suit the market for sale at wa t f HOPPER COS cob |
