Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-19

A BIT OF SLANG.
Origin Of making a Noise Like" This
or That.

Origin Of making a Noise Like" This
or That.
Captain Henry G. Lyon. q. 8. A..
was the innocent cause of the slang
expression about making noise like"
this or that. At Peekskill in 1906 he
gave instruction to officers of the New
York national guard doing duty in that
tour Of camp. The first day he formed
the officers into a class in the big mess
hall, which was open at the sides. so
that all that went on inside was seen
and heard by the enlisted men pass
ing back and forth. In teaching the
officers how to give the commands Cap.
tain Lyon impressed upon the class
the necessity of clear enunciation and
Of making commands like an officer.
saying "arms." not Jumps" etc.
The privates' capacity for turning
things to their own amusement was
shown a few minutes after that first
class was dismissed. for officers going
through their company streets heard
privates In front of group Of men
of1cer! whereupon the entire ''cIass'
would roar Jumps" A reporter sent
an account to a New York paper, and
from this grew expressions such as
MAKE a noise like a hoop and roll
away" etc.
However. it is seldom one hears the
word arms or march" the voice
finding it much easier to slur the word
till it may mean anything. and as the
preparatory command indicates what
is to be done the command following
is merely a signal for the execution
Of what has already been specified
Army and Navy Journal.
A SaIutary Lesson.
"Now, remember your salutes." said
the English corporal when posting the
Irish recruit on sentry. IF you see
lieutenant-he wears one star on his
shoulder-slope arms; if captain
two stars-slope arms; If you see
major-a crown-present arms: II the
colonel-stars and crown-present and
turn out the guard"
Pat pondered his orders carefully.
but presently he was awakened from
his reverie by the approach Of the gen.
eral.
That worthy son Of Mars surveyed
the cross swords on the gallant Off
GERS shoulders and as be was not in
cluded in the corporal's category sim
ply nodded cheerfully.
"Well. my man." said the genial gen.
eral. land who are you supposed to
be-"
I'm supposed to be a bit of SEN
try" said Patrick. And who are
your
oh, LIN. supposed to be a bit of a
general said the latter.
"A gineral. is it, cried the startled
Pat. Then yen want something big.
The corp'raI touid me about the 9th
ers, but nothing about yourself at all,
at all. But hold hard a minute. and
I'll give ye the bayonet exercise. II
that'Il do"
Blind Man a Murderer.
Supreme Court Justice Minturn OF
Paterson, N. j.. sentenced William Fas-
son, negro, to thirty years in the
state prison for killing Charles Hum
nell, white man, and ten years for
killing Bob Ferguson. colored man,
the terms to run separately.
The court had accepted in each case
a plea of non vult to murder in the
second degree, and the penalty for
killing the white man Is the limit un'
der the law for second degree murder
Fasson is known as 1.-The devil" AL
though blind, be had been for long
time a terror among the negroes. The
night Of the double murder be entered
a saloon on Paterson street, asked for
a drink and when it was refused
pulled out two pistols and began firing
at random. Hummell was killed in
stantly and Ferguson, who accom-
panied Fasson. fell with fatal wound