The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-12-07
Stissotlngs.


B-Those who attain any excellence,
commonly, spend life in one common pur..
suit; for excellence is not often gained
upon easier terms.
B-Serenity of mind is worth nothing
unless il has ben earned. A man should
be at once susceptible of passions, and
10 subdue them.
EA man may be learned without talk
ing sentences, as in his ordinary gesture he
discovers he can dance, though he does mot
cut capers.
CoNUNDRUM.-Wby is a married man
like a candle! Because he sometimes goes
out at night when he oughn't 10.
BrTaxes in Califoria, for State, county,
and city purposes, are % $50 on the $500.
1t is we'll lhati is the land ofgold, otherwise
people would never be able to pay such
enormous taxes
MAssAcHusETTs.-The returns oil, the
election in this Stale show no choice Tor
Governor, but the Wings having carried
both branches of legislature, will elect a
Wing Governor. The new constitution
has been rejected BY a large majority.
BA character should retain ALWAYS the
uprigh, yigor of manliness; not lei itself be
bent and fixed in any specific form II
should be like an upright elastic tree, which
bends, accommodating a little 10 each wind
on every side, but never loses its spring
and self Independent vigos.
q" Do You believe in second love
Mislher McQuade!"
ADO | behave in second love? Humph
if a man buys a pound of sugar, isn't i
sweet! and when lis gone, don't he want
another pound! and isn't that sweet too
Tfoih, Murphy, | believe in second love-
pDon't attempt too much. knlvcI
that contain nine blades, four cork-screwi
and a bool.jack, are very seldom brough
into action and for this reason, in attempt
ing 100 much, they become 50 clumsy AM
ponderous, that men ofsmall patience can
" ge, the hang Of Them.
TWe need a better direction of hu
man talent and Christian enterprise. Ou
lyrics are Of war, pleasure, strife, partisan
ship. They should be of Cod and human
ily, peace, freedom, purify, love. Go
asks Tor every faculty of man as his owl
and claims dominion over every sphere {
life.
wFrom the way in which man som'
times talk, you would suppose that dollal
and cents are the only respectable things
the universe, that successful speculation
the only true heroism, and that the hof
Of making twenty per cent. profits enoug
, 10 bestow dignity upon meanness itself.
, D'The Board of Equalization has adoT
$ ed the appraised value Of Franklin cou
f.; ty as the standard from which 10 make
. reckonings. 1t will nov proceed with Il
, counties in their alphabetical order. Adam
, county has been passed and its apprals'
, value accepted as correct. -
|, VALUATION OF REAL EsTATE.-ln 1874
/ the valuation of real estate in Ohio, for Ia
alton, amounted 10 s475,O00,0O A 7
=. valuation has been made this year. III
| returns are nearly all in, and the total W
reach $500, 900 900. This is an increa
/, of S325, OOO, 900 in six years-or near
8 76 per cent.
/, CuRRANT BUsHEs.-Prunc Currants
$ the winter 10 have them large; keep d
heads open, and the root clear Of sucke
! and superluous shoo,s {; give a good dre'
, ing Of manure in the autumn, a, least on
every two years, and keep the grou'
clean and loose around the plants ill all
the fruit is ripe. This is something Id
the way to obtain large and fair fruit.
a DrThe number of persons who ha
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