How Children arc Named.

Evening Star, Issue 7386, 5 December 1887, Page 4

How Children arc Named.

“ I sec by the papers,” said an official who registers the births in the bureau of vital statistics, “ that the President comments on the number of babies that are called Grover Cleveland those days. That must be out of town. Here in New York, where we came across the name in the birth certificates almost every day two years ago, it is now a rare thing to meet it. If it is any indication of popularity, Cleveland stock has gone way down, I register at least five times as many Henry Georges as Grover Clevelands. Three years ago any number of James G. JJlaines*came along, but now we never see them. I suppose if Mr Blaino was to be nominated next year again, he would have another boom. These things run in streaks. For a while after the President’s sister took charge of the White House, half the girl babies of New York were called Rose Elizabeth ; but now i)lus Rose is out of fashion. Singularly enough, there never was any run on Mrs Cleveland’s name. Frances, pretty name though it is, never had a boom in New York.—‘ New York Sun.’

The promised American edition of the ‘lllustrated London News- has madp its appearance. In ail essential respects it is a reproduction of the English paper- Its pictures are printed from duplicate blocks, and its reading matter is, wo understand, re-set from proof-sheets. In other words, the paper is the ‘ Illustrated London News,’ save and except that the mechanical work on it lias been performed in New York.