The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-24
QUEER LONG NAMES, THE
MEANING OF OTHERS, AND
ENGLISH SUPERSTIT|ONS
Hawaiian Postmaster Whose Sig
nature Consists of Twenty
Three Letters.
WELSH JAW-BREAKER
That Looks Like Printers ,"Pi, "
and Cannot Well Be Pro-
nounced.
"a" IS A SWEDISH TOWN
Marvellous Strings of Titles in
Spain-A Won Moltke Incl
dent Retold.
H JAW-BREAKER
"A" IS A SWEDISH TOWN
peciaI Correspondence az the journal.

Special Correspondence of the Journal.
LONDON, April 14.-Al London is laugh.
ing at Uncle Sans new postmaster in the
Hawaiian islands, the Honorable David
Kaphokohoa kiniokewenoah, but 1 turned
the tables on a hilarious crowd of Brit
ishers to-day by quoting from their own
postoffice directory some names, compared
with which, that of David looks like q
mere play on vocables and consonants.
Uncle Sans new postmaster sports
twenty-three letters In his signature
tried to count those in the following name
of a Wales village, half a dozen times
but gave up in despair This is the way il
looks in print:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Observation-Disclosures
obwllllandisiilogogogo
In the Queens English that means
Church-ofSt. Observation-Disclosures
of-the -hazelnut, near the -wild-catar-
act-and-holy-D isilio-in- the-neighborho
the-red-cavern. but how the name is pro.
nounced in the vernacular. only the LORD
and the Welsh people know. other Brit.
ish subjects steer clear of it, unless an at
tack of lockjaw makes excessive use OF
vocal arrangements necessary. Needless
TO say, the British postmaster genera
abbreviated address. Llanfair Will do, II
you have friends in the place.
One patriotic Britisher, harping on the
above fact. insisted that Wales and Scotch
names do not count anyhow, inasmuch as
they Were the devils own work. Ouoth
the learned gentleman: when all the
people OF the earth had acquired their Ian.
guage. the devil procured the vocabularies
of them all and put them in big pot. He
stewed them well, over sizzling fire. anC
finally collected the scum at the top, AND
IL Cfr fAIrf tod N-a1n lon a
That is the way these unfortunate coun-
tries got their language so badly mixed.
A SCOTCH POSER.
Scotland certainly owns some names
long and complicated enough to excite the
envy of Uncle Sans new postmaster
Here follows that of village on the Is
land of Null, Argyleshire, Scotland.
Drimtardhriyckhillich
To discover the meaning. your CORE
spondent was unable AT this writing bu
the place is down in the postal guide sure
enough. The discussion brought up the
subject of proper names, and there beine
a learned company, some interesting anC
not a few humorous facts developed
Nowadays Spaniards indulge in the
longest personal names. though small-frN
German royalty runs them Il close second
a story was told of Spanish grandet
travelling in England, who, having lost hi:
ways late at night, knocked at the door Of
an lnn asking for lodging.
The innkeeper came. and without open
ing the door. asked: Who is there, anC
what do you want?"
Duke of - and the Spaniard rolled
off a title of sixty syllables, for he hap
pened to speak English very, Well
Sorry, replied the innkeeper, with
drawing, Il haven't room for so man,
folks" He went to bed again, while tn.
proud Hidalgo sorrowfully started for tn,
next town.
The list of oficeholders in the Spanish
Ministry of Finance carries copyist Will
most imposing name. The man would
think himself in heaven, L reckon. if n,
received as many dollars per month as h,
has letters in his signature, to wit:
Don Juan Nepomuceno De Buriona go
malosarela "a -Glazvecha.'
a Spaniard in the party explained Dor
Juan, he said, is a grandee. and accordin.
to custom, includes in his name every vii
lage and palace which his family may hav,
owned during the last five of ten cen
stand that once upon time Spanish
ambassador refused to dine with an Eng
lishman named John Cuts.
John happening to he one of Queer
EliZabeths most opulent subjects. Bes
appointed him to lodge the Representative,
of the King of Spain, during his visit il
England and to make him welcome at hi
great house. But the ambassador objected
thinking himself diSparaged by the short
ness OF his hosts name, and when Eliza
beth insisted. he replied that he coult
not imagine that man, bearing a mono
syllable name could ever In the great al
phabet of civil life have performed any
thing great or honorable enough to entitl,
him TO the dignity of playing host to
Spanish noble.
If Elizabeth had short-named friend
those of the Protector INDUCED appella
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