The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-06-02
WELL.kNOwN PHRASES.
How the Following nre said 10 Have ORR
mated.

How the Following nre Said 10 Have Orig
mated.
HURRAH.-This word, which ia 40
frequently shouted, in this country es-
peclally, originated among the Eastern
nations, whore it was used as war.cry,
from the belief that every man who
died in battle for his country went to
heaven. 1t is derived from the Slavonic
word, "Hurraj," which means "to
Paradise"
WHAT ARE You GIVING Me ?-This
oft-repeated xpression-indicat OF
disbelief-which has boon added to the
vocabulary OF slang, has no less source
than the Bible. 1t may be found in
the thirty-eighth chapter Of Genesis.
A.CAr MAY LOOK AT A KINa.-This
saying is said to have the following
origin: When Charles II. was fleeing,
in disguise, from England to France,
he was sitting on deck directing the
course of the vessel, when one Of the
sailors filling his pipe hear by, blew
some OF the tobacco in his face. Tho
master of the ship ordered the marine
to go further away from the ''gentle-
man." when he, grumblingly, replied,
quite ignorant Us to the quality Of the
passenger "a cat may look at king"
SWEET BY-AND-BY." This popular
hymn was the work OF two men-Jos-
eph P. Webster, now dead, who com.
posed the music and DIR. +. S. Bennett,
at the present timo resident of Rich
mond, ILL.,, the author of the verses.
The two wrote a hymn-book in 1874,
and "The Sweet By-and- By" was one Of
the pieces jointly produced for it. The
suggestion came from a chance remark
by Webster, who was habitually des-
pondent, that all would be we'll "by-and-
by" Bennett at once made the
rhymes, ard Webster brought tho
music out Of fiddle, which was his
customary aid in composition. The
hymn book had its day, and is forgot
ten; but this one tune is put into every
new publication of the kind, and has o
sale OF about 10000 copies year in
sheet form. DR.. Bennett says that be
tians when the hymn was written, and
that he is now even less believer.
AS DEAD AS A HERRNo.-This ex-
preston has simple origin. The her.
ring, which when fat is called q
"bloater," dies Immediately upon its
removal from the sea It wants air.
and can live only in salt water where
as eels live long time after leaving its
native element. Swimming so near tho
surface, as 1t does, the herring requires
much air. and the gills when dry cannot
perform their function that OF breath
ing.
GRoG.-Admiral Vernon, the same
after whom Mount Vernon was named
was the first to require his men to
drink their spirits mixed with water.
In bad weather he was in the habit of
walking the deck in rough grogram
cloak, and hence had obtained the
name OF "Old Grog' in the service.
Such was the name applied to rum and
water.
LDDo OR LMBUs.-[ Lat. "Limbus."
Gid scholasfcs fEelessa fEeolSsfaahbsy BY Is soTs ne
on the edge or confines or heII. Iefv,
it was thought, the souls Of Just men,
not admitted into heaven or into purga-
tory, remained to await the general
resurrection. Such were the patriarchs
and other pious ancients who died be-
fore the birth OF Christ. Herce the
"limbo' was called ''limbus patrum."
According to some of the schoolmen
there was also ''iimbus pue.porum''
or "infantum," a similar place allotted
to ths souls Of Infants dying unbap-
tized. To these were added, in popular
opinion, "iimbus fatuorum," or FOOLS
paradise, the receptacle Of oil vanity
and nonsense.
JACK KETcu.-A hangman or e1ecu-
tioner, commonly so called from one
John Ketch, wretch who lived in the
time of james H., nd made himself