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Show NAMES OF TENNESSEE TOWNS. M BBBBBBBBj Many Appellations Taken from the ') H Good Book. K H When it came to naming her towns H TennehHee did not forget tho Oood M Book. She put mi Ark lu MclgB coun 'f H ty, a Noah in Coffee, a CoiihIh in Cum- H berland, a St. John and a St. Luko In ( M Jackson, a Joshua bore and a Caleb H there, here an Klljah and there a Sam- . M uel. Huth and Naomi wero not for- H gotten, and two Ebenczera wero raised H up, onu in Knox and one hi Hum- "' H phreya conrTty. t H But TenncKseo did not lay too much fj jH RtrcKS on scriptural names. On tho '"' H other hand, looking at the map ono '' M may readily ascertain that In tho num- H lug of her towna Tennesseo played no H favorites. From mythology sho ob- H talned Juno, Venus, Vulcan, Bacchus, H Diana, Hercules, Neptune, Olympus M and Delphi; iroin Shakesf 'are Romeo EmI and Othello; from the Greek alphabet HH Alpha, Beta and Omega; from the H ehureh Methodist, Baptist, Priest, H Pope, Friar and Tabornaclo; from the H family hearth, Mamy, Bud, Aunt,' H Home and Family; from tba pocta M Dante. Milton and Homer. Indlannp- H oils Stnr. |