Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-13
POPULAR PHRASES.
dhlelN OF SOME OF THE CATCH
 WORDS THAT EVERYBODY USES.

and Invensed Very Many OurseIves-Hovz We Came to Adopt Some of the Phrases Which Are Tn General Use.
 Mention has been recently made of the disputed origin of the word stee- total" claimed by two inventors, one living in England and the other in America, and each of whom may have hit upon tho wcrd independently and for the different reasons assigned. To curious minded persons who like to know tho why's, whens and wherefores of everything the origin of popular catchwords and figures of speech is an interesting subject.
 The word machine, as we use it po- lRecally, is another which, like tee total, ? is Of doubtful parentage. In the days of the old volunteer fire companies. which in large cities were potent factors in local politics, the phrase Ito run with the machine" came into common use. and it meant that man so spoken of was identified with the political CO terie of the fire company with whieh he trained. The famous Boss Tweed began his career in New York running with the machine" as a volunteer fireman. Yet tho term as we now employ it was used in England long before. The Duke of Wellington, i'll a letter to friend in 1S45 deploring the increasing influence of popular agitation on the action of the houses of parliament, said; "Such is the operation of tho machine as now estab- lished that no individual, be his char acter, conduct in antecedent circu1H- stances and his abilities what they may, Ean have any personal influence in gen. blal. /" We may have derived our term "the machine" from our old volunteer fire company days, but ill the England of Wellington 5 time there were no fire companies exerting any political infu- ence.
 That much everworked word crank gained universal vogue in connection with Guiteau' assassination of Presi- dent Garfield. hut it was long before that applied by the late Don Piatt who claimed to be its inventor, to Horace Greeley, the purpose of it being to liken the famous editor to the crank of hand organ, which is forever grinding out the same old tunes. The word, as we have now como to apply it, means much more and worse. It implies condition of mind yerging upon insanity, and this has given rise to the erroneous notion that it has it's origin in the German word ''krank. ''
 The word "dago," now commonly applied to Italians all over the country, came originally from Louisiana, where it at first referred only to people of Spanish origin, but was later applied to Italians and Portuguese as well. The word is corruption of Diego James), which is a common Spanish rsne, San Diego being the patron saint I of the Spaniards.
 Another word of incessant employ ment in American speech is "dude, U with it's feminine complement, "du- dine " This may have come to us from the old English word for clothes-- 'duds. in earlier times spelled l "dudes /" I Thackeray writes of one of his charac
 ters: Her dresses were wonderful, her I bonnets marvellous Few women could \ boast such dudes. '' Shakespeare. in "The Merry Wives of Windsor, writes 8 of "bucke of dudes, meaning bas Fl ketful of clothes ready for washing. Its present day literary currency dates from Fl February, 1876, when tho word appear 1din Putnam S Magazine. But famous New York clubman, MT. Hermann IOerichs, claims the credit of first start
 ng 1t as popular term of contempt or 8ndicule for an oyerdressed person. He Asaims that youth of this type who
 lassed by the Union club window with
 mincing step provoked himself and
 aother clubman to hum together an ae- 8ampaniment to the youth s walk, thus, 3 Du, da, de, du du, du de, and that e remarked "Good enough; dude is
 hproper name for it, " and that thus
 Ae word was born.
 The words ''jingo" and "jingoismo reaso of disputed derivation. We all
 now about tho English music hall song
 shich set the word going with a new
 leaning in 1877, but the original coin
 se of the term By jingo' is quite
 mbtful. In the Basque language the 3ad jingo means God, and it is widely Ileyed that By jingo!" was form Aoath with which the Basque sailors
 nlharized the English sailors and,
 aOugh them, all English speaking peo-
 But others believe the word Is q
 nuption of St. Gingoulph. 1t is one
 the oddities of popular wordmaking
 @theterm ''jngoism." as now used.
 complete travesty of tho sentiment
 The song from which it was taken. A
 so, either in England or America, IS
 set down as man spelling for a
 eager for war at any cost. But the Smal music hall song. with the jingo !. oppressed exactly the opposite Gv 1ient-a desire for peace. It began We don't want to fight, and Its Nt war note vas struck in the dec aien that if they had to do what they aa rather not, they had plenty of ships and money.
 S eaking of Brother Jonathan, Is no doubt about its origin. El Gennral Waob;po+op wont t0 Mas