ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR PROVERBS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5117, 11 June 1885, Page 2

ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR PROVERBS.

" Truth is strnnger than fiction," was invented by an editor as a headline to a twenty-line lie, So monstrously extravagant that he knew nobody would believe ten words of it. The original use of. 7 thii proverb is continued until ibis* 'day. Whenever you see that line in a newt. paper, don'V believe aniwrd. tea, read under it. < ' • *« " I'll make a spoon or spoil a horn," was the thought of a man who never made a sfoon in all his life,: and who knew perfectly well that he couldn't make one, and only took a mean man'i malicioia delight in spoiling..a horn. P.B.—For a ' man who likesvto take his bora straight the introduction of a ipoon always spoilt it. ' ' ~" " A wink is as good ai a nod to a bliad horse," was said by a man with a stiff neck, who wanted to nod, but couldn't. Although why any sane man ibould wjah either to wink or nod at a blind horaVrio man can tell?" , N . :.: ''A little' more sleep and a little flioca slumber," commonly attributed to the sluggard, was stolen from the nightwatchman, who inventod it in hii dreams. "Fast bind, fast find," was remarked by a police justice, when he bound the tough over to keep the peace, and fined him §15 85 - "All's well that ends well,'' was laid by a murderer who killed a dude. The name of the murderer is. •uppressed, lest he should be overrun with more orders than he could fill, and thus be compelled to hire a clerk, who would eventmlly ran off with all the money. ... "All's fair in love and war," wai the inspired thought of a railway conductor. " One swallow does not make a iaoi« mer," was the Brilliant remark of- a> onm who was trying to see how many iwallowi do make a summer. • Nota Bene~lfthe thermometer •■ got half sd high ai* the experimenter did,, the doc, days came right along on the heels of Christmas that year. The record of the swallows, however,' was' lost in ' the- diinr mistf"of OBlivion, the great Irish swallower.

" Dead men 101 lno tales." was the joyous exclamation of the first editor who slew a man, who came in with a continued story in sixty-five chapters. It wai this same editor who, upon receiving a demand for 10 cents from a poet for an epie'poem upon which he had labored twelvervtoara, said: " Write makes smite." .And tkea he smote him, that he died. . \ • • ~=— , » i- ■* -t