The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-04

Mr.. Dana Again AmuSes Himself at mr.
CleVeland's Expense.
Nep York Sun.
The list of signatures to the treaty
concluded on December s, 1890, between
]. Clifford Richardson, Charles NJ. Dole,
and Rockwell J. Flint, Commissioners
on the part Of the United States, and the
adult male Indians nov residing on the
Grow reservation, in Montana, shows
how stale and bloodless is the Yankee
system OF nomenclature compared With
the juiCiness Of the nobleaavage system.
Mr. Richardson, Mr.. Dole, and ME.
Flint have fair average American names,
but only five OF the $50 Indian signers
fail to have front names and hind names
more descriptive and picturesque, and
fuller Of pIinted pomp. Perhaps Joe
Stewart, John Wesley, George Thomas,
Henry Russell, and Amos Martinez are
squaW men. Their names are at the
foot Of the list, and make the one streak
OF prose in this catalogue Of heroes, pre-
sumably dirty, but great OF name: Even
the Indian names which sound most
familiar to the Anglo.saxon ear, those OF
animals, reptiles, and birds, are more
euphonious and emphatic. Dole, Rich
ardson, and Flint are respectable names,
but even these common Indian ones
tickle the ear more persuasively:
Another Bear, Goose Goes Over Hill,
Bear Boa Vol Vol, Plain owl
Bear In The Cloud, Slenty butterflies,
Bear That Raises Up, Plenty Eagle,
Bear Comes rom Below Bad MAu's Horse,
BObtAil Bear, River Grow,
BObtAll Crow, SOtTel Horse,
Big Snake, Spotted Buffalo,
Bud Bird, Young Otter,
BufIalo Calf, Young Antelope,
Calf That SlrAys, Walking Bird,
Crane III The SKY, White Fox,
Fool Crane, WOOD TICK
Names descriptive Of individual pecu-
liarities OF appearance are not always
lattering, but they are terse:
Blg HaIr. LEFT Arm,
Big Nose, Little W1iss
bTlI EOhe, No Shin Bone,
Crooked Arm, One Round Face,
Cut Lip, sharp Nose,
Fiat Mouth, Skin In the Forehead,
nlAt head Woman snDut Mouth,
Full Mouth, WhlAkeB,
his Breath, Wrinkle Face,
dlgh HAT. liVAo" FAHbS'
Not less vigorous are the names de.
scriptive Of characteristic qualities or at
tributes:
Change Among Them, Knows Where lie Walks
Comes Back Plenty, Looks With His Ears,
Comes From Above, Old Tobacco,
Deans, Plain flgnler'
FiGhtS, slenty Tobacco,
il: iS1i He art k Sii Very Good,
Gels Down First, Runs,
Goes On II Good, Sees a Great DeAl,
Good Fighter, shoots As He Goes,
H Has Plenty Things, Strikes on Top of the
aeaIs Something Every. Strong wlll known,
MS Medicine Is strong. rSEes i Himself,
Holds Him Up, Wants e Rgn. nj,
Hunts, White Man Runs Him.
Kills,
isimpossible to look over the Grow
names without thinking what facilities
Of nomenclature the paleiaces miss. III
la unfortunate that there is no Stock
Exchange in the Grow reservation. The
material seems to be there in such men
as Bull All the Time, He Is Bear Now,
and Bust. There is no red.headed girl
among the Crows, and Look at q White
Horse is good name wasted. Is Stands
on Cloud the Grow equivalent for the
Hon. Calvin Stewart Brice, most amiable
hunters, aud is Sugarthe Grow
Chauncey Depew? Give All Over the
Earth is sweeter name even than
George Washington Childs, and Bad Boy
suggests Governor George Washington
Peck, of Milwaukee. Calf that Strays is \
Grow for Mugwump, and Plenty Stars
Tor theatrical manager. Big Hair is the
Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, and
Likes Him is the Hon. Banja.
min Harrison. In synonyms for the
William street statesman the Grow lam
,uage seems especially rich: Big Neck,
Talks Everything, Full Mouth, He Says,
Runs With the Enemy, Old Fell Down,
Big Around, Big Mountain, The Fat.
In expressive proper names the Grows
are far ahead Of their white brethren.