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Show Isolated. Two well-known olllclals, ono of tho state and tno other of the city, whllo warm friends, occasionally get into nrguments as to tho proper pronoun-elation pronoun-elation of words. ho other night tho word "isolato" was used by tho city man, who pronounced It with tha accent ac-cent on -tho "1" as "I-solato," whoro-upon whoro-upon tho stato man Immediately "butted "but-ted In" wltn "Oh, nd, no't 1-solatc, but Is-olate." "Why, you'ro bughouse," ro-jolnod ro-jolnod tho "I" man. "Common senso ought to teach you that you aro wrong. Just look at what tho word means Ico, that Is frozen, which is to be a dead ono, that Is of no account, ac-count, I mean out of commission, or put away beck, see?" "No, I'll bo hanged If I do, nor anyono olso," shouted tho state man. Then a pained look enmo ovor tho faca of tho city man, and with gcntlo pity ho Bald: "You ought not to neod a plio-drlvor or an axo. I'll spetl It for you phonetically. phonet-ically. Ico-o-lato. Ice, do you catch on 7 Frozen put away, eh?" "Oh, rats!" ycllod Bowon, "let's havo some vlchy and milk," and William Will-iam acquiesced. |