Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-03-14
luNNY Kings or THE CENSUS.


| Singular Dis biIities Reported Queer
Names of Towns and People.
A good many funny things Ina We been
told anent the taking of the 1lth census,
but most of them were based upon the
| experience of the enumeratorS in scCur-
ing the information asked for O,hcr
funny things are constantly cropping
out that are fully as ludcrous, if not
more SO, than those already told
gentleman recently connected with the
Census Bureau has given some of these
to a Washington Star man.
One kind hearted enumerator in
Indiana, with deicacy worthy of en-
ulation, describes lady in his district
as being "deformed in right eye. Every
one has heard coarse and ribald remarks
about eyes whose axis of vision was
ohliQued, but the man from the hoop
pole section struck Il new style,
Another Indiana man mentioned
considerable number of persons in his
returns as Disabled by rum" or
"partially disabled by rum. That par
alyzed the clerks until shrewd one de-
cided that the enumerator reported
rum" as an abbrrviation of rheumat
ism and correspondence proved he was
right.
From Illinois man is reported as
"deaf in his ears. The official was
probably thus particular for fear that
the superintendent might think the
deafness was in the shoulders or knee
joints.
Referring to the "deformity in right
eye, many schedules returned reported
persons atfl cted with "crppled speech
or speech deformed
A citizen of Arkansas raised such a
serious row with an enumerator that
the case was duly reported. The citizen
insisted that he should be reported on
the schedule as "disabed; loss of arms,
because "soMe son of hoss pistol stole
my revolver and bowie when l was
| full. Not so reported.
slime cent Wolf" was found to be the
head of a family at Atchison, Kan,
Indian, of course, and very appropri-
ately named.
There are some very que + names
found in the schedules, and hear are a
few spt c.mcns: Mr.. Coldmorning, of
Indiana, is naturally reported as having
chronic rheumatism. Lizzie Openloch
is not Il lurgIar, but is rheumatic. Miss
CAM e, lives at CGaW louisville. john
Mussulman, of Kansas, is not a Moham-
medan, as the name would apply David
Bonecutter is not surgeon, but a
Kansas farmer Mary Taught is prop
erly TeXos schoolmarm.
Loves Level is in North Carolina and
was enumerated by T. L Love, but
Daniel Great Cupid is reported "crip-
| pied at Georgetown, S. c. Peter E.
G.ngrass, of Marquette, evidently found
d new way to spell peppermint
William Beiseicle, of Utica, came
pretty near being eligible for bicycle
club Charles Handv ork is Pennsyl-
vania shoemaker. William B. Skeleton,
Ohio, has lost one eye; most Of his name
have no eyes at all. Because an Indiana
man is named Cooprder it is not proof
that he is illegally fond of chickens.
Neither is his name proof that Mr..
Morningstar, West Virginia, gels up
early in the morning. Charles Fatman
is in Concord, Ill.
The strangest lot Of names WAS re-
ported from single district in Los An
geles county, Ca .fornia, when in Sc
quence on one sche lule are the names of
James Blue, John Gray, William White.
Edward Brow II, Samuel Green, William
Redd, and Henry BLACK. In two other
districts In the same county the curious
census clerk found the following names
representing the vegetable and mineral
Kingdoms: James Wood, George Ash,
William Tree, Frank Cane, Arthur Pine,
Edward Maple, George Oaks, Edward
Apple, George Vine, Henry Root, James
Glass, Edward Irons, Rudolph Silver,
James Coke Albert Pitcher, and Fred
Steel.
There are queer names of towns and
Villages alsos Boy" ia in Tennessee, as
is Mill Point" in Sullivan county,
which latter seems an appropriate loca-
ton for the next physical argument of
the pride of Boston and the histrionic
art "Caraway, N. c., if there's any
thing ip name, must be seedy, and
Hives, same State, where all hands
scratch for living. Flea Hill. N. G.,
should be very lively place, and
considerable number of inhabitants are
reported defective in mind" No
financier should be in "Short. Tex.
Accident" is not railroad town, though
it is in Garrett county, Maryland
The ignorance of some of the enumer-
ators in regard tophysical conditions pro-
duced some queer results. Here are
some verbatim specimens: Crippled in
side, borned so;" crippled in right leg
and mind," don't know what-had it
for 90 or more years." right weak in
the back" "eye half out; Suffering
from birth;" "only one eye is out" (evi-
IDENTIFY thought the other should beg;
"left hip out of fix; right foot ABSENT"
"losU one right eye" THAT reads as if the
sufferer had whole pJcketful of right
eyes; "stulters in speech; misplaced
hip" Gt should be hunted up; "deformed
in spinal cord;" "eye lost" Gust a' if it
should be advertised foD; cramps"
"mute, speech defective; lost sight of
two eyes" Gust as if there was a bona
fide -four eyed party, and bad case
reported by the sufferer himself as
"chronic rheumatism, left leg, broken
and not well,
A Nashville enumerator reported all
pulmonary cases as "chronic consump-
ton," but he evidently has mistaken
faith in the possible cure of that dread
disease. A doubling PENNSYLVANIA
enumerator reported one case, "cIaims
| To be crippled." and a decidedly UNI