Eureka Reporter | 1906-05-18 | Page 4 | Origin of "Twenty-Three"

ORIGIN OF twentythree TWENTY THREE hero of dickens story who died on the guillotine was in line on that number dickens lovers have no trouble those in proving that all of our BUD coed up to date americanisms are merely stolen expressions from their favorite author they have indeed found that dickens used many chras u ind expressions that have been taken up to day as universal oy words and latest acquisition of the enthis lasts ol 01 this sort is told in the state anent that dickens originated the ex twenty three which in the vernacular of the present is used to exp ess all in chase yourself the end and many other things I 1 will be remarked by anybody says the kansas city star that in tl e last chapter of the tale of two cit its dickens describes the procession of human leaden tumbrels ls to the gun lotrue in one of them Is sidney car ton the hero in a garden overlook ing the hideous machine Is a group of id knitting As the heads tall in the basket one after another tl e aomen knit stealthily and count them bojt loud the paragraph describing last moments of sidney cart n leada thus fhe murmuring of many voices thu upturning of many faces th rr essing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd so that it swells forward in a mass like ono great heave of water all flashes away twenty three there you have it you cin take it or what it li worth