The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
NAMES IN JERSEY.
.e ne THE TOWNS THAT MAY BE
FOUND IN EVERY ATLAS.


the Applications
.0tner states may be bigger and
.;obey and turn in heavier vote, SAID
the man with the woodbine w WINS e
,winin,g gentSt about his face but for
',o,nr.soueness of nomenclature New
Jersey takes the gold medal.
uVon re from Jersey, SIR suppose,
so;d the man who had just come in
from the smoking car.
~ am. sir, aud I'm proud OF it. L
oor,e in on this train every day TO busl-
MSS in the city, and i'll my leisure mo-
.Ments makSa study of the geography
g NV native state l may say, sir-I
INT I may say with contdence-that
so,, mon are so well informed as / upon
This interesting subject of New jerseys
Geographical nomenclature. You OBJ
serye sir. that l say New Jersey, not
J.rsev. which is an undignified behead-
ing of q noble title.
POSSIBLY it is because I'm New
Yorker" said the man across the aisle,
lint have always thought New York
% he pretty strong on interesting
names.
"A great error, sir, F" declared he of
the whiskers. "a very great error.
yorr names are mainly corrupted In
diou titles or direct cribs from ancient
davs-Ithaca, Marathon, Utica, Homer,
Virgil, Syracuse, Sempronius, Moravia.
Rome Cato, Palmyra and score OF
others. You have borrowed the glories
that should have been buried with
greece and Rome. Our titles, sir, are
dug up from the soil and replete with
meaning. Let me cite some. "
Here he pulled small notebook from
his nocket, and the other man, with
repretful politeness, said he would be
glad to learn something on the subject
Consider, sir, " continued the jersey
ite. 1.-The appropriateness of such names
as Ragtown, Breakfast Point, Camp
Cav. Polihy, Radix, Pluokemin. Pock-
town, Tillietudelum and Succasuna.
"Some of them sound familiar, said
the New Yorker, "but are all OF those
real names?"
Every one of 'em on the map, sir, "
replied the other warmly. III give
YOU 500 for any one of those that isn't
a real place, and they fairly reek Of
the soil. Now. here's another batch
Bone Hill, Wickatunk, Bamber, Atco,
Wollyfeld, Blue Anchor, Blazing Star,
Hockamick, Jahokeyville, Oney's Hat,
Kalarama, Flyat, Flickerville, Zings-
EN-, Wakeake and Batsto F"
"They sound as if they were taken
from Jabberwocky, remarked the New
Yorker. They're utter nonsense.
Taken straight from the country
side " averred the geographer. "They
may not be very strong on sense. Those
names | cite merely as instances of pure
beauty Of sound If you re looking for
meaning, / can give that to you. For
instance there are Barley Sheaf and
Wheat Sheaf, POLITICALLY suggestive OF
the agricultural riches of our beautiful
state Our domestic animals are COM
memorated III such fitting titles as
GooSetown, Hensfoot, Hogtown, Mon
keytown, Horseneck and Peacocktown,
while for other animals there are Skunk
town, Pole Tavern, which used to be
Polecat Tavern; Postertown (if poster
ain { a wild animal | don't know what
Isl, Snake Hill, Turtletown, Frogtown,
and | don't know but what Batsto
ought to come in there The frogs get
another show at Manunka Chunk,
which is the name they gave it them
selves, singing of nights out il the
swamps.
Now, for the temperance folk there
are blazing signs of warning in such
names as Whisky Lane, Gin Point, jug
town and Bum Tavern. There used tc
be an innkeeper in the latter place, by
the way, who sued the authorities once
year for maintaining such a title and
always compromised for cents, with
which he bought himself drink and
was well satisfied. One year the authori'
ties started in to fight the case and the
lnnkeeper in disgust quit the business
and Bum Tavern simultaneously. A
place with suggestive title is Naugh
night, which got its name from large
farm owners sign, nailed on a tree al
the roadside, No right of way here.
They got calling him Old No Right
and when the village sprung up they
Nu ~ aileI DlLl, Dut u man VIII nat
spelling reform the wrong way made j
as 1t now stands. Speaking of spelling
there's one village you can spell eithel
packnack, Pacquanac, Pequanao Of
pequannock, but you can't pronounce
IL as the natives do, no matter which
way you choose
There are some names more sug
gestive than beautiful-Scrabblet
Sciapetown, Shutdown, Samptown ant
solitude, for instance. Some belle thei
names, like Recklesstown, which is q
peaceful as graveyard and in tn
same general line of business, keepinl
aus inhabitants buried far from the care
Vi TINS busy world. Then there's Round
ABOUT which is plain four corner
crossing, and Small Lots, with nothing
Out wide stretches of countryside. A
ior fellettville, I've heard that Their
Nn drug store there, but can { swea
as 10 that, not having been there TO
many years.
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