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New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5173, 15 June 1878, Page 6

A friend of mine was in Russia last year and having some trouble about washing" apparatus, explained to his landlord, and Sold him that Englishmen were in the haoit of taking a bath every day. " A bath !" said the astonished native. " A bath evary day!' ejaculated the Muscovite ; "wby, you must wet your back !"— Vanity Fair. During the session of a temperance meeting in an American town, one of the persons who occupied the stag., was an enthusiastic deacon, who frequently interrupted the speakers by yelling, "Thank Heaven for that!" One gentleman was called upon, who arose and said, " Ladieß and gentlemen, I am heart and soul in this cause, and feel that it will be a great benefit to the people of this place." " Thank Heaven for that!" yelled the deacon. " But, ladies and gentlemen," he continued, "lam going to say that it will be impossible for me to address you this evening." "Thank Heaven for that i" broke in the absent-minded deacon amidst universal laughter. The "Yankee."—Words peculiar to New England are often called "Americanisms." In truth they are Old England words in common use at the time these people (the Puritan Fathers) left for the Kew World, but are now only seen in Shakespeare and the writers of the period. The very word " Yankee," now vaguely applied to all Americans at the Northern States, shows the light in which the early dwellers in New England were looked on by the aborigines. It is, in fact, the Indian's corruption of the term Anqlais, or Englishman, applied to the first settlers by the Frenchmen of the neighpouring country of Canada. Hence Yengees, Yenghcs, Yangis, Yankees. It was used at least as early as 1713 by one Johnathan Hastings, a farmer, who applied it to his cider aud other wares, as expressive of his intention that the world should believe that they were something very superior. At least such is the legend. It is interesting, aud may possibly tven be true.—From The Countries of the World, by Dr. Robert Brown. Perfection.—Mrs. S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer (the Genuine only in Pink Wrappers) never fails to restore grey hair to its youthful colour, imparting to it new life, growth, and lustrous beauty. Its action is certain and thorough, quickly banishing greyness. It is not a dye. It ever proves itself the natural strengthener of the hair. Its superiority and excellence are established throughout the world. Wholesale of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Dunedin and Auckland, and Felton Grimwade & Co., Wellington, and retail of all l chemists and Perfumers throughout the colonies. —[Adtt.] |