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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Sooke 5 , (ris LONGEST WORD. 
A Short Cut to Some English Claim- 
ants to the Honor. 
This moot point has never been 
satisfactorily settled. About 1870 
the Liverpool Daily Courier came 
out with a new word of gargantuan 
dimensions, ‘‘velocipedestrianistical- 
istinarianologist.” 
An Edinburgh journal followed 
with “ultradisestablishmentariasts,” 
nn extension of Archbishop Ben- 
bon’s previous “antidisestablishmen- 
tarian.” given in his diary. 
A junction might be effected if 
one is anxious to see a friend car- 
ried out in a state of collapse (to 
the refreshment room) that a good, 
long word is “ultrantidisestablish- 
mentarianists” (only thirty-three 
letters). . 
Then there is another short jaw- 
breaker, “‘antitranssubstantiationis- 
tically,” which appeared in a high- 
land paper. It is highland enough 
in all conscience. 
Sir Walter Scott has in his jour- 
nal a word, “floccipaucinihilipilifi- 
cation,” “which, like a wounded 
snake, drags its slow length along.” 
Then Rabelais takes some doing 
with his “antipericametanarbeuge- 
damphicribrationis.” 
Wyntoun in his Chronicle sup- 
plies us with “honorificabilitudini- 
tatibus,’ which Shakespeare uses in 
“Love’s,:abour’s Lost” (twenty- 
seven letters). Dante also has it in 
the ablative singular form in his 
“De Vulgari Eloquentia.” 
Byfield in a treatise on the Colos- 
sians (1615) wrote “incircumscripti- 
bleness.” 
But the Englshman’s real jaw- 
breaker is a Welsh word over which 
Mr. Justice Lawrence once at the 
Anglesey assizes asked an explana- 
tion from Mr. Bryn Roberts, M. P., 
“What is the meaning of the letters 
‘P. G. after the name Llanfair?” 
The answer was, “It is an abbrevia- 
tion for the village of Llanfair- 
pwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwila- 
ndysiliogogoch. How is this pro- 
nounced? It will take some beat- 
ing. This word of fifty-four letters 
if repeated often enough is said to 
be an excellent cure for the tooth- 
ache. 
But the jocular man will. tell us 
there are longer words, “smile”? and 
“beleaguered,” for instance, be- 
cause one is more than a “‘mile” 
and the other more than.a “league,” 
and another will insist. that the 
longest word in the English lan- 
guage is “longer,” for, however long 
any other word may be, it is always 
“longer.” ‘This is on the principle 
of the wily Scot who bet his chum 
that Glasgow was not the biggest 
town in Scotland. ‘“How’s that?” 
he was asked. ‘There’s a bigger.” 
“What is it?” “Biggar,” was the 
prompt reply.—London Academy. 
Tied It Down. 
Joseph Chamberlain in one of his 
political speeches said: “Many of 
my opponents are as ignorant of 
my proposition as was a certain 
farmer many years ago of the um- 
brella. This farmer had made a 
journey of some twenty miles on 
foot to a small town. As he was 
about to set off for home again a 
hard rain came up, and his host 
lent him an umbrella—a novelty 
at the time—opening it himself so 
as to save his friend all possible 
trouble. A week later the farmer 
brought the umbrella back. The 
weather was bright and fine, but 
he held the contrivance open over 
his head. ‘This instrument,’ he 
grumbled, ‘is more trouble than it’s 
worth. There wasn’t a doorway in 
the village I could get it through, 
and I had to tether it all the week 
In a field.’ ” 
Mother’s Experience, 
Fond Mother—Now, look here, - 
George! I want you to break off 
with that girl. She is very pretty, 
and all that, but I know her too 
well to want you to risk your life 
and happiness by marrying her. 
Why, she knows no more about 
housekeeping than I do about 
Greek—not a bit! 
George—Perhaps not, but she 
can learn. 
Mother—After marriage is rath- 
er late for that, George. 
George — But you said yourself 
that you did not know a thing 
about housekeeping until after you 
were married. 
Mother—Very true, George, and 
your poor father died of dyspepsia 
twenty years ago. 
A Possible Explanation. 
There is a certain clergyman who 
has a hapy way of enjoying his 
own disadvantages. 
Never a handsome man, Mr. C. 
was severely battered in a railroad 
wreck, in which he suffered the loss 
bf a foot. 
Soon after marrying a beautiful, 
woman the ill used minister met an 
old friend on the street, who ban- 
teringly asked, “C., how in the 
world did such a pretty girl come to 
marry you?” 
“Qh, ladies like remnants,” was 
the cheerful reply. 
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