THE LIMIT.
(The Jazz is reported to have about seventy different steps.)
I have waltzed for half a day
In Milwaukee (U.S.A.),
I have danced at village "hops" in Transylvania;
I have can-canned all alone
In a fever-stricken zone,
And I've done the kitchen-lancers in Albania.
I've performed the "tickle-toe"
With its forty steps or so,
I have learnt a native dance in Costa Rica;
I've fox-trotted in Stranraer,
Irish-jigged in Mullingar,
And I've danced the Dance of Death at Tanganyika.
I have "bostoned" with the best
At a ball in Bukharest,
I've reversed with Congo pigmies, dark and hairy;
I have one-stepped in Sing-Sing
And performed the Highland Fling,
I have razzled in the reel at Inveraray.
I have tangoed in Koran,
Danced quadrilles in Ispahan
(Though I haven't done the polka in Shiraz yet);
But I've followed in the train
Of Terpsichore in vain,
For I haven't mastered one step of the Jazz yet.
"THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S EASY CHAIR.
"In this column, to decide questions concerning the current use of words, ——'s Dictionary is consulted as arbiter.
"'N.H.R.,' Starkville, Miss.—'What is the meaning of the word Eothen, and what is its derivation?'
"Eöthen is Greek for 'it is used' or 'accustomed,' and is the title of a celebrated work by Alexander Kinglake."—American Magazine.
We fear that the lexicographer found his easy chair so easy that he did not take the trouble to get out of it to consult the dictionary.