"Many a Slip 'twixt the Cup and the Lip." A well known expression, ex-pression, used to signify tho uncertainty uncer-tainty of all hopes or expectations, jgnH however near their fulfilment may apparently be. Origin: According to an ancient author, the phrase arose thus: A king of Thrace had planted a vineyard, when one of his slaves, whom he had much oppresed in that very work, prophesied proph-esied that he, (tho king) should never taste the wine produced by it. The king disregarded the prophecy' and when, at an entertainment he held the cup full of his own wine, he sent for his slave, and asked him, insulting, what he thought of his prophecy now? The slave only answered "There's many a slip between the cup and tho lip.' Scarcely had he spoken, when news was brought that a large bear was laying tho vineyard wasto. The king put down the cup, arose in a fury, attacked the bear, and was killed without tasting, the wine.