The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-06
FUNNY CONNECTICUT NAMES.

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Connecticut Yankee ever has
oeen famed as q maker of quaint, keen,
epigrsmmic phrases. The same fatal
gift has expressed itself in his local
names. His odd titles sometimes apply
to school districts and defined regien.
Sometimes to a headland, bay or island,
but oftener to an Indefinite region now
and then marked by Some single char
actsristic, and frequently by NO char
acteristic at all These funny names.
usually without rhyme or reason, fill
the state, and there is hardly town
that has not half a dozen at least.
How common they are let the case of
the single town of Stratford attest
Within it's borders are the following
local titles: Point No Point Goose
Harbor, Ten Cent, Gold Diggings,
skunks Tavern, Wig Wan, HAM
mocks, Tins Bushes, Devils Den,
Honey Spot Lazy Bank and Success
Some Of tho names are a. odd in ETY.
paology as they are in sound. For ex-
ample, there is the "Abrigador,"
region near Waterbury, which, on the
authority of Yale professor, means in
Spanish, little fort" Did ever =
spaniard live there? and if 30, what
was there in the region to justify the
title he gave? is query for the Water
bury antiquarian
Again, net far from West Rock b
Mad Mare hill II sounds as if named
from wild mare turned loose. But
Ats title is, in fact, derived from a
Frenchnan, who loyally named it from
Nine. Mere, referring to the mother of
Napoleon. A year or to ago it was an
nouneed that Rag Hollow in Cheshire
was changed to the more poetic title
Of Spring Valley. Its earlier name
didn't, as might be Inferred, refer to
the poverty of the region, bat to An old
factory whore rags we're used On pol
ishing wheels. Here are some old
puritan first names. CLEANED, for the
most part in ancient Connecticut
graveyard.: Casindana, Darkis. Vo-
diea, Hasideah, Pollycapus, Hope
STILL Wa;tstill, Vienna, Ariotha,
Jahleel Archesa, Voadicea But the
funniest string of Yankee names is,
perhaps, that taken from an old insur-
ance compaay's list At Hartford and
published good while ago by one of
the papers there Here are some OF
then: Biddle Bezgs, Rumsey Rumsey,
AMI S. Popping. Wash HANDS, Derrick
A January, Artemesas Pancake, Pin
Gus Sass, o. W. Hucklsbsrry, a Drink
er. Robert A. Crowbar. Rene Robert,
Hsary Toe Lser, Roger Pantaloon Roy,
ReAection Pepper. Liberty Lamb. Bah
cite Bopp, William Neithereoet Rosa
Delina Briendt Diaochsf DugaR, Cos
mos n. Smoke, Cabbage B. Needles,
Mississippi Joaes Axel W. Binderup
Domains Bitter and Frank n Goody
Kooptz
Here are the names Of districts in
Connecticut. most of them school dis
tr;e.s, copied IN years past from some
official report or other: Above all, Ap-
paauag. Arrowanna, Ballahack, Ban.
gall. Bedlaua. Bitzood, Bokuna- Break
neciz. Bricktop, Buff Cap. Cat Swamp
Chewink. Chicken Hill. CoInpo, Corun.
Dan Den, Devils Backbone. Devils
Eopyard, Dividend. Equivalent, Goose
Lane, Gooslee. Halter Ridge. lsingias>.
Jahbox- Maimanack. Mesbomasick,
Nayaug. Nyumphs. Nod North Brick
Nowyaug. Obtuse Occum- Pa1danaruFn.
Pamaecha. PeaceAble, Psywel Peg
vile. Pick Pimperwaug. Pinch street
PoSppk- Plum TreeA Pitch. PoZwsuk.