The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1894-03-01
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Arizona so Named Because of . Facial
Peculiarly.

Arizona so Named Because of . Facial
Peculiarly.
Who would for n moment suppose,
says the st. Louis Republic, that the
word Arizona" which we associate
with balmy breezes, music, moonlight
nights and amazons, could mean moth
ing more OF less than "a great big
noseV The southwestern portion OF
what Is now the United States was
originally inhabited by tribe of
natives noted far and wide for their
prominent, beak-lilic noses, and, al
though nature had been extremely
lavish in her gifts when she conferred
nasal appendagcs upon these queer
aborigincs, they sought TO enlarge
those organs by piercing the vertical
septum or gristle between the nostrils
and wearing enormous ornaments
therein. One division of this big-nosed
tribe would wear ring hammered
from native gold or silver; another an
ornamented she'll, while a third were
content with sharp stick driven
through the cartilage In such a man.
ner as 10 permit of the ends projecting
several inches TO the side of each nos
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these queer but harmless creatures
were known as "thc Big Noses" In
the Spanish language nose" is nariz.
My authority says in that language
you car also express n diminutive or an
nugumentative by termination to the
name word. Thus, narizito would
mean "a little nose" and narizon "a
great big nose" The feminine Of
narizon would be narizona The IN"
having been eliminated by usage ana
time, we have the name IA IL stands
to-day-Arizona. In much the same
manner the state OF Oregon receives
its name from tribe Of Indians
noted for their enormous ears. They
pierced the auriclc and enlarged the
lobe much in the same manner that
the Narizons enlarged their noses. In
the Spanish, "ear" Is orcja. Now at.
tach on, the augmentativc to the word
oreja, leaving off the final a from the
word meaning ear. and we have
OREGON. Time, which. like care, will
kill a eat, has changed the "j' to ''g'
and given MS the word Oregon"
FOREIGNERS OWN IA PLATA.
lite Politics Are Run by Natives. Who
Leaves business to Outsiders.
The old notion of the Argentine
Republic as essentially stock-raising
country, from which nothing was to
be expected in the way of food exports
but UNBEATABLE "charqui," otherwise
"jerlSed beef" will have to be modi-
fed, says the London News, in the face
of the fact that the crop of wheat this
year is estimated at 1,750,000 tons, Of
which more than a million of tons will
be available for export. Agriculture,
in fact as distinguished from cattle |
raising, has become an important |
America. II has many advantages for |
this purpose, among which are its ex- |
cessive latness, extending over 500, 200 |
square miles, and its remarkable vsrie. |
ty OF climate.
Our consul at Buenos Ayres notes the |
remarkable circumstance that foreign |
ers IN the republic practically monop-
ollie trade, railways and commercial |
undertakings of every kind. They |
own large portion of the country, |
and are yearly acquiring more proper
ty of every description. Almost all |
the railways belong to English capital |
lists, and, IL not to English, to foreign
ers. 1t has been stated that one.half
OF the cultivated portion Of the prov
inco Of Santa Fe belongs to English
men. Agriculture, 1t isuadded, may be |
said to be entirely in the hand Of Eu-
ropeans.
The amount OF crime all over the |
Argentine Republic is stated by our |
consul, Mr. Gaskell, to be alarming.
The population is every day becoming
more exclusively foreign, but the gov
eminent is entirely in the hands OF the
comparatively small number of pure
Argentincs, rather anomalous posi-
ton, which in the course OF years may
alt-r if the enormous foreign element |
should make its power felt and become
u decisive factor in politics.
AT present all foreigners shun poll
ties and only busy themselves with ac-
curing weal.' Commercially.