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Show THE NEWEST MODE. ALL HAVE MEANING g TRACING ORIGIN OF BRIGHT AND APT SAYINGS. In Common Use, Yet It li Doubtful If Many Know the Circumttances Connected with Epigram and Slang. We all have glowed away In the top drawer of our brains odds and ends of apt sayings. ver convenient when wish to give a bright touch, a chic turn, to our dull, everyday speech, yet In using them few of its have the remote Idea where they came from whether the case in point be a bit of old lace epigram or an twist of slang off a bargain counter. When we accuse the greedy member of our family of taking the lion's share' w e are bot rowing the naive sarcasm of Aesop's fable, where at the end of a Joint hunt the animals wish to ditde tbe-ibooty, and the lion claims onequai tor of the spoils by right of prerogative, one for superior courage, one for his dame and cubs, and "as for the fourth, let who will dare dispute it with me. To Spain we owe that delightfully wicked slogan: "Kvery one for himself, and the devil catch the hindmost!" You no doubt remember that at one time his Satanic majesty kept a school of magic at Toledo. At the end of the term the graduating class ran through a long subterranean hall, the president of the school being entitled to the hindmost If he could catch him. As the one caught was forced to take a postgraduate course, It would have been a distinct advantage, had he not been obliged to barter his soul for the privilege. When we plume ourselves with some pretty ostrich tip of flattery few of us know that the expression "a feather in your cap," arose from a custom of woodcraft enthusiasts, and that in Scotland the one who kills the first woodcock plucks out a feather and proudly ;wears it in his cap. However flippantly we may flaunt the phrase, Oliver Cromwell gave it dignity of thought and diction when he declined Englands offered crown. Royalty is but a feather in a mans cap, he said; let children enjoy their up-to-dat- r to-da- y rattle. game cock has only red and black feathers, and a crossbreed is known by a white feather in his tail, to show the white feather forcibly pictures cowardice, since it is averred that the least impurity of blood destroys the birds pluck. While in the barnyard, we must loiter long enough to clear up the mystery of being as poor as Jobs turkey, for the elusiveness of this bird has no doubt tantalized many a searcher of Scriptures who had not paused to consider that a turkey is as much an American institution as the eagle on our coins. With the unfortunate patriarchs poverty in mind. Judge Haliburton the British-Americahumorist, Sam Slick created Jobs turkey from his own vivid imagination, describing the bird with only one feather in his tail, a constitution and of so weak-kneethat he was obliged to lean against the fence to gobble. As a pure-bree- In point of area. New Orleans Is ths The Only Use He Knew read-Inwas second largest city In this country. The "head of the family the vivid account of the departure at of t h Israelites from the land of iVfrtt lrt tuI l icAttnia taUntf Egypt, and the four j ear old son 11s lened with intense Interest. Nothing prospers like a frenzied At length the reader came to the for a time. financier passage, "And Moses took the bones of Joseph wiih him," when the boy, Mr. VVlmlow Sonthln( Ayrap. whose limited experience had taught t or rliltdre lorittntf , aofutiew Idilia iiurea, torture-- . I t kit) u.ai .!.) kiu .curve J tuilu, JSc Uu.U him only one use for such articles, shocked his staid relatives by crying There are no vacations in the school in excited amazement: for scandal, To make soup wiv? Harpers W. N. U, Salt Lake City, No. 47. 1SC8 Monthly. Susie What does the new baby at your house look like? Is it nice? Sammy Must be ibe latest thing In babies. 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