The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-22

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sign, or trade mark. q picture Of a cat
with mouth extended from ear to ear.
ITO kick the bucket Is said TO have
originated In the time Of Queen Eliza
beth, when a shoemaker named HGwt
klns committed suicide under peculiar
circumstances, placing bucket on a
table IN order to raise himself high
enough to reach q rafter above, then
kicking away the bucket on which he
Good wine needs no bush" Is ex-
planned by the fact that IN former days,
both IN England and on the continent,
bush or living bough, hung before the
door, was the usual sign OF vine
room. Establishments which became
noted for the quality Of their liquors did
not expose this or any other sign, and
hence the pFoverb.
40 take any one down q peg or two"
recalls the Saxon tanIards or wassatl
bowls, graduated by lines running
aroand the Interior. Small holes were
made partly through the sides Of the
vessel, and in these were placed pegs
to regulate the amount drunk by each
participant IN the feast. TO drink a
greater portion than another was to
take him down peg. .
For ones wits to goiwool gathering
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sometimes seen In older countries. In
parts OF France. Germany and Spain
very old people are sometimes employed
in gathering wool from bushes in sheep
pastures, where It has been plucked
from the fieeces as the animals pass too
close to the branches
ITO give the cold shoulder Is said TO
have originated In practice once cons
mon In France, and during Norman
days in England also. When q guest
had outatayed his welcome, instead OF
the haunch Of mutton or Yenison usual
~ served at dinner a cold shoulder OF
mutton was placed before him as mint
that he had better go.
1.-THE hair OF the dog VIII cure the
bite" IL a popular statement OF the run
damental principle Of homeopathy
slmilia Blmillhus curantur In the mid-
die ages a common superstition pre-
vailed that when man was bitten by
any animal certain hairs from the
creature doing the mischief were neces-
sarp in the lamentations ana charms
practiced In order to work cure.
CAS- dead as door nail" at tirst
seemed utterly senseless, but becomes
lively and picturesque when we remem-
her that knockers were once universal
Iy used. Beneath the knocker, in order
10 prevent diBfguring the door. large
nan or bolt was driven. An impatient
caller, waiting for the door TO be opened,
would frequently use the knocker with
great force, and the Responsiveness OF
the nall gave rise to this expression.
'By hook or by crook" recalls the
DAYS when the poor of the English
country districts were alloked to go IN
to the forests and pick up such
branches as had fallen from the trees.
Az a hook at the end of short stick
was frequently brought to assist IN this
labor, and as the straight branches
must he left for the landlord. the ex-
preston, ''by hook or by crook, came
to mean the accomplishment OF an end
N one way or another
'FWhom the gods love die young 10
an edage which has come down to US
from the StoIcs. who believed that
frightening years invariably meant IN
crease OF sorrow and misery. There is
a story told OF q mother In Athens VINO,
having rendered the gods some service
was assured that any petition she OF
fered would be heard and answered.
she prayed FOR her three sons the nest
gifts the gods could bestow; the next ~
morning they we're all found dead'-st.
Louis Globe. Democrat