Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — Studies in Names. [ARTICLE]

Studies in Names.

Texas has a newspaper called the The freer Creek,, l.vp Saw is'the name of an Ohio newspaper. Farmer Wheat, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has a son named Buck Wheat. ' Preserved Smith was the name of a prominent gentleman who died 1 eeently in Ohio. The Massachu etts Legislature iscalled “the great and general court,” from old colonial times. The Pqstofliee Department has refused to sanction the naming of post-, offices after Sitt ng Bull and Geronimo. Maj. J. A. Smith, U. S. A., re dinmends the removal of “Pnll-and-he-Damned Point,” Portsmouth (N. H.) harbor. “Old Scratch” is the demon Skratti, who still survives in the superstitions of ,Northern Europe. “Old Nick” is none other than Nicker, the dangerous water demon of Scandinavian legend.