The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-18

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laby; there is in one of its wolds q Dedlock,
who might have been, we will suppose, a far
away cousin of Sir Leicester Dedlock, of
Chesneywold, Bart. ga Solomon Gillis lived in
Devonshire, hundred years ago. and the
Cuttles have numerous representatives in
Scotland, for which overhaul your guide
book, 'and when found make note.
Some of the characters look as if they had bor-
rowed their names from the Anglo -Saxons and
| Danes of thousand years ago, and of such
are Wegg and Wackles, Peggotty, Nattinglll,
and Wopsle. Skifin, Scnby, Sloppy, Knagg,
and Kettle were old Scandinavians in York
shire and Nottnghamshire. Boffin, the
Golden Dustman, finds his prototype in Bof
ting of King Alfred's days. Among these an
cient names we meet Unlocking, which
readily suggests Tullinghorn, and a Spottle
and Turvey; from which the descent is easy
to Spottletoes and Turveydrop Kenge is,
modern Londoner, but Carboy and Quinion
are old Irish names
Bardell, Peterson, and Micawber are found
in Scotland. Walking through London
streets a crowd of familiar surnames look
down at us from the sign-boards, and seem to
grimace welcome as we repeat them. Toodles
is a clerk in the Common Pleas; Nipper keeps
coffee rooms No s Castle street, but
whether he has daughter Susan deponent
saith not Carker is a printer; a not very
young man of the name of Guppy, keeps
chambers shop at No. 1 Gee street; a
Bucket, weary, perhaps, of his arduous labors
in the detective force, was lately dairyman
at No Chandler place. Elite, ishmonger,
No. Union street. has a daughter known as
Miss Elite. Brass, Vhoes (or Vowles), and
Quillop (Quilp) are earning an honest liveli-
hood. A Gargery has gone into the leather
business. Mrs. Crupp is a milliner; Heap
whose Christian name may, for aught we
know, be Uriah, is keeping the Bunch of
Grapes, a public house on Dowgate Hill
Pocket is fishmonger; Traddles green
grocer. The Cheerybles lately held a family
meeting in London. Wrinkle, Dowler Nub-
! bles, Muzzle, drummer, Stiggins, and Tup-
| man, are Londoners Dodson and Fogg do
not appear on the roll of attorneys,
! but Dodson is now an advocate, and
every one knows how Foggs abound
| in London, even outside of the courts of
| law Pinch, Slyme, Venus, Tippens, and
! Peecher are entities among English names,
| but we look in vain for our old friends Bag
stock, Todgers, Blimber, Lammle, Linlin-
water, and host of others, all Pigments of the
| novelists brain.
Under the name of Pogram he hits off the
! ponderoUs oracular utterances of Daniel Web
! ster Cyrus Choke, U. 5. NJ, is the nom de
| gUCrrc of Rufus Choate, and Genery Dunkle
''the shmll boy, is Oliver Wendell Holmes
| indeed a perusal of Martin Chuzzlewit will
! call up not a few pen caricatures of distln-
| guished Americans, masquerading there under
| the oldest of names. To the careful student
the Dickens nomenclature is a striking illus
tration how genius by process intuitive and
| peculiar to itself, mastering the laws of Ian
| guage and the human mind, calls in as minis
ters to its work all that is dramatic in philoso-
| ply history, and society.
Under the head of 'Nebuln," the editor
contributes the following paragraphs
Here is a contribution to the great wo-
| mans rights discussion, which though indirect
| in its application, may be worth considering.
| Insurance companies which are willing to
| grant policies of insurance on the lives OF
| women, refuse to insure women against acci-
| dents Why? For the following reasons, as
we heard them lately explained by the agent
of a company in large business: Women sell
| dom have any regular occupation, and it is,
therefore, often impossible to be certain
whether awoman is really disabled by an accI-
dent to such a degree as would entitle man to
compensation. WOmenS clothes render them
specially liable to Academia woman is held
fast by her pethcoats amid the de6rjS of q
shattered railway car, for instance, when a
man is easily eXticated. Women seldom
have as much GOODNESS and presence of mind
in danger as men have, and therefore are
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obvious physical causes, are liable to severe
injury from mere fright-a false alarm of fire,
for instance, or the supposed imminence Of q
railway collision, from the shock of which the
most cOwardly man RECEIVERS in half an hour
NAV bring an almost fatal miscarriage on his
wife. The vast maj iority of women are affected
byor liable to ailments which render anyshoch
| likely to iniure and disable, and from which
men are wholly exempt. Women commonly
decline to submit to the examination of the
medical officers of a company, and the COM
pany therefore, have frequently no means OF
knowing whether the disabling for which
compensation is claimed may not be the re-
suit of other causes than those to which it is
acribed. Finally-and for these two con
cluding reasons we beg to say our gallantry
utterly refuses to hold itself responsible
women make tremendous work about small
hurts which men would hardly heed; and are
less honest in their dealings than men. No,
consideration Of the philosophic mind.
is "a sorrows crown of sorrow the re
membering happier things?' Tennyson say
so, acknowledging that he takes the belle
) from Dante, who put it into the mouth o
poor Francesca de Rimini; and Dante through
Francesca acknowledges that he took it from
Virgil. Thackeray speaks in "Vanity Fair
l | of that bitterest of all helpless woe wit
which miserable men think of happy pas
times" Yet, despite all these great authori
: ties the general truth of the sentiment ma
surely be questioned. Does not the memor
of happy time frequently on
3 might say-operate in alienation of a presen
2 sorrow? Do not garrulous people, reduced t
. sudden poverty, find evident consolation i
: thinking and talking of their better days
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