There lived in Greenfield, N. Y., a certain Captain Parasol; and, at Niagara Falls, for a time, a Methodist minister named Alabaster.
I have lately heard of a Mrs. Achilles, a Mr. and Mrs. December, a John January, and a Mr. Greengrass; and of an Indiana girl, at school in Cincinnati, named Laura Eusebia Debutts Miranda M’Kinn Parron Isabella Isadora Virginia Lucretia A——p.
In 1874 one of the young ladies at a certain convent school in West Virginia, was Miss Claudia Deburnabue Bellinger Mary Joseph N——p.
The following are names of stations on the “E. and N. A. Railway,” New Brunswick: Quispamsis, Nanwigewank, Ossekeag, Passekeag, Apohaqui, Plumweseep, Penobsquis, Anagance, Petitcodiac, Shediac, Point du Chene; and we should particularly like to hear a conductor sing them.
LADIES’ NAMES.
Their Sound.
There is a strange deformity,
Combined with countless graces,
As often in the ladies’ names