What is a Jingo 1 Chance has given currency to a word which possibly may one day become as widely known and as respectable as the name of Whig or Tory—the word 'Jingo.' An English traveller abroad is said to have been not long ago asked the ques tion by a continental politician, "Mais, qu'estce que c'est done, monsieur, que ce Jingo?" His own ideas on the matter not being very clearly defined, he made answer, with delusive playfulness, that it was Mr. Gladstone's familiar spirit. The epithet is now used by liberal speakers, even by the most moderate and eminent of them, as a convenient missle to fling at their opponents, and by radicals it is applied freely, and one may say indiscrim inately, to all who desire to maintain the honor and integrity of the British Empire. A word which the political ex citement of the last three years has en giaved so deeply in people's memories, and which the excitement of the next elec tions will perhaps fix there still more firmly, cannot l>e soon forgotten: and even if it does not attain hereafter to the classic dignity of the two names cited above, its place in history is already won. But then what is a Jingo exactly? It is a man who believes in what L>rd Derby calls "gunpowder and glory," \ hatever this may mean? Is it a man who wtnts to fight everybody all round, if such a man there be? If we turn to that celebrated refrain which has given currency to the word, and which will be remembered longer than many verses of greater lyrical value, we can find nothing more in it than the expression of a modest firmness and self reliance. It, atfinns that we have no desire for war, but that, should war arise, we have the means to face it. This tem perate alliruiation is clenched with an oath, reprehensible indeed, and by no means refined, but far less objectionable than many other such words that we un fortunately hear even from the liberal w orkiugmen as we walk along the stcrets. Since there is nothing in the origin of the word, as a political term, which ex plains the use made of it, and since philol logy has no key by which to unlock its significance, where are we to turn for an explanation? We shall find a clew in the policy and t ;inper of the men who use it as a term of reproach. Bearing this in mind, we see that Juingoism comes to pretty much the same thing as another word also used by the same sort of people as a term of reproach—namely, "Im perialism."—London Saturday Review. A preacher who had been preaching on trial in a country church in northern Pennsylvania was tackeled by an older preacher and told that it would please the congregation greatly if he would vuote a little Latin, Greek and Hebrew in his ser mons, as if taking for granted that his hearers understood it, hwen in reality none of them knew anything about these languages. The preacher was puzzled, he didn' know anything of either Hebrew, Greek or Latin himself, but was a native of Wales and thought they wouldn't know the difference If he gave them a little Welsh every time. So he made a Scripture quotation in his first sermon to them, and and said: "This passage, brethern, has been slightly changed in the translation. It is only in the original Hebrew that you can grasp its full meaning. I will read it to you in Hebrew, so that you may com prehend it more exactly," and he gave them the passage in very good Welsh. They liked it first rate, and presntly he gave thetn some Welsh as Greek, and then some as Latin. He was going to give them the Chaldaic version in Welsh, when he saw a Welshman sitting by the door, almost bursting with suppressed laughter. The preacher didn't let on, but instead of the Welsh quotation he was going to give said in Welsh; "For goodness' sake, my friend' dou't say a word about this till I have a chance to talk with you.'' The Welshman never told, and the congrega tion completely deceived, called him to be their pastor. N KW i JOB I j PRINTING OFFICE. We respectfully invite public attention to our COMPLETE .ion PRINTING HOUAK? Corner Main and Cine streets, over the Music Store. COM M KKCIA J. PRINTING AND Pit AMPLKT WORK A SPECIALTY. LKT'l'ldtt, NO I K AND BILL HKADH. KNYKIAIPKP, TAOS Neatly executed on tie shortest aotice. BUSINESS, PARTY AND CALLING CARDS printed to order. ALVOHI) A SON. Vertical Feed. 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