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THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

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however, respecting this arrangement,
all over the country. General Wash-
ington did not like it. He thought it
unjust to the creditor. When the army
was at Morristown, there was a man of
respectable standing living in the neigh-
borhood, who often visited the General,
and the latter was always kind and
cordial in his demeanor toward him.
Afterward, this man took advantage of
the law making paper money a legal
tender, and paid off his debts, of which
he happened to have a large number, in
the depreciated currency. He still con-
tinued his visits-to Washington. But
the General did not treat him with his
former cordiality. Lafayette could not
help remarking it, and said, after the
man was gone, ‘General, this man
seems to be a great friend of yours, and
yet you have scarcely noticed him.”
Washington replied, smiling, “I know I
have not been cordial. I tried hard to
be civil, and attempted to speak to’ him
kindly, two or three times; but that
Continental money stopped my mouth.”

After the war was over, these notes
became valuable only as objects of
curiosity. The poor soldier, who had
his pockets full of them, could hardly
purchase a dinner. When I was a little
boy, I remember my grandfather had
quite a number of these bills, which he
used to exhibit to us little folks, at the
same time that he entertained us with
wonderful stories about the war. But
we seldom come across any of the money
now-a-days, and perhaps many of my
readers have never seen any of it. For
this reason I have had two or three of
the bills engraved for you to look at.
They are exact pictures of the originals,
as nearly alike as two sister white beans.

What a rude specimen of engraving
and printing these notes present. They
are not finished quite as elegantly as the
bank bills which are issued at the pres-
ent day.

The three Syntactical Combinations.

HE sentence or proposition consti-
tutes the soul and essence of
language, and is the® central
point of all grammatical inves-

tigations,

The analysis of the proposition con-
tinues to engage the attention of the
philosophic grammarian, and the results
of his investigations should be early im-
bibed by the youthful mind.

The sentence or proposition does not
consist directly of words. Words brought
together by mere juxtaposition do not
constitute a sentence. They are merely
the rude material. Something more is
necessary to make them an organic
whole.

According to the view of modern phi-
lologists, a sentence or proposition is
made up immediately, not of words, but
of syntactical groupings or combinations
of words. These syntactical combina-
tions are of three kinds only, viz. the
predicative, the attributive, and the objec:
tive. Not every phrase or grouping of
words is a syntactical combination, or a
combination which enters immediately
into the structure of the sentence.

I. The first syntactical combination
is the predicative ; as ‘God exists.” It
consists of two factors, the subject and
the predicate.