Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-16
Familiar Word, and Phrases.

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to Joe Dunn, an English bailif in the
reign Of Horny VII
( Save me from my friends and ri
take care of my foes I'm. Vallier, dur
ing the reign Of Louis XIV.
i 'tHowwe apples swim. p--D. Mallett,
Tybnnss lota4 gs 3 .,ss
i1a EorSfloye as, INV We apples swinil
I" Angels visits r. Campbell, in
pleasures of Hopeni
ngaSet eyery l2y, to gll.Ei aaer on my mind,
/. NhI thpush IRyl wipRfl hongs 0f bliss hsvo.
hiaes sSsels S.ls vtsst, fes sSpas far between
~ aiighty oslls -)riginal with
WaShngton ffTihg; Tire u5Ragtfy.
doiiar. that great object Of universal
devotion throughout the land. seems to
, have no deyotees in these peculiar viii
lages. The Creole Village. t
q have lost all but honor and hfer
Francis L.. who was taken prisoner
at the famous battle of Payia, Italy,
February 2i, l525, by Charles ", in a
letter to his mother detailing his mis-
fortune, wrote the above familiar
phrase.
/" Barebones Parliament" "a nick
name conferred upon the Parliament
convened by Cromwell, July 4. 1853
II was composed Of one hundred and
thirty nine persons who resigned their
authority December II. 1868; and it
was so called from leather. seller
named Praise-God Barcelona, who was
one Of the principal members.
8" An AK to grind. THE phrase first
occurred in @. Miners Who'll Turn
GrlndstonesPn The following is the
passage ''When | see merchant over
polite TO his customers, begging them
to taste a little brandy, and throwing
half his goods on the counter, thinks |,
that man has an AK to grind
Thoroughbred o--Belongs to stock
nomenclature, and is applied to ami
mails bred from the best blood, whether
by in-breeding, cross-breeding, or 9TH
crwise Fulilblooded conveys its own
meaning as plainly as il can be ex-
pressed. A full-blooded Arabian is n
horse that has none but Arabian blood
in him.
Begging the question. A common
logical fallacy, petiti0 Briflcipii; and the
first explanation of the phrase il to be
found in Aristotle's Topica, viii, 49,
where the five WAYS Of begging the
question are set forth. The earliest
English work in which the expression
is found is THE Arts OF Logike Plain
lie set forth in Our English Tongue,
etc, 1881" .
Star Route Service. The name is
taken from the practice in the Govern
ment Post-oflice Department OF desig-
mating the three words, certainty,
celebrity and security by three stars,
as thus. ''", II refers to that kind of
mail service performed by other means
than railway or steamboat, such as on
horseback, by stage-coach, horse and
buggy, ON foot, or in any other way
permitted by the regulation.
"The time when the memory of man
runheth not to the contrary. ~ Black
stone, in his" Commentaries on the
Laws of England (vol, /, book |, page
53l, in speaking of common law, says:
:" To make q, particular custom good
the following are requisite; That It
have been used SO long that the memo
ry Of, man runneth not TO the contrary
So that If any one can show the begin
ming OF it. it is no good CUSTOM"
$40 Find a Mare Nest. To make
what You suppose TO be good discov-
cry, but which turns out 20 be allmoon-
shine, What we call q nightmare was
by our Saxon forefathers supposed to be
the Saxon demon marce or mare,
kind OF vampire, sitting ON the sleep
ers chest These vampires were said
TO be the guardians of hidden treasures,
over which they brooded as hens over
their eggs and the place where they sat
was termed their indus, or nest The
only origin to be suggested, therefore,
is from this Saxon fable. 't".
g ''Loafer = = This.word was evidently
coined by the aneients Al Pompeii |
there is said to be an inscription on the
wall OF what was probably workshop |
OF some kind, as follows: " OiioSis htc !
locus "a est DSeede. nordto." This !
may be translated. ''This place is not !
for the lazy. Loa'er, departn This !
inscriptions is as'good for Industrial es- |
of modern times, as It was
for those of ancient P0inpei. Its dis !
coVery isinteresting, from the fact that |
II shows that human nature was the |
same eighteen centuries agoin Italy as |
il is now in America; that there were |
law folksand loaters who would intrude I
into workshops and waste the time or |
divert the attention OF the workmen, |
and that ID became necessary to put up |
Inscriptions giving general warning TO !
all such TO depart.
2 Snoh Y--A writer in the London
Notes and Queries gives some curious
iactsconeerping theIorigin OF Che word
'snob." The word once meant f'cob-
b'ero ("How's Everyday Book" H., I
$50. About the year 1924 itbegan to
be used IN Cambridge, Eng. 10. desig- \
nate townsmaD as opposed-to auhi- Z
yersity man. lDNo. @ OF the GOuBsmaa
(the little paper which. it will be REL
Thackeray helped TO edtat )
Canbridge) the word ''snob" is defined
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