The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-24

ing. Pitching is the term for bowling
at baseball {if it is bowling, a matter
for the umpires decision1, but is a
..rooters equivalent to daisy cropper
The following phrase appears to refer
to the terms of some manly pastime:
She could get away with any topic
that was batted up to her. and then
slam it over to second in time to head
loft the runner. There seems 20 be a
lcombination here of cricket and Rugby
football, but ..the Engnshman is deep
| ly perplexed. Don't renig'' may be
excellent advice, but elamors for a
translator We may renig without
| knowing tfat 1t is wrong "Clarenee
stood in with the toughest push in
, town, he learned to shoot craps and
rush the can The last phrase may
mean to push about the bottle. but to
say what kind of bird or beast the crap
is, and what kind of education the crap
shooter needs, demands an education
more extensive and peculiar, il not
more liberal, than that of the present
josiler. Cuff. . I think. from the con-
text is equivalent to what we call
pulpit oratory.' THE lookout GER
tainly means the pulpit, SQUAD is a
young man, a .'yap' is an old man..
Walt Whitman sings Gas far as he can
be said to- sing) of "a barbaric yap.
tOodles'' means plenty or s..abund
ance. as in COOLIES of slang To
make a horrible beef is to express
discomfort. The nature OF a burgoo
picnic defies investigation. A Jimmy
little tuxedo is an article of male at
tire, The free and untraInmeied souls
in the Spaghetti joint" are perplexing,
nor is it obvious whether Spaghetti is
an Italian surgeon of renown, who has
made this joint his peculiar study. or
whether, perhaps, he keeps a restau-
rant where the joints are excellent. If
so the free and untrammeled souls may
frequent Spaghetti's house of enter
tainment. I'VE shall know when We
are dead. said an Australian philoso-
pher and if we go to Chicago when
we die. we shall know.
It is not my design to go to Chicago
in this. present state of being, and. If
know myself. only a powerful medium
indeed could summon me thither from
the next world. One learns with re-
greet that brandy and alcohol are para
phernalia," which means that which
a bride brings over and above her
DOVER Why should a bride bring not
only alcohol but brandy also2 No light
is thrown by my reading ON the nature
and properties of "a dinky gaveI. or
on the process described as doing a
steve brodie.'' or on the nature of nif-
dness.,' or on stalking "a person TO a
meal ticket or putting on a pair of )
pneumatic sneakers, or giving the
rowdy hee 1lo Perhaps it was not
/ comic paper at ALL it may have been
Punch, is the only epigram which
IAN discover in the two volumes of this
Western huInorist, and it is adapted
rom the English An unpatriotic
American Ca purely ina ginary monster
urely) is represented as saying. In
his beastly country the imitation
.rticle always passes as the real thing
But IF and while these fables in slang
re intended to pass for humor they
an hardly do. SO In the country Of
lark Twain
1t has cost me some fever of the
row and much toilsome reading to pick
ut the pathological gems from this in Z
tedious pair of volumes To s
play shirtwaist man. is one of these !
Mysterious phrases. Looking at the 9
hole compilation one feels as one does il
presence of Hittite or Iberian or q
ztec inscription. 1t may be full of + .
lteresting matter. but nobody can d
ecipher it. And so there may. after s
Il. be hurnor in those passages of Mr.. [