The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
SOME ODD NAMES.
Curious Specimens or NomencIa-
 Iure Among Pensioners.
Some of Them Are Strongly Suggestive of a Tendency to Lunacy on the Part of the Persons Who Sug-
 gested Them.


 This is a big country and there is a big variety in the names its residents carry through life with them. No bet ter opportunity to get an idea of the oddities in family and given names can be had than at one of the treasury branches, where cheeks from all parts of the country come in, and none of these offices get wider range Of nov cities in nomenclature than the sub- treasury in Cincinnati, says the Com mercial-Gazette. The subtreasury does a tremendous business in pension checks, and some very curious indorse- ments appear upon the bits of paper, which, as matter of fact, give more conclusive evidence than do the ma jority of the other financial docu- ments sent in that the ways of the American christeners are past finding out. A collection of some of the curi- ous names under which persons no doubt manage to lead respectable lives has to include those of a good many Indians, but the most novel of their ti- ties are fully matched by some of the appellations of whites. The colOred brother, too, is 10 doubt responsible for his share of the queer names.
 As to the pious aatecedents of Chris tian Scripture there should be no doubt, and Christian Bible should be equally above rcproach. John the Baptist Theophilus Ploof can do no less than live up to his name. while Anna Ketchabaptist may find in hers re- hinder of some old family romance. Abel Cain has to thank Biblical sources evidently for the way he writes his au- tograph. Christian is a favorite. There are Chr5stian Canary and Christian Gall, while Christian Finger also figures in the list. Lizzie Barefoot, Charity Tom, Peter Menagerie, Clean Berry, Brazil Pepper, John Duck, Blillie Drake, John Chicken, Rose Cardinal, Winter Green, John Roselip, Joseph Goodpasture, Eliza Stonccipher, Amelia A. Turnipseed, Sandy Beard, Bad Temper, Adam Apple and Pleasant Ladd offer examples of rather curi- ous combinations. There are others which are still more unusual. Lone Liar. for instance, is certainly an od- dity. George Washington Ananias sug- gests an incongruity. So does Temper ance Runy, while Day Knight and Au- gust Blizzard are not far behind. Smith Corns, Lean Redman, c. ". Heavy stride, Daniel Death, Henry Fivecoats, Birdsong Crow, Henry Pancake and Fred Coldsnow are all names to attract attention on a signboard. Geography was evidently respected in the family of Tennessee Texas Bowman, while patriotism must have assisted in the selection of America Cannon, America England and America Patrick. Adam Skunk would naturally ask to have his name spoken with the accents in the right place. Welcome Home is Q pleas ing title, while there issomething curi- ous about the sound of Seneca Sly and Betsy Bump. Ripus Upthoback should run no danger of having his mail de- livered to somebody else. James Nee essary, James Walllingsticll, L. W. Cashdollar, Peggy Way, Mary Tickle, Elizabeth Scalp, uugh Hash, Simon Pure, Edward Daddysman, Diamond Stone, Peter Pence and John Unsold are certainly far from common names. Madison Square and Asbury Park should be well known and popular.