The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-03
An Interview With
the City Directory
of Birmingham. &c
What's In a Name?

and one Furnace. To four Roofs, and
I seven Walls, and there are four caves
and three Gables, and alas. seven Leakes
The twenty Wells have but one Pulley,
while there are two Nails to drive and
five Gates to bang. We are supplied
with fourteen Keys for four Lockes and
one Latch, so we can lose several with
out missing them.
Among the useful articles count our
nine Brooms, six Whetstones and three
Whips. For furniture, there are Couches,
! Davenports, Curtains, Cushions, two PIE
| lows, and five Sheets-nothing else I'M
| less imported recently
The Zoo.
| With so many Parks, the City Fathers
should certainly establish a Zoo, and put
into 1t all our Bears, Beavers Ducks. Bull
locks, Crabs, Foxes, Harts Hares, Herds,
Kids, Colts, Hoss Cobbs, Lambs, Seals,
Stages, Rabbits, Roes, Roebucks. and
VOLTS.
In the fishponds, we could have Bass,
Trout. Salmon, and Herring. and for the
aviary, there is already on hand a fine
assortment of Crows, Herons, Cranes,
Finches, PARROTS, Partridges, Sparrows,
Swans. Wrens, Martins. and DAVIS with
one Fowl and thirteen common Birds.
Also one Duck and one forlorn Gosling.
These have but one Claw among them,
and one Marble.
From Vegetation.
The handbooks gotten out by the Com
mercial club say the Birmingham dis
trict" has a fertile soil which produces
great variety of crops" and the directory
bears them out. 1t asserts that right here
in the city we are raising Cotton, Hay,
Wheat, Corn, Oats Tea, Rice, Pepper,
Coffee, Lemons, Beans, Hops, Ivy, Moss.
Berrys. Rasberrys, Figgs, Nuts, Pippins,
Rambows, Leeks Mullen, Brushes, Roots,
and Seeds. Note especially that we have
Turnipseed, though not on the market so
far as ! know. In addition we may place
upon our table home grown Bacon, Bunns
and Wine, while we decorate the same
with Ferns and Flowers. Bunches of
Lavender, Garlands of Vines, and Pos
eys of Roses and Lilleys
Nor are the woods or Birmingham all
pine and scrub-oak. Within the city
limits, there are eight Ash three Birch,
one Beech one Buckeye, three Cherry,
five Chestnut, two Pine, one Cypress, one
Logwood, one Willow, one Locust and
two Crabtrees.
Nationalities.
The most of us are Americans but 9TH
err countries have some representation.
Among us are nineteen Brittians, five
English, two French, one German, one
Germany one, Finland, nine Holland,
thirteen Norman, two Moors, six Welsh,
seventy-five SCOTS, three Scotch, and one
Turk.
OF the old Romans one Caesar and
two .Catos remain.
Nor. have all the patriarchs departed.
Eve is still here, and a widow at that
/ although there are eighty Adams We
have Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Cain and
Abel, Moses and Aaron
All the Presidents are represented, ex-
vept Van Buren,. Fillmore, Garfield and
Roosevelt. The list is as follows: Wash
! ington, 16 (all colored but one); Adams.
so; Jefferson, 8; Madison, 5; Monroe. IS;
Jackson, 1872; Tyler, 8; Polk, s; Harrison.
AZ Taylor 11S; Pierce, 20; Buchanan. 16;
johnson, 276; Lincoln, 1; Grant, %; Hayes,
Is; Arthur, 8; Cleveland. II; Mckinley, A.
1t is significant that Bryans ratio has
risen over the Roosevelt zero mark. 1t is
eighteen to none
Our Affections.
In spite of our thigh calling" we have
our Affections, like common mortals. We
have twenty-one Burns to three Heals;
seven Hurts, five Falls, three Fears, one
Cut, four Fits, one Flood, one Fate, one
Punch and ten Duns. We must bury
our one Grief in two Collins and nineteen
Graves. There is Badham and three Pills
to take! To offset these, we have three
Joys, five Blisses, seven Peace, one Pride.
one Pardon, seven Loves and three Heav-
ems. Some of us are afflicted with names
as well. viii you trade with any of
these?
Babbs Dabbs. Bulbs, Bllups, Bittskleit,
Chew, Clack. DePiano, Hoots, Jeeter,
Rack, Hacker Lumb Ody. Padkervac-
ky. Pappageorge, Quirouette, Rogowski,
Rummage, Scaccia, Schietzr. Schllceci,
Schiveicard, Schor Schmuck. Schnepfe
Schweinebraten. Schweinfurth, Shoes,
Skapporchi, Skaters. Strategecas, Threat
Three, Thrift, Thum. Tigs, Tuggle Tye
Utz, Upshur, Winds, Wimbish, Wimp
Wunsch, Wing, You, Zeh, Zetroner, Zivitz
Zoves, Zwald, lyme, or the six whose
names are Dennis.
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