Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1910 — How Piccadilly Was Named. [ARTICLE]

How Piccadilly Was Named.

It's curous how the names of towns and streets come from something that has been the fashion of the day. Who knows where the word "Piccadilly" originated from, the name of that wonderful street of which It was written that “some make love and some make poetry in Plccadill?" The Street was built by a tailor named Higgins, whose fortune was made in a kind of collar called Piccadel or Pickadlll or Plccadllley, which was_ worn by all the beaus of the day. Of course it is not meant that the street as it stands to-day was built by him, but he erected a few houses to which he gave the name the street now bears.— London Saturday Review. Men are more or less afraid of a woman is flattery proof. .