Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-15
STORIES OF TIE DAY.
Some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
 Slang Dictionary.

some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
 Slang Dictionary. Thanks to most able collaboration we have been amply supplied with a rich fund of material from which to select the present. addition to it's invaluable re- pos1tory of phrases caught in passing. :"
 Dream. Something desirable beyond all description. No doubt about it. and on this will stake my reputation, Defender is a dream. Nat Herre- shoff. She was a vision of delight "- Wordsworth.
 Dirt.-The reshuf1led discard in the national game of poker ''I believe that any man who'd seek Q third term for the presidency would monkey with the dirt. '3'-G c. dated Buzzards Bay).
 GroWler. Any vessel used to convey beer from saloon to residence
 IN. B.-This word is often used as synonymous with "duck. The two are carefully to be distinguished. A duel" is always concealed ill carpet bag, top hat or basket)
 Darlsened is the Sunday doorway,
 And the poor are out of luck
 Silent rests the proving "growler,"
 Empty lies the useless duck. ''
 -Bal'ade of Better Days.
 Curves, to get on to.-To solve any ones motives or line of action. s'I did not see how they could escape, for I wasn't on to their curves. Land lord Tamsen of the Ludlow Street Hos- telrie.
 High Hat.-An unusually large glass of whisky. (Not to be eonfounded with high collar, which is term applied to the unnecessary amount of foam found on Coney Island beer. Among those who last Sunday abandoned the high hats of the city and quaffed the high collars by old ocean were Cherry Hill Katie, Reddy the Ro8ue, Tony the Rat, Morty McThird and Micky Mo- Phin. "-Society Note
 Pal-Companion, associate, friend Syn, "Pardy, travelling mate, :" "ehum. !" s'I have 400 visiting cards, and I am willing to use every one of them in calling on big folks with Wales, my pal '''-From "A Peach Abroad.
 Pencil Pusher An author, or news paper man. ''I am q pencil pusher' and my digital muscles are highly de- veloped. a-R. Harding Van Bibber in An Open Confession Is Good For My Sales ;"
 Dough.-Money. Syn, Hong green, |" "frog skin, :" "oof. ;"
 ''Let mo make the dough of the country, I'll care for who make the laws a-John D. Rockefeller.
 Tire, to lose one's.-To be mentally unbalanced or incapacitated (The fig ure is taken from "biking ") Syn, "nutty, :" "woozy.
 s'It seems to mo that every lawyer I employ loses his tire. ''-Hetty Green.
 Sight, out of-Superlati 5ely excel lent. Syn., s'yery superior, way up " (Perhaps a corruption of the German ausgezeichnet. "If anybody should ask you my opinion of myself, either as q gentleman, an actor or a fighter, you may say for mo that I am .out of sight John L. Sullivan in tWhat I Know About Chumps and Champions.
 Peach. Something very estimable and desirable. A laudatory expression that applies with equal force to any thing, from baseball player to a pos sible presidential candidate. Syn, "Lally cooler, ," bird, daisy" (obs ) "There is only one peach in America, and l am it. ''-From Harmony or Hominy," by an Anonymous Author (N. Y., 1895.
 Finger, to give the.-To request that @ bill be charged. Syn, to hang up, ''to put on the slate. '' 1T have lived in many lands and known many men, but l have never yet had occasion to give the finger. Thomas Ochiltree in "L'Art de Vivre.
 Glad hand, to give the-To greet effusively, with the expectation of re- ceiving favors either bibulous, mone- tary or hospitable. 'I gave every re- former the glad hand, and all got was the marble heart. ''-Ollie Teall's "Mr Whislzer. (See Marble Heart. ')
 Heart, marble. A refusal to aid ones fellow man.
 Kelly, John. In pool, the green ball.
 String, to.-To trife with truth in such way as to deceive. Also to make game of Syn, sto jolly, " to guy" Gold English and straight American, to ie "He strings me to the top of my bent. "-The New Woman's Ham let, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton New York Recorder.
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