The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-18

had lost all he had. It was not untlI
teIkin0 the matter over with business
fr;end fhaf; he told me that had been
swindled .as Joseph Drexel had no son.
7 coIlell uDon the Police Captain and IN
formed him of the whole affair, when
he told that was lucky to escape WIN
nv life. III they had got that cheek
from you,' he said, they wauId nave
hit YOU over the head with sand-oag
and throw you into the Hudson r1veF'
Familiar Words and Phrases.
"(;okl old age. ''-Genesis XIV, IL.
"Dun.''-This word owes its origin TO
Joe Dunn, an English bailiff In the
reign of Henry VII. nm
:Save me from my friends and IN
take care Of nv foes. Waller, dur
ing the reign Of Louis XIV.
SHow We apples swim. I'D. MaIIett'
Tybourn:
. While tumbliny down the turbid atream,
LORD love us. how We apples SWIM
':Angels' visits" - CampbelI IN
''Pleasures of Hope"
Cease, every jo , TO glimmer on my mand'
hut leave-oh: leave the light Of hope behind!
What trough my winged hours OF bliss have
Lite angels visits. few AMI far between
almighty dollar. "-Original with
Washington Irving: 1.-THE almighty dOt-
tar, that great object Of universal devO-
ton throughout the land. seems to have
no dcvotces in these peculiar villages
The Creole Village.
II have lost all but honor and life. y
Francis l., who was taken prisoner at
the famous hattie Of Pavia, Italy, Feb
ruary -, 1875, by Charles ", In letter
to his mother detailing his misfortune,
wrote the above familiar quotation.
name conferred upon the Parliament
convened hy Cromwell, July !, 1921. 1t
was composed of l3y persons who re-
signed their authority December IL,
1853, and it was 80 called from leath-
er-seller named Praise God Barcl,One,
who was one of the principal members.
IAN ax to grin,l.'-Ths phrase first
occurred in T.. Miners ''WhO'll Turn
Grindstones": The following is the
passage: "When see Il merchant over
polite to his customers, legging them to
taste little brandy, and throwing half
his goods on the counter. thinks |, that
man has an TX to grind"
"Thoroughbretl.' -Belongs to stock
nomenclature, and is applied to animals
bred from the hest blood, whether by in
breeding, crtnss-brcetiing or otherwise.
Full-blO0ded conveys it, own meaning
as plainly as it can ~ expressed. \ full
blOO(letl Arabian il Il horse that has none
hut Arabian blmd IN him.
"Begging the question. "a common
logical fallacy, l'efiti0 l,rincipii; and the
first explanation of the phrase is to he
found in AristOtlc's TOpica, viii, IL,
where the five ways Of begging the
question are set forth. The earliest Eng
lish work in which the expression IL
found il 1.-THE Arts Of I.ogike Plainlie
set forth in Our English Tongue, etc.,
1854
''Star-Route Service" THE name is
taken from the practice in the Govern
nlent Po~t-otiict Department of desig-
mating the three words, ''certainty,
celebrity and security" by thrcce s:ars,
as thus, #@*. 1t refers to the kind If
mail service performed by other means
than railway ar steamboat, such ~ on
horseback, hy stagc-cOacll, horse and
buggy. on foot, or IN any other v ay per-
mitttd Ivy the regulation.
1.-The time when the memory Of man
runneth not I" the contrary. "-lslack-
$tOncS in his Commentaries on the
Laws Of IL. ..ant" lvol. |, hook I. page
81, in speaking Of common law, says:
ITO make "a particular custom good the
following are requisite: That it have
lwen used SO long that the memory Of
man runnith not to the cOnteary. 50
that ii any can show the beginning. of II.
it Is no good c,,:ton,.'
"To Find Mares Nest. To make
what You suppose to bc IL good tlis.Uv-
cry, but which turns out to IN. I'LL moon.
shine. What We call Il nightmare Was
Ivy our saxon :nrc::,tllcrs supposed to- I've !
the Saxon demon muItr ~. mare. u
kind oi vampire, sitting on the siceucr's
chest. These vampires were said to III. !
the guardians "f hidden treasures. over
which they brood Il as hens over their !
eggs. an! the place where they sat was
termed their h'it>. or ne t. The only !:
origin t" IT, suggested, therefore. is from
Il SAXON fable. :
"l"alcr. This word was evidently
coined !E the ancicHts. NJ POn,peii !
there l. s:,i" I" bc an inscription ~: il,. :
wall y! what WAS probably Il workshop
~: SOME kind, as follows: ..O,iu.;s h;. ,
',"u: "r" r,t. Di.~:,i.;. utn.1t.o." This ;
may !'r translated, "rhi>' place tx not for !:
The lazy. l.sai"r. ,!.uan.'' Thi. IN
-"r;lti"n Is as good t. Industrial ,stol-
li-u,i"nt> .! nna!ern times :s il WAS for
I ,''>.' O: aEci:nt POi,iDeii. Its discovery
]. interesting, from the fact that It
shows human nature was the same. Is
centuries az" in Italy as i; is now in
America: that there We're law .niks and
',atcrs vi :" wCuld intru.!. into work.
shops and waste the time or divert til.
leniion Of the w"rk,nel,, and that it be-
ramc necessary 10 put up inScriptions
giving Il general warming t" all such f.,
!rl1rt.
"Si'ob. "A writer in the London
Votes ""'! Queries gives son.c curi,m,s
Facts r"i''.r;'i"= the origin al the word
'sn",'.' The word once meant ':cul,-
,lsr' ll"w'* Everyday Book" IL.
So. About the year 1874 it BEGAN I"
ne used in Cambridge, England, to ,les-
Sna!e townsnlan as opposed to uni
vcr>ity man. In No. 4 of the (;2vuxu,un
the little roper which. it will i've re-
nemhcre'l. Thackeray helped 10 edit at
'anibritl.e' the word ''>noI," is defined
Is mot g"wnsn'an; therefore u lewd.
vulgar fellow The writer in Nnh.,