St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-13
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

are hunting up words that were in use
in various American localities in the
eighteenth century, but are now either
forgotten or perverted. In a list of
words peculiar to New Jersey they in
clude Jag" explaining that its mean
ing strictly is "a small load" The eX-
preston is, as almost everybody knows.
in vogue to-day to signify condition of
rather full intoxication from alcoholic
it does not mean simply "a small
load" but rather large one. 1t is diff
fcult to determine when this sense was
given to it. 1t is difficult, too, to de-
eide why it should be called Jerseyism
by the Dialect society. The word is of
Scotch birth, was first spelled "jaug,"
and then ''Jagg," aud its earliest mean
Ing was leather bag or pocket. Some
men keep their watchesin chamois jags.
A later meaning was that Of small
load OF hay OF straw. From Scotland it
came into use in England as COLO
quial term, and then it became local
lied III New Jersey. To-day it is prob
ably in general use throughout the
United States.
On the workbench of a Maiden Lane
jeweler whom visited yesterday aft
ernOon, says New York Star writer,
noticed little telegraph instrument,
which ever and anon made remark to
the jewe Ter which | did not quite catch.
whats that for?" inquired.
THAT gives the exact time" he re-
piled, las taken at the obServatorieS at
A llegheny and Washington. By that
we regulate the watches of the en-
gineers and conductors OF the rail-
roads,"
Each railroad has its watch inspect
ors, to whom the conductors and en-
gineers are required to report each
week and ascertain if their timeplec es
are attending to their business in con-
scientious manner. Every six months
the inspector takes the watches, EXAM
ines them carefully, prizes into their
private affairs, adjusts the crowbar. oils
the fifth wheel, DOllSheS up the eccen-
trio and puts the watch into perfect
condition. All this trouble and expense
is reSorted to in order that the polite
and affable employees can inform paSSen
gers just exactly how late the train is,
and enable them to ascertain, to a
second almost, just how late they will
be to catch their train West.
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The proposition to remove Geronimo
and his tribe of ApacheS to Fort Sill,
Ind. Ter, says the New York Trib-
une's Washington correspondent, has
reopened the old controversy, so long
pending in army circles, as to whom the
greater credit is due, Gen. Miles or Gen.
Crook, in bringing about GerOnimO'S
surrender. A little group sat in Gen.
Miles room at the Ebbitt house the
other night, discussing the proposition.
1t included Gen. Miles, Gen. Royal,
formerly colonel of the Fourth Cavalry
under Miles in the Arizona country, and
Judge Thomas Wilson, of Tucson. In
the course of the conversation Gen.
Royal, speaking of the bloodthirsty
character of the ApacheS, said:
"TheSe Indians take pride in their
achievements on the Warpath and in the
fiendiSh atrocities which they commit
| asked one of them one day why he
hunted the white man. He answered.:
"'You go shooting sometimes, don't
you?'
Il answered that I did.
"'You kill rabbit" he said; you kill
deer?'
eyes [ said, 4 have killed both
rabbit and deer
"'Which did it please you most to
kill. the rabbit or the deer" he said.
l. He UecI. IepllGu.
"'Well, we like to kill the white man
better than we do to kill the deer said
he. Il like nothing better than TO shoot
the white man and see him jump into
the air and fall down again.
1.-THE bigger the game the bigger the
sport" concluded the general.
"What was it the old senator from
Nevada said about Arizona?" asked the
general a little later, turning to Judge
Wilson, who had been eXpatiating at
some length upon the beauties of the
territory in which he has made his
home.
sit was Senator Nye, believe. Some
Arizona man said to him, looking out
over the alkali plain:
"'All that we need down here, SEN
atOr, is little more company and a
little more water, and we will have a
splendid country
"Well. if they had better company
and little more water in hadeS, that
would be a good country, too. said the
senator.