QUEER NICKNAMES

Lake County Press, Issue 1063, 7 May 1903, Page 6

QUEER NICKNAMES

GIVEN TO CELEBRITIES. The longest nickname over bestowed upon an individual was that given by Sir Walter Scott to his friend and publisher, John Ballantyne, who had a most pompous and dig oirled manner. It in a name one would not care to be called upon often to pionounce— Aldi boron tihoßCophornio. Sir Walter himself had a Beore or more of nickname;, of which two of his best were a Homer of a poet, and the Wizard of the North. We are so accustomed to hear George Washington referred to as the Father of his Country that it perhaps does not occur to us that he had other nicknames—all mopt complimentary, as is nuite right. The Atlas of America, the Flower of the Forest, and Lively (J corgi us are among a few of the dozen names bestowed upon him by admirers. Shakespeare had thirty-one separate and distinct sobriquets given him, of which among the complimentary ones was the Swan of Avon, and one not ho flattering was The Upstart Crow. Alexander Pope's friends called him the Little Nightingale, and his enemies, an Ape. LIKRNED TO ANIMALS. Among celobrated people who have been likened unto animals and birds are are Uobert Southey, the Blackbird; Percy H. Shelley, the Snake ; Voltaire, the Ape of Genius ; the Devil's Missionary was another one of his pet names Cardinald Wolsey was the Butcher's Dog and the Mastiff's Cur; Virgil, the Swan of Mantua. The Beet of Cut Throbts was a title given to the Duke of Wellington. Nor were the names given Oliver Cromwell of the choicest description,for example—a Glorious Villain, Immortal Bebel. a Copper-Faced Saint and His Noseship. The Nightmare of Europe was Napoleon Bonaparte; Tiddy Doll, God of Day, and Father Violet were some of his other nicknames. Thomas Carlylo was l)r Pessimist; Duute called himself the White Flower, because he had been bent by the frosts and whitened by the tun. Of effeminate names bestowed upon differ ent people, there is Schoolmiss Alfred, a title givon by Bulwer in his poem, ''The New Timon," to Alfred Tennyson. Edmund Spenser was Mother Hubbard, and Richard Cromwell, Queer Dick. NICKNAMES FOR WOMEN. The woman upon whom the most complimentary, epithet has been bestowed was Jane Austin, called the Shakespeare of Prose. The White lions of Uabv was Cecily, the mother of Edward IV. Mary Queen of Scots was the White Queen, because she diessed so much in white. The White Milliner was Frances Jennings, sister of the famous Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. When reduced to poverty Bhe set up a small shop, where, dressed in white, with a white maak over tier face, she eked out an existence until some of her relative* came to her asßistauo*.