City of Winds; Mile High City; Bosh; Folklore; So Long; Lemonade

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    A bunch of interesting stuff, sure to get lost if I don't post it.

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CITY OF WINDS (continued)

    From SPORTING LIFE, 19 August 1885, pg. 1, col. 2:

   _FROM CHICAGO_
   (...) But say, I must quit this thing, or there will be a mad base ball reporter in the "city of winds" before sundown.

   The "city of winds" is the "Windy City."
   The Cornell Making of America database tells where this phrase comes from, and it ain't New York City during a battle for the 1893 World's Fair.
   From HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, "The City of Winds" (Siena, Italy) on pages 653-665, April 1878, pg. 661:

   ...it is continually fanned by cool breezes, whence it derives its appellation "the city of the winds,"--_Citta dei Venti_.

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MILE HIGH CITY (continued)

   I checked the City Directories for Denver.

1902, BALLENGER & RICHARDS THIRTIETH ANNUAL DENVER CITY DIRECTORY.
   No "Mile High."
1904, pg. 840, col. 2:
   Mile High Mining & Milling Co, 27 Jacobson Bldg.
1906, pg. 867, col. 1:
   Mile High Mining & Milling Co, 515 Temple Court
1908, pg. 840, col. 2:
   Mile High Mining & Milling Co, 207 Temple Court
1909, pg. 977, col. 2:
   Mile High Cigar Store, Wolfe & Warner props, 601 17th cor Welton
   Mile High Photo Co, 1103 16th
1910, pg. 1052, col. 2:
   Mile High Bottling & Supply Co, 2404 14th
   Mile High Hotel, 3601 Wazee.
   Mile High Photo Co, 1524 Court Pl.
   Mile High Roofing & Cement Co (Arthur Hilberg and J C Donohue), 4112 Clayton.

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BOSH

   From the PHILADELPHIA PRESS, 12 October 1885, pg. 4, col. 6:

E. W.--The word "bosh" is a Gypsy word, introduced in 1828 by Mr. Morley, a novelist, who wrote "Hajji Baba."  The Turkish phrase _bosh lakerdi_ means silly talk.

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FOLKLORE (continued)

   From the PHILADELPHIA PRESS, 22 September 1885, pg. 4, col. 6:

--To the late Mr. Thoms, the famous antiquarian, belongs the credit for having coined the word "folklore."  He once gave a freind a photograph of himself, on the back of which he had written:
   "If you would fain to know more
     Of him whose photo here is,
   He coined the word 'folklore'
     And started _Notes and Queries_."

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SO LONG (continued)

   From the PHILADELPHIA PRESS, 28 September 1885, pg. 4, col. 6:

   O. Z.--The expression "so long" is a cant phrase which had its origin among the convict settlers of Australia and was generally supposed to indicate that it was a somewhat extended period of time since one gentleman who, let us suppose, had escaped in the bush, had had the pleasure of meeting his brother who still remained under the dominion of the ball and chain.

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PINK LEMONADE (continued)

   "Pink lemonade" is not in OED, and also not in John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD AND DRINK.
   There are some 1890 hits on the Making of America database, starting with James Whitcomb Riley's RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD (1890).
   A citation that connects lemonade with the circus is from SPORTING LIFE, 12 August 1885, pg. 4, col. 2:

   George McGinnis is greatly elated over his pitching record and in fact there is "lots of juice in the old lemon yet," to use a phrase that doubtless had its origin with some one of the caterers of a circus.