Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-11
: COLUMBUS, o., WEDNESDAY, MORNING,
Paraeraphs from the Roston Posi-. ,c,,r

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Paragraphs from the Boston Post.
The prairie chickens are dying of cholera.
Artemus Wards bust sells for guinea
in London.
A Hatght-ful result for Radicals-in Cal
ifornia.l a' o3fi i7ia 7'ot" sa2- lnHHu
Cheese is quoted lively--a "miteyn i'm
pOrtant fact st9T sfs ui e!1i- 4,rCS
-Coek-a-doodle doc! California; U7
Sickles wants a court of inquiry, and pre-
tends injured innocence. 49, -. 80
New York horse ears. run over five boys
week, on an average. iae'qssAs,r,ll.,f's
Why is fire paradoxical ?-Because the
more its coaled the hotter it gets.-[ Punch.
Austrian criminals are to be supplied
with daily papers of government politics
Green Clay Smith is counting upon the
chicken of senatorship from the unmatched
egg of the State of Montana. le' ragr
A statistician estimates that every mar
ried couple may calculate upon 4,l94 3O4
decepdents in about five hundred years.
The Princess of Wales, they say, will
never recover from the stiffness of her
knee. The Prince is also stiff-necked. f
A celebrated Tenor of our acquaintance
is so excessively weak that he is utterly
unable to lift up his own VOICE. Punch
Thomas Moore has sent $40 conscience
money to the Treasurer; but mons a
mon Tor a. that-even Moore so. .,
The Ne,o York Tribune cannot refrain
from assaults. upon Gen. Grant. Here is
its last fling: ''Grant is now no more
than the Presidents clerk. bound to for
mally issue anything that Mr.. Johnson may
direct.n Tnoc s.ft .14aai7 ala.r .1
Ayoung girl of incendiary tendencies
was caught in Cincinnati, and according to
lNn rla ,fa,e,
manner" to having set some dozen houses
on fire. eliT .l iHnt G.,. -f ..r19
Gerritt Smith thinks John Brown had
better not have a monument yet, but wait
until Southerners and all get ready to hon
or the "grandest man of the age" 1t will
wait.
An Enoch Arden affair has occurred in
Pomfret, Conn.,, with the difference that the
Mrs. Arden went back to her first spouse,
and the second one shot her for her incon-
slant constancy. er .-~-a 81 f-.
Buffalo genius advertises that he has
dramatiZed Norwood and copyrighted
his play. Those who wish to know how
Beecher will make the story come out had
better send to Buffalo. i7o.es
The Cuban cable is completed, but the
authorities at the other end are so stuffy
with old-world notions that they won't let
any news be sent until it has become prop
erly stale. t
The train of cars which forms one of the
attractions in sensational drama in New
Y ork, nearly ran over one of the actors the
other evening. 1t took his hat off and
stunned him considerably.
A Jerseyman has invented machine to
tell the number of people that enter street
car or public hall. That knocks s knock
ing down" in the head.-E1.
The Ne,o York Times says the Mayor of
Brooklyn "has about as much power as a
first class clerk in a second class carpet
store" Why not ribbon store? He holds
the reins. 500 H1
A railway accident has occurred in Eng
land by which between forty and fifty per-
sons, of 10th sexes, lost either their top
knots, teeth or chignons. No other dam
age.
The Lo,oeU Courier should not start upon
its new and, we have no doubt, prosperous
career with the falsehood that reputation is
Democratic plank. Neither Reputation
nor agrarianism obtain Democratic favor.
The New York correspondent of the Lon
don Times says General Grant is at once
the hope and the dread of the Republicans"
Rather an anomalous position for Ulysses.
Another trouble with the English style
of railway carriage is, that guards of a Gu
rious turn of mind climb along the top and
peer in at the passengers. One of them
who was thus watching gentleman and
lady, was crushed under bridge for his
impertinence.
A young German girl recently eloped
from New Jersey with a gallant Teuton
youth and 5000 of her mothers money
The police found the loving but unwedded
couple the other day, just on the point of
sailing tor Europe, and all was made pleas
ant by marriage in the police court, the
parental blessing and a return bone.