Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — “Tacky" A New Word. [ARTICLE]

“Tacky" A New Word.

“Tacky” is. a new word which has just found its way into the American language. Its origin is obscure, and the efforts of several Easteren papers that have devoted themselves to the subject have failed to reveal it Its meaning, however, is well defined. “Tacky” means any person or anything in bad form. Persons that are a little “off” in the social scale are“tacky.” An inferior actor or play is “tacky.” The word, in fact, seems to be an equivalent for “dizzy ” or- “anida,” -and in an interest ing Mid useful menber [of the language whicii promises to exclude those hackneyed terms. The English language is annually growing richer. The United States Geological Survey gives some mining statistics that show something of the wonderful wealth of this country, judged by the immense mineral output for the past year. The total value of all minerals mined in 1887 was $538,000,000. This is $70,000,Oi Omore than the output for 1886, and over $100,(K0 greater than that of 1885. The year’s yield is not only the greatest ever produced in this country, but it is at least $100,000,000 greater than the output of any other country, and, leaving out England, is greater than that of all Europe. A real estate boom is gn at Roanoke, Virginia.