Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-08
SLANG AND ITS ORIGIN.
THERE ARE NEVER ANY ROWS OvE.i
AUTHORSHIP CLAIMS.

Az ''o"9''
Phrases and Gags" That Live for Brief
p.,,oa I'm PopuIarity-No One AcknowI.
.,u.. Having Evolved the Most Striking
~, r.nnv s.v,,v.
Did it ever strike you,' said Capt
Fitzmaurice, an old retired navigator
with quizzical turn OF MIND, NOW odd
il Is that the origin Of all the gags and
slang phrases that run riot Tor spell from
Cape Cod to the Golden Gate never De-
come known IL Is odd, now, Ism Z it'
The reporter acknowledged that u was
Because, don't you see, continued the
captain, 1.-THE people OF TINS generation
have not. among their other failings ana
shortcomings, the ftallng OF excessive
modesty. Every man, IN fact, VINO does,
says or thinks something worth MENTION
or thinks he thinks, for that matter, gem
orally comes to the front and acknowl-
edges that 1t was he and none other VINO
said, did or thought this or that. OFTEN
the trouble is to find out who was the
real original Jacobs among them all, SO
numerous are the claims put forth by
different persons that they are the think
ers. savers and doors of something re-
markable. Now, with all this being true,
/ take II to be an extraordinary thing
that in not n single instance has there
heeu n man or woman coming forward
and acknowledging the authorship Of
any Of these terse. picturesque or rough
lv slaney expressions that sweep the
country like a whilwind and then die
ont leaving no trace.
souv ON oxrs
.A,d :, is remarkable how sometimes
,hav an, on, as quickly as thew spread
r. ,racL ,vsre lent ~ them all-or n reg
Ia raa;s,er hx sonehodv-th;s assertion
yon,d ha more suscentibls Of proof. But
, con racail nun,her Of cases Of this
t,nd svsn w;,hcut having anything TO
IA 49, ,an,or. Won ranemher that Gao
''hart H., 10 con sac.t;atey or. How
Il vour cornoros;tvy They spread over
Is your corpoios,'s my sp't -. a.,
'no county n's'u1 " 49, a.. -,
every 10y niy"' -, gu" 81 ho..o.,isss ID ~,
US duloAy sam nv s"s 80 ~. ~ M
OF .ne past ven'u,9 ~ s a,t,'.. -
nan =. " -, u' arnrass;ors on the snur Of
u'o w W. :, -f',;,a -, 40 90 II vas
uie lno'i'e". = ~, "a IT., CoIl;,s gao
he sa,ns VIZ a.. . Na1,,ntr 90 = 81 todav
m,e orig n"a, ~ "a ~ -. oar,,, IN 1874 IN
N ,ha' vas P"' ,,,;nt and within three
view - -. Co. as Co., Eror,
weeA "au s 49,, 49,, lie nosa inf,
c,'co. man ~, .oa 49,. - s,,,roar =,
tns street N ue sp.ns ana 49,. .asa,.ono - :.
una, yeau " ~. tn, elise and = scor.
.ne =" e ~. S 81 =, Tonvpas
VI ,op'ca' so 49, 49, 80 sha.trs. an,
.or . anu AZ ,"e VI -. IT, Co,i;ns !,
concert mans an MI ~. IT,. g.,
tneu'' III ''e IAN VI 10 - -
ms was as oeau a. - t';r, Thar
nope Oh ever iesu'leos Iii
nave oeen' 10 my Pe,so"n ,eS' VI,
long string OF siii'ilar wol1' =, az,
phrases coined, Sc, III gehe,ai e',.u'".,o
ana then sque'cneo o ~' . VIC P ,"s
twenty years aione. o'ners nav ~, ~.
much OF their one tme popu,aln'' ~, pu
have survived after iasn,oh, In
Where did you get that nat! oheese :.
Come offf Get on 10 MS nips' Anu III
band played Annie Laurief tommy, g
your gunV No lilies on himr mas you
mother any more like your 'rhey All
itr Have you got the mate to III Shoe
that hatr Pull down the blindsr 'Brea
awayr and whole lot of others. Yo
remember when that shibboleth 'Ches
nutsr was first manufactured No2 Wei
neither dol II seems a century ago
the EXPRESSION appears to us to be as Of
ss Me,buseIah. And vet II can't be
manv vsars AGO when Il first originate,
Rsmsmber the chestnut bells and Il
lively home industry that sprang up
That NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and dealers ey,
adrar,;sina hsaviIv N effect sales. ar
sarr,torn sor ,ha sales agents beir
sarnsod 90, much .s n IL bv the sewi,
maoh;ns e .onnsn,ss for their aren,