The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
Queer reepie.

monotony OF individual character with
Us apparently makes the material f0z
literature meager. Yet there are quaint
personages in every community, and
heroes and heroines of novels are walk
ing about among US every day. A cor
respondent from New Haven Nelson
County, KY, writes to the louisville
Post an account of family wherein odd
given names have run riot. In the fam.
lily Bible are written the names of Lon
don Judge, :" &c Revenue Belle, :" I" China
Figure. -" Reptile Kingdom, -" Hebrew
Fashion, -" Greek Wisdom, and " Hell
in the Kitchen" These are the children
of Mr.. Hamilton, three of them girls
and three boys. The domestic occupa-
: ton of g Hell in the Kitchen !, is obvious
= from the speculation by which she was
!. consecrated at birth to the wdsk her
name implies. Of course no living
creature coming under the control of
Fir. Hamilton could escape the freaks
of his nomenclature, and when London
Judge" and s. Revenue Belle" girls, 20
about their blowing, it is with such oxen
as g Buck and /" Boly.n Not content
with the original name of "London
judge" Mr.. Hamilton has added to her
the nickname of "Squeezle Toilet -
"Mr. Hamilton goes to Louisville once
a year and purchases clothing similar to
meal-sacks," says this veracious cor
respondent, "and these garments last
the children an entire year; the meal is
scattered upon the garnet floor to- the
depth of several feet to prevent it from
molding." Such is the outline of the Cir
cumstances of a remarkable man. He
is not accounted peculiar in other re-
spects, and is master of his own house.
hold, an intelligent man of comfortable
estate, and a good citizen. Nelson
County is one of the best in the State of
Kentucky. ,., ....-..-. re g,-r.. ,
All who are familiar with the talk of
any country town are able to recall
many similar histories, says the Post.
In Jessamine County a man by the
name of Bowen would never enter his
house except by the back door, and
never leave it except by the front. He
selected early in life the spot for his
burial beneath an old oak tree, remote
from all other graves, in an open field,
and there was buried. Mackey Duncan,
of the same county, whose occupation,
that of carpenter, is altogether unfav-
orable to the pursuits of knowledge, is
one of the most learned men, after q
fashion, in America. He knows the
date of every important event in the
worlds history, year, month and day,
and when essential, the minute. His
knowledge of the family history of all
prominent people is something marvel
Gus. If our correspondents, like Ems, -
of New Haven, will contribute the Curl
Gus history of their communities, we
shall be able to furnish our readers q
most interesting chapter Si5
One of the best pictures painted by
Gen. S. w. Price, and still in his pos
session, is that of cold Solomon, the
Grave-digger. Years ago his bronZed
and hardened face was familiar in the
streets of Lexington. He was rarely
seen in his tattered garments without
the stump of q cigar in his mouth. He
was a connoisseur in this article, ard
kept himself supplied with fragmentary
: Havanas, the refuse of the streets He
was grave-digger worthy of Hamlet:
and being possessed of both humor and
sentiment, he was well capable of re-
Election on the Yoricks of his day. Old
Aunt Mary, the colored rag-picker, bet
ter known as the Judge, has been fig
ure in that Athens of the West as long
as the memory of q generation or two.
Industrious in her pursuit, she has ac-
cummulated q few hundred dollars, but
Independent enough to live in dry
goods box surrounded by her rags. It is
painful to say that this temporary don1i-
Gle was utterly consumed BY lire . win
ter or so ago, the Judge only escaping
with the rags on her back.
Perhaps the blue grass region of Ken
lucky does not afford greater number
of queer people than may be found else
where, but q few instances may make
good our point that personages as
quaint as may be found in Dickens,
suitable material for any genius of his
kind, abound with us. We would not
have to 90 far from home to find char
acters grptesque i'm person, as web as in
manners and mind. But we do not court
personal violence from our local Quasi.
modos and Quilps. *
To return to the district where both
the cattle and those who eat them are
well fed, if not fat. Was old man Bill
Cook, of ,NicholasEille, ever known to
drive horse Of nySother:than.a cream
color? There was Spriggins, also, who
lived in the pugnacious days of fist-fghts
and personal encounters, who was q
man well connected and educated, His
general course was in the middle of the
street, especially at.night stone in his
pocket or hand. When asked tie rea-
son of this habit, he used to reply, 90,
q man never knows who is waiting
around the corner for him. In Wood
ford County lives man, the owner of
1000 acres of the best land in the world,
who accumulates enough money every
wear to add 100 acres to his possessions,
who only buys what is absolutely essen
tial to existence. A few years ago he
) marrieA During his oourtshiphe bought
a buggy Stsrting TO Lexington on his
first trip after marriage his wife spoke of
buying some articles. Necessary to the
house. IS Have yoalany money for the
purpose? he asked. - Why, haven't
YOUR g No.'' Whereupon he at once
drove back, nailed the buggy in the
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