(_Java_),
_Norwich_, (Eng.), _Pesth_, _Quebec_, _Valenciennes_, _Neufchatel_,
_Nantes_ and _Aix-la-Chapelle_.

Her sister, _Frances_, was told to draw maps of _Buenos Ayres_ and
_Otaheite_, and to bound _Venezuela_ and _Arkansas_; to give the
length and direction of the _Araguay_, _Juniata_, _Kankakee_,
_Barbados_ and _San Joaquin_; the location of Cape _Agulhas_; the
situation and population of _Bingen_, _Calais_, _Canton_, _Acapulco_,
_Chuquisaca_, _Delhi_, _Dubuque_, _Jeddo_, _Quereturo_, _Truxillo_,
_Leicester_ and _Vevay_, and a description of _Sumatra_, _Zanzibar_,
_Barbadoes_ and the _Antilles_.

* * * * *

_Sigismund_ has just returned from _Yosemite_ Valley.

* * * * *

_Cecily_, _Chloe_ and _Viola_ have just passed their examination in
biography. The names presented to them were the following: _N. S.
Adam_ (Fr.), _G. Adam_ (Ger.), _Beatrice Cenci_, _Blucher_,
_Boccaccio_, _Anne Boleyn_, _Marco Bozzaris_, _Joseph Buonaparte_,
_D'Aubigne_, _Daubigny_, _Drouyn de Lhuys_, _Juarez_, _Lavater_,
_Marat_, _Marion_, _Catherine de Medici_, _Moultrie_, _Ovid_, _Pliny_,
_Ponce de Leon_ and _Richelieu_.

VIOLATED RULES OF GRAMMAR.

Many, who claim to be good grammarians, are occasionally guilty of the
violation of certain important rules. Attention is solicited to a few
of the more common errors of this nature.

NUMBER.

Certain compounds change the form of the first word in pluralizing,
as: _court-martial_, _brother-in-law_, _sister-in-law_. Plural,
_courts-martial_, _brothers-in-law_, etc. "John has three
brother-in-laws," then, is incorrect.

But _tea-spoonful_, _table-spoonful_, _cupful_, _pocketful_, etc., are
not considered such compounds; therefore, "two tea-spoonsful of
medicine" and "two-cupsful of flour," should be, "two tea-spoonfuls of
medicine," and "two cupfuls of flour."

When name and title are given, with a numeral adjective prefixed, the
_name_ is pluralized. "Are the two Misses Wilson at home?" should be,
"Are the two Miss Wilsons at home?" But when the numeral is omitted
the _title_ must be pluralized. "Were the Dr. Browns there?" should
be, "Were the Drs. Brown there?" The rule has been given that the
_name_ only of married ladies is pluralized, but there appears to be
no reason except that of euphony: the _Mrs. Clarks_ certainly sounds
more agreeably than the _Mistresses Clark_. In giving the plural of
such titles