The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09
SOME FUNNY NAMES
FOUND IN CONGRESS

Every two years there is a turn Of
the congressional wheel and a new lot
of names appear in the house and
senate. There was an unusual num-
Der of changes wrought by the over
turn at the last election. Many Of
the old favorite names are missing
from the rolls of the new 66th con-
gress. IL Is a significant fact that
the proportion Of English names is
steadily decreasing and the number Of
"outlandish" names increasing.
Nevertheless the Smith family, as
usual enjoys proportional representa-
tion and heads the list. With eight
Smiths, not to mention a Smithwick,
congress should do very we'll. The
Johnson clan in this country are fast
gaining on the Smiths, and we see
this reflected in Congress, where they
have six statesmen to represent them.
There are all sorts of sons-three
wilson's, three Watsons, three Mel
sons, two Robinsons and a Robson,
two Dickinsons, two Thompsons, two
Sandersons, two Harrisons, and one
each of the following: Denison, Vim
son, Tilson, Benson, Anderson, Clas-
son, Knutson, Stevenson, McPhear-
son, Wason, Hutchinson, Brinson,
Emerson, Stevenson, ChristOpherson,
Henderson, Culberson and Swanson.
The trades are not so plentifully
represented in congress as formerly.
Still there are three Taylors, two
Kings and one Chamberlain, two
Pages and Gard, a Barbour, a Por-
ter, Fisher, a Sheppard, a Miller, a
Wheeler, a Gambler, a Collier, a
Weaver, two Fullers and a Dyer, a
Parker and a Raker, a Mason and
finally Capper.
The trees and fruits are also dis
appearing and they will probably
soon become extinct, for all there are
left are an Almon, Box, an Ashurst
and a Pomerene-if we can picture
this last as an "exotic fruit" as the
New York Sun imagines it is. The
men of color are likewise not so much
in evidence as formerly. There are
three that are Green and two that are
White, a Black, a Brownie and one
that is just Browning.
Even the birds and animals are
growing scarce. There are two Mar
tins, an Eagle and Robbins, an Elkins
and a Whaley, a Griffin, Bee, Colt
and Curry and a Carter There is
Fordney (this must be short for
Ford-jitney) and 'Lankford-but no
Ford, unless Henry wins his contest
over Newberry-which is now very
unlikely.
There is a Ruby and JUL, Sterl-
ing and a Goldfogle; an Ellsworth,
Wadsworth and a Longworth;
Treadway,a Caraway and Jacoway;
a Cummins, Hastings, Gallivan, a
Crago, a Wingo and an Igoe-take
your choice of methods.
Astronomy, meteorology, etc. are
but poorly represented this time. All
we have on hand is a Moon, Moon
ey, two Raineys, Cleary, two Sum-
mers, Fall and Mays. The nations
are conspicuously on the scene, and
we have in this line a France and
French, Britain, a Scott and an Ire
land. and also a Holland. There is
Hoch, but no Kaiser.
The war is scarcely limited at in the
new membership. There is still
Cannon and a Ball. one Major and
Shields. But there is something sug-
gestive of combat in Welty, Dent,
Madden, Booher and Gore. The hir-
suite art is represented by VanDyke
and Chindbloom. There is Dunn.
a Lever, Begg,a Smells and an owen.
The personal attributes of the
membership of congress are still APP
prOpriate. There are three that are
Bland. only one that is Wise, and
one Wright; two that are Strong. one
Small, one Little, one Good. one
Sweet and one Luce; one Young and
one New; one that is Hale and two
that are Hardy; besides one that is
Gay and another that is Crisp. We
have Boies and one Mann in the halls
of congress; also various other kinds
of men" including an Alderman, an
Overman, Tillman, a Pittman,
Stedman, a Freeman, Hersman,
Zihlman, a Sherman and a BlackmOn.
"Hams" are still plentiful enough
namely Benham, a Beckham, a
Tinkham and Dillingham;; also two
Graham and one Hamill. There is
also Kitchin and a Garrett; a Rose
a Penrose, Garland and a Fernald;
Cars and Carlin; a Warren,
Ward and Lodge; also Bowers,