The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-28
Cir Uribune.
NAMES OF THE STATES.

| "dIue-So cSlieu IruH the province vi
Maine, in France, in compliment to
Queen Henrietta, of England, who, it has
been said. owned that province. This is
the commonly-received opinion.
New Hampshire-named by John Ma
son. in 1899, (who with another obtained
the grant from tie CROWN, from Hamp-
shire county, in England The former
name Of the domain was Laconia.
Vermont-from the French rerd mont,
or gteen mountain indicative Of the
mountainous nature of the State. The
name was first officially recognized Jan.
is, l777.
Observation-Disclosures name, signify
ing the country about the great hills"
Rhode Isand-this name was adopted
In 1914 from the Island of Rhodes, in the
Mediterranean, because of its resem blance
to that island
Connecticut-thisi is the English ortho
e'aphy of the Indian wordQuon eh ta-cGt,
which signifies ''long river"
New York-named by the Duke of York.
under color of the title given him by the
English crown in 1904.
New Jersey-s0 called in honor Of Sir
+! George Carteret, who was Governor of
the Island ef Jersey, in the British Chan
mel.
PennsyIvania-fromW William Penn, the
founder Of the colony, meaning 'Penn's
| woods,
Delaware-in honor of Thomas West,
Lord De-la-Ware, wto visited the bay
and died there in 1910.
Maryand-after Henrietta Maria,
Queen Of Charles / of England.
Vwgiria-so called in honor Of Queen
| Elizabeth, the virgin queer" in whose
reign Sir Walter Raleigh made the first
attempt to colonize that region.
North and South Carolina-were ORR
ginally in one tract, called Carolina"
after Charles TX, of France, in 1904
Subsequently, in 1865 the name was al
tered to Carolina.
Georgia-so called in honor of George
IL, of England, who established colo
ny III that region in 1892.
Forida-Ponce de Leon, who discov-
cred this portion of North America ID
1912, named it Florida, in commemora-
ton of the day he landed there, which
was the Paquas de Flores of the Span
iards, or Feast of Flowers" otherwise
known as Easter Sunday.
Alabama-formerly portion Of
Mississippi Territory, admitted into the
Union as State in 1919 The name is
OF Indian origin, signifying Here we
rest"
Mississippi-formerly portion of the
province Of Louisiana. So named in
1900 from the great river on the western
line The term is of Indian origin, mean
ing long river"
Louisiana-from Louis XIV, of
France, who for some time prior to 1863
owned the territory.
Administrations kansas" the Indian
word for smoky WATER With the French
prefix arc, bow.
Tennessee-Indian for 'the river Of the
big bend, 4 e., the Mississippi, which
is its western boundary.
kentucky-India for "the head of
the river"
Ohio-from the Indian meaning ''beau-
titul." Previously applied to the river
which trayerses u greater part of its bord-
ers.
Michigan applied to the
/ Lake, the Indian name for a fiji weir.
So called trom the fancicd resemblance of
the lake to fish trap.
Indana-so called in 1902 from tie
| American Indians
Illinois-from the Indian ''illini," men,
and the French sufiix 'ois,'' together
senifying tribe of men,"
Wisconsin-Indian term for wild
rushing channel"
Missouri-named in 1921 from the
great branch of the Mississippi which
| flows through it. Indian term, meaning
muddy"
Iowa-from the Indian, signifying "the
| drowsey ones. .
Minuesota-Indian for cloudy water"
| California-the name given by Cortes,
the discoverer of that region. He prob
ably obtained it from an old Spanish TO-
nance, in which an imaginary island of
that name is described as Astounding in
gold.
Oregon-according to some, from the
Indian oregon, river of the west. -
Others consider irGerived from the Span
ish 'oregano," wild majoram, which
grows abundantly on the Pacific coast.
|
| A WINE BATH.-An American travel
er desiring while in Paris to take a bath,
his physician recommended wine bath.
In the employ of the establishment was
a colored man whom be had known in
America. and of him he inquired how
they could afford to give a wine bath for
seveEty-fve cents.
why, massa," said the negro, that
wine has been in the bath room one week,
ana you are Tue tHlILy-clghIH poison liia'
has bathed in it.
well, | suppose they throw it away
when they are done with it..
"Oh no, massa they send it down
stairs for the people, who bathc in it for
twenty-five cents.
Aud then what do they do with it ?'
Bottle it up and seud it to America,
| whore fhav sell If for French wine -