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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

At banquet given in Chicago on
Saturday last to John B. Cough, he
told his first experience aspublic speak
er. His first speech was when he
signed the pledge, in a temperance
meeting at Worcester, Mass. His COM
rades snickered as he went forward,
and he, looking them square in the eye,
exclaimed aloud, "What are you laugh
ing ats Do you see that handl (E1e
held it up. 1t trembles. But with
that hand / am going to sign this
pledge, and then you may laugh as
much as you please" A little while
after he attended another temperance
meeting. The Chairman called on him
to state to the audience how he got
along, etc. He rose and said he was
getting on finely, hadn't drank a drop
since taking the pledge; was going to
stick to it and felt happy about it. This
was his f'second public speech. He
soon made another and q longer one; a
collection was taken, aud this, the FIRST
remuneration he ever received for a
lecture, amounted to exactly two dollars !
He was soon solicited to make a stump
tour for Temperance of a fortnight's
duration. He asked and obtained per-
mission Of his employer who was a
bookbinder, to go, with the understand
ing that his situation should be retain
ed for him. The books he had in hand
were just ready for gliding. He wrap
ped them in his apron, turned his back
upon them aud has never seen them
since. He spoke at one stretch almost
every night for a year, and averaged
less that two dollars per lecture.
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Fa.I,,ouabIe Abomination.

Waterfalls were bad enough, hoop
skirts-tilters--are an inventions of the
devil, low-necked dresses are deadly
enemies to mans morals, but with a
pocket full of tracts, and the nerve to
close ones eyes when necessary fell
| low might possibly reach heaven by
running the gauntlet of female fashions.
But the latest freak in the hair-dressing
line ''caps the sheaf." Fancy lard
keg, wrapped about with horse-hair and
lowered with a colored minnow net,
strapped upon the back Of a lady's head
Yet we daily see ladies on our streets
wearing 'em. They think no doubt,
that it enhances their beauty. So do
the Cafir niggers from whom the fash
| ion is stolen. The abominatio1 ought
| to be called ''Caffirs." It's their proper
name. It's an ugly word, and the
thing is as ugly as the word. No pref
ty woman should wear one. Long hair
lin a woman is an excellent thing
ornament than which no other Orna-
ment is more becoming. And to fancy
that which God has given her to be
plated and twisted until it protrudes
from the back of her head like horses
tail plated up to avoid the mnd. It's
enough to make fellow fcrswear the
society of the sex that is fast tending tc
the worship of but one god, and thai
god-Fashion.-LouisvilleJ Journal.
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withdrawing.

AS this is the season for spring neuse-
cleaning, and general "clarin' up time,p
we give our readers recipe for making
whitewash, which we find in an ex-
change lake a clean, water-tight
barrel, or other suitable cask, and put
into it half bushel of lime. Slake it
by pouring water over it, boiling hot,
ndain sufficient quantity to cover it
FIVE inches deep, and stir it in water,
and add two pounds of zinc and one of
common salt. These will cause the
wash to harden, and prevent its crack
ing, which gives an unseemly appear
auce to the work. If desirable, a beau
tiful cream color may be added to the
above wash by adding three pounds of
yellow ochre, or good pearl or lead
color, by adding lamp, vine or ivory
black. For fawn color add four pounds
of lumber, Turkish or Alhefican-the
latter is the cheapest--one pound In
dian red and one pound common lamp
black. For. common stone color, add
four pounds umber and two pounds
lamp-black. This may be applied with
a common whitewash brush,l and will
be found much superior, both in appear
.ance and durability, to common white
wash.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-04-26
A Mixin, Of the Babies

Some time ago there was a dancing
party given Cup North" most of the
ladies present had little babies, whose
noisy perversity required too much at
tention to permit the mothers to enjoy
the dance. A number of gallant young
men volunteered to watch the young
ones while the parents indulged in a
s'break-down." No sooner had the
women left the babies IN charge of the
mischievous devils, than they stripped
the infants, changed their, clothes, Civ
ing the apparel of one to another. The
dance over it was time to go home, and
the mothers hurriedly took each baby
in the dress of their own, and started
to their homes some ten or fifteen miles
of, and were far on their way before
daylight. But the day following there
was tremendous row IN the settle,
ment; mothers discovered that a single
night had changed the sex of their ba-
bies-observation disclosed physical
phenomena, and then commenced some
Of the tallest female pedestrianism ;liying
miles apart, ii required two days to un-
mix the babies, and as many months
to restore the women to their natura
sweet dispositions. To this day it j:
unsafe for any of the baby mixers tc
venture into the territory.
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fpr tie gittIe SoIks.
eeWinR.Achea.

Jessie sat down by her mother to
sew. She was making a pillow-case
for her own little pillow.
"All this p she asked, IN discon-
tented tone, holding the seam out.
'That is not much for a little CIR
who has work-basket Of her own,
said her mother.
"Yes5D though Jessie, '.mother has
given me work-basket and ] ought to
be willing to sew" and with that she
took few stitches quite diligently.
Il have a dreadful pain in my side" "
said Jessie in a few minutes. "My
thumb is very sore" she said few
minutes after. "Oh my hand is so tired.
That was next. And with that she
laid down her work. Next there was
something the matter with her foot,
and next her eye.
At length the sewing was done.
Jessie brought it to her mother.
'.Now, may | 90 out to play " she
asked, in such an altered tone you
could hardly believe it was Jessie's
"Should l not first send for the doc
tor" said her mother.
'The doctor for me, motherT cried
the little girl, as surprised as could be.
Certainly" said her mother; "a
little girl so full of pains and aches
must be sick, and the sooner we have
the doctor the better"
"Oh, mother" said Jessie, laughing,
'they were selOia1-aches. | am well
enough now.
have heard Of other little girls be-
sides Jessie who had sewing-aches and
pains whenever their parents had work
for them to do. These aches and pains
do show sickness. They are symptoms
of sad disease disease which eats
some people up. This disease called
"selfshness." 1t makes children cross,
and fretful, and disobliging, and trouble
some, and unhappy; and l am sure it
makes these unhappy and sad who have
the charge of them.
We hope that none of our little read
ers ever have sssCiag-aehss-Ghi GhiSdrsn's
FT5eHd. ~
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its nest close to a window generally
fastened with a shutter, but which,
whensthrown, back, lay so close to the ]
wall, that its rest was completely shut
in. To prevent this occurrence, i'll
formed little lump of clay, which hin.
dered the shutter from fitting tight to
the WALL and left room for its own
ingress and egress. Jesse recounts the
circumstance of some rats DESTROYING
the bladder fastened over, the nose Of
an oil-bottle, and making free with the
oil by dipping their tails into it and
licking it of. DR.. Pelican saw some
rats engaged in the same manner round
the bunghole of a cask of wine, into
which, if the hole had been large
enough, they would doubtless have fal-
len from intoxication. The same pIin-
ciple was carried still further, and with
an evident knowledge,of the law which
prohibits the occupancy of the same
place by two bodies at one and the same
time, by the dog which threw stones
into the well, and the fox which drop
ped them into the neck of pitcher, in
order to get at the water. Degrandpre
put monkey to the proof by leaving
on table an open bottle of aniseed
brandy, from which the monkey ex-
tracted with its fingers as much as it
could manage to reach, aud then poured
sand in the bottle till the liquor ran
over. Cuvier tells us of an orang -outang
unlocking a door by trying a whole
bunch TIL it found the right key, and if
the lock was too high it fetched stool
and mounted son it. lie Vsliant's monk
ey when tired, used to jump on the
backs Of his dogs for q ride; but one of
them objecting to this mode of treat
ment stood still the moment the mon
key had taken its seat, and thus got nd
Of the nuisance. This reminds us Of
the horses which are run without n
ders IN the Gorso at Rome, and which
are harnessed with loaded spurs, which
goad them as they rue; the older hors-
es having experienced that their own
speed causes the spurs to play, have the
Isagaci.y to stop, leaving the younger
and less experienced beasts to decide
the race without them. These instan.
ces, excited from work which literally
brims over with facts of kindred ma
ture, abundantly testify that those crea-
lures on which man has too often
looked with scorn, and on which he has
heaped indignity and multiplied suffer
Eing, have mental faculties, emotions,
and sympathies, which give them a
claim upon our most tender regard, and
render them equally the subjects of
profitable study and the fit recipients
of human kindness.-Hi5berGs Gerd-
ner's Magazine.
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A Little Nonsense.

A kiss is receipt given on paying
addresses
What ladies are the best to go fish
ing with! Annettea and Caroline.
We admire thunder, but as for light
ming, We were never struck by ii.
As long as a miser lives his money
chest is very sure to be heir-tight.
An Irishman says that a coffin is the
house man lives in when be is dead.
Punch has discovered that perpet-
ual motion is the winding up of cor
porations.
The telegraph cable makes a bed of
the Atlantic Ocean, and pillows of the
two continents.
Why is it easy to break into an old
mans house? Because his gate is bro
ken and his locks are few.
The first part of married life is the
shine of the honeymoon; the rest, too
often, common moonshine.
A fool in high station is like man
in a balloon-everybody appears little
to him, and he appears little to every
body.
"Are you the mate ?" said man to
| the Irish cook of a vessel. "No.n said
he, "but Pm the man that boils the
mate"
The prophecy, "Maay shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be in
creased," is believed to refer to the ad-
vent of newsboys.
"The winter of my life has come"
said Jenkins, as he looked at his white
locks in the glass "Gperceive snow in
the air"
Domestic jars, when concealed, are
half reeoneiled. 1t is double task to
stop the breach at home and mems
nostrils abroad.
Punch considers the pickpocket's
appropriate toast to be ''The And that
can feel for another's pocket hsndker-
chief, and the Art that can prig it with
out detection"
A young lady objected to a negro's
carrying her across mud hole, be-
cause she thought herself too heavy.
''Lor's, missus," said Sambo, implor-
ing, '1's carried whole barrels of sugar"
| A lady asked gardiner why the
weeds always outgrew and covered up
the flowers. "Madam," answered he,
'fhe soil is mother of the weeds, but
only step-mother of the flowers"
A lady seeing drunken man in the
gutter, said she was afraid he was dead.
Pat, who had been near enough to
smell his breath, exclaimed: 'Be dad,
wish 1 had half his disease"
Alex Dumas, Jr., was recently asked,
"How happens it you no longer go into
lcompanyp "Because / saw company
made me more stupid, and / did moi
make company more spnghtly."
An exchange, recording the fall of 8
Iperson into the river, says: at is 8
wonder he escaped with his life." Prem
tice says: "Wouldn't it have been :
still greater wonder if he had escaped
without itl"
"The times are so hard / can hardly
keep my head above water" said
husband the other night to his wife
who was importuning him for new
dress. 'No," she replied, with some
asperlty, "but you can keep it above
brandy and water easy enough"
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A Mare3s Nest.

Z sc. a. R-The Democratic papers
have made a discovery. They say that
the 'halting sign of the G. A. R. is 'han-
die, tear and charge cartridge The
queer combination of commands shows
the Attitude of the Democratic mind in
military matters, If any Democratic
Eeditori in the State viii Tell us what hap-
die, tear and charge cartridge means, we
will agree to tell all we know about the
Columbus Post. rsrr ~r-y-.s :
/ "a short time agothe inDocentsswere
all running wild over a letter. dropped
by some mad wag in the way of Demo
crat, which letter purported to be an or
der for arms upon an ordnance officer p
of the Order. The soldier boys, after
getting all the fun they could out of this,
have sent another letter toThe Enquirer,
The Enquirer don't know right shoul-
der shift from an army flannel shirt and
these miscBieTous fellows have succeed
ed in getting Ito announce the 'halting
sige' as handle, tear and charge cart
fidgeF All the other Democratic papers
published The Enquirer's account with
grave and solemn comment.
at is purely from the most benevo-
lent motives thai we volunteer the IN
formation that these gentlemen are
slightiy-only siightly-mistaken. The
real thsltiug sign is as follows: The
person halting makes the sign of tipping
the csnteen. 1t is then the duty of the
comrade halted to rally by fours. Num-
Der One than approaches Number Two
in quick time marching by flank, in
column doubled 'onsthe centre, at a
parade rest. at aidistence of ten PAGES
he naits and forms a hollow square, ac-
eording to the formula laid down in
Babbags's Logarthms-taking at the
same time the position Of right shoulder
shift atoa charge bayonet. Number
One will then strike three times on a
Base ,Drums when they will embrace
each other by the right of companies
to the reer into column, and wiggle
the little finger Of the right hand, the
thumb being placed against the end Of
| the nose.n Il
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A DELICIOUS DITTY.

A DELICIOUS DITTy.
There was three sailors IN Bristolcity.
Who took boat and went to sea-.
And first with beef and captains biscuit
And picked pork they loaded she.
There vas guzzling Jack and gorging Jimmy,
And the youngest he was little Billie.
Now very soon they were so greedy,
They didn't leave not one split pea.
Says guzzling Jack to gorging Jimmy,
81 am extremely hungarie. eaTg 49,
Says Jim to guzzling Jacky, -,
We've ma provisions. some must eat we." .
Says guzzling togorging Jimmy,
'Oh Jim, what great big foil you be.
''Tbere is little Bill, which is young and
tender,
We're old and tough, so let US eat he."
"Oh, Bill, We are going for to eat and kill ye
So undo the collar of your chimie!Pi
When Bill received this information
He pulled out his handerchie. 81
oh! let me say my catechism T7F
As my poor .nauimy taught to me. ]"
MAKE haste! make hastei Gays guZzllng
Jaekys , 49, i. :
While jim pulled out his snick-er-snee.
So Billy went up to the main-top gallant
mast
| And down he fell on his Bonded knee.
He scarce had came to the twelfth command-
ment,
When Up he jumpsl'Theres land see
There's Jerusalum and Madagascar,
And North and South Amerikee:
There's the British feet a-riding at anchor
And Admiral Nelson, K. @. B"
And when they came 10 the Admirai's vesse,
He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmie.
And as for little Bill, he made him
The Captain of seventy-three.
-Thackerdy
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Foreign Gossip.

Dickens, according to DR.. Mackenzie
of Philadelphia, is certainly coming to
this country. The Doctor adds: ''He
is in treaty with two parties, one in
New York and the other in Philadel-
phia, to come hither toward the close
of the summer, and remain six or seven
months here, giving readings-dramat-
ic readings, they might be called
from his own writings. The idea Of
his New York lessee is that he should
commence toward the end of the fash
ionable season at Saratoga, Long
Branch, and Cape May, and subsequent
ly go through the principal cities of the
Union"
The blind man on the Pont des Arts,
Paris, was recently observed to have
shifted his placard Of ''Pity the poor
blind, &c." from his chest to his back,
and to have turned himself round, as if
intensely gazing into the water. On
being addressed the man turned and
proved not to be blind at all. He ex-
planned the matter by saying he WIS
the intimate friend of the ''psure aven-
gle," who had gone to the wedding of
one of his relations, and begged him to
do duty in his absence.
A woman in Hungary was tried as q
receiver of stolen goods. She had been
Jewess, but few days before her ar
rest she had been babtized as Gatho-
llic. The date of birth runs in Hungary
| from the date of baptism. Therefore
the woman when on trial made the plea
that she was an infant not come to
years of dis cretion, and could not le-
gally be convicted. The intelligent tri-
bunal, after serious cogitation, held her
defence to be a good one, and acquitted
her.
A London correspondent of the
Boston Commonwealth says: "Give
me a Yankee for finding comfortable
seat in Parliament. The other evening
the eye of recognition cast over the
Peers seats might have discovered
Carleton of the Boston Journal, COM
fortably seated between the Prince Of
Wales and the Bishop of Oxford, quite
as much at home-with his dress-coat
and white earvat-as either of them" +"
| A writer from Paris speaks OF meet
ling Partisan coachman to whom mis-
fortune had given curious celebrity
Some time since cancer in his tongue
rendered amputation necessary. This
Ioperation was performed by the surgeon
Iof the Hotel Dieu, who shortly after
wards replaced the lost tongue by one
iof Tndia-rubber. Although he cannot
speak, he tastes, swallows, and smokes
ibis pipe with apparent enjoyment After
eating.he takes out his tOngue--as one
takes out a set Of teeth--to clean it.
and between his repasts he generally
finds it more convenient to carry 1t IN
his pocket.
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The Rev. David d. Field, who died on the
18th inst, at his old homestead, in Stock
bridge, Mass, is the father of three of the
moss prominent men Of the present genera
tion in the United States. The Oldest, aud
his fathers namesake, David Dudley Field,
Of New York city, is recognized as one of the
ablest and most successful lawyers Of the
country. The second son, Stephen 7. Field,
who also chose the profession Oflav, has risen
to the eminence ofthe Supreme Court on the
bench Of which he now sits as Judge The
third, Cyrus W. Field. has won a more uni
versal and permanent fame than either of his
brothers, as the protector and successful exc
fcutor Of the Atlantic Gable. g.
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THE NEW Gas LAVA law has been pass
ed by the Legislature of Ohio, which pro-
vides for the appointment of State Inspect
or of Gas, whose duty it is, either in person
or by local deputies, to inspect all meters and
seal those found correct. The fee for such
inspection is fixed at twenty cents, to bs
paid by the user ifthe meter be found correct,
by the gas company if incorrect, in which
latter case new meter shall be furnished by
the company without charge. After June Ist
next sll meters shall be inspected before
being put up, at the expense Of the company.
On the first o each month, the Inspector shall
report to the Mayer the quality of the gas
furnished, and, ifit fall below the legal stand
ard in quality. consumers shall be entitled
to corresponding deduction in Price.
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Kossuth still resides in Turin. He
has grown permaturely old, and bears
in his person the marks of the cruel
disappointments and yieissitudes which
have marked his life. His hair and
bear, !, which many will remember as a
glossy black, have been for several
years as white as silver; his form, once
so erect, is bowed with grief and suf-
fering, and profound melancholy,
since the death of his wife, with whom
he buried all his hopes, markes his
weole demeanor. But his voice is still
soft and sweet and his eye still beams
with that sad aud tender light which
gave so much of its wonderful beauty
to his. face. He is poor, powerless and
lone,
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The Toledo Commercial tells Of shIewd
robbery committed in that place last week
A boy entered store and asked for the use
of pen to make some memoranda in a
book, and stood by the desk to make them.
A man came in immediately after to look at
some goods. The merchants attention was
occupied with him for few minutes. and
the man and boy passed out Of the store
about the same time The merchant went
to his desk and found missing a roll of bills
containing $500. The boy had taken them
and the man was no doubt his accomplice
The merchant gave chase, but the thieves
had made their escape,
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Sanaan RaSnas.
Silent Influences.

1t is the bubbfng spring that flows
gently, the little rivulet which runs
along day and night, by the farmhouse,
that is useful rather than the swollen
food or warning cataract Niagara
excites our wonder, and we stand
amazed at the power and greatness of
God there as he poars it from the hol-
low of his hand But one Niagara is
enough for the continent or the world.
while the same world requires thousands
and tens of thousands Of silver foun-
tains and gently flowing rivulets that
water every farm and meadow, and ev-
cry garden, and that shall flow on every
day and night with their gentle, quiet
beauty. So with the acts of our lives.
1t is not by great deeds, ike those Of
the martyrs, that good is to be done-it
is by the daily and quiet virtues Of life,
the Chaistian temper, the good quali-
ties of relatives and friends and all that
is to be done.-Albert Barnes.
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A recruit, who was going through
sword exercises, after having learned
the cut, asked how he had to parry the
cuts of the enemy. The sergeant an
swered, "Never mind the parrying
only you cut and let the other parry
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The beautiful should never be out Of
thought. The more piano, the less
wolf, the less dirt It is as right that
bread should be put on the table in a
comely manner as that it should be
Acknowledgment. a7- =
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There is a whole sermon in the saying
of the Persian: "In all thy quarrels
leave open the door Of reconciliation. "
We should never forget it.