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Odd. Additions to the English Lan
guage Occasionally Heard in
This Country and Eng
land.
“Mysophobia" is one of the latest ad
ditions to the English language. It la
the name of a complaint which most
people will recognize. Probably its
commonest name is morbid fastidious
ness. Persons who suffer from myso
; phobia, says the London Hour Glass,
become very faddy in their manner.
They are very particular that there is
not even a spot on the tablecloth’s
snowy surface. Every plate and dish
and glass that is brought to them Is
eagerly scanned for any trace of dirty
fingers. Everything must be unsoiled
and immaculate. In the advanced
stage of mysophobia the sufferer is
unable to resist the temptation to wipe
every article that is placed before him.
It does not matter how clean or pure It
may be, the wiping process has to be
gone through.
“Unclniariasls" Is anothr novel com
plaint, or, rather, it la a novel name for
an old complaint It Is the disease which
causes the existence, in certain states, of
degenerates known as “crackers," or
pv/ur wanes, ui loci, it is cue germ oi
laziness which has been isolated. In ad*
▼anced stages the sufferer eats clay be
sides being unusually lazy. At one of
the London police coarts the magistrate
was sorely amazed by a witness describ
ing the prisoner as a "trance.” It turned
out eventually that a "trance” is a man
who is given a Hft from the country in a
market cart in return for which he as
sists the cartman to Onload. "A dead
homer’’ was another curious expression
Used in a London police court. The de
tective said It was a well-known expres
sion used by a person when he could not
Very well free himself from a charge
which was hanging over his head. In
the case in question the charge was that
of stealing lead. It was unfortunate fot
the prisoner that he was a "dead
homer.” - « ''
A “gawkrodger," "scrammy,” "caggy,**
and a "cuddypaw” are all different Eng
lish names for a left-handed man. Bat
a “jambiste" is about the latest name.
This came out in a case in which a per
son was sued for lessons given in dane
fng. The defendant denied that he re
ceived any lessons, but said that he sim
ply attended the dancing classes as a
jambiste. A jambiste, it is explained, la
a young society man who occupies his
leisure hours by acting as an auxiliary
at a school of dancing. He to there far
the purpose of danatng with any of the
women who are in want of a partner.
It appears that he furnishes hie services
at the danoing school gratuitously. Hie
hope of reward usually to that he may
meet a rich young heiress at the school,
and be able to marry heir.
"Electrotannite” is a peculiar kind of
Indisposition produced by the draught
from an electric fan or ventilator.
A "kitchen piano” is a name which
might puszle i good many people. It ap-1
peered in a case tried at the Clerkenwell
county court that among furniture mov
ers a wringer or mangle to invariably
known as a "kitchen piano.”
The “dotter" is an instrument which
has now been adopted by the admiralty.
By the use of this instrument the firing
accuracy of the weapon Is enhanced
greatly. With its aid a gunner has been
able to hit a target at 8,000 yards eight
times with eight sheila in one minuto.
After all, the dotter has a good homel>
ring about It. 1
A terrible new name is “Thymace
tinoxaethylacetamidothymol.” It is
highly recommended as a medicament to
people who suffer from “nerves.” It has
been found, however, that in a few cases
It falls in its effect. In which case an ex
cellent substitute Is stated to be Acety
llmtdcoxyathyhymol. An excellent
thing for the nerves!
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Starting “Bun” on Bank.
While a woman was waiting to de
posit five dollars in a New England
savings bank she saw a man draw
out $900. She had never before seen
so much money at once, and concluded
that the bank could not stand such a
heavy drain on its resources. She told
her friends about it, and the news
spread that the bank was in danger.
A “run” followed, and the depositors
were not satisfied that the bank was
sound until between ten and twenty
thousand dollars had been withdrawn.
The men who read this paragraph need
not say that the thing would not have
happened if it had not been for a silly
woman. Full-grown men, with years
of business experience, do just as silly
things wheu they get frightened about
losihg their money.—Youth’s Compan
ion.
Kuroki’s Name.
Several French soldiers, survivors of
the Chinese expedition of 185$, are re
sponsible for the statement that Gen.
Kuroki is in reality half French. His
name, they say, is properly spelled
Curique. According to the story of
these soldiers, a French officer, Capt.
Ourique, while serving in China in
1856, married a Japanese girl. A son
was born to them, who was given tha
Japanese name Kuroki, corresponding
to the French Curique. This son, it
is said, is Gen Kuroki. Capt. Curique
died last year in France.—London
Hour Glass *
Wouldn’t Give Him Time.
Brokeleigh—I did think of ordering
a suit from Cutts, but I couldn’t get him
to promise to give it to me on time.
Newitt-Why, he’s usually very
prompt.
Brokeleigh—Oh, yes; but he wanted
me to be equally pronogL—Fhiladeiphi*
Frees,
ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISH.
Story of Kan Who Know TUh Whan
Bo Sow Them, Also o Bail
rood “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
itor of Onting, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton, of America, is a
man who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
find in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank county, Idaho,
Texas or Rhode Island. New fish*
es and new facts about them, he
lores as a miser loves gold, only
lie does not hoard them, but gath*
era them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be la
St. Paul. He was talking with
General Passenger Agent Charley
Pee, who said Harris should go ts
Montana to catch grayling in a
stream at that time much adver*
tised.
Harris said there were no gray*
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
Yorker who pretended to know
more about a certain Montana
river tnan a man wno uau ucucu ■».
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due in New York on a
certain day, and by taking the first
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 36 hours he was on
the stream with a local represen
tative of the railroad. He waded
in, made one cast, and was fast to
a silvery thing that tore about
mightily like that of a grayling.
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairly shouted:
‘There, there; it’s a grayling!"
“Pack thin carefully in moss,"
said Harris. “Send it to your gen
eral passenger agent.” Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired that official: ***#!.
“Am sending one of your gray*
ling. It’s an infernal old river
whiteflsh.”
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement.
A MAN AND HIS SHOES.
n< Thicker the Soles Xc Wears the
Larger the City from Which
XoXails.
“You can almost tell from
what country a man comes by the
weight of his shoes,” said J. W.
Davy, of Chicago, who represents
a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
Sentinel reporter. “You might
not believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from whisk he
gomes. In New York it is almost
a fad, and the soles of the shoes
there are exceedingly heavy.
They are almost as heavy in Chisa
go. Men there wear shoes to pro
tect their feet. They have set
time enough, it seems, to bother
with rubbers. So they make one
pair of shoes do the work for all
kinds of weather. Here in Mil
waukee and in other eities of this
sise, I notice, the men wear light
shoes and rubbers. I suppose
they have time enough to wear the
AWAfieKAOS TTt» in H10 nnnntrT 1
And that in many places leather
boots are not worn at all for sev
eral of the winter months. They
wear heavy socks and then put
rubber overshoes over these.”
German “Sunday Schools."
In England the term “Sunday
school” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to denote
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race for
commercial supremacy has led te
the establishment of Sunday
schools at which mechanics are
given practical instruction in
their trades. There is, for exam
ple, a school for masons, at which
the etudents, many of them me
chanics who work daring the
week, spend several hours on Son*
day morning in learning the high*
er branches of their craft. Sim*
llarly there are Sunday schools fos
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind
ers, and followers of other trades
—even barbers and blacksmiths.
Gold in New South Wales.
Preliminary returns issued by
the department of mines, New
South Wales, show a big increase
in the gold production of that
state for 1903, as compared with
the output for 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,080,029, which
represents an increase of £395,059
ove* the total of the previous year.
The Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, Is
a tall bird of India, about six feet
high. The wings expanded meaa*
jre about 15 feet from tip to tip.
It readily swallows a cat or a hays
whole.
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Three er four drummers, sayv
Comfort, had engaged in a warm
discussion over the bane of the
drummer's existence on the rotd,
the “drummer's tax"—not so bad
as it used to be, however, whoa
small towns all over the country
levied tribute on every traveling
man who visited them.
“By Jove," said a man from a
New York silk firm, “you ought
to try it over on the other side.
What they do here isn't to be
spoken of in comparison. Here
it is merely a small local matter.
Over there it is national. At least
It is for any of us who come from
fnreiirn rmintries. In Denmark.
for Instance, there is an annual
tax of $42.88 if a mao represents
one house and half that for each
other house represented. In Nor*
way you hare to hare a trade pass
good for 30 days, costing $26.80.
Prance is easier and you don’t
hare anything hut a business
passport, which costs no mors
than you want to pay. In Hol
land you hare to hare an indus
trial tax receipt, which costs six
dollars. In Sweden' the price is
the same as in Norway, $26.80,
and if you try to get out of it you
will catch a fine of from the price
of the trade pass up to $184, and
they are strict about it, too.
“In Austria you hare only to
show a proper trade license and
in Switzerland a business pass
port. They don’t cost any more
than you want to gire up to the j
chaps who let you hare them. In
Russia the price is $25.75 as tradf
tax and $5.15 extra as a communal
tax. And if yon are a Jew you
don’t want to go to Russia to sell
goods. You may be all right, but
Russia doesn’t like that kind and
shows it by pushing the ‘drummet
tax’ on Jews up to $275.50, be
sides the communal tax of $5.15
England’s the place, though,
where you want to go. That’s the
great free trade land and you can j
go anywhere and everywhere and j
seli to anybody and everybody and 1
never pay a penny. They are so
free over there that, by Jove, you
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