QUEER NAMES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 254, 10 July 1926, Page 22

QUEER NAMES

Thc “Youth’s Companion” recently published a paragraph in which were enumerated some extraordinary and authentic proper names culled from British records of theiday Among them per' haps the most peculiar was that of Mr. Jolly Death. Either . Mr. Death is now an aged man or his name has been inflicted in its entirety—certainly that cannot be another Jolly Death outside the family—for well over a balf-ccnturv ago Mr. Death figured in an earlier collection of queer names, together with his brother. Which of the pair bore the most startling and undesirable cognomen it would be difficult to decide, for if one Death was frivolously named jolly the other was ominously christened Sudden! Other

curious names from this earlier list Included those of a twin brother and sister, Mr. White Lamb and .Miss. Gentle Lamb, and of a second pair, Miss Emerald Green and Mr. Meadows Green. There were also Air. Abel Seaman, Mr. Prince Royal), and Mr. Handiman Carpenter, and Hie Misses Lovely Rose, F.airv Glenn, Tina Darling, Pussy Catt, Nctta Fish, and Abvavs Young. Perennial vonth was also wished upon their daughter in n form even less attractive bv the unwise American parents of oor little Notsovery Olde. Other American oddities of personal nomenclature collected from newspaper notices during the last five or six years include, for cirls. the names of Wistaria Vine, Gav Bird, Lucky Starr, and Friskie Foote.