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Show Significance In Names. In nn Illinois town a worklngman flaring been Informed that a sixth baby had arrived at hla home, exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Sulllcietit," and his neighbors, neigh-bors, referring to his having given that name 8u Indent to the 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 lay 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 uphony'B Bake the French for the word was employed, and she ai sailed Marron. |