Show origin of common phrase we owe the word catchpenny to a publisher of the name of Catch pin after e F celebrated murder trial in 1824 when the assassin had been executed for he murder of weare this mar hit upon the bright idea ot of issuing a ponny penny ballad entitled we aro are alive again people jumped to the conclusion that the title was weare bearo alive again and as it sold like wild fire to tho extent of two a and n d a halt bait million copies hence a Catch pin or catchpenny affair came to signify a hoax of that kind incidentally it may be remarked that the ingen ingenious lous Catch pin succeeded in catching two and a halt half million pennies I 1 |