Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — Page 3

WORKMEN'S SLANG.

How the Inferior Hands in Different WorkAopt Are j 4; Strikes firing out the technical slang of the trades, and particularly the opjjrobious epithet with which the different classes of workmen distinguish the unskilled operatives who labor at the -shine trades. In mbst cases it will be found that these slang terms originate in some technicality of the trade. Thus, the telegraphers call a pOor operator a “plug, aftej- the little metal implement which divides the switches on the keyboard, inasmuch as the plug, or “kef,” is a comparatively unimportant part of the machinery. Printers designate an unskilled type-setter a “shoemaker” or a “blacksmith.” The derivation of the former appellation is from the fact that -a compositor who makes errors is obliged to correct them after the type is set up by taking out the misplaced letters and “pegging” the proper ones into their places. Tailors also use the word “shoemaker” to distinguish a poor hand, as an unskilled workman takes his stitches too far apart, and is therefore better adapted to sew leather, where he can punch the holes with an awl before putting his needle through. The appellation “blacksmith” is applied to a printer whose fingers are clumsy, and a jeweler also terms an unskilled worker at his trade a “blacksmith” for the same reason. A term of opprobium w r hich was .used by old New York printers -to designate an unskilled compositor was the word “boarder,” from the fact that a poor hand was generally a drinking man and spent his time loafing or “boarding” in liquor saloons. All -striking trades-workers in common use the generic word “scab” to distinguish workmen who take the places of strikers. The derivation-* is obviously from the fact that the scab is a morbid growth, and lives only at the expense of the well-being of the rest of the body. Shakspeare uses the word scab as a term of opprobium, and Webster

defines a scab as “a mean, duty, paltry, fellow,” which may have suggested the original application of the word tc its present usjh The printers and telegraphers, two of the most intelligent classes of workmen, are the only tradesmen who have invented names to particularize the scabs of. their respective professions. Thus, compositors call a scab a “rat,” in contemptuous allusion to the rodents who infest printing-: offices. Telegraphers have only recently invented a term for scab operators. They call them “contumists,” though the application is not of technical derivation, but is probably an attempt to manufacture a word from the Latin coniwna’, the root of contumacious, to describe a stubborn and obstinate person. The various names actors give to the unskilled members of. their profession are familiar to most of the reading world. A poor actor is termed .variously a “stick,” “fakir,” “statue,” or “dummy.” A “stick' or “statue” is, naturally enough, an actor who is awkward .and stiff on the stage. The term “dummy” is derived from the fact that when a traveling company has not enough members in the troupe to fill up a large stage, men and women are employed to stand in the back with choruses or supernumeraries and take no other part. They, are called “dummies.” “Fakir” is a generic term, and comprises those actors who lack talent .and depend Upon their resources. For instance, a comedian who makes faces, is called a “mugger,” and a tragedian who bellows is a “ranter,” and both are “fakirs,” The professors of the manly art are also apt in this style of nomenclature. Call a cowardly fighter a “duffer,” and a weak or unskilled boxer a “sand-bag” or a “stuff,” the latter terms being derived from the 1 contrivance upon which the pugilist does his practice.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

He was born at Ajaccio, Corsica, Ang. 15, 1769. His mother, a strong and cultured, lmt severe woman, ruled lier household with a rod of iron, and to her the son owed his indomitable will. At 10 years of age he was sent to a military school at Brienne,. France, and six years later entered the army. In 1792, having taken an active part in the defection in Ajaccio, lie was expelled, with the rest of his family, <rom iant military service Napoleon was made commander of the compaign in Italy, which closed with the treaty of Campo Formio. On the eve-of his departure he was married to the beaut till and accomplished Mine. Josephine Beauhn ais. TluCvear after the close of the It lian campaign (1797) Napoleon se. „ut for Egypt, designing to investigate its wealth, art treasures and other antiquities, but the expedition proved disastrous and he soon returned to meet a critical state of affairs m France, leaving the army under the command of Gen. Kleber. On Aug. 2, 1802, the French people made Bonaparte First Consul for life, and in the same year received at his hands the famous Code Napoleon, the product of the best legal talent of the nation, and undoubtedly one of the noblest monuments of his administration. It still forms the great body of French law. Two years later he \v as proclaimed Emperor. After a remarkable career in war and peace, he sacrificed his heart and highest manhood to his ambition by divorcing his faithful Josephine t > form a royal alliance with Marie Louisa, daughter of the Emperor of Austria. The decline of his power soon followed, like a pursuing Nemesis; beginning with the fearful disasters succeeding the burning of Moscow and the ensuing retreat in the midst of a Russian winter, and ending with the disastrous battle of Liepsic, the fall of Baris, his first' abdication, and his exile (1814) to the little island of Elba. He escaped to* France ten months later; raised another army, and hastened to meet the allies —English, Germans and Netherlanders —in Belgium, on the fatal field of Waterloo. A few months later and he was a prisoner for life on the desolate island of St. Helena, in custody of Great Britain, where he died of cancer of the stomach, May 5, 1821. By almost universal concession he is regarded as the greatest military commander that ever lived. Had his displomacy been equal to his military genius it is* prhbable that he would

3 . .. have remained to his death, as he was for a period df more than six years, the virtual master of nearly all the civilized States of Continental Europe. In 1840 j his mortal remains were carried to ! France and bimed in Paris, the scene of his greatest triumphs as of his final j downfall.

Cigars with a Flavor.

“Most people like a flavored cigar,” said an Indianapolis druggist to a reporter, who had stepped in to buy a weed. “Try one of these; I think you will like it.” The reporter took one of the brand recommended to him, lighted it, and began- to smoke. “I have to put up considerable cigar flavor,” continued the drUg man, “and I suppose some people wouldn’t find it so difficult a thing to quit smoking if they knew what the popular flavors were made of. On the second thought, though I don’t think it would make any difference. The fact that old cigar stumps are worked over into cigarettes and smoking tobacco, though thoroughly ventilated in the «newspapers, never cured a smoker of the habit.” “Tell me something about these flav ors,” said the reporter. “Well, since you insist on it I will. A flavor I have made a good deal of—it’s a flavor that, in the language of the trade, makes a ‘lO-cent cigar for 5 cents’ —is made as follows: Gum guiaO, gum tolu, tonqua beans, and essence of pineapple, of each one ounce; valerian root, two ounces; laudanum (tincture of opium), one ounce; oil of rose, six drops; Jamaica rum, half a pint; macerate for thirty-six hours and pour off, using one ounce to a pint of port wine, to blow on the fillers. ” “A good many men who get attached to a certain brand of cigars don’t know what chains ’em. It’s the opium, and they get into the habit of using it unconsciously. Valerian taken habitually renders the heart’s action more rapid but feebler, causes buried respiration,

and may occasion congestion of the kidneys. If its use is long continued it may paralyze the spinal cord, so the books say. Its action on the tongue and throat is more prompt and apparent, frequently causing epithelium. As to opium, its infernal effects are well known. It would take an almanac to enumerate all the diseases it occasions. It’s opium and valerian that makes the artificially-flavored cigar popular.”— Inclianapolis Joumal.

What a Good Havana Was Sacrificed To.

There were two of them in the car. They sat together. One of the maidens carried in her lap about five pounds of live sausage with the hair on in the shape of a sick poodle. On the front platform near the open door was a gentleman who, in violation of the company’s rules, was puffing a good cigar, the smoke of which now and then rolled around the ladies just mentioned. Said the one with the dog to the other, who was clogless: “Oh, how I hate vile tobacco smoke? I wouldn't marry a man who used tobacco in any form if he was as rich as Jav Gonld and as handsome as Oscar Wilde. I would rather die an old maid (she looked to be about 50). I can’t see how a man can use it and be received in society as respectable; but dear me the world is so strange. Mr. Conductor,” she continued, “will you please request the man to stop smoking, or close that door ? It is an outrage to permit such conduct on a car. It is very disagreebio to me and hurt’s my dog’s eyes.” The conductor did as he was requested and the gentleman, throwing away his cigar, came inside, and this is wliat he heard and what he saw. Said the girlish thing, whose lover was a dog, addressing the poodle whose eyes were red with epizoot and whose nose was in need of a plumber, “Did on dit dat uassy ole bakky smoke in ou dear itsy bitsy eyes V Let ou Missy yub him out for on,” and with this loving language she fished up a clean looking handkerchief and mopped the darling’s ocular machinery. He aclnowledged the kindness bv kissing her two or three times on her tasteless lips, then frisking around, marking her white dress with dirty feet, cuddled up in lior arms, and blinked at the gentleman across the way who had sacrificed a good Havana that a worthless dog might not be annoyed. Washingson Capitq’.

The Original Salad-Maker.

The Marquis d’ Abegnac, one bf the most distinguished of the' French emigres, was really the founder of the English salad. He did not consider, ho dishonored his crest by-becoming a salad-maker, and he was called from one house to another, known under the name of the “fashionable salad-maker,” and received 825 for concocting his salad. In order to sitisfv all liis eusand keep a servant, who followed him with a mahogany box containing all the requisites. His Gascon geniiis .made many rare inventions in his singular calling, and no cook in London or Pa is lias ever surpassed him in the preparation of delicious endive, savory lettuce, or stimulating cresses. When the Bourbons returned to France he went j back with them, having acquired ; $25,000.

How Her Husband Died.

An Irishwoman can always manage j to tell a disagreeable truth in a very ; agreeable way. “How didyour husband ! die?” asked the Judge very sternly, j “Well, sir, very sudden like,” was the j reply. “But what was the matter with him?” “Why, I believe, air, be fell out of a window, or through a kind of cellar door, or something of that sort. ” “How far did he fall?” “Not more that five or six feet, yer Honor.” “And how could such a fall as that kifl him ?” “You see, sir, there was" a bit of stliring or cord, or that like, and it got round poor Mike’s neck, and he never spoke a word after it.”

Duration of Animal Life.

The life periods of animals are given as follows: Years. Years. Camel....; ..lro 5wine......... .2) ! Elephant... CO llhinocerjs....... .....->*» j While. .......H'oltl. .20 j Lion To F0x..... is ! Porpoise..,. 3»Oat:.. 15 1 Bear ‘.O Sheep .*...*..'...10 Horse a. 2-i D0g,,..!..,........ Deer...... ...... 2*> Squirrel.....:.. 7 Cow. 20. Rabbit 7

All Emigrant Train.

A night in a Western emigrant train is thns described by R. L. Stevenson, in Longman's Magazine : I had been suffering in my health a good deal all the way, .and at last, whether I was exhausted by my complaint or poisoned in some' wayside eat-ing-house, the evening wo left Laramie I’fell sick outright. That was a night which I shall not readily forget. The lamps did not go out; each made a i faint shining in its own neighborhood, and the shadows were confounded together in the long, hollow box of the car. The sleepers lay in uneasy attitudes; here two chums alongside, flat upon their backs like dead folk; there a man sprawling on the floor, with his face upon his arm; there another half- [ seated, with his head and shoulders on, the bench. The most passive were continually and roughly shaken by the movement of the train; others stirred,* turned or stretched out their arms like children; it was surprising how many groaned and murmured in their sleep; and, as I passed to and fro, stepping across the prostrate, and caught now a snore, now a gasp, now a half-formed word, it gave me a measure of the worthlessness of rest in that unresting vehicle. Although it was chill, I was obliged to open my window, for tlia degradation of the air soon became intolerable to one who was awake and using the full supply of life. .Outside in a glimmering night, I saw the black, amorphous hills shoot by unweariedly into our wake. They that long for morning have never longed for it more earnestly than I, and yet when day cam a it was to shine upon the same broken and unsightly quarter of the world. Mile upon mile and not a tree, a bird or a river. Only down the long, sterile canons, the train shot hooting, and awoke the resting echo. That train was the one piece of life in all the deadly land; it was the one actor, the one spectacle fit to be ob-served-in this paralysis of man and nature. And when I think how the railroad has been pushed through this unwatered wilderness and haunt of savage tribes, and now will bear an immigrant for some £l2 from the Atlantic to the Golden Gate; how at each stage of the construction, roaring impromptu cities, full of gold and lust and death, sprang up and then died away again, and are now but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places pig-tailed Chinese pirates worked side by side with border ruffians and broken men from Europe, talking together in a mixed dialect, mostly oaths, gauibling, drinking, quarreling and murdering like wolves; how the plumed hereditary lord of all America heard, in this last fastness, the scream of the “bad-medicine wagon,” charioting his foes; and then, when I go on to remember that all this epical turmoil was conducted hv gentlemen in frock coats, and with a view to.nothing more extraordinary than a fortune and a subsequent visit to Paris, it seems to me, I own, as if this railway were the one i typical achievement of the age in ] which we live, as, if it brought together, j into one plot, all the ends of the world ! and all the degrees of social rank, and ; offered to some great writer the busiest, the most extended and the most varied subject for an enduring literary work. If ft be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Troy town to this ? _—

The Meadows of Maryland.

fipßiNviri TTiD, Pkixce George’s Co., Mp.— Mr. Charles G. Addison, of the above place, states : “I .sprained my right knee, causing intense suffering, and the use of cratches for several weeks. I found no relief in other remedies, and finally tried the miracle of cure, St. Jacobs Oil. In a short time I could bend my knee—which had been as stiff as an iron rod—laying aside my crutches, and was able, to walk as well as ever. ” '" • '

Matrimonymaniacs.

An Okokomee octogenarian, who is now a widower for the fifth time, is looking around for a new helpmeet. In Shelbyvilie, Kv., there is a widow who has buried four husbands, and now seems anxious to prepare another for the silent tomb. A Chicago woman is now living j happily with • her third husband, tile . others having obtained a divorce on the A Maine man se u ed a divorce from this wife because she made Lees' at tiifn jin the dark. He married again, and now wants to be separated from his ! second charmer on account of her pro- ! clivity for snoring in church. I A negro barber was arrested in the South for having half a dozen wives in i as many different towns.— New York ! Journal. ' :

A Swedish Drinking Custom.

Sweden in a peculiar fashion. It is not enough that you should bow and place your glass to your lips. You must, also, after having sipped the wine, bow again, or, rather, you must retain the glass in your hand and, slightly bending over it, look for a moment straight in the eyes of him or her with whom yon are drinking. That is the custom, and a very pretty one it is, particularly when the eyes into which it is your duty to gaze have that depth of liquid blueness which nature has bestowed upon so many ma ds and matrons in that northern land.— Cor. Han Francisco Chronicle. According to the Medical Times and Gazette, there are thirty-four or thirty-five total-ahstiuenca men in the House of Commons. The fact is referred tp as “remarkable.”

Spreading for Leagues Around

The marshy, overflowed lands, sunken lots and lialf-snbmerged river banks, which give them birth, the seeds of malaria impregnate'the air, and are inhaled at every breath by thousands unpiovided with any adequate safeguard against the baneful influence. Yc: such exist—potent alike to remedy or to preveit, pure in Its constituents, and the professlonally-rccogniz *d substitute for the hateful drug, tninine. It's name is Hostetler's Stomach' Bitters, a family, specific and safeguard, foremost n«t only as an antidote to malaria, but also as a means of (permanently removing dyspepsia, atd relieving constipation, liver complaint, ibeu natism, kidney and bladder ailments, and fcetvQUsnese.* Among inTigcrants ft takes the Brit place, an l is also a superb appetizer Dae it systematically.

THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.

Upon a Sul|ject of Vital Interest, Affecting Hi* Welfare of All. -.*-•-* The following remarkable letter from one o t the leading and 1 est known scientific writers of- the present day is specially significant, and sliou.d be of unusual value to ail readers who desire to keep pace with the l.ii.rch of modern discoveries and events: , "A general demand for reformation is one of t-e most distinctive characteristics of tii" n neceenth century. The common peo- ] le as wc 1 as the more enlightened and refund, «r out with no uncertain voice to i « OH.auci atvd from the s.avery of eoneer- - vim-on tfiil superstition which has held the musses ni gr~ss ignorance during a large port cm of the world's history, and in the rime of the ‘Park Ages’ came near obliterating tee I-rst grimmer of truth. Dogrhatle assertions and blind empiricism are losing caste amo g all classes of all countries. lOopie are I t ginning to think for therhseriesyanu to regard authority much less t tan argument. Men and women are no longer willing that a few individuals should oiotate to them what must be their sentiments and opinions. They claim the right to A sol t c for themselves the gre.it questions of the day, and demand that the. general good of humanity shall be respected. As the result of this general awakening, we see On every hand unmistakable evidences of reformatory uction. People who, a few years ago, endured sutiering the most intense, in the name of duty, now realize the utter foolish - ne sos such a course. Men who were under ihe bondage of bigoted advisers allowed their heaitn to depart: sutt'ered their constitutions to become undermined and finally ched martyrs to a false«ystew of treatment. There are ’millions of people rilling untimely grates who might have lived to a green old age, had their original troubles been taken in time or properly treated. There are thousands of people' to-day thoughtlessly enduring the first symytoms of some serious malady, and without the slightest realization of the danger that is before them. They have occasional headaches, alack ct_ appetite one day and a ravenous one the next, or an unaccountable feeling-of weayi-ne-s, sometimes accompanied by nausea, and attribute all these trouble; to the old idea of ■ a slight cold' or malaria. It is high time’ that peoj le awoke to a knowledge of the scrim.sue s of these matters and emancipated themselves from the professional bigotry which controls therm Wlientfcisis done and when all olasse . of physicians become liberal enough to exclude all dogmas, save that it is their duty to cure disease as quickly and as safely as possible; to ma ntain no other position than that of truth honestly ascertained, and to indorse and recommend any remedy that has been found useful, no matter what its origin, there will he no more quarreling among the doctors, while there wnl be great rejo.oing throughout the wor.d. - I am well aware of the censure that will be meted out to me for writing this letter, but 1 feel that I cannot be 1 rue to my honest convictions, unless I extend a helping hand and indorse all that 1 know to be good The extended publications for the past few years, and giaphic descriptions of different diseases of the kidneys and liver have < awakened the medical profession to the fact that these diseases are greatly increa ing. ,The treatment; of the doctors has been largely experimental and many of their patients have died while they were-casting about for a remedy t > cure them. "It is .now over two years since my attention was f rst called to the use of a most wonderful preparation in the treatment of Blight’s disease of the kidneys. Patients , had frequently asked me about the remedy and Thud heard of remarkable cures effected by it, but like many others I hesitated to recommend Its use. A personal friend of mine had been in poor health for some time and his application for insurance on his life had been nej cled on account of Bright s disease. Chemical and microscopical examinations of his urine revealed the presence of large quantities of albumen and granular tube casts, which confirmed the correctness of the diagnosis. , After trying all the usual remedies, I directed him to use this preparation, and was greatly surprised to observe a decided improvement within a month, and within four months, no tube casts could be discovered. At that time there was present only a trace of albumen; and he felt, as he expressed it,dperfectly well,' and all thronga the influence of ’Warner's Safe Cure, the remedy he used, "“After this I prescribed this medicine in full doses in both acute and chronic

nephritis [Bright's disease], and with the most satisfactory results. My observations were neither small in number nor hastily . made: djiey extended over several months and embraced a large number of caves which have proved so sat sfactory to mv mind, that I would earnestly urge upon my professional brethren the' importance of giving a fair and patient trial to Warner's. Safe Cure. In a Jarge class of ailments where the blood i< obviously in an unh- althy state, especially w here glandular engorgements and inflammatory eruptions exist, indeed in many of thosr forms o: : chronic indisposition in which there ts no j evidence ot.O’gan c mischief, but whe e the j general health is depleted, the f ice the ur.ne'colored, constituting the condition in which the patient Is said to be j 'bilious.' the adv antage gamed by the u e of this remedy is remarkable. 11l bright s disease it teems to act a< a solvent of albumen; to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes; to wash out tbe epithelial debris which blocks up the hth'di . uj)#^#fr; to prevent a destructive metamorphosis of tissue. - ■ - • - . - - of the pg® fess on tna" believes that no one school of , medicine knows all the truth regarding-the treatment of disease, and being independent enovgh to select any remedy that will relieve my patients, without reference to the source from whence it comes. I am tjad to acknowledge and commend the mer.ts of this remtdv thus frankly. “Respectfully yours, “R. A. GUNN, M. D.” Dean and profe-sor of Surgery, United Siates Mcdica; College of New’ York; editor of if'iVrai Tr-huxf, Author of Gunn's New j and Inn Hand-Book of Hygiene and j i'-iiatE is but iitue dii.erence between i. an and a gun. Put more load on than the :galation amount and both will “kick.” — atl TrelzeV* Weekly.

Get the Best.

It always pays to get the best books, and ■specially wne'n refere .ce books ore needed' ebster’s Unabridged Dictionary is a iibrarj f i serf, the new ed tion containing ris.ue ords, b.OOi engravings and a new biographcal dictionary. A'.. . - . .. ■ ■ 1 :loo<l-l’oiM>ning—An Alarming Discovery Half the p.o le are Buder ng and many j ie from thi3 fatal complaint. Diseases o' j .ie kidneys and liver are the prin. ia ; ■mses. As a cure, we can reiommeu 1 Ger- — an Hop Ritters. — Journal of Ueallit. A bubst of confidence—Failure of a saving auk- • 1 Pebe Cod-Liver Oil. made from select l!v rs on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard . 0.. New York. It is absolutely pure an weet Patients who have once taken it pr< ! er it to ail others. Physicians hare decide; S superior to any of the otirer oils in market Food for thought ought always to be [ i ved With brain -.au ce. j ' : . | OwEvrox. Kr.—Rev. J. W. Waldrop savs brown’s Iron Bitters great]v re ieved me o, * neral debiOtv and ii digestion.” “Now let's make tracks.” remarked tin i i road contrao.or to a action gang. ' j Waltereoro, fi. C.—CoL-JL.'l* Campbe' ays; “A member of my fam lv, uaei • own'rPron Rit.ers with good results. The use of iron cannot increase the ran •ng qaalit.es of a dog, bat tin can. Chapped Hands, Face, Pimple*, apd rougl flrin cured bv using Jlxipe* Tab Soap, mad. oy Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York.

, A true aasiHtant to nature in restoring th* system to perfect health, thus enabling' It to reslat disease, is Brown's Iron Bitters. Z A London oculist fays that culture diminishes the size ’of the eyes. Now, just listen to that! ' Everybody knows thar small is are a si gif of the entire absen-e of culture. ;

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“Put Up” at the Gault House.

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Look Well to the Name.

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