SOME FUNNY NAMES.

The " General Registers of Births, Mar-i riages, and Deaths " kept in Somerset House disclose a number of striking combinations of Christian name and surname, some of which are ingenious : — Front Name t Surname* Front Name. Surname.

Bfcher Spray Smith-Follows Smith. Foot 'Rath Orange Leraraon Pascal.; Lamb Colonel Sergeant River Jordan Ever Virtuous Sanders Morning Dew Eoso Shamrock Anthistle Christopher Corpse Mily Miles Mills Overy Offspring Dear Thomas White Hatt Of these, " Rose Shamrock Anthistle," at any rate, is good for a daughter of the United Kingdom. Christian names of the more ambitious kind are plentiful. A son is named "Arthur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo Cox"; another " Napoleon the Great." A labourer calls his daughter " Lady Elizabeth.'' There is an instance of a hereditary knighthood or baronetcy formed in this manner, where a father, " Sir Fiancis " Howard', registers his son anew' as I'Sir Francis." Charles Hassall, described ' on the register as a medical herbalist, and presumably as anything we please in real life, comes to his son's assistance with the front names, " Doctor Jervis St. Vincent Beresford." The son of " Horatio Nelson " Baker is named "Ewart Gladstone." Jewett, a parent of sporting proclivities, registers his child " Edward Byng Tally-ho Forward." An innkeeper's son is "Robert Alma Balaclava Inkermann Sebastopol Delhi Dugdale." A long name bestowed by a Chartist on his daughter is "Fanny Amelia Lucy Ann Rebecca Frost O'Connor Douall Luck Holberry Duffy Oastler Hill." "One Too Many," and " Not Wanted James " are the titles of unfortunate children. "Is it Maria" discloses a parental mystification answered, in the case of the other sex, by "That's It, Who'd Have Thought It." " George Henry " is subsequently prefixed to this absurd string of derivations, The wife of Thomas registers ' her son 1 as " Young Thomas," and James Stewart calls his son "Young James Gorston." The daughter of John Buckingham Smith is christened " Laughing Waters" (sic), which later gives way in the " certificate " of naming " to "Minnehaha." "Richard Coaur de Lion Tyler Walter Hill " is a further instance of pompons names. - ; Stillborn children are not registered. Yet

a child, is entered as having di.ed[.j,gedi(%, few" seconds."' A- singular entry is 'that of "a™ child registered, without name, 38 ;of "sex | unknown." < ;>.; >. ■'(* ; ! Humour is.less .rampant in the sphere ofmarriage entry. Erriily Walton, however, is wedded to a .husband" called " Tighil ma qual O'Temerah Hope de Hindley Tamer." In the register of marriage a dolumn is set aside for the " condition " of the.parties, whether they be spinster,- bachelor,- widow, or widowers : One bridegroom is described as" fat/ the bride as ] "somewhat lean:" Theecclesias*ticptesuinably j I responsible for this entry is yet f nferusted with the care, 0f ,.470 Souls' j and as his waggishness occurred half a century ago, we may believe he has long since chanted an appropriate palinode. : I Among deaths, Riohard < Toohair issimi- ! lariy described as a " living "skeleton." . The occupation of a man deceased, is given as "" P^issionist." • A schoolmaster at Knighton, in the Principality, dies of "political stroke;'? this, too," as early "as .1839. Here is a coinci-; dence which perhaps yields to an ill-natured explanation } two officials of the same parish , —one rate^dolletitor, • the other overseer—; .make away with themselves in .the 'same week. Births show a more notable coincidence where two children of the same family are born on leap-year day --one -in' 1868, the other in 1880, . Many parents, usually of the lower middle elassj find pleasure in giving their children a plurality of names'. Brown, a clerk in the Income Tax department; calk his.* daughter Sarah . Jane, Mary Ann • Emma Elizabeth Caroline Isabella Eliza Martha. Catherine Matilda Evelyn Margaret Rosamond. This string is. sufficiently lengthy ; but. Sarah-". . . Brown is outpaced. by the 26 titles borne by the daughter of Arthur Pepper, a laundryman, whose- girl's - name is one of the longest, if not the very, longest, in existence: Spread out its entire length it runs — Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Portia Quince Rebecca StarkeyTerezaD lysis (sic) "Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus. She has a name for each letter of the alphabet, and her names, with the exception of surname, which, of course, is last, are in alphabetical order. She was born in 1883, and, if she has . not subsided under the weight of her christening* she may be yet with us.— Saturday Review.