The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-04-11

throw of Napoleon at Waterloo and
In whose honor the Order OF the
Iron Cross was established In Ger
many.
Now that the Eighteenth amend
ment has been repealed there are
few places in the United states
which are hone.dry territory ana
even there It's probable that one
can get booze. Why ''hone.dry' and
"booze"? According to one story,
John Bone was sheriff Of Chippewa
county. Michigan in the early days
of that state and because OF MS
strict enforcement of the state
fNQuor laws. the next anti-hanof
biill passed by the legislature was
called the Rome dry bill. Back In
the early days of the republic, u. q.
Eooz. who lived in Woodbury.. n. J.,
manufactured Old Cabin whiskey
which he sold III bottles shaped like
lou cabins. Because Of the superior
quality Of his product, people soon
began asking for It by the name OF
IFS maker-Rooz. Eventually. the
capital y was dropped and an
added to the end of the word ana
that's how booze" started.
II you're puritanleal by nature
and want to Bowdlerlze reading
matter of any sort you are emulat-
ing the example Of Thomas Bowd-
Ter N1a4.1s2a). an Engllshnan, VINO
In 1910 brought out Family
Shakespeare" with all the naughty
Elizabethan words left out.
The bowie knife. that fearsome
weapon without which d dime mover
hero would have been shameiully
undressed. nerpetuates the memory
Of James Bowie (1T9O-lS36). the
Texas patriot who perished nobiV
at the Alamo. There Is some doubt
as to whether or not he invented
the knife bur rs certain that ne
was mastery exponent OF It's use.
When Capt. Charles Cunningham
Boycott t1Sa2-9Tl. manager Of the
estate Of Lord Erne In connemara.
Ireland. adopted harsh methods o.
collecting rents from the lords ten
ants he little realized that their
methods of retaliation upon him II
the fall of 1880 would add new
word TO the English laffEnage and
that the word would be his name.
Bur IL did and that's why q COM
mercial or social taboo " a boy
cottH 10 this day,
Bright's disease Is named for
Richard Bright tl7Sa.lSaSl m Eng
fish doctor who was physician-ex-
traortlinary to Queen Victoria ana
the man who in 1927 issued the
first authoritative statement IN re-
gard to the disease which Is also
known as general dropsy.
Steve Rrodte lpaped from the
BROOKLYN bridge into the East river
and into fame at the same time In
1886 and until his death in 1901 he
kent on doing spectacular jumps
from high places That's why jump
Ing or falling Is doing q Erode
In the American slanguage.
That same slangnage includes
such expressions as That's the
bunk !" or Don't give me any OF
your bunkumm Thereby Is perpet-
uated In a curious way the name Of
Edward Buncombe. a colonel In the
Continental army,who was wounded
at the battle of Germantown In lit
and who died as n prisoner of war
In philadelphia the following year.
In 1901 Buncombe county In North
Carolina was created and mined for
this Revolutionary hero but he
might have been forgotten II 1t
hadn't been for Felix Walker. a
naive old mountaineer, who was
elected To congress from western
North Carolina district which In
7 cluded Buncombe county. During
the debate on the Missouri Gomprn-
mise In 1920 when the house was
ready for a vote. Walker insisted
upon making Il speech. Several