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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 79, 24 April 1901, Page 4

now vrr " Picnic" Got its Nasi~— fc/ver.y.bocly knoNvs' what a picnic is, bufc'most Deople would find it hard to tell how it got its peculiar, name. Yet the derivation of 1 the word ts' simple enough, and sensible, too. When a picnic was being arranged for;, the custom originally was that those who intended to be present should supply the eatables and drinkables. A list of these necessaries 'having been drawn up, it was passed round, and each person picked out the article o'f food.and .drink that he or she was willing to furnish, and the name of the article wasnicked or.ticked off the list. The nrtth air enterta^iment : ftius became known as a " pick-and-nick." The custom is said to date I 'from 1802, so that the picnic is wholly an'institution of the 15th century._ ..'■■Tw Figure Five-—Any number of figures you may wish to multiply by 5 will (jfi-eihe same result if divided by 2—a much quicker operation—but you must remember to annex a cipher to, the answer when there is no remainder ; and when there is a remainder, annex a 5 to the answer. Multiply 1.64 by 5, and the answer will be 2,320 ; divide the same number by two and you hive 232, artel; as there is no remainder, yon add a cipher. . Now take 357, and multiply by five',, the answer is 1,785. On dividing *57 by - there is 17S, and a remainder; you therefoie place a 5 at the end of the result, which gives 1,755. The reason of this process is obvious, since multiplying by 5 is the •sainK as multir.lying by to (which is.effected by placing a cipher to the right of the unit's place) and dividing by ■*.'■< ■■ -•■>.-;>. Curious Derivation of Popular Words. —" Yarlot" is the same word as " valet," and each "is ail offshoot' of trie feudal "vassal." "Madame" is "my lady," and £ sir" has been extracted from Latin "senior" through the French. " Dandelion," dent d'e lion (the lien's tooth), and ■' vfriegar" was once vin aigre (sour wine). " A villain," before the stigma of disgrace was attached to bim, was a labourer on the villa of a Roman ■ country gentleman. - "Biscuit" keeps alive the Latin bis edetus (twice cooked),. and a verdict is simply a vf 'dictum ,{a true, saying). An earl was '•"eider" in "the primitive society, while popo is the same as " papi, * and the czar and kaiser are both " Ca:sars." Queen at first meant " wife" or " mother." and a survival of its early signification exists in " quean," used n6w onlyin a had sense. "Jimminy" is a reminiscence of the classical adjuration, 0 gemini, used by ,tb? Romans when they •railed upon the twins Caster and Pollux to help them. Kedingote is "riding-coat," 1 borrowed by the French from our own language and returned to us in a new guise, i with the dressmaker's stamp of approval. " Slop" shop has nothing .to do with slops, I as some amateur etymologists have asserted, [ but means clothing shops, the word coming U-Aiii .Icelandic slormer. a coat. j. — '■*•■ —

m \'.;; '.a warning uoiigU IS the ft&\ :faidnul sentinel. It ..tells ,9* ■ :..tUa approach of consump.;. tioa, w inch lias killed more poopla than war and pestilence, combined. It tells of ,: painful chests, sore lungs, jj weak throats, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Do not ' 'vrtkir "'another day. It's usew less, for there's a prompt and safe cure. -A cars for fresh colds and old colds, easy coughs and hard coughs 'Ayer's llwri PsGioral [' It often cures a. fresh cold itt e. Single 'night, and it master* chronic coughs and'bfonchkis in a short'tjnip, Con-: sumption is certainly, prevented,. 8»« ; 'cured, too, if taken intime,' ",,. .;-,, If-anybody tolls you that consumps; tkm cannot be* cured; tnoy ; are'certainly mistaken, for "wo liavo thousands -of these cases reported to us, absolutely' ■cured, -M»d , ; ,;,- Put -up ii. large and siuallbottles. ■■■:■<■ Ayer's Cherry Pc-cLoral Plaster placed directly over"the taader, aching'lung id 1 to 1 the Cherry Pectoral. ' Prcpa:ciS by [lr. J. C. Ayer Co., Low SOLE EROS., '£ ABANAKI BUTCHERY. Uv e kJh'anW tno PRIM EST OS MEAT I, 'g ntand cm the best fattening turns I'; in the district. OR tiUAUTY WE DEFY GOMPEIITION ; CUSTOMERS WAITED ON DAILY. I ' <SOL:S AGENTS F. ANDREWS' WEjuLKaOWN BACON THE BEST i WAITARA-NEW J'LYMOUTp: • COACH. ' THE undersigned notifies that he ' has bought out Ma.' ltont. Kibky's interest in the above BUSIN KtiS. Customers wi please note change of hours, viz. : Coach leaves Waitar . 9.30 a.m. Coach leaves New Plymouth p.m. Seat booked and parcels received at Wont's stables, 0. COULTER, item,