The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-07
SOME ODD NAMES.
Curious Specimens Of Nomencla-
trlre Among Pensioners.
Some of Them Are Strongly Suggestive of
a Tendency to Lunacy on the Part
of the Persons Who Sug-
eeSted Them.

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This is a big country and there is q
| 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 checks from all parts
| of the country come in, and none of
these offices get wider range of nov
elites in nomenclature than the sub
treasury in Cincinnati, says the Com
mercial-Gazette. The subtreasury does
| tremendous business in pension
checks, and some very curious indorse-
mehts 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 curl
Gus names under which persons no
doubt manage to lead respectable lives
has to include those of good many
Indians, but the most novel of their til
ties are fully matched by some of the
appellations of whites. The colored
brother, too, is no doubt responsible
for his share of the queer names.
AS to the pious antecedents of Chris
tian Scripture there should be no
doubt, and Christian Bible should be
equally above reproach. John the
Baptist Theophilus Ploof can do no less
than live up to his name, while Anna
Ketchabaptist may find in hers q re-
minder of some old family romance.
Abel Cain has to thank Biblical sources
evidently for the way he writes his au-
tograph Christian is favorite. There
are Christian Canary and Christian.
Gall. while Christian Finger also figures
in the list. Lizzie Barefoot, Charity
Tom, Peter Menagerie, Clean Berry,
Brazil Pepper, John Duck, Mile
Drake, John Chicken, Rose Cardinal,
Winter Green, John Roselip, Joseph
Goodpasture, Eliza Stonecipher, Amelia
A. Turnipseed, Sandy Beard, Bad
Temper, Adam Apple and Pleasant
Ladd offer examples of rather curl
GUS combinations. There are others
which are still more unusual. Lone
Liar, for instance, is certainly an od-
dity. George Washington Ananias sug-
gests an incongTuity. So does Temper
ance Rumy, while Day Knight and Au-
gust Blizzard are not far behind Smith
Corns, Lean Redman, c. w. Heavy
stride, Daniel Death, Henry Fivecoats,
Birdsong Grow, Henry Pancake and
Fred Coldsnow are all names to attract
attention on 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 pleas
ing title, while there is something Curl
Gus about the sound of Seneca Sly and
Betsy Bump. Ripus Uptheback should
run no danger of having his mail de-
Hvered to somebody else. James Nee
essary, James Walkingstick, L. w.
Cashdollar, Peggy Way, Mary Tickle,
Elizabeth Scalp, Hugh 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.