Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — Australian Names. [ARTICLE]

Australian Names.

"Nearly all my friends,” remarked an Australian the other day, according to an exchange, “call me a ‘Cornstalk.’ I’ve quit correcting them long ago. , “Now, as it happens, the term should only be applied to the people of New South Wales. They are the tall, slim blokes, who look as though you could break them in two between your finger and thumb. I come from the

colony of Victoria, where we are known by theatlll more unattractive sobriquet of on account of our- grsat'fofbsts of blue gum trees, “Queensland is in the tropics, and its inhabitants are called^’Banana Eat-’ era.’ The Bouthi Australians are called" ’Crow Eaters,’ Because in times of. drought the natives aYe sometimes' duced to the use of crows as food. West Australia occupies nearly half of our island continent, and nine-tenths of. its area consists of hot and arid desert. For that reason • the nativeborn colonists are known as ‘Sand Gropers.’ ' ■ “So, call me a 'Gumsucker’ if ypa like, hut never a ‘Oprnstalk,’ and 4he next time you grant to apply a nickname to an Australian ask him from which colony he comes.”