The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-15

ycitow jag. n flag being termed Il iacl
by seau!en, and yellow being the cOloi
Of that cnstomarily displayed from laza
rcttoes or naval hospitals. and from
vessels in quarantine.
G1nkec.-A term in America for New
~Englandcrs, and applied by foreigners tc
all natives of the United States. The
most feasible origin is, that the Indians.
when speaking OF the English settlers.
called them .Yenghces.' corrupted at.
forwards to yankee
The Gray Mare is tho Better Horse
This expression first occurred in HEY.
woods Proverbs, 1862, and was subse.
quently quoted in Hazlitt's English Pro
verbs, with Haywood as authority. The
story of the origin of this familiar saving
is as follows: A young English gcntle
man had married q very handsome lady
with II large fortune, but she proved K
be 50 determined 10 be the head Of thu
family that he was anxious to part from
her. He accordingly laid The matte
before her father, Offering, if he woul'
AXE her back, TO refund NIL the fortur,
which lie had received with her. Til.
Old gentleman assured his son-in-iaw
that his case was by no means an unusua
onc; but that, in fact, all women die
not only wish 10 govern their husbands
nut that they actually did so, some b,
ono means. and some by another
Now said the cid N.tlcman, "ii
order that you may be convinced tina
you are quite as well off rs other men.
and so have nothing to complain of, ]
will make you this proposition: | hav,
two horses in my stable. You shat
harness them to a cart, in which 1 will
place a basket containing a hundred
eggs, and you shall ride through the
country, making diligcnt inquiry, and
whenever you find a house in which
the husband is master. you shall leave a
horse, and at every house where the
wife governs you shall leave an egg. II
you find that you get rid of the eggs be-
fore you do the horses, you shall go
home and be content with my daughter;
but il the horses are gone first, l will
take my daughter home, and you shall
keep her fortune" The young man set
out on his expedition. At every house
where he made inquiries he found enough
to convince him that the wife was the
master, until his basket of eggs was
nearly empty before he had got rid OF
either of the horses. At length, early
one morning, he came to a fine mansion.
and asked to see the master of the house.
The servant said that his master was
not yet up, but the lady was in the par
lor, into which he was ushcred. The
lady received him c~ourteously, but said
hat unless his business was very urgent
she would prefer not to awaken hel
husband. REALLY, madame" he said.
.'you will think my business a very sin.
gular one. l hope you will not consider
me impertinent. but l wish to ask {
question which you can answer as well
as your husband, and 4 considerable
wager depends upon the answer which !
shall receive. The question is just this,
DO you govern your husband, or does
he govern youP" 1t is an odd question,
certainly" replied the lady, ''but no
one, surely, ought to be ashamed Of
doing what is right. 1t is tho wife's
duty to obey her husband, and / am
proud to say hat | always obey mine.
But perhaps you would like TO have his
testimony also. Here he comes, and
you can ask him." The husband being
appealed to, promptly confirmed the
truth of what his wife had said, where
upon the stranger explained the object
of his inquiry, and said that it gave him
the utmost pleasure to ask his new
friends to select whichever of the horses
they liked best. The husband preferred
the fine black stallion, while the wife
fixed her heart upon the pretty gray
mare. and an argument arose as to
which it should be. An end was put to
this by the wife saying in q determined
tone: you say you will o take her.
but | say you shall. for | am sure that
the graz mare is The better horse"
"Well, we'll" replied the husband, "ii
i must be so, have ycur own way, o,
always 10. Wen take the mare"
he continued, addressing the visitor.
YOU DON'T WAS the reply, you'll
have to put up with IN egg, as every
one else to whom ! have put the question
has done. As for me, | shall take my
home, and shall try to live hap
ply with my wife, for she does allow
me TO have my way now and then"
Stouewall Jackson.-lt is related that
ut the first battle Of Bull Run, July 81.
1861, at n moment when the day was
apparently lost to the Confederates,
Jackson's brigade made so firm n stand
that some one cried out, Here is Jack
standing like a stone WALL And
thereafter .'Stonewall Jackson became
his soubriquct.
Ten Pcnny.-Thc word penny, when
used TO mark the size of nails, is sup
posed TO be q corruption of pounds; thus,
y four-penny nail was such hat 1000 OF
them weighed four pounds, a ten-penny
nail such that 1000 weighed ten pounds.
What He Said was Mere Gibberish.-
In the eighth century there was a fam
Gus professor of occult chemistry whose
NAM was Gebcr. He held that all met
ais, except gold. were liable to disease,
and that this in them was cured by gold,
which also was n panacca for the mala-
dies of the human family. He wrote
500 treatiscs on this subject, so learned
and unintelligible that they were ridi-
culed as Geberish. whence it is conclud-
ed came gibberish in our own vocabul-
airy.
Tuft Hunters. Formerly, and in mos,
of the European colleges, and to this
day in the Universities of Oxford, Cam
bridge and Dublin, each student who
was a noblemau's son wore n distin-
gushing tuft or tassel on the square cap
which collegiaus wear while at college
Hence, persons who fawned upon these
.cions OF aristocracy obtained the very
Ineligible title of ''tuft hunters"
Mind Your p's and q's.-This expires:
sion comes from the printing office,
where the similarity in form OF the
clover case" or small ''p'' and "a" IL
a font of Roman letter is always perplex-
ing to the typographical novice, espe
cially in distributing or Throwing
into easel a mixed heap of type techni
cally known as ''pi.' 1t is enormously
supposed by some that the expression
came from the score chalked down IL
public houses Of P's and Q's (meanins
pints and quarts) not paid for by bibu'
lous customers.
Nihilist.-One who believes in Mill
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