The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-12

Gen. Jackson, as everybody knows,
was prone to the use OF downright and
| energetic methods OF assertion. Hear
| ing the emphatic oke so frequently ut
tered by the Choctaw people, helearned
the meaning conveyed by 1t to the
Choctaw mind and appropriated 1t,
out of hand, to his own purposes.
| From him it passed over to the multi
tude. This account OF the origin OF
| O. K. has been current in the South
for many years. If not true, it IS, to
say the least, ben trovato.
No one who has ever read an auto
graph letter of Gen. Jackson's Will
easily credit the story that he was IN
| the habit, when he was president of
| the United States, Of indOrsing IN kali
tenn blute, applications for office with
the letters of o. K, under the belief
that these were the proper initials for
call correct" Jackson was no schOl-
ar, but he was not so grossly ignorant
OF English orthography as to fall INTO
blunder of that sort. He may have
Endorsed documents with the letters
| O. K, as a locular symbol OF his Ia
vOrite ChOctaw expression. The story
| that these letters were seriously In
tended by him as an abbreviation OF
"oll korrect" was probably, as George
Bancroft suggests, an pOsteri-
orr invention of the enemy-tow wit,
the Whigs-during the hot political
contests in the days OF the roaring
'4Os.
That the Authorization o. K. was
coined by Jackson himself, and used
by him long years before it passed into
current slang, finds curious contirma-
ton in an extract from the old court
records OF Sumner County, Tennessee,
quoted by Parton in his Life OF Jack
son." vol. l, p. 1876.
October 8, 1890, Andrew Jackson,
Esq, proved bill of sale from Hugh
McGary to Casper Mansker, for a
negro man, which was 0. X" "A
common Western mistake" adds Mr..
Parton, ''for 0. r., which means or
dered recorded. Hence, perhaps, the
saying O. K"
Is it not most likely that the O. K.
OF this entry was suggested by Jackson
himself, as a brief way Of saying, after
the Choctaw fashion that the claim
had been legally made out?
A Boston Belle.
A correspondent of the Post at the
White Mountains writes:
A prominent hotel has Just been the
scene OF a romance in real life that has
created no end OF talk and Is very like
ly to leave its mark on Boston society
next winter. One OF themost admired
of all the bellies here this season is a
beautiful brunette residing on a very
fashionable Back-Bay Street in the
Hub. She is highly accomplished, and
every bit as much lady as sheis love
ly in face and figure. Naturally
enough, she can count her admirers of
the sterner sex by the score; and her
pleasing manners and Jolly good nat
ure are highly priced wherever she goes.
A short time since she added to her
already long list OF aGOrers a young En-
glishman, who, though possessing no
title, has very extensive landed estates
in the old country, and moves in the
first metropolitan circles. He has
travelled all over the world, is gradu-
ate of Cambridge, Eng, and is in every
way a most eligible bachelor Though
his attentions to the beautiful Boston
belle have been very marked, yet they
have only been such as any true gen
tleman might pay to lady whom he
held in high esteem. The young lady,
though not admitting it even to her
close friends, has been most unmis-
takably impressed by therare gifts and
worthy character of her cavalier; and
there is no Disgusting the fact that she
was deeply PANIED and chagrIred on
learning from MS own lips recently
that he is engaged to be married in the
autumn to the daughter of a peer.
The singular part OF the affair is, how
ever, that the gentleman told her of
his younger brother, whosegood quail
ties he extOlled to the skies, and final
ly expressed a wish that the lady
might meet him and become his bride,
at the same time promising that if
such an arrangement should be brought
about he would settle upon his young
er brother sufficient property to IN
crease his present income to a hand
some yearly figure. The suggestion
was by no means repealed by the young
lady, and the upshOt OF the wholemat-
ter is that the young BritOn has writ
| ten to his younger brother to come to
this country early in September, meet
his proposed wife, and do his best to
win her. 1t is a very romantic affair
all through, and fashionable circles in
! the modern Athens will await the Sc
| Quel with much interest.