The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-21
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Pos10FFlcE TITLES
MANY NAMES RANGING FROM
THE susIuNE TO THE
RIDICULOUS.

Many Troubles Designations
which Fit statesmen, Heroes
ideas and Localities. curiesisies
Galore.
There is a great deal about post
ofices and their names which is OF
local and general interest that the
public has no idea of" said clerk In
the Washington City postofice to g
star reporter.
For instance. there are twenty-one
Offices bearing the name of Star in
the United States. four Starlights and
one Star of the West, the latter office
in Arkansas
.Old Sol is immortalized by seven
ofsces named Sun, four Sunbeams.
one Sunbright, ten Sunrises. sixteen
Sunsets four Sunlights. while they
look on the Sunnyside of life in TWEEN
ty-one States. The Sunflower blooms
officially in three States, Sunfish
swims in Kentucky, the glorious eli
mate Of California is typified by Sun
land, the Sundances in Wyoming,
while the Sunny South is to be found
in the south in Alabama only The
pale MoR CLEANS in five States, Mars
wrinkles far away in eight States.
Venus modestly smiles in the una
lucky number thirteen, and Jupiter
reigns in but three The blind-eyed
goddess of Justice holds the scales in
but four States.
3 q Statesmen and Others.
Senator Hanna is popular in post.
Office nomenclature. His first name.
Marcus, appears in ten States, his
middle name, Aurelius, in three, and
his surname In SIX There Is but one
William. in West Virginia, but there
are seventeen McKinleys. There are
five Benjamins and twenty Harrisons.
All of the Offices named Cleveland
were not named after the former
President. but some of them were.
and there are. thirty two of them.
The people seized upon his first name.
however, for there are fourteen Gro
vers.
The name of Lincoln appears in
thirty-three States. Grant in twenty
three, Garfield in twenty-six. Hayes
in nine. Buchanan in twelve, Jeffer-
son in twenty eight and Jackson in
twenty Eight. OF the eight organs,
some may have been named after the
late presidential nominee, while the
poet Byron has eighteen namesakes
'sHobson. of kissing fame. has nine
omces named after him. There are
eight Simpsons, sixteen Schleys, nine
Mileses, ten Skaters, and Of the
present and recent members Of the
cabinet there are seven Algers. eight
Longs, two Roots, twelve Cages. three
Grigges. two Hayes, eighteen Days.
eieyen Greshams, fourteen Bissel.s
and eleven Smiths.
Former Senator Hill is well re-
membered in four Davids, nine Ben
netts and fourteen Hills. There are
fourteen Hobarts. Arkansas has hon.
ored Senator Pettigrew by giving his
name to an Office There are seven
teen Wellingtons, but they are not
named after the Democratic Senator
from Maryland by any means.
Curious and Senseless Names.
Some of the names of postohlces
are funny, and others absolutely
senseless. In the latter class may
be included Ola, IA. All. Egs, Ho, Noe,
Uno, Jeb. Z;f, Ally, Igo, Ost and Void.
There Is an ODE in Texas. and four
teen Joys, but no Full. ALE. C. is the
name Of a postofiice in Tennessee.
and o. X. in Kentucky.
ITO my mind the funniest name in
the United States for a postoflice is
Jennings Ordinary in Nottaway Coun-
ty. Virginia The Office of Next. in
West Virginia. is not large enough to
support barber shop Nickle Plate
is appropriately found in Ohio and
Rawhide Buttes in Wyo-
ming and Roch A Cri In Wisconsin
they have some Clever people In
Missouri. for that name appears only
In that State William Penn may be
addressed in both Pennsylvania and
Iexas-
"A Kansas man would be indignant
II you called him Jay. lingo. Jonah.
Jumbo. Bison. Block. Buffalo. Bush
ong. Conductor, Crotty. Dewdrop. Fox.
Guy. or said that he was smeared
with Yerdigris. as he would feel CON-
II you said he was q Gre
70. Keats or Washington, with his
pockets filed with Coin and Wise |
look of Success upon his face, even |
II he did spout Gas. Kansans have
named towns after their former Sen
ators. Ingalls, and PETER
Multiplicity Of Similar Names
There are over one hundred ofices
with the prehxes San and Santa. AS
with Saint. 500 with West. $50 with |
North. 500 with East and 600 with
South These are big figures and II is
not surprising mail miscarries- I'm
der the present rules Of the depart