The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-08-04

"A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss"
This quotation appears in Gosson,s
Ephemerides Of Philao,' as ia rowi-
inc stone gathers no moss" Thomas
Tusser. in ..Good Husbandry Lessons
has !. The stone that Is rolling can gath
or no moss"
"Better Late Than Never /" This
proyerbialism originated with Thomas
'russer. author Of Y Five Hundred Points
Of Good Husbandry," who put il into
his = An Habitation Enforced" Tus-
sers writings arc prolific Of expressions
which have long since become proven
bal.
.No Royal Road to Geometry. ~
Euclid. who opened school Of mathe-
mates at Alexandria, in the reign %
the First Ptolemy. was once asked py |
that sovereign whether he could not ex-
plain his art 10 him in more compen-
dious way. to which Euclid made the
celebrated answer that there was no
royal road to geometry.
1.-The Nine Worthless. 1" - The historic
al personages designated The Nine
WORTHLESS" were three Gentiles Hec-
I tor, son of Priam; Alexander the Great
and Julius Caesar; three Jews. Joshua,
ccnqueror Of Canaan: David, King Of
Israel. and Judas Maccabrus: and
three Christians. Arthur. King Of Brit
ain. Charlcmagne and Godfrey Of Bouil-
lon.
1.-THE Bed Of ustes.'--Procrus-
ties, called by Parusanias Polypmmon.
was. in mythology. q robber Of ancient
Greece. who placed on an iron bed the
travellers who fell into his hands. which
their stature was made TO fiji BY cutting
OF the projecting limbs, or by stretch
ing them to suit its dimensions; whence
the mefaphorical expires ion Of The
Bed Of Procrustcs.
..City Of Magnificent Distances. ~
A popular name givensto the City Of
Washington, the capital Of the United
States. from the fact Of its being laid
out on very large scale. The entire
site IS traversed by two sets Of streets.
from seventy to 100 feet wide, at right
. angles 10 one another. the whole again
, intersected obliquely by fifteen avenues
from $50 TO 100 feet wide.
s.Sleeveless Errand ~ This phrase oc-
! ours in Heywood's Proverbs. 1916. The
origin Of the word sleeveless. in the sense
| of improbable, has deficd the most care
full research at the hands Of Sharman
and other noted philologists. IL is fire.
ouentlv found. saws the former, allied
! to other substantiyes Bishop Hall
! speaks Of the sleeveless tale Of tran
I substantiation.r and Milton writes Of 9
I sleeveless reason" Chaucer uses i -
Gle Testament Of Love.
/. ssDrawn and CHARTERED. In the
! statutes or Great Britain the punish
|. ment for treason still Is that the
offender be drawn to the place Of exc.
/, cufion on hurdle; that he be hanged
. by the neck until he be dead that hi
head be severed from his body. ans
that body be divided into four parts, O
I, 0ndrfered. The sovereign may, nns
i now certainly would. BY warran
: under the sign manual. countersigne<
Z by Z principal Secretary Of State, chang
7 the sentence into beheading. In tn
4 case Of females. the quartcring ID dis
!. nensed with. From this statute ros
the expression :. drawn and quartered.
= I'VE Recognize Hercules from IN
!, |. Size Of the Foot. "-Pythagoras ingeni
ously calculated the great stature Q
Hercules BY comparing the length
y various stadia in Greece. All thes
!; courses were nominally 600 feet !
! length; but Hercules was said 70 hay
p measured out the stadium &c Olympi
with his own feet while the Others 70
e lowed . standard Of later days. In
y philosopher argued that BY how muc
81 the Olympic course exceeded all other
y il length BY the said proportion ii
y the foot Of Hercules exceed that Of me
Of OF subsequent age; and, again, BY th
= same proportion must the stature