The evening world., 1889-03-01
(oontinusd from First Page.)

! sltock market IN Wall street is q razzle-
Sroker Louis Marks-When Q man gets
red he may be- said to be rszzle-dazzled.
Aroker Walter Smith-Ask Cleveland what
> razzle-dazzle 10. He knows. He got one
I'D. and Mr.. D.. Wall street brokers, said
mzzle-dazzIe q person was to entangle him.
dr. K. also O Wall street man, who said he
4 a lived at the Windsor Hotel ten years and
! snted this fact duly ~chronioled, claimed
4 .It raExle-dazzle meant hifalutin.
Broker N. said il meant hither and thither.
Broker II. defined II as follows: - When
4 gentleman docs not know whether he wants
oancake or a gin cocktail he 10 raZzle -daI-
dr.
Broker q. Spencer Boyd-Under the sur
sundings and impressions Of q lurid even:
y 2, and when the luridness Ia continued till
{ . sun rises, d man Is likely to feel razzled.
hen he cools of after q good sleep he is
) ore likely to feel dazzled to think what o
oil he has made of himself.
Broker Robert Van Hueson-Whnt do you
X me for ? The didoes cut by. ed Murphy
ter II o'clock at night are razzle.dazZlers.
Broker John Helyer-When o man gets on
4 5 base he is razzled and dazzled, too.
Broker Wood Gibson-When . man can't
III the difference between . billiard ball and
ball taken over the bar he IL decidedly raz-
/. fo-dazzled.
Up o this point there had been q voice as
y = 8AA8 EgaA1A W AAObS w. ot.S
snRunge. Webster's great work. was de-
Jared to be. seriously abridged while lacking
ais expressive term.
Billy Edwards. ex.champion lght;wetght
T ON the jaw ! rather think he would be
r~azEle-dAzzled Tor o time, or IL q man drinks
90 much of the sparkling water he is very
liable to become slightly under the influence
W. L. Harding, OF the Police GdIeas-we
rave the detectives in Toronto the grand
Azzle.dazzle when we made the match. for
lake Kilrain to fight John l. Sullivan right
under their moses.
Arthur T. Lumley of the Illustrated Ne,Ss-
Tor writing such IN internally long letter this
week. Here are four columns which have
got 70 be chopped down TO lens than two.
Frank Stevenson, the sporting man ut 1877
dazzle meansl Well. now, II I don't you can
Billy ottman. of the St. James Hotel-Hs
TO be skinned. l can't think Of any moro OK
pFessiye explanation.
Clerk simpson, Of the st. James-Were
rnG1le-dnzzled.
W. ii. Robertson. Of 29s Broadwsy-n you
should 20 to q ball and have your o~vercoat
apd hat stolen and your pockets picked, !
should say you had been razzle-dazzled in
"Yes,d chimed In l.. Levein. the we'll
known athlete. and how about tho um
.brelia? You are beaten out Of anything
nowadays. and you have to console yourself
hey The charming thought that you are razzle.
Harry Chapman, the veteran theatrical
manager, who IL on the other aide Of sixty
4 tirst heard "fAzzle-dAzzle about thirty
s Ssass aSo a, Wig : gag %. by t belly p oSsilli an :. dr tSS
old Bowery Theatre. II was used in q farce
where O'Neill played the lover aud fooled
|. the ould man, y whom he said he had " raZ.
II my memory serves me
Iriah comedian. use the same term. II
Iypuldn't do 70 Incorporate It In the language.
Like every other slang word, 1t will die out
Mike Kelly, the $40. 900 prize beauty and
tho pet Of the baseball Community, first
heard "razzle-dazzle" from George Floyd,
Nat Goodwin's manager, in Boston. last Au.
gust or September. The song was originated
IN California by u social club. who gave It 10
Charley Hoyt. Noah Webster's spirit would
rebel IL we should put it in his dictionary.
Miss Ella Rodriguez, soprano singer on the
vaudeville stage-1 heard IL used as Q gag be-
fore the song appeared. but never used il
myself. know the Vol we'll and nave often
sung It. 1 don't think 1t sound good enough
Will Collins, comedian-I never heard 1t
used on the stage in travelling companies !
have appeared with, and it va not until the
song came out that the word became com.
monty used. Being slang. we should moi
corporate II in our dictionaries.
Gus Heckler. presiding genius at the Bo-
first discovered 1t at the last cleo
ton, when / ran for Alderman in the
Eleventh Assembly District and got glo-
riously defeated. photographers will
scarcely adopt the term.
Eugene Wellington. business manager OF
The Dark Side of q Great City"-I first
Buckingham. at Louisville, where ]. ]. Quin-
Ian, Of the Horseshoe Four" used it as q
gag, i also heard him use 1t in this city. II
will hardly do for Webster's dictionary.
Harry Cottrell, comedian and singer-Jim
Quinlan. of the Horseshoe Four" used
, " razzle-dazzle " in q variety performance in
this city several years ago, giving 1t az q gag.
out giving the dictionary the "razzle
A CONUNDRUM COMPETITION,