as his parting word. He had informed me,
sub rosa of course, that he was going to Bremen.

3. The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac
revolutionized naval warfare. How far back it seems to the days
when Decatur set fire to the old Philadelphia!

4. Her They say's are as plenteous as rabbits in Australia.

5. A writer in the Century Magazine says the public may know
better than an author what the title of his book should be.
Dickens, for example, called one of his works The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club.

=Abbreviations=

=83a. In ordinary writing avoid abbreviations. The following, however,
are always correct: Mr., Messrs., Dr., or St. (Saint), before proper
names; B. C. or A. D., when necessary to avoid confusion, after a date;
and No. or $ when followed by numerals.=

In ordinary writing spell out

All titles, except those listed above.

Names of months, states, countries.

Christian names, unless initials are used instead.

Names of weights and measures, except in statistics.

Street, Avenue, Road, Railroad, Park, Fort, Mountain, Company,
Brothers, Manufacturing, etc.

In ordinary writing, instead of _&_ write _and_; for _viz._ write
_namely_; for _i. e._, write _that is_; for _e. g._ write _for example_;
for _a. m._ and _p. m._ write _in the morning_, _this afternoon_,
_tomorrow evening_, _Saturday night_. Do not use _etc._ (_et cetera_)
when it can be avoided.

=b. In business correspondence, technical writing, tabulations,
footnotes, and bibliographies, or wherever brevity is essential, other
abbreviations may be used.= Even here, short words should not be
abbreviated: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Samoa, Utah,
March, April, May, June, July.

Exercise:

1. Mr. Gregg & Dr. Appleton were rivals.

2. Harris lacked but one of having a grade of one hundred; _i.
e._, he had the two O's already.

3. His inheritance tax was three thousand $. In Apr. he moved
from Portland, Me., to Sandusky, O.

4. Prof. Kellogg came down Beech St. at a quarter before eight
every a. m.

5. A No. of old friends visited them on special occasions; _e.
g._, on their wedding anniversaries.

=Numbers=

=84a. It is customary to use figures for dates, for the street numbers in
addresses, for reference to the pages of a book, and for statistics.=

Right: June 16,