The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29
WHAT'S In A NAME
OVER IN ENGLAND THERE ARE SOME WITH A COUPLE
OF ALPHABETs OF LETTERs-oTHER
FREAK CoGNoMENS

birth of a son. He gives his name and
that of the mother, Rose q.
How do You spell nladarae's name,
with cy, ay, al, or ale y
repeated the storlt's latest victim.
The official got mad He thought the
citizen was fooling, until the happy faith
er proved. by his wife's birth certificate
that Rose B was all the name she had
before marriage.
IS the name of French village
in the Department of Somme, also that
Of a large Chinese city and of the Ia
nous gulf west or Amsterdam.
is the name of flourishing Swed-
ish town. A small French village is
likewise content with that appellation.
while one of the largest Chinese prov
inces is called 81 -
A respectfully dressed citizen of Fairs
was arrested the other day for throwing
stone into show window. When
questioned he said he did it to secure
a name for himself. Here IS his explain
alton: While under age he went by the
name of his mother, who had died IN
giving him life. When he achieved his
majority his guardian announced that he
was the son OF a rich Partisan aTistocrat
TO whom his mother had been secretly,
him to retain his mothers name, as it
involved bIenish on her memory, yet
the young. mans alleged father secured
an order from another Judge prohibiting
the boy TO take his name. Being now
nameless he cannot obtain employment
IN France, where one needs an arsenal
of legal documents 70 get any kind of a
hearing. The case is still undecided
A German paper tells of the highly
odoriferous names of three village officials
III the Circuit of Merseburg. they are,
in the order of their proprietors' rank
(franslated) Parsley (the Mayor,
Onion tine pastor) and Garlic (the
teacher).
The late Field Marshal General Won
Moltke told the writer that one day.
while inspecting the Tubingen garrison,
he asked a soldier: What is your
name p
Meyer, Your Excellency,s answered
the man.
And what is your name, my son?"
queried the Marshal, addressing the
second man
Meyer. Your Excellency.''
And yours p
Meyer, Your Excellency''
Its to laugh, cried Moltke, much
puzzled, but let's see, what IS your
name" addressing the fourth man.
.Lachmeyer" (Laugh- Meyer answer
ed number four; the Field Marshal stop
ped asking.
The writer recalls curious play of
names in an Idaho murder trial The
criminal. who was shown to have MUIR
dered his wife cutting her body to pieces
was named Hacker He was hanged by
Sheriff Cord, and the two men appointed
by the Court to keep Hacker under OBJ
servstien day and night were named
Lock- and hey respectively.
In recent hearing in petty larceny
case in small town near London the
Judge, Prosecutor, thief and the police
man making the arrest were all named
Harrison.
: Berlin barbors so many people named
Schulz that the police established separ-
ate archives of that branch of the, Ger
man family. According to last accounts
10000 Schulzes of different degree live
in the Kaiser's capital
Superstitions in names? The discus
sion developed many other curious facts
on the subject Of names. For instance,
in England it is popular notion that all
females of the name of Agnes are fated
to become mad. This is in line with the
singular fact that all Queens of Naples
Of the name of Joan and the Kings of !
Scotland of the name of James have
been unfortunate, while reference to an
cient history shows that all those of the
family of Caesar who were surnamed
Caius. persisted by the sword
Novel readers will be interested to
know that, 10 give authority to the SPLEEN
dor of his diction, a French writer, whom
we all love, by the name of Giez (beg-
gar) assumed the name of his estate
and became Balzac.-London Cor Pitts /
burg Dispatch.