The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-04-12

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ment has been repealed there are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 bone-dry territory and
even there it's probable that one
can get booze. Why "bone-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 his
strict enforcement of the state
LIQUOR laws, the next anti-liquor
bill passed by the legislature was
called the Bone dry bill. Back in
the early days of the republic, Z. u.
Booz. who lived in Woodbury., N. j.,
manufactured Old Cabin whiskey
which he sold in bottles shaped ike
log cabins. Because of the superior
quality of his product, people soon
began asking for it by the name OF
it's maker-Booz Eventually, the
capital B was dropped and an
added to the end of the word and
that's how "booze" started.
If you're puritanical by nature
and want to Bowdlerize reading
matter of any sort you are emulat-
ing the example of Thomas Bowd-
Ter (1754-1S25), an Englishman, VINO
i'm 1910 brought out Family
Shakespeare" with all the naughty
Elizabethan words left out.
The bowie-knife, that fearsome
weapon without which dime mover
hero would have been shamefully
undressed, perpetuates the memory
of James Bowie (179O-1S36), the
Texas patriot who persisted noDly
at the Alamo. There is some doubt
as to whether or not he invented
the knife but it's certain that he
was a mastery exponent of its use.
When Capt. Charles Cunningham
Boycott t1S32-97), manager of the
estate of Lord Erne in Connemara.
Ireland, adopted harsh methods OF
collecting rents from the lords ten
ants he little realized that their
methods of retaliation upon him in
the fall of 1880 would add a new
word to the English language and
that the word would be his name.
But it did and that's why COM
mercial or social taboo Is boy
colt" to this day.
Bright's disease is named for
Richard Bright (17S9-1S5S) an Eng
lish doctor who was physician-ex-
traordinary to Queen Victoria and
the man who in 1927 issued the
first authoritative statement In re-
gard to the disease which is also
known as general dropsy.
Steve Brodie leaped from the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river
and into fame at the same time in
1886 and until his death in 1901 he
kept on doing spectacular jumps
from high places. That's why jump
ing or falling is "doing a Brodie"
iH the American slanguage.
That same slanguage includes
such expressions as That's the
bunk!' or Don't give me any of
your bunkum!'' Thereby is perpet
uated in curious way the name of
Edward Buncombe, a colonel in the
Continental army, who was wounded
at the battle of Germantown in 1777
and who died as a prisoner of war
in Philadelphia the following year.
In 1871 Buncombe county in North
Carolina was created and named for
this Revolutionary hero but he
might have been forgotten If 1t
hadn't been for Felix Walker, a
naive old mountaineer, who was
elected to congress from a western
North Carolina district which in
cluded Buncombe county. During
the debate on the Missouri COmpro-
mise in 1920 when the house was
ready for a vote, Walker insisted
upon making speech. Several