The Red Cloud chief., 1881-09-22
Orixia Of Familiar Phrase..

hNAL&<u uF DlAAk4lAA IA ANets ~ -
quenA- of = conversation briweca
Hobbes aud himself. but was nos pub
lishei until less. The ~parAxTaph in
whichrf appears lAbp. BrAmhais
"vindf s;isn Of Tree Liberty Ags,nst
Mr.. uobbes.') Is s. inliows The
last dictate of the judgment concerning
the good or bad that may follow on Any
action i not properly the whole ezEse
but the last part o.; IL. and yet may 10
aid TO produce the effect necessarily IN
su.h manner - The IS; feather mas be
said 10 break n horse. back. when
there were 50 mans laid on before =.
there wanted bot that Ia do IT,
puraucc Ni.e."-T This Literary win.
o'-ihe- wisp has been Traced - Burns
and Smollc,l IL orig naliy appeared.
however. in Johnos "FrossaTL" DE
scribing the capture OF - Scnaui. in
1855. b. the troJ,s Under the command
of the Bishop 81 Norwich. irols>sri
SAYS that Sr William dc M.lic. Who de-
Tended the place. was permitted by his
capto- To return ~ France as 4 prisoner
on parole. according Ia the manncr
in which all French aud English gentle
men behave 10 one another in similar
/ 'lNtNs t1A toN ~ AssS w. hAAhNNs ~
whenever they take a prisoner. throw
him into DURANGO vile. loaded with
irons. in order TO gain a more consider
able ransom"
"Thug."-The word thug" now
So generally used 20 denote the shout.
der. hit;ers and ihieye. of our cities.
is derived from TIE Hindoo ht.gaI. Ia
deceive.
MASON and DiNon's Line On the
4th OF August. l163. Thomas and X ,ch-
ard Penn aud Lord Baltimore. beng
together in London. agreed with
Charles Mason and jeremiah Dixon.
two surve-o.s. 10 marx. run aud settle
and hx the boundary line between Mary
land on m hand and DELAYS arr and
PENNSYLVANIA on the other. They ac-
complished their work To within thirty
six miles, six chains and fifty links.
when they were told by their Indian
escorts that IL was the will Ut the S.ouN
nation that the survey should cease.
and they terminated accord ngly. Ma
son d ed in Pennsylvania ia 1877; Dix
ON died AT Durham. Eng, in l777.
Emerald Isle. = The epithrt, IS APP
pliedto Ireland, Was first used by DR..
viii lam brennan. author of LIEN
dalloch,' and other poems. who Was
born at Belfast May -, 1884. The
phrase occurs liz his beautiful poem en-
titled Erin" from which a stanza il
quoted below:
Arm Of Erin Prove s'rong; hut he gentle
IA bra e.,
AMI. upi iied to strike, stul he ready tc
save:
Nor ON feeling OF vengeance presume &c
dctilc
Tie cause, or che men. of the Emerald Isle
To the words Emerald Isle DIR.
brennan has added the following note:
at may he puerile To lay claim To 4
priority of application in the use of an
cpitbet; but poets. like bees. nave a
very strong sense of prOprIeiy, and
both are OF that irritable kind rs 10 lie
extremely jealous of n one who rObs
them of their boarded sweets. Tho
sublime epithet which Nj lton used in
his poem on the Nativity. written at
fifteen wears OF aye. His thunder clasp
ing hand would have been claimed by
hun rs his W even after he had bn-
ishei 'Parad. Sc Lost And GRAY would
prosecute. as n literary poacher, the
daring hand that would presume Ia
break into his orchard and appropriate
a sing,e epiihet in that line, the most
beautifully descriptive which ever was
written:
The breezy call of ncensc-hrcathing morn"
Peters Pence. Ola, n Saxon
Prince. tn ingratiatc himself in favor
OF the sovereign Pontifi. engaged To
paw him 4 yearly donation for the sup
port of an English college at Rome;
and, in order to raise the sum, he i'm
posed a a of a penny on each house
possessed OF thirty pence 4 year This
imposition, being afterward levied on
all England, was commonly denominat-
ed Peters Pence
True Blue."-The first assumption
of this phrase was led by the Covenant
crs. in opposition to the scarlet badge
OF Charles l., and hence it was taken
up by the troops of Leslie and MontTose
in 1859. The adoption of the color was
one of those religious pedantries into
which the C~ovenan.ers, in a phariSaical
observance of the scripturaI letter and
the usage OF the Hebrews. distinguished
themselves. And thus they named
their children Habakkuk and Zerub-
babel, and their chspels Zian aud Eben-
ezer. They decorated their persons
with ribbons. because the following
sumptuarv precept was given in the
law of Moses: Speak to the children
of Israel. and tell them to make to
themselves fringes on the borders of
their garments, putting in them ribbons
OF blue" Numbers XIV. So.
"Old Harry.'-The popular attri-
butes of the evil one were u human
form. with horns. tail, ard a cloyen
foot. These are very probably derived
from the Grecian fables. and from the
representations of the Greek satyrs and
Roman fauns-the gods of the mount
tains and groves: and il is also probable
that ..Old Harry" was originally "Old
HdurV." The satyrs were said 10 have
hair like goats. "Sbock" i a head o:
rough hair a rough-haired dog. 50
there is doubtless an affinity between
..Oid Harry" or "Old Hairy" and
"-Old Shock" the English name given
to the demon supposed TO haunt roat-
SIDES and Wild pathways. The Lord
Harry" may allude TO the s%criptural
terms, 1.-The god OF the world" the
prince of the powers OF darkness.
Just the Cheese. This fam liar
yulgarism. used in commentator OF n
thing, is q mere orieniafism. meaning
lust the thing" from cheez- Hindo-
stance for "a thing"
..Gone to Pot.-The phrase comes
from n tailor in Samarcand, who. living
near a cemetery. had IN earthen vessel
on his counter into which he cast a peb-
bic whenever a corpse was carried past.
and thus kept count of the daily inter-
ments. At last. his own time came.
and his ~neighbors On inquiry after him
answered. "He has gone to pot. also"
TO Go the Whole Hog General
" set down as an Amerieanism. but
undoubtedly OF Irish origin. Previous
to the year ls2j. when the Irish metal
lie currency was completely assimilated
to the English. the silver shilling circu-
lated in ireland was equivalent to thir-
teen copper pennies. whereas q silver
shilling OF England was of the value of
twelve pence. In Ireland the shilling
was sometimes callei "a thirteen"
from the number OF pence II contained.
-- 80 g~-na,2, 4alHAI 80 krrn