WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 244, 3 February 1875, Page 3

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Moses Coit Tyltr registered his name the other day in a Saratoga hotel, when a Brooklyn man wrote ueder it: Tilton Coit Bdecher, too. A New Yorker was introduced to a Cleveland gentleman, and not hearing his name distinctly, rema ked . “ I beg your pardon, sir, but I didn’t catch your name.** “ But my name is a very hard one to catch,” replied tbe gentleman ; “ perhaps it is the hardest name <ou ever heard.” “ Hardest ime I ever heard ? I’ll bet a bottle of wine that my name is Harder,” replied the New Yorker. “ All right,” said the Cleveland man ; “ my name is Stone —Amasa J. Stone. Stone is hard enough, isn’t it, to take this bottle of wine ?” “ Pretty hard name,” exclaimed the New Yorker, “ but my name is Harder—Norman B. Harder—and I bet my name was Harder.” The joke coat Mr. Stone just $27 87. The Rev. Dr. Scattergood is registered at Dr. Strong’s. He is a first-class man to sow the seeds of truth. Deacon Gaaiam, of the First Presbyterian Church in lock Haven, is sojourning in Vandam-streci. The Lock Haven Republican says : “ When the minister wants the collection taken up, he often remarks, * Deacon Gaudam, you please pass the plate.’ ”