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Show Orlsln if tha Term "loUltr." iloston Is now engaged in tho attempt at-tempt to determine when tho word lobster aa first applied to a man aa a term of opprobrium. New York had been satisfied for to yiara with the explanation that tbe phrase, was first heard on the Outtenburc track, where it waa used lo describe tho quality of the horseflesh that took part In the racra there. It was the particularly had performance of one horse on which a crowd of email bettors had staked all their earnings that led to the first use of the name by a disgusted sport This explanation of the word's use has generally bcon accepted by everybody, although mora erudlta theories, suited belter to Iloston's particular rase, have recently been forthcoming John Adams, In his argument In defense of the Urltlsh soldiers on trial for murder mur-der becauso of complicity In the "Iloston "Ilos-ton Massacre." mentions thoword "lobster," "lob-ster," hs one of the epithets applied by the rltliens to tho soldiers. Tho use of the word "lobster" aa applied to a soldier haa also been shown by a Hos-Ionian Hos-Ionian Interested In tha subject to havo been found na far back as 1642, If not before that time, In the fnco of such learned Investigation, the Outten-burg Outten-burg racetrack hypothesis seems to havo small chance of acceptance. New York Sun. |