Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1877 — Hard Names. [ARTICLE]

Hard Names.

We wonder if a Turkish postal guide would give us so many odd names of places in the same space as are given in the list of postoffices of the United States, to be found in the October number of the “ United States Official Postal Guide.” We note such choice specimens as Orodelfan, Ni Wot, East Paw Paw, Teutopolis, Wild Cat, Verdigris Valley, Slaughter, Wagon Wheel Gap, and similar specimens of nomenclature, purely American.