Show XA3IES OF BUY JOODS ISTrnI6T1sa FACTS ABJUT WELI KNOWN KABKICS Evcrytlilng connecteil with ones bus ness is of importance Very few dry goods men know the origin of Chic names of tinny of tha goods they hands They may seem trivial points but they are of Interest to the man who seek to Ixj thoraushly familiar fa-miliar with merchandise in which ho deals For the information of such we give tho derivation of the names of the follow lug Damask fe from the city of Damasru fatins from Liytowo in China calico from Cabot a town in India formerly celebrated for Its cotton cloth ana where calico was also printed muslin is named from Mom in Asia I alpaca from an animal ani-mal Jn Peru of the llama tifvlvf from hose wooJ be f1lrrtc I WOTt n buc ram takes the name frcm Jt 1 i Kwlat a city of the Middle Agcy from which the nicdtru Cairo la I Ue rcuded I tafTett and tabby from a street in JKagdaJ cambric from iamtrain gauze has Its name ten 3aza bolos from Bajac dimltyfrom Domleta and Jeans Irom Jean drug get U derived from a city in Ire landDr bola duck comes from Torque in Normandy blanket in called after Thomas Blanket a U mons clothier connected with the utroductlon of woolens Inlo Ertg land about 1343 serge derives Its name from Xergla n Spanish name for a jlCCUlbr woolen blanket diapers dia-pers not from tIfpreJl as It b mUmcs stated but from the Cc k dial iron figured velvet if s from the ti Italian vellute woolly Latin vellufc a hide or pelt Undanua Is from an Indian wont to bind or tie became it isled is-led In knots before dyeing chintz from the Indian cliott detain is the French of wooL Trad Journal Jour-nal |