The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-10
NOMENCLATURE.

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tends cows or cattle a cowherd.
There is on the road to San Francisco
beyond San Jose, a large tract of land
which was granted by the Spanish gov.
ernment, by the name of Las Pul0as
commonly called the @'Pulgas Rancho, .
fleas.
such name leads us TO consider the
torments that the sponsors of that place
must have suffered to induce them Il
give the name Of flea to their property.
" hat uutterings. twistings and turn
lngs, siappings and twitches, itchings
and rubbings, until finally the invader
IS spled beneath the fold Of a garment.
Ihe victim, with cautiously poised finger
and thumb, prepares to capture him:
slowly and carefully he begins the as
saut with determination nothing can
check. There, He is caught, He is
exultingly felt between the thumb and
iinger. and the grip tightens as he Is
IeiL The hunter straightens himself.
and for moment enjoys the pleasing
triumph and then prepares to DESTROY
the insect, 10 immediate him on the
horns Of his wrath, as It We're He re-
leases the pinching power Of thumb and
hnger TO take peep, to enioy his tri-
umph still more. The insect is not visi-
bic yet. He releases a little more: still
more and more; be opens his fingers
VIDE. The flea Is not there-he mas
fed. Fled as a flea Aeeth
The Spanish word for thumb is pul-
gar, from whence comes pulga or lea.
The connection between them is easily
understood. and ia q double sense by
those who have endeayored by the use
Of the thumb and its adjunct to catch
the tormenting insect
1t appears to be impossible to arrive
at the meaning of the Indian names
that have been retained In this coun-
try there are three noted grants Of land
that were made under Indian names
Zayante now called Sayante, is one OF
them, and Of which the village of Eel
ton now forms a part
Sequel is another. also having a vii
lage called by the same name, and
Autos, now altered to Aptos, is the third.
The writer is still prosecuting search for
the origin and meaning Of these names.
In an official order of the governor OF
California, made eighty years ago, So
quel IS alluded TO; and this was many
years before the land was granted
We viii now step outside of Califor-
MIA, and as DEPRESSION viii mention
that about the year 1910 there was
much commercial disaster IN and about
the state OF New York and city.
The newspapers of the day were filled
! with notices OF bankruptcy. Well-known
merchants closed their places Of busi-
! ness and disappeared from view. Wall
street and the exchange knew them no
more. This became so frequent that
one day some wag chalked or painted
upon the door of a well-known COM
| mercial house that had been closed and
the occupant of which mad absented
himself, the letters &c. T. T."
This occasioncd more surprise; until
the New York Herald in one of its issues
| explained that &C T. T., =" meant gone
| to Texas. Soon it became a byword
that when a merchant met with pecu-
MARY misfortune be had O. T. T., gone
to Texas; and Texas became the Mecca
of the unfortunate, the depressed, and
the adventurer At the commencement
of the war with Mexico, Texas acquired
great notorietv, and then came the in
! quiry: Whence its name? What does
| Texas mean? Nobody knew and many
were the suppositious replies.
Yet it is easily and simply explained.
1t is a Spanish descriptive word mean
ing tiles, such as houses are rooted with
in some countries instead of shingles.
In modern etymology it is spelled TEXAS
and pronounced Tehas.
Its origin is as follows: The mission
aries of the Catholic church, after the
conquest of Mexico, then called New
Spain. penetrated the wilds of America
from the Atlantic side, and when ex-
| ploring that part now known as Texas.
| in search of Indian converts, discovered
upon the banks of the Rio Grande,
which they had partially assembled, q
| village of Indians, who, TO their sur
| prise, lived in houses or huts with tiled
| roofs (Which was an evidence of some
civilization) and they gave the name
| Tiles or Texas to a very large tract oi
| country separated from Mexico by the
Rio Grande or Big river.
At this time the missionaries were
| also exploring the country north OF The
| Sonora by the way of the Gulf Of Lower
| California and the Colorado river from
| Mexico. They arrived at part where
! they encountered many Indians who
were remarkable for having very large
and fiattened noses, and the soldiers
| forming the escort called that part o.
| the country Narizona or Big Noses.
! Since then the name Narilona has
been abridged somewhat by dropping
| the letter N, and we have Arizona, be
coming every day more generally known
by reason of its reputed great minera
wealth.
Some writer has given the origin o
| the word as being derived from ''Aric
Zone, but the above is the true origin
! Narizona, Big Nose, less the letter N
leaving it Arizona.
The Gulf of California, lying between
| the peninsula of Lower California ane
the coast of Sonora, was formerly calleC
and named in early Spanish maps th'
| Mar Roxe, or Red sea. One must sup
pose that it was SO named because of 1t
| water being tinged with red. In thl
supposition he would be mistaken, 70
it was called Red sea by its Spanish dis
| coverers. because of its resemblance II
conformation to the Red sea of Europ
or Gulf of Arabia, which runs iron
| Suez between the coasts of Africa an'
| Asia.
The earliest nayigators OF the coas
| OF N'dllfOfnta, WbSu SdlltiiH hOAtA
California. made landing and hat
friendly intercourse with a tribe of In
dlans they found there. who had yer,
long. pendulous ears, formed so iron
the habit they had of Sitting the lobe
and using them as receptacle IN whicl
they carried their ornaments, such Il
earrings on very large scale.
The sailors called these Indians tn
Oreiones, or Big Ears, and in time tn
name was curtailed to OREGON. or Bi
Ear. Anglicize the word Orejon am
YOU have our Oregon, and such is tn
origin of the name of the state OF Ore
gon.
To the understanding OF one OF tn
Spanish race, it is nothing more or les
than oreion, or big ear, ii being tru
Spanish word indicating and meanin.
a large ear.
Perhaps the ladies of the state Of Ore
con who wear earrings may not wish {
know they are initiating. in smal
way. the savage tribes that occupied tn
country hundreds of years before them
-Sdnta Cruz Sentinel.
HOMEMADE SoAP.-Cut the piect
of waste fat, cooked or raw, into bit
, and fry them out thoroughly on til
n -.