Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-12-06

mark of approval was first officiall
used by a statesmen connected wit
the New York city government abou
1887, and the introduction was cotcm
poraneous with the invention of pipe
laying as political fine art. The fac
is that neither Jackson, Crockett no
the aforesaid New York city states
man had anything to do with its origin
The cabalistic letters are authenticallv
traced to Old Keokuk, pacific chief o
the Sac and Fox Indians, who wbel
be sold Iowa to the United State
Government, signed the deed will
initials o. K His co-chief, the fiery
Black Hawk, refused to sell or sigr
away the rights of his people to the
beautiful land, and hence the Blacl
Hawk war. Old Keokuk years age
passed on to the happy hunting ground
of the Great Beyond, but his sign con.
tinues to supply long-felt want in
the English language.
"Abomination ofDesolation This
phrase occurs four times in the book ot
Daniel. Its Specification is as follows;
Our Lord had been telling of the re.
mote and immedite signs of the end ol
the Jewish economy. He proceeded
to describe the siege and destruction
of Jerusalem by the Romans. On the
standards of the Roman armies their
idols were painted-and being placed
where "they ought not in the holy
places of Jerusalem they were an
''abomination" to the Jews. The
Romans, by their own devastation,
caused great desolation in the land
This was at the time of the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem by the Romans, A.
d. 10.
"To See and be SEEM phrase
has been traced to Chaucer's "The
Prologe of the Wyfe of Bathe" 1t al
so occurs in Ben JoEnson's "Epitha-
mion,n Dry den's "Ovid's Art of Love, I"
and Goldsmith's seventy-frst letter,
entitled the "Citizens Of the World "
f'Two Much of Good Thing.n-An
expression often used, and originally
occurring in "Don Quixote," part l,
book l, chap. 6. 1t also appears in
Shakespeare's "As You Like It." act
iv., sc. |.
Through Thick and Thin THE
proverbialism by Solomon that there
is no thing new under the sun" is illus
trated by the saying which is found in
Spencer's Fairy Queen" Drayton's
"Nymphidi@e, Middleton's "The
Roaring Girl" Kemp's "Nine Days
Wonder" Buffers "Hudihras," Dry
denis "Absolom and Atchilophel,"
Pope's "Dunciad," and Cowper's
"John Gilpin."
"Sardonic Smile. The Island of
Sardinia, consisting chiefly of marshes
or of mountains, has, from the earliest
period to the present time, been cursed
with q noXious air, an ill-cultivated
soil and a scanty population. The
produced by it's poisonous
plants gave rise to the expression of
''sardonic SMILE" which is as old as
Homer.
"Speech Was Given to Man to Con-
eeal His Thoughts. .n-Voltaire has in
Dialogue" xiv, lis unemployment less
paroles que pour deguiser teurs
pensees.
When Harel wished to put joke or
witticism into circulation, he was in
the habit of connecting it with some
celebrated name, on the chance of re-
claiming 1t If it took. Thus he assign
ed to Talleyrand in the main Laune,"
the phrase Speech was given to man
to disguise his thoughts"
"Put Your Trust in God, my Boys,
and Keep Your Powder Dry."-This
expression is attributed to Col. Black
er, who put into his "Oliver's Advice"
There Ia we'll authenticated anec-
dote, however, which makes Cromwell
its originator On certain occasion.
when the troops of the great Christian
soldier were about crossing q river to
attack the enemy, he concluded an ad-
dress couched in the usual fantastic
terms in use among them, with these
words: "Put your trust in God; but
mind to keep your powder dry" This
we nave Ou vi TOY ~
his Ballads on Ireland"
Passing the Rubicon. The Rubi-
con is considered by Cluverius and
D'Auville to be the Fiurnecino of
Italy, and their opinion is supported
by the inhabitants of Rimini. i'll whose
territory it is; the point being ford
on the Road from Ravenna. The ce-
lebrity of the event has passed into a
proverb; hence to "pass the Ruhicon"
is to take desperate step in an en-
terprise, or to adopt a measure from
which one cannot recede, or from which
be Is determined not to recede.
"Blackmail. ~ "The eXtortion of
money from person by threats" is
the definition given by Webster. In
the Anglo-Saxon the word black orig
inally .signifed "pale." In 1888 it
was interpreted as meaning "unlaw-
full" wicked )" examples of its use in
this connection being found in black
art, black guard, etc. 1t was also
used as term of reproach in the books
entitled the "Board of Green Cloth"
The word email" is derived from Sax
on mae "rent tax" "Mails" and
duties" in Scotland are rents of an
estate in money or otherwise.
Devil Among the Tailors. This
phrase arose in connection with riot
at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on
an occasion when Dowton announced
the performance for his benefit of bur-
lesque entitled "The Tailors, a Trage-
dy for Warm Weather" At night
many thousands of journeymen tailors
congregated in and around the theatre,
and by riotous proceedings interrupted
the performance. Thirty-three of the
rioters were brought up at Bow street
the next day. A full account of the
proceedings will be found in the En-
glisA work, Geographic Dramatica, +"
under the, heading !'Tailcrs."
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