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Show Significance In Name9. In an Illinois town a orklngraan having been Informed that a sixth baby had arrived at his home, exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Sufficient," and his neighbors, neigh-bors, referring to his having given that name Sufiicient-to the new-arrival, new-arrival, credited him with originality. The Incident resembles a case nearer home, adds the New York Tribune. A New York family was blessed with nine daughters, when the stork brought a tenth one. It was in the days when the slang term for an oft-told oft-told story was a "chestnut," and as the baby certainly came under that head she received the name, but for euphony's sake the French for the-word the-word was employed, and she was called Marron. |