Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-19
Funny Names Of American Post
Offices.

There are more than forty three thousand
post offices 10 the United States, and the whIm-
slcaltles OF the American people are nowhere
more strongly Illustrated than in their selec-
Ton or names therefor. The southern aud
western states especially furnish many ridicu-
Ious instances OF absurd mental freaks in this
regard. The following names taken from the
United States Official Postal Guide for January.
taste: '>N' Vi
In Asoama we ind Blowhoru. BucSsnort,
and Shinbone. In Arizona. Bundle Bee snow
Low, lip Top ana Tombstone In Arkansas OH
trough, sub Rosa and Tomanswk. In Califor-
MIA, BogaS, tncle Sam, Yankee inns and Fam
Fem. Colorado boasts OF Greenhorn. o.
You Bet and Troublesome. Baby Mine ana
Ienderfoot are In Dakota. Florida reloices in
Padlock, SCRUB and Sopchoppy. Georgia has in
her borders Alligator. Cheap, Clinchem, Crack
ling, Crane Eater. Dark Corner, Dirt ToSn
Doooy, Hot House, Iceberg, Persimmon. Pistol,
Rock Pile and Ty Ty. Illinois turns out with
Fish Hook Half Day, Presumption, School and
III. Indiana adorns the list with Bean Bios
som, Bigfoot, Buckskln, Dice. Nogo. Polk Patch
tucker Brush, Soonover and Zulu odd, Unique,
What Cheer. Yankee and Zero are In Iowa
Kansas furnishes Free VIII. Haphazard ox,
Rattlesnake, Terrapin and Zenith. Kentucky
produces Egyty-eight. seventy six, Backbone,
Jamboree, Nobob. Pig, Scrabble. Scuni ito Sn,
Siiekaway and Tiptep. louisiana contributes
Happy Jack and Jump. Pattagunous is Ia
Maine. T. b. and Gunpowder in Mary
land. In Tennessee are A. Is. C., Dabos. Farfy.
elght, Bet. Ied. Zero, Skull Bone, and calf
Miller. In Texas: Blowout. Gunsight. j. BOO.
2ehoy, Jlmtown, Nameless, SJraddIe. and V0x
popuu; Pennsy lyania donates Nine Poiuts
seven polnts SIX Points. SevenJy-siX. Sabbath
nest, scalp Level and Snickshinny. Nine
i i6,liss, ana Ninety,slN are In South Carolina;
seventy SIX In MtSSeIfl, aud Fourteen is In
Nest Virginia. Dubbs Rara AVIS, aud o. X.
are In Mississippi. and Dakota aud MicSigan
ea; n nave "a stump; Washington territory
prfdeS herself Or Muck, kumtax and Skooken
chuck; Virginia on Chuckatuck. Non Interyan-
ton. Pen Hook, Skinluarter, Tan Yard and
Wolf Trap Antiquity is in ohio, Shoe Fly Is in
Iowa, also In North Carolina. Sleepy Eye is ia
Minnesota, aud Wide Awake In Kentucky,
None Such is In Michigan, Nix in Alabama.
Last In North Carolina, and Last Cnance IN
Iowa.
Tennessee bushingly produces sweet Lips to
be promptly saluted by BusS from Manitou
county, Michigan. Fillmore county, Minnesota,
boasts OF its Clear Grit, while Bay county.
Michigan, shows White Feather Blue Eye.
Clapper, Greasy, Protein, Tribulation and Zig
are In Missouri. Fair Chance is in Pennsylva@
MA, Fair Dealing is In Kentucky, but she
finally pleads guilty TO Trickum, aud so does
Georgia, New York and Indiana each have a
Big Indian, while Nevada has nothing better
than Sheephead. North Carolina has Day
ored, sandy Mush, shoe Heel. Short on. Tally
Ho and Why Not. Ohio comes to the rescue
with Aid (alS0 Gratis. and while her politics
1s republican, Democracy is the name of one
OF her post offices In Knox county. Monday,
Roundhead and luck also embellish Ohio
list. With the inordinate desire that char
acterizes Ohio to monopolize things, she
points with pride TO a post offlce named Sodom
which stands alone In its glory as the only one
OF that name In the forty three thousand ia the
United states. Pee Pee and Wetmore are also
In Ohio, and so are Round Bottom and Spanker.
A eTusty Bachelor Is In Missouri. and blushing
Maiden In North Carolina. Bachelors Hall is
In Virginia, and we find Widows In Alabama
South Carolina furnishes a Bachelors Retreat
In Oconee county. but she equalizes things by
establishing q Ladies' Island in BpaufOrf counrV
Mamma is ID Cumberland county, Tenn, close
to Daddy's Creek In the same county, while
Bud Is In Missouri. Sis In Pennsylvania her
Gent In Texas, and hOrr1d Boy I'm Campbell
county, Tenn. Ohio has an entire Congress. of
course, but the Speaker Is In Michigan. PENN
sylvania is well provided With rulers, having
President and the King OF Prussia TO check
mate which Ohio and Mississippi each retain a
Eeto.-.H. Louis Globe Democrat.