Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-19 | Page 5 | "Co-Jock! Co-Jock!"

Cojock CoJock The ordinary call to horses is Cojock cojock It is explained that ninny horses were formerly named John which in peasant English is Jock Cojock then simply means Come John It is said that the use of the word jockey meaning mean-ing a rider or driver of race horses comes from the frequency with which horses were once named Jock the word passing in time from the animal to his rider Boston Bos-ton Transcript Buying Ills Own Coffin at a Discount A man worth his thousands of dollars living Ellisburg came to town recently and went to the undertaking rooms of Overton Fish and asked if they had any old fashioned coffins and if they would sell them at the old prices Being answered In the nilirmrtive he chose one for which he paid 5 and took it home with him Adams Cor Rome N Y Sentinel