Show A VALUABLE VOLUME reference works have bacomo indispensable in tins this age of steam and telegraph when the contemplative leisure of the good old has been superseded by the fever heat hea t of unceasing and unrelenting rush people have so much more to study and read and BO go much I less es time to do it in than formerly that condensation of knowledge compression of information has become a paramount necessity the journalist who is writing an article with the foreman waiting for copy the tile speaker preparing an address with the audience fc impatiently the business man finishing his correspondence a few minutes before the clodin closing of the tile mails all these are unable to rummage over the shelves of their libraries and search through ponderous volumes when they want to give their compositions tho the final touch a striking point a telling simile or to make mak ce any desired improvement in pro or embellishment these persons want a work ingarro supplies their wants gives them the points at a glance such uch a valuable help such a friend in need is ft a late publication of ofa J B lippincott BLip co philadelphia adel libia words facts and phrases by edwards to speak with poe it is a quaint and curious curious volume oi of forgotten lore it t is a dictionary of curious quaint and out of the way matters information on the most diversified sub ejects acquired during years of labor and research rematch from sources not easily accessible to general readers nearly articles are treated on ita its pages the style being daml liar rather than formal as free as possible from technicalities dry details and scientific terms this makes it a book not only for the professional P professional man and for the schoolroom but a desirable acquisition for every family library the odd quarters of an hour that even a busy man has through the week neek cannot be more agreeably and at the same time profitably spent than by casual perusal of the words facts and phrases turn alc whichever liever leaf you It incase lease you will find something new of interest or something so ething old presented in an all interestingly es new manner thus thui we drop our on enormous ous be breeches eclie used at abhat tala time hence bombast or bombas is i applied to anything any thing spoken or writt watten on in an inflated style if hero we have an instance of tile words we will take two of tho the phrases OLD ilaray A slang namo name for the dovil devil it is ft a corruption for old hairy 11 this which was a common n interjectional remark antho in the last generation and il is not yet qui quito to ex Is a corruption of igminia OG minia i I a latin invocation to the divine broth erg castor and pollux out of the abundance of instructive IF facts acts contained in mr edwards work wo ave pick at random for selection among such a treasure vault of useful knowledge is a difficult task S P RING mattresses SES were first f intro du ducca ced about the beginning bce inning of f the nine nineteenth century mr crabb rob inson I writing from marburg in I 1802 says I lay on a sofa of metal rings covered with hair the most elastic of couches and to me quite a novelty dox the earliest k known n own mention in literature of tinder fo for r ob fire is in strike on the tinder ho hol give me a taper ASTRONOMY the oldest map of the tile heavens is in the tile national library arary at paris it was made by the chinese about the year COO GOO S B C cand and contains stars barley doea does not enter into the composition of this sweet nor has kas tho the word any right to bo be in the name it is a corruption of the french term irule brule burnt barley sugar is therefore burnt sugar or r in french sucre brule these few items i are only pebbles picked hap haphazard hazar dat at the bank of a mighty river of knowledge tho the work is beautifully printed and bound substantially and neatly it ig is a publication that none will wish to part with that have baye realized its excellencies its price is i insignificant ant considering what a prize it is |