The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-09

FAMILIAR WORDS AND
PHRASES.


to Joe Dunn. an English bailiff in
the reign of HenryVII.
"Save me from my friends and I'll
take care of my foes. M. Waller,
during the reign of Louis XIV.
"H0w we apples swim" I'D. Nal
lett, Tybourn:
While tum bling down the turbid stream
Lord love as, how We apples swim!
angels visits. Campbell, in
Pleasures of hope:
Ceas1, every joy. t. glimmer IN my
But leave-On! leave the light Of hope
b.hindl
What though my winged hours Of bliss
have been
Like aFgels' visits, few and far b tween
Almighty dollar Original with
Washington Irving: ~ he almighty
dollar, that great object of univerS Al
devotion throughout the land, 81 ems
to have no deYOtees i'll these pecu-
liar villages. The Creole Village
"Ihave lost AL but Lon0r and life!
Francis l.. who was taken prisoner
at the famous battle of Payid, Italy.
February "a, 1873, lay Charles v, in
a letter TO his mother deta ing h 5
misfortune, wrote the above famil-
lar phrase.
"BareboneS Parliament. "A nick
name conferred upon the Parliament
convened by Cromwell, July 4, 1868.
1t was composed of one hundred and
thirty-nine persons who resigned
their authority December II, 1858
and it was SO called from Il leather
seller named Praise God Barcelona.
who was one of the principal mem
bers.
can AK to grind" The phrase first
occurred in &. Miners Who'll Turn
Grindstones ?" The following is the
passage: "When | see a merchant
over-pOlite to his customers, begging
them to taste little brandy, and
throwing half his goods on the cOun-
ter, tn nkS |, that man has an ak to
grind
Thoroughbred. Belongs t.
stock nomenclature, and Is apple /
to animals bred from the best blood
whether ny in-breeding, croSs-breed-
ing, OF otherwise. Full blooded con-
veyS its own meaning us
plainly as it can be expressed. a
fulI-bloded Arab an is a horse that
has none but Arabian bio d iii him,
Begging the question. "A com
mon logical fallacy, petitiO pri1.ci-
phi; and the first explanation Of tue
phrase is to be found in AriStOt. e'S
Topica, viii. II, where the five ways
of begging the question are set for ii.
The earliest English work i'll which
the expression is found is "The Arts
of ogike Plainlie set forth IN Our
English TJngue, ETC., 1854"
"otar-ROute Service. The name
is taken from the practice in the
Government Post-olfice Department
of designating the thee words, Ger
tainty, CELEBRITY and security" by
three stars as thus, ***. II refers
to the kind Of mail service performed
10y Other meats than railway or
steamboat, such as on horseback, by
Stage-cOach, horse aud buggy. OH
foot, Ur Ill any other way permitted
10y the regulation
THE time wien the memory Of
man runneth not to the contrary. =
Blackstone, III his Commentaries
on the Laws OF England vol. l,
book |, page So, in speaking OF COM
mon law, Says: To make particu-
lar custom good the following are
requisite: That it have been used SO
long that the memory man run
meth not TO tile contrary. 80 that if
any one can show the beginning Of it,
it is no good custom"
10 Find a mares nest. TO
make what you suppose to be good
discovery, but which turns out TO be
all moon-shine. What we call
was by our Savon fore
fathers supposed to be the Saxon de-
mon n1Grce or mare, kind of YAM
pire, sitting on the Sleeper's chest
These va npireS were said to be the
guardians OF hidden trea ures, 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,
is from d saxon fable.
''LOafer,' This word was evil
IDENTIFY coined by the ancients. At
Pompeii there is said to be an in
scriptiOn on the wall of what was
probably workshop of some kind,
as follows: "OtioSic hic lOc,to non est.
Diseede, mor0to.'' This may be
translated. This place is not for
the lazy. LCafer, depart" This in
scription is as good for industrial es-
of modern times, as it
was for those ofancient Pompeii.
Its discovery is interesting, from the |
fact that it shows that human nature
was the same eighteen centuries ago |
in Italy as is now in America; that |
there were lazy folks and lOafers
who would intrude into workshops
and waste the time or divert the at
tention Of the wOrkmen. and that |
it became necessary 10 put up in
giving general warning
to all such to depart.
'SnOb. "A writer in the London
Notes and Queries gives some curl
Gus facts concerning the origin of
the word -'Sn b" Tie word once
meant "cO6Dler" ''uow'S Everyday
Book, H., $50. About the year 1874
it began to beused inCam brio &c, Eng,
to designate townSman as opposed
to a university man. In No. 8 of the