Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-03-18
ODDLY NAMED TOWNS
QUEER TITLES THAT DOT THE MAPS
OF UNCLE SAM.

This nomenclature REGULARITY IL
Not Confined to Any One Part OF the
Country, but Lends Itself Impair
TALLY to All Sections.
The names Of some towns in the Unit
ed States probably cause their inhao-
itants considerable vexations when
away from home, says the Chicago
Chronicle. These names have certain
peculiar meanings in everyday talk ana
as soon as they are mentioned they are
upt to prompt troublesome questions
bv funmakers. For example, the man
from Alone, Ky, might have to ex-
plain to stranger living in New YORK
how he could do business If he were the
only inhabitant and how the excise
laws were enforced If the barkeeper,
the topper, the policeman and the magls-
trate were all one and the same ana III
case there were more than one person
In Alone If all were bachelors and ola
maids. Citizens of Lonely, \. G., ana
Lonesome, KY, would encounter much
the same sort Of questions. and all, OF
course. would finally be asked If they
were once Jersey commuters.
II man hailed from Affinity, n. o.,
he would naturally be supposed TO De
married and his home life an unpunc-
tuated chapter of bliss. He would be
expected to wear as wide smile as the
citizen of Joy or Happy, Tex, or Para
disc. Colo, with q temper as subdued
as the inhabitants Of Purity, MINI.
What would happen, however, II the
man from Affinity should meet man
from Peace. Ala, would, indeed, be
problematical. They might, after the
fashion of some westerners, boom the
merits of their respective towns Win
such ardor that at last these representa-
tiyes 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. ]. On the other hand, they
might become as chummy as the towns
men OF those three towns in the states
Of Colorado. Oregon and West Virginia
which all bear the name of Crook.
ANY one coming from Eye, n. &.
could hardly expect to join the New
York police force and find things con
genial. If he was q native of Lax
Ala. or Blind Bay, La, on the con
trary. his duties as a metropolitan blue
coat might prove congenial. If he sale
he was from Sodom, O.. he would mos
likely be told that his own town mus
need his services more. If he replied
that II didn't he might be recommend
ed to try to get a position in Pluto
Miss.
Near the Greene river In hentucK!
and several miles south OF Lewiston
there is a town by the name OF ZIG
II has never been recorded in any MS
tory of the United States whether IN
characteristics Of the people of Pig ar
any different from those Of the peopl
of Lamb, ILL.,, or Chickies, Ia. 1hls
certainly to be regretted. 1t woul
certainly be interesting to know If tn
worthy burghers Of Pig are any NOR
happy and contented than other huma
beings. whether they have such Ills a
insomnia, nervous prostration or me
encnolia; whether there is any sale
Pig for appetizers, and what the goo
people do on Fridays.
Should a woman from Big Foo
Tex. or Antiquity, o., advertise for
husband 1t Is safe to say she would n'
get as many answers as woman frol
Beauty. w. Va. The man who maize
from jug. Ala, might have more Oh
fculty in being elected to the Wnr
Ribbon society than his contemporal
from Dry Town, Cal. The native
Magic. Ala. would no doubt be we
coined by certain Wall street Office
where a citizen from Fairplay, WIZ
would find the door shut. Should II
woman from Alamode, Ca, or Fas
ION Ga. meet a woman from Jay
Vile O.. the two might get into such
controversy that at the end they wou
both be believed to be natives Of Loo
evville. n. Y. The citizen Of toss
Ore. unlike the citizen Of Quick, Mel
would no doubt feel very much
home in Philadelphia, and for mu'
the same reasons the representative
Fact. Kan, would find congenial
mosphere in Boston. Vegetarian
should 90 to Grass, S. D.
ANY one might think that Ice vi
would become q more popular SUNNI
resort than He'll Hole, Colo a Ju
made I'D Of men half Of whom we
born in Japan, Mo, and the other hf
IN Russia, n. Y, would be pretty su
to disagree. At any rate, they Won
not call in a man from lingo, Tenn, I
q peacemaker Should the girl trc
Ieapyear, Tenn, become dissat1sh
with things at home there Is little ua
ger of her settling in Bachelor, MlC
Neither would the man from Lang
Mimi. think of moving to jump, y.
A man may travel from Dan to Be
sheba nowadays and think 1t We
short journey. There is Dan IN III
lucky and Beersheba over the line
Tennessee. Neither Is the trip frC
London to Pekin long one IN
limited States Ohio contains both
Pek,n and a London, and it is not
long Journey from Whisky Butt
Mont. to Seven Devils, Ida.
Deserted Their Towns.
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