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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 4 June 1901, Page 4

»nj>w TEE "Picnic" Got its Everybody knows what a picnic is, but most people would find it hard to tell how it got Es pecnKar name. Yet the derivation of |ha Word is simple enough, and sensible, a picnic was being arranged far," the custom originally was -that those ypho intended to be prese'.u i supply |i«. eatables and drinkables. A h*t of these necessaries having lx-en t'nv.-n «:<• it was passed round, ana each picsed out the article of food and Uririis that -or she V 33 willing so furnish, and the name o£ the itfticle was nicked or ticked oft the list. The» pp*o air entertainment thus became known pstiUpigk-and-nick." The custom is said to date from. ISO2, so that the picnic U ■Apllv as institution of the igth cuntury. | Five—-Any number of JjgUTfS you may wish to multiply by 5 will give tits same result if divided by -2 -a much jjuijker/Operation —but you must remember 10 aimej a cipher to the answer when there Ja.no - _ Binder, anne\ a 5 to the answer. Multifty' 164.by 5j and the answer will be 2,3.10; flivjde the, same number by two and you fcav£ 232. and. as theje remainder, you WM%sjpber v t Ny w 4al;e 357, and multiply £ypve;;.the\gjiswer .i? 1.755. On dividing 357 bys, there is 17S, and a remainder; you therefore place a 5 at the end of the result, which gives 1,785.,: The reason of this process i§ obvious, since multiplying i;v 5 'S the j&me by 10 (which is effected py placing a cipher to the right of ths unit's pd dividing by z Efußtous Derivation of Popular Words. foJiVarlot'! is the same word as "valet," is'/aa offshoot ot me feudal ■fevasfal 'V-'Madame" is "my lady," and Ssm' ; has been .extracted tr.sm Latin C'segior" llircugh the French. " I'andelion, ■ &aUfe.lion (the lion's tooth), and " nras once vjn aigre (sour wine). " A villain,'' before, the stigma of disgrace was attached tp him, 'was a labourer on the villa of a jinn«H - country gentleman. "Biscuit" keeps alivfli the Latin bis coctus (twice tooled), and a verdict is simply a vere (dictum (a true saying). _ An earl was an fielder 1 ' in the primitive society, while pope Is ths fame as •• paps,'" and the czar and kaiser are both " Ca.-sars." Queen at first (meant " wife" or " niCtlier." and a survival pf its early signification exists in "quean," lasfd nOw only in a bad sense. " Jimminy" is % reminiscenccof the classical adjuration, 9 gemlni, used by the Romans when they (called upon the twins Caster and Pollux to help them. Kedingote "is ■'ridiDg coai," borrowed by the Fcench from our own languM? and leturned to us in a new guise, with tie dressmaker's stamp of approval, -p Slop" shop has. nothing to do with slops. Its some amateur etymologists have asserted, but means clothing* shops, the word coming (rr>m Icelandic slocoer. a coat. . '