The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-17
DERIVATION O WORDs

The Curious Origin OF some yyeu-KnOWn
Terms.
Monlzey-wrench is the name applied to
a tools a sort of spanner with movable
jaw. Some etymOlOgists account for
the forePart of the name by recalling
the fact that monkeys jaw is movable
also. The mOnkeY-wrench was invent
ed some years ago by "a poor mechanic
whose name is Charles MOncl1ey. He
sold his patent for a song, and is now
working for days wages in Brooklyn
His invention has made millions Of dol
lars for those who were able to place Il
upon the market
DerricI. is the name of crane used in
shifting and lifting heavy weights. 1t
is said to be SO called from one TheO-
doric, who, while serving in Cadiz as
soldier under Robert, earl OF Essex, was
doomed TO death for some crime, but
pardOned on condition that he would
hang twenty-three other malefactors.
Such are the revolutions of fate that
subsequently he was employed in Lon
don to behead Essex, the man who had
saved his life.
A stentorian voice Is that of one like
the Grecian herald in the Trojan war,
whom Homer describes as great
hearted, brazen-voiced StentQr, accus-
toned to shout as loud as Atty other
men"
A raglan is a loose overcoat with long
sleeves, such as Lord Raglan wore in
the Crimean war. Wellingtons are
boots named after the Iron Duke. Blu
chers also boots, named after the com
mander of WellingtOn's Prussian allies
at Waterloo.
Any magnificent tomb is called a
mausoleum. MausOlus, the Carian King
whose name it bears, had nothing what
ever to do with the original except to
lie in it when he was dead. The piety
of his wife, Artemisia, gave his name
to the tomb and immortality to her
husbands memory, because the mOnu-
ment she built over his body gave a
word to language. The magnolia bears
the name of Pierre MagnOl, professor
of medicine at Montpelier, France, in
the seventeenth century; and Dahl. q
Swedish bOtanist, has his name en-
balmed in the dahlia-
Indirectly our word dollar depends
upon a good mans name. The word is
an abbreviatiOn of JOachimsthaler, a
! coin first minted about 1915 in the valley
of st. Joachim, bohemia The valley
| (thaD bears the name of the saint. Boy
colt is a word recently introduced, but
| already IN use everywhere A few
| years ago Capt Charles Cunningham
! boycott, an Irish farmer and land
| agent, nngered his tenants, and in re
/ vcnge they refused to work for him OF
] TO sell MN 1000 10 boycott means &c
! withhold custom from a man in any
/ line of business. y martinez is what
| few soldiers like TO be called. Col
/ Martinez was an officer in the army OF
! Louis XIV. He was so particular
about small details, so rigid in his dis
! cipline, that he was looked upon as q
nuisance. His name has come down to
US as applicable to military Miss
/ Nancy Finnilzen.
Bogus Is the corrupted form Of the
/ name Borghese, that Of a noted swim
! der who passed large amounts of coun.
! terfeit money in the west some years
( ago. Boniface is u common name for
the landlord of n tavern The original
was one of the rare kinda sleek, good
tempered. jolly IandIord-but he vvasn't
in real life. He was a character IN
/ Farquhar's comedy of The Beaux
/ Stratagem, written in 11O7.-Harperss
/ Young People.
/ Worse and Worse.-bIr White
wIngs-''Say, hear you've been a call
IN me a fool" Uncle Pete-''I didn'
call yer a fool. I amt no sech TOO
i as ter saw ebervtinnr thi1T-s ~ "