The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-01-28
HOW PROVERBS CREW.
st. Louis Cslobe Democrat,

St. Louis Globe Democrat
 "The Higher the Monkey Climbs the More Hc Shows His Tail" This proverb, according to r. (. Birkbeok Terry, In the August Notes 0Hd Queries, in tho form, "The Higher the Ape Goes the Mow He shows His Taile," appears in George Hcrbert's "Outlandlsh Proverbs" i6to. It oc- CUTS also in Rays collection. Ray quotes the Italian proverh, "IE fdi coR.e ld simtd, chI pfN cd 'a dltc piH mostra d cAlo." Another correspond- ent of the same magssire. asserts that this proverb, in rather coarser form was applied to Elizabeth Bourchler, the wife ot Oliver Cromwell, to whom he was married at St. Giles, Cripplcgate, August s2, 1920. Thomas Carlyle styles her father, Sir Thomas Bourchier, "a civic gentle man." and he had besides landed prop erty at felstcd In Sussex. Prehxcd to volume H., third edition, l7s5, of Noble's "Mcmoirs of the Honse of Cromwell' is small medallion DOT trait of this lady, representing her as \ plain, homely woman, wearing a hood, while to tho right of her face k monkey. Perhaps tho proserb may be of Spaniah origin, for 1t Is one quite worthy ot Sancho FdHsd There is an English equivalent to the prov erb, In which tho squirrel Is the animal.
 Ri Fol De Rol.--Theae nonsensIcal choruses arc form of the refrain to ballad or song, and may bc supposed to arise when, refrain being ncces- sary, the nature oi the writing does not admit of the refrain pure and proper, and the skill or wlc,igc ot the writer Is not equal to the second ary refrain. The refrain proper is repetition of the same line ar sentence in it's regular grammatical place, at equal intervals, as In the following most strange and solemn ballad, en- titled "A Lykewake DirKe": This Ae nightc. this ae niRhtc, EVcrto nighte and ale, Fire and sleete ana candle iighte, Aad Christie receive thy soute.
 The secondary refrain k the intro uu'llou Ol " uutAcltcu stuteINc Hotc or less connected, or not connected at all, with tho subject of tho poem, as Scott In Waverly
 Heard ye sac merry tho I'tue bird .tnE7
 And the threstle cocks head Ia under his wing
 Earlier instances may be seen In AL lingham's "Ballad Book" pages 262 and 276, and later are some ballads of Jean ingeiow's, and "roll Slowly" In Mrs. Bronwing's "l.imc of tho Duch- css May" The syllablcs used In these nonsensical choruses are any that lend themselves to music, and possibly In some cases were intended to initiate | the sound of instruments. lmag ina ton might conIure "Ri fol de rol" into the strings of violin. Another illustration, though not exactly in point, Is this:
 Hub a.dub, rub adub, so go their drums. | TAntArR. tantAra, tho EnRltahman comes.
 Two or three additional specimens of these curious reIrains might be given, as, for instance, George Wither's:
 But n fool aA there was thought she loved mn too Hut now. alas she's loft me, faicr0, lcro. loo
 and Lord Dcrset's:
 The muses now. and Neptune, too We must tmplore lo write you, With fa Ia la lA la
 to Burfs' more elaborate "Igo and ago ,ram coram et ago." The latest instance to be given Is In Charles kingsley's "Ballad of Lorrainc," writ ten shortly before his death, and only publi,hed in his Life and Letters"
 Are you ready for your stsepis chase, Lorraine, Lorraine, LorreeY
 Ea rum. Ba rum. Ba rum. Ba rum,
 Ba rum, Ba rum BA rec.
 The ballad Is curious, and the end Is really pathetic;
 She mastered young yindietive.ob tha gallant And kept him straight and won the race as
 near near could be,
 But he killed her at the brook against poi- Oh, be killed her at ths brook. the brute. for
 all the wOrtt t0 see.
 And no one but the bsby cried for poor LOT
 rains, Lorree.
 The breath of chronic catarrh pa- tient is often 20 offensive that he can- not go into society, and he becomes an object of disgust. After a time alteration sets In, the spongy bones are attacked, and frequently entirely destroyed. A constant source of dis comfort Is the dripping of the purn- lent secretions into the throat, some- times producing inveterate bronchitis,