The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-05-12
Authenticated Etyno,ogics.

When the seunen on board the ship of Chris
topher Columbus, after u series Of latigups, came
in sight Of St. Salvador they burst Out into exu-
berant mirh and jolity. "The lads are in
merry Key, cried the Commodore. America 10
now the name of half the globe.
The famous Hannibal took his name from
that OF his mother. one Hannah Bell, a poor.
Scotch garter knitter at Carthage
DionyS'us Hallicurnassus derives the word
mediterranean from this event: Two girls
OF Syracuse used every morning to pour the tea
aud other slops lFom an upper window ia,o the
street, Whenever, therefore, the ncighbors
heard the sash OF their apartments lifted, they
would cry, Maid or two, rain onp The
learned very well know how soon word is
combined aud becomes general
Antiqueriuns say that on old negro et Cane
Cod. whenever kis master required ANYTHING of
him, would exclaim, "Massa choose it," Thence
in time, the name OF Massachusetts,
The city ot Albany was originally settled by
Scotch people. When strangers, on their srri-
val there. asked how The newcomers did, the
answer was "All bonny.' The spelling we find
a little altered, but not the sound.
When Julius Caesars army lay encamped at
Ticonderoga near two thousand years ago, the
dcscrtcrs wetc commonly tied upon q batterins-
ram aud logged. When any culprit was
brought out the commanding centurion would
exclaim, Tie on the rogue The Lame, we sse,
has worn we'll.
A fat lanlady who, about the time of the
flight of Mahomet from Mecca, lived between
New Orleans aud the Chickasaw Cliffs, was
scarcely ever unIurnished with pigeon sea pie,
and thence got the name of "Mrs Sea Pie"
The enormous river Mississippi owes It's name
to this fat lanllaLy.
In the region of D,rmot o'Mulogh, in the
kingdom OF Connaught about the beginning of
the second century, noisy fellow by the name
OF Pat Riot made himself very conspicuous.
The word patriot" has come down pei feet and
unimpaircd.
When Nebuchadnrzzar took the tour Of Asia.
came to the eastern part of it, he was Que dsy
asked by the cook it his "lmperal majesty
would relish chine of pork p With a brow
frownng dark as Erebus and in voice of ,hun-
der the monarch cried, Chine hal" The Of.
| irghed cook ned, aud the exclamation became
the name of the first Kingdom upon the face of
the earth.
The term hurricane, supposed TO take its rise
from one Harry Kane, turbulent lrishman who
lived al Antigua, is now we'll known to be de-
rived from an avaricious old female plnnter.
who once lived on he island, and was called by
the sailors, Aunt Eager
| When the French forces settled on the bank,
OF the river ST. hiwrence they were stinted by
the attendant Mons eur Picar to can of spruce
beer day. The people thought this measure
very scant, and every moment articulated a
"cah day. Ii would be ungsnerous in any
reader to desire more Rational derivation Of
the word "Cdnoda"
jolly Wcst-lndian, whenever the neigh
boring gt.s came TO his plantation insisted on
their slipping his choicest syrups and reiterated
the term my lusses," thence the name of that
syrup. Few words have aberrated from their
primaries less than this.
tipping female OF Grand Cairo. in the reign
OF p'olomy Philadelphia, was forever frequrn-
ting public houses and tipping gin and brandy
without paying n single iarthinsi and by this
prudent management obtained the name of
Polly Tick" The elder Scaliger, Duus ,Scotus
and Erasmus all declare that the we'll known
word polite or politics is derived from this
urlul trollop.