The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-11

derivation. We all know about the English music hall song which set the word going with a new meaning i'll 1877, but the original coinage of the term,
 By Jingor' is quite doubtful In the Basque language the word lingo means God, and it is widely believed that By Jingor' was form of oath with which the Basque sailors farniliarized the English sailors, and, through them, all English-speaking people. But others believe the word is corruption of St. Gingoulph. It is one of the oddities of popular word making that the term "Jingoism" as now used, is a complete tgavesty of the sentiment of the song from which it was taken. A Jmgo, either in England or America is now set down as man spelling for a fight, eager for war at any cost. But the original music hall song, with the lingo chorus expressed exactly the opposite sentiment--a desire for peace. It be- gan with we don't want to fight" ana its fiercest war note was struck in the declaration that if they had to do what they would rather not, they had plenty of men, ships and money.
 John Bull,'' the mythical parsonage supposed to represent the English peo- pie, and now figuring largely in our ed- itorial writing and in cartoons, was the invention of Dr. Arbuthnot. in one of his satirical sketches ridiculing the great Duke of Marlborough In the opinion of Dr. Johnson, Arbuthnot was 'the first man among the eminent Wrl- ters in Queen Annes time" He drew Iic,y1 a a stout, red-faced old farmer, far too corpulent for comfort, choleric, but withal an honest and well-meaning fel- low He clothed him in leather breech- es and top boots, but a stout oaken cudgel in his hand and a bulldog at his heels, and so set him up for all time to serve as the representative English man. He may have been not so bad caricature in the days of Queen Anne But to-day certainly there is much force in Leslie Stephens remark that "he completely hides the Englishmarl of real life" The average Eng1ishman of 1896 is physically no stouter than, probably not so stout as. the average American, and the stout cudgel and the bulldog are no longer apt symbols of the modern Britisher's disposition. He has lost the excessive pugnacity of his forefathers, and, as we have lately seen, is above all anxious to keep the peace with his Uncle Samuel.
 Speaking of Uncle Sam and Broth er Jonathan" whose names are being freely used, too, in the passing interna- tional furry, there is no doubt about their origin. When General Washing toY ;,,tN Toe oI111 at fn fq1Sn command of the Revolutionary army, he found a great lack of ammunition and other supplies. He turned for aid to Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Con- necticut, and got it, and in many emer- gencies of that period he used the phrase, "We must consult Brother Jon athan on the subject The expression became nationally current, and it stands as the American parallel to "John Bull" Uncle Sam was not in- vented until the war of 1872. Two in- spectors of war supplies at Troy, N. Y, were named Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. A workman in their employ was marking a. lot of casks received from one Ebert Anderson, a New York contractor, and which were thus stamped: "E. A.-U. S" A bystander asked the workman what these marks meant, and he replied that they proba- ply meant "Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam" alluding to Inspector Samuel Wilson, who was locally called Uncle Sam. Thus the initials of the United States were transformed by a local joke into a national sobriquet, which will doubtless last as long as our republic. But who first undertook to give the DOT trait of Uncle Sam or Brother Jonathan as a long, lean, slab-sided. lantern jawed individual is not known. Who ever he was he libelled us. There is strong reason for believing that the ay-