The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-29
TOWNS WITH ODD NAMES.
Inhabitants of Them Suffer Whe
AWAY From Home :.

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i @ Away From Home.
The names of some towns in the
United States probably cause their in
habitants considerable vexations when
away from home These names have
certain peculiar meanings in everyday
talk and soon as they are mentioned
they are apt to prompt trouble
some questions by fun-makers, for
example, the man from Alone, Ken
4 lucky, might have to explain to a
stranger living in New York how he
could do business If he weres the only
linhabitant, and how the excise laws
were enforced if the barkeeper, the
topper, the policeman and the magist-
rate were all one and the same, and in
case there were more than one person
in Alone. if all were bachelors and old
maids. Citizens of Lonely, N. c.. and
Lonesome, KY would encounter much
the same sort of questions, and all, Of
course would finally he asked if they
were once Jersey commuters.
If man hailed from Affinity N. c.,
The would naturally be supposed to be
married and his home life an unpunc-
ltuated chapter of bliss. He would be
expected to wear as wide smile as
1.-THE citizen of Joy or Happy, Tex, or
j Paradise, Cal, with a temper as sub
ldued as the inhabitants of purity,
MINI. What would happen, however,
i If the man from Affinity should meet
4 a man from Peace, Ala, would, indeed,
be problematical. They might, after the
fashion of some Westerners, boom the
merits of their respective towns with
! such ardor that at last these represen-
tative of Peace and Affinity would
come to blows They might at last
develop as much disrelish for each
other as the citizens of Cream, Wis,
who should chance to take dinner with
a citizen Of Caviar, N. j. On the
4 other hand, they might become as
Bchummy as the townsmen of those
three towns in the States Of Colorado,
Oregon and West Virginia. which all
bear the name of Crook.
i Any one coming from Eye, N c.,
Icould hardly expect to join the New
York police force and find things con-
genial. IL he was native Of Lax,
Ala, or Blind Bay, La, on the con-
Itrary his duties as metropolitan
bluecoat might prove congenial Il
The said he was from Sodom, O., he
z would most likely be told that his own
ltown must need his services more. II
] he replied that it didn't he might be
recommended to try to get position
lin Pluto, Miss.
Near the Greene River in Kentucky,
land several miles south of Lewiston,
there is "a town by the name of Pig. 1t
-, hi
tory Of the United States, whether the
characteristics of the people of Pig
tare any different from those Of the
lpeople of Lamb, Ill. or Chickies, Penn,
This is certainly to be regretted. It
Iwould certainly be interesting to know
Eif the worthy burghers of Pig are any
more happy and contented than other
. human beings, whether they have such
, ills as insomnia, nervous prostration
, Tor melancholia, whether there is any
lin Pig for appetizers, and what the
lgood people do on Fridays
Should woman from Big Foot Tex,
J or Antiquity, o. advertise for a hus-
: band it is safe to say she would not get
i as many answers as a woman brom
Beauty, w. Va. The man who hailed
} from Jug, Ala, might have more diff
Ificulty in being elected to the White
, Ribbon Society than his contemporary
J from Dry Town, Cal. The native of
Magic, Ala would no doubt be welcom-
, ed by certain Wall Street officers
/ where citizens from Fairplay, Wis,
: would find the door shut. Should the
woman from Alamode, Ga, or Fashion,
tGa, meet woman from Jaysville, o.,
1.-THE two might get into such a con-
: ltroversy that at the end they would
] both be beloved to be natives Of
Looneyville, N. Y. The citizen Of Fos-
/ Esil, Ore, unlike the citizen of Quick,
} Neb, would no doubt feel very much
lat home in Philadelphia, and for much
, the same reasons the representative
, of Fact, KS, would find a congenial at
! mosphere in Boston, Vergetarians
!, should go to Grass, s. D.
i Any one might think that Ice, Ga,
. would become a more popular sum-
mer resort than Hell Hole, Col. A jury
lmade up of men half of whom were
lborn in Japan, Mo- and the other half
in Russia, N. Y, would be pretty sure
to disagree. AT any rate, they would
not call in man from lingo, Tenn,
for peacenaker., Should the girl
from Leapyear, Tenn, become dissat-
isfied with things at home there is lit
tie danger of her settling in Bachelor,
Mich. Neither would the man from
Langor, MINI, think Of moving to
iJump,O.
A man may travel from Dan to Beer
sheba nowadays and think it a very
short journey. There is Dan in Ken
lucky and a Beersheba over the line in
Tennessee. Neither is the trip from Lon
don to Pekin a long one in the United
| States. Ohio contains both Pekin and a,