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444 Ohio Arch

444       Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.

Again, page 279. The French settlers did not locate at the

mouth of the Scioto, but at Gallipolis. See Laws of the U. S.,

Vol. 2, page 503.

On page 276 it is stated that Mount Logan is on Paint Creek.

Mount Logan is on the east side of the Scioto, nearly two miles

northeast of the Court House in Chillicothe, and is miles away

from Paint Creek, which is west of the Scioto.

Page 286. "College Hill is named from two colleges. Col-

lege Corner with similar educational advantages has one Indiana

and two Ohio counties cornering in it." College Corner has no

college at all, and it was given its name because it was located

in the corner of the township which was given for the founding

of Miami University. No Indiana county has a corner at this

village.

R. W. McFARLAND.

 

 

 

ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE, "KEEP THE BALL

ROLLING."

 

 

THOMAS J. BROWN, WAYNESVILLE.

[I had the following article in contemplation for a year or more,

but it was crowded aside by other matters until midsummer last, some

time before the January (1905) number of the Archaeological and His-

torical Quarterly was printed when I wrote it down with a pencil in my

note book, and herewith give it with very slight change or correction.

Some allusion is made in the latest issue of the Quarterly to the ball fad,

but I had no knowledge of the article or inspiration of Mr. C. B. Gal-

breath until I saw it there.-T. J. B.]

Many words and phrases have come into common use whose

origin has been forgotten. In many cases, perhaps the origin

never was generally known, or has not been passed on from one

generation to another, as others have been.

The phrase, "Keep the ball rolling," was years ago more

generally used than it is now, but it is still used; if a man has

an enterprise on hand which he wishes to carry to a successful

termination and has no intention of dropping or neglecting it,