Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-05-15
An Expensive Word.


Much that is annoying in this life
is occasioned by the use ola high pric-
ed word where cheaper one would
do. Tn these days Of failure, shortage
at both ends and financial stringency
generally, often wonder that some
people should go on, day after day,
using just as extravaganza language as
they did duringthe flush times. When
| get hard up, the first thing | do is
to economic in my expressions IN
everyday conversation. If there is
marked stringency in business, | lay
aside my French, then my Latin and
finally my German. Should the times
become greatly depressed and fail
ures and assignments become fire.
quent, begin to lop off the large
words in my own language, beginning
with ''incomprehensibility," 'uncon-
stitutionality," ETC., etc.
julius Caesars motto used to be,
"Avoid an unusual word as you would
rock at sea-" and julie was right
about it, too. Large and unusual
words, especially in the mouths OF ig-
norant people, are worse than Enough
on Rats In clearinghouse pie.
Years ago there used to be pom
pous cuss in southern Wisconsin, who
was self-made man. Extremely So.
Those who used to hear him assert
again and again that he was self
made man, always felt renewed con-
fidence in the Creator.
He rose one evening in political
meeting, and swelling out his bosom,
as his eagle eye rested on the chair
man, he said:
"Mr. Cheerman! | move you that
the cheer do now appoint committee
of three to attend to the matter under
discussion, and that said committee
be clothed by the cheer with omnis-
Gent and omnlpotent powers"
The motion was duly seconded and
the cheerman said he guessed that it
wouldn't be necessary to put it to a
vote.
81 guess it will be all right, Mr..
Pinkham. | guess there'll be no de-
clivity to it."
And so the committee was appoint
ed and clothed with omniscient and
omnipotent powers, there being no
declivity to it.
We had self-made lawyer at one
time in the northern part of the State
who would rather find seventy five
cent word and use it in a speech
where it did not belong than to eat a
good square meal. He was more fatal
to the kings Enghs than ODynamite
Rosa. One day he was telling how
methodical one of the county officials
was.
| "Why," said he, 81 never saw a
man do so much and do it SO easy
But the secret of it Is plain enough
You see he has a regular rotunda Of
business every day"
( If he meant anything, / suppose he
meant routine of business, but mar
would have to be mind reader te
follow him some days when he hac
about six fingers of cough medicine
aboard and began to paw around il
the dark and musty garnet of his
memory for moth-eaten words tina
didn't mean anything.
A neighbor of mine went to Wash
ington during the Guiteau trial ane
has been telling us about it ever since
He is one of those people who DON
want to be close and stingy abou
what they know. He likes to gt
through life shedding information
right and left. He likes to get
crowd around him and then tell how
he was in Washington at the time o
i the ''post mortise examination.
"Boys, you may talk as you're
mind to, but the greatest thing l saw
in Washington" said he, twas DIR
; Mary Walker on the street ever,
morning riding one of those philoso
t pliers"
He painted the top of his fence