Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-08
QUEER ORIGINS OF WORDS.

''Oh, dear~ is equivalent to 0 dio mio "Oh, my Godl"
 "Thimble" is thumb bell" and ''nostriln Is strictly 'nose drill"
 ''Varlet' is the same word as svaletn and each is an offshoot of the feudal ''vassal." ''Slav" is not the slave of the old etymolo- gists, but in reality @ man of noble lineage Rotten row." the famous London street, recalls Ia route du roi (the kings passage way.
 "Dandelionn is dent de leon the lions tooth), and vinegar" was once win aigre sour wine).
 Madame is ''my lady,m and sir has been extracted from the Latin ''senior" through the French.
 Biscuit" keeps alive the Latin bis coctus twice cooked) and ''verdictn is simply were dictum true saying.
 Kings in the earliest days were merely the fathers of families, and the word is derived from the same source as 'kin."
 'villain," before the stigma of disgrace was attached to him, was a laborer on the villa of Roman country gentleman.
 An earl was an ''elder" in the primitive society, while pope is the same as ''papa," and czar and kaiser are both Caesars" Queen at first meant "wife' or mother and survival of its early signifcation exists in "queen," used now only in bad sense Quelqueschose we have jumbled into "kick- shaws," and our ''gewgawsn represent the jouxjoux, or playthings of former French children.
 "Jimminy" is a reminiscence of the classi- cal adjuration, o gemini, used by the Romans when they called upon the twins Castor and Pollux to help them.
 Redingote is riding coat" borrowed by the French from our own language and re- turned to us in a new guise with the dress makers stamp of approval.
 "Huzzy" was once respectable housewife; a "knave" was simply boy, the German knabe of today, and "caitiff'' was in the first place merely captive.
 Similarly ''slopn shop has nothing to do with slops, as some amateur etymologists have asserted, but means clothing shop, the word coming from the Icelandic stopper, a coat.
 "Roamers" are people who go to Rome to see the pope, and ''saunterersn was the appel lation bestowed on the religious enthusiasts who made the pilgrimage to the sainte terre the Holy Land.
 Lord is the Anglo-Saxon hlaford Qoaf dis tributor). The Latin term for ''lordn (domi- us) has given us dominic" :" the old term for preacher, and the same root is found in ''dame" and "tame.n
 A country" dance is contra (opposite) dance, and the frequently mistaken etymology of this word calls to mind the fact that a ''tuberose" has nothing of the rose about it, being simply tuberous plant.
 When a man says he does not care sseurse" he means that he does not care g cress, the lingual metathesis here being similar to that which makes 'gooseberries" out of gorse- berries, ''axe" out of ask and 'wapse. out of wasp-New York Herald.
 Parsnips sliced ana Drowned are very good. Marrons glaces can easily be made at home. Watercresses come mostly from Pennsyl- vania
 Baked sweetbreads are about the choicest thing out. Spaghetti can only be cooked properly by an Italian.
 Salad la Russe is especially suitable for cold weather.
 Fischkuchen is used in cold weather to thicken sauces
 England Is large buyer of cheese in the American market.-Hotel Mail.