The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-02

at, considering her name, and yet she
has not wished to change 1t.
Not so with a Boston Norwegian
| Chat is, he had been naturalized In
the hub of the universe, having given
up the north cape for good), who app
| piled to court to change the name he
! had then chosen. Kruse was he born,
| but Crusoe was he naturalized, and
| Robinson being the first name he found
/ the combination tiresome. About the
same time John Henry Thirey, OF Long
| Island City, regretted that he had his
| youngest cl1ristened Frederick Cook
| Thirey, and he had that altered
| though the boy became John FL, Junior
land not Robert Peary.
| And apropos of names, 1t was CO.
incidence, surely, that New England's
! first successful aeroplane. The Flying
Fish" should have been taken up by
Mr.. Herring as pilot, and that Miss
/ Elizabeth Hurry of New York city,
should, last April, have married Law
renee Swift. The brides father, by the
| by. is senior partner OF Hurry & Gal
| lup, lawyers.
Then, when Edgar Allen Poe argued
| a case before Oliver Wendell Holmes,
L
preme court chamber seemed set back
several decades. But that is the name
OF Counselor Poe, of Baltimore, and of
Associate Justice Holmes, of Boston,
and the pedigree of each is as direct
as can be.
Finally, under this head, recent is
sue of the Egyptian Gazette, of Cairo,
Icarried the account of a marriage
Howe Strange 1t was, rather.
Cairo and London, Norway and
Sweden, have not been the only for
eign sources for queer" news this
year, by any means. Tarsus, In far off
Asia Minor-the native city of the
Apostle Paul-has lit it's streets by
electricity; subject of King George
V. has chosen to accentuate his 10y
atty to the new ruler of Great Britain
by having the royal likeness tattooed in
many colors on his bald head, with
the union jack for background, and
possibly, strangest of all, in a land
where next to everything Is ''verboten'
self confident German has stopped
the Berlin Stuttgart limited express
in full career, that he might run back
and find his false teeth, which had
when the good soul had a fit of sneeZ-
ing.
The Partisan contribution came, In
a March happening, when a certain
merchant sought a divorce from his
, wife on the grounds that she had beer
, praying to "St Exterminus" Q) to fill
the mind of Nine. X with a sole desire
of getting rid of M. X; CD to impe
, M. X. to leave his wife; 90 to possess
t her own husband with a wish to be.
t stow upon her (the lady of the petit
t tion) a handsome allowance; and, fin
: ally (of course), to unite her to M. X
1t took the court a week to decide tina
a legal separation was justified.
t New Jersey has always been almos
: as prolific as Kansas in it's peculia
, doings, and the last few months hav'
. proved no exception to that rule. Fo
4 a thief to return a stolen pocketbook
with its $11 untouched, the whole &C
3 companied by a contrite apolog.
s (Which was what happened at New
$ field in the spring might have takel
= place anywhere, though it's not al
: everyday sort of occurrence, after ALI
= but where else in the wide world coul
r a member of sleeping household hav
g been awakened by buzzing mosquit
n to find out that the building was aflre
8 That was the experience of Charlie
Browson of Beverly, as told by tn
e morning papers of Sept. 10.
!. 1t was left to Jersey, too, to set tn
n hardest of all questions asked appli
}, cants for positions as enumerators.
e ran: How would you classify chill
d born on the high seas of Frenc