The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-01
NonsensicaI Names,
Places to which People
sometimes send Letters.i
A List Of the Names some Post
omces bear.
From the St Loui. Globs-p.mocrat.

From the st Louis Globe-Democrat.
There are more than $4,000 Post offices
in the United States, and the whimsical
ties of the American people are nowhere
more strongly illustrated THAN 10 their,
selection of names therefor. The South
eru and Western States especially furnish
many ridiculous instances OF absurd
mental freaks in this regard The follows
ing names. taken from the United States
Official Guide" for January. 1881, disr
plav Mt least remarkable variety of taste:
In Alabama we find Blowhorn, Buck
snort, iii, Gnasvilie. Lubbub, Quid Nunc.
Rawhide and Shinbone In Arizona
Bundle Bee. Snow Low, Tip Top and
Tombstone. In Arkansas, Oh Through.
Sub Rasa aud Tomahawk In California,
Bogss. Uncle Sam, Yankee Jim's and
Fem Fem. Colorado boasts of Greenhor
o. r., You Bet and Troublesome. Baby
Mine and Tenderfoot are in Dakota,
Florida rejoices in Paddock. Scrub and
Sopechoppy Georgia has in her borders
Alligator. Cheap. CIinchem, Cracking,
Crane Eater. Dark Corner. Dirt Town.
Doboy, Hot House. Iceberg. Persimmon.
| Pistol Rock Pile and Ty Ty. Illinois
turns out with Fish Hook Half Day
Presumption. School and Zh. Indiana
addorns the list with Bean Blossom,
DaGi0oes DuoAeklus Ofee. GO6ho. ois
Patch. Fucker. Brash, SoonoVer and
Zulu. Odd. Unique, What Cheer,
Yankee and Zero are in Iowa. Kansas
furnishes Free Will, Haphasard. Og,
lRattlesnake. Terrapin and Zenith, Ken
ltucky produces Eighty eight, Seventy six.
Backbone. Morrow bone. Devils heel.
Headquarters, Humpty, Jan Dor &c. Natot.
Pig. Scrabble, Scufistown. Sieksway and
lTiptop. Louisiana contributes Happy
j ack and Jump. Pattagumpus. is in
Maine, r.. B. and Gunpowder in Mary
Hand. In Tennessee are A. B. C., Dabbs.
Forty eight, II Bet. Zed. Zero. Skull
Bone, and Cali Killer. In Texas Blow
Ious, Gunsight, j. Bob. Jehoy, JimsoWn,
lNameless, Straddle. and Vox Populi.
Pennsylvania donates Nine Points
Iseven Points. Six Points. Seventy six,
sabbath Rest, Scalp Level. and Shiok
lshinny. Nine Times and Ninety six are
in South Carolina; Ssventy-six in Mis-
souri, and Fourteen is 10 West Virginia
IDubbs, Rars Avis and @. +. are in Mis-.
sissinpi; and Dakota and Michigan each
have a Stump. Washington Territory
brides herself on Muck. kumptaw, ano
lSkookemehuck: Virginia on Chuckatuck,
Non Intervention, Pen Hook, Skinquarter
Tan Yard and Wolf Trap. Antiquity il
lin Ohio, Shoe Fly in Iowa. also in North
iCarolina; Sleepy Eye is in Minnesota ant
6 Wide Awake 10 Kentucky. None Such il
r in Michigan, Nix in Alabama, Last il
North Carolina and Last Chance in Iowa
Tennessee blushingly produces SWeeI
L Lips to be promptly saluted by BUS
from Manitou county, Mich. Fillmore
county. MIMI, boast of it's Clear Grit
e while Bay county, Mich. shows White
Feather. Blue Eye. CIapper. Grease
Protein. Tribulation and Zig are II
: Missouri. Fair Chance is 10 Pennsgt-
vanpia. Fair Dealing is in Kentucky. ba
] she finally pleads guilty TO Irlckum
4 and so does Georgia, New York ape
Indiana each have a Big Indian. while
/ Nevada of pothing better than Seephead
8 North Carolina has Day Book, Hang
ling Dog, = Meat Camp, Old Hundred
; tSandy Mush, Shoe Heel. Short off, Tally
: Ho and Why not. Ohio COMES to the res
enc With Aid (also Gratial aud while be-
policy is Repu blicap, Democracy is the
|. luame of one Of her post ofhces in kno1
y county Monday, Roundhead and Znci
e also mbeiish Ohio's list. With the inor
dinate desire that charaeteriZcs Ohio Il
nonopoiizs things. she points with pride T.
. q post Office named Sodom. which stand:
alone 10 it's glory es the only one of tina
name in the 43. 900 in the United Slater
Pee Pee and Wetmore ere also in Ohio
and 30 are Round Bottom and Spanker. 4
crusty old Bachelor is in Missouri and
\ Blushing Maiden in North Carolina
Bachelors Hall is IL Virginia. and VI
find Widows in Alabama. South Carolin
furnishes Bachelors Retreat 10 Ocope
county, but she equalzes things by estat
fishing Lady's Island in Beaufort county
Mamma is ia Cum berland county. Tenn
close to Daddy's creek, in the same count,
while Bud 10 in Missouri. Sis in Peunsy
vanja. her Gent in Texas and Horrid Be
in Campbell county, Tenn. Ohio has g
~ entire Congress, of course; but the Speaks
= il in Michigan. Pennsylvania is we'll PR
a. vided with ruIers, having President az
Its the King of Prussia. to checkmate whic
n, nj Ohio and Mississippi each retain Vet'
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