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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-11
Artemus Wards Threshing
Machine.

Ny wife's a exceedingly practycal
woman. | luv her muchly, however,
and humor her little ways. It's recklis
false hood that she beupecks me, and the
young man in our naborhood who said
to me as l was distendin my diafram
with gentle cocktail at the village tay-
ern-who said to me in these very lang
widge, $50 home, old man, onless you
want another teapot throwd at you by
B. j." probly regrets havin said SO. l
said, "Betsey Jane is my wife's front
name, gentle youth, and | permits no
person to alood to her as B. J. outside
of the family circle, of which l am it
principally myself Your other obser-
vations | scorn and disgust, and I must
polish you off," He was able-bodied
young man, and, removin his coat, he
inquired if l wanted to be ground to
powder? said yes, if there was pow
der grindist handy, nothin would ford
me greater pleasure, when he struck
me painful blow into my right eye,
causin me to make rapid retreat into
the fireplace. l hadn't no idea that
the enemy was so well organized. But
I rallied and went for him in rather
vigrist style for my time Of life. His
parents lived near by, and Twill simply
state that fifteen minutes had only
elapsed after the first hit, when he was
carried home on a shutter. His mama
met the sollum procession at the door,
and after keerfully looking her offspring
over, she said, "My son, see how it is
distinctually. You've been foolin
around thrashin Masheen. You went
in at the place where they put the grain
into the thingamyjig and let the hosses
tired on you, didn't you my son! 2" The
pen of no Twin orthur could describe that
disfortunit young mans starvation more
clearer. But l was sorry for him, and
[ went and nussed him till he got WE'LL
His regular original father had been
absent to the war. l told him I'd be
father to him myself. He smilt a
sickly smile, and said I'd already been
wuss than two fathers to him.
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A Wonderful Story.

Quite wonderful story has been
going the rounds about two children
having been born near Crestline, with
serpent's heads. 1t now turns out that
the story was about as near true as al
such stories generally are. A woman
living near that place, says the Bucyrus
Journal, having taken dose of fopium,
fell into fitful dose, as everybody does
after such doze. She dreamed-quite
naturally remarkable dream which
was so vivid that it seemed to be abso-
lutely true. She saw two children born
who had serpents' heads, and went his
sing and crawling and swapping about
the floor of the room. She told her
dream with great earnestness to several
of her neighbors-said neighbors told
it with whatever additions fancy sug-
gested, until the story got into the news
papers. And 1t as true that tie woman
dreamed it.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-11
The sweet soup.

Once upon time there was a poor
but pious little girl who lived alone WITH
her mother, and when my story begins
they had nothing in the house to eat
So the child went out into the forest and
there she met with an old woman, who
already knew her distress, and who pre-
sented her with pot which had tbs
power:-if one said to il, 'Boil, littIs
pot" it would cook sweet soup; and
when one said, "Stop, little potw t
would Immediately cease to boil The
little girl took the pot home to her mo-
ther, and now their poverty and distress
were at an end, for they could have.
sweet broth as often as they pleased.
One day, however, the little girl went
out, and in her absence the mother SAID:
"Boil, little pot" So it began to cook.
and she soon ate all she wished; but
when she wanted to have The pot stop
she found she did not know the word
away, therefore, the pot boiled, and yer4
quickly was over the edge; and as &
boiled and boiled the kitchen presentlF
became full; then the house, and The
next house, and soon the whole street
1t seemed likely to satisfy all the world
for, though there was the greatest me-
cessity to do so, nobody knew how g
stop it. AT last, when only very small
cottage of all tthe village was left uQ.
filed with soup, the child returned, and
said at once, ''Stop, little potw I'M
mediately it ceased to boil; but whoefs
er wished to enter the village must est
his way through the soup.
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A Startling Statement.

At a recent meeting in Brooklyn, N.
Y, to agitate the project of erecting an
asylum for the inebriate, in that city, a
note was read from Rev. Mason Gala
ger, stating that there were 20, 900 inc
briate women in Brooklyn. A part Of
the letter WAS rs follows:
see by the report of the Binghamp-
ton Asylum that only sixty-seven cases
had been treated there up to last
spring, and yet it was said at the last
State Temperance Convention that over
one thousand young women of respect
able families had applied for admission.
Ex-Mayor Hall has stated that we have
in our vicinity thousands of women con-
firmed inebriates. If these statements
are true what great need for more than
one such institution.
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A Lion i'm his Old Age.

When young lion reaches the age
of two years he is able to pull down a
horse or an OK; and so he continues to
grow or increase in strength until he
reaches his eighth year, and his talons,
teeth and mind are perfect and hegrows
no more. For twenty years after he
arrives at maturity his fangs and talous
show no signs of decay, but after that
he gradually becomes feeble, his teeth
fail him, and he grows "cubbisli." He
is no longer match for the tremend-
Gus buffalo, he is over matched even
by the peaceful OK; so he prowls around
the cattle krawls, and snatches lamb
or kid just as be did when be set out
with bis parents, nearly thirty years be-
fore. A woman or child at night shares
the same fate. His strength and sight
now decline more and more, till the
mighty lion grows weak and NANCY,
and crawls about from place to place,
eating any ofal he can pick up, and de-
spising not even 80 small an animal as
the field mouse; so he starves and dies,
or is fallen upon and slaughtered BY
few cOwardly hyenas; or, discovered
unable to move beneath a tree, and
knocked on the head by some wander
ing hunter.
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Miss Fannie Paine, who is but thir-
teen years old has since May last per-
formed the duties of paymaster in the
Eagle Works Manufacturing Company,
in Chicago. In eight months of this
year, she will have paid out quarter OF
a million dollars, keeping the time sheets
and pay rolls, and aprivate account book
with and for each of the three or four
hundred men employed. She receives
the money weekly from the bank to the
amount Of $4,000 to $4,000, carries the
transaction of paying all the men thro'
and settles and makes her balances with
the cashier. She knows every man in
the establishment, the force divided into
eleven departments, each having its re-
sponsible foreman. She commands a
salary of $25 per annum, takes two
music lessons each week, and attends an
evening course at a commercial college,
where she has scholarship.
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SnnSan BaSinas.
s.self sacrifice.u

Is it a doctrine of denial, of crucilizs
ion, of asceticism? Is it doctrine Of
loss Indeed it is not. 1t is doctrins
of gain. In word there is no such
thing as self sacrifice in the vulgar sens.
1t is impossible for man nobly to lose
himself Itis impossible nobly to throH
ones self away-to give ones self 10
the world for nothing. He cannot %
it. The return inevitably comes in. He
gets most who gives most He. who
goes out of himself little way for oth.
ers, finds all others thronging in to HIN.
Thus Christ gave all he had for mankind
and mankind have been washing his
feet with tears ever since. He left bis
soul out through spear wound, and
the adoring millions of Christendons,
have been crowding through that spea7.
wound as if it was the avenue to TEN.
pie. Self denial, pure self denial for Ioys.
is but self assertion on a higher plane.
Self remuneration. is self demanding,
You refuse tripe, because you wish am.
brosia: you decline beer because you
thirst for nectar; you consent to wear
old clothes because you prefer to see
new clothes on other people; you foFeQo
your dinner, because you have grealet
satisfaction in seeing dinner on some
poor mans table; you die, because %
give other people life is dearer to yoa
than to keep life yourself You canDd
be good, perhaps, and have the plan
cake too; so you give up the plum cake.
People talk about the pain of sacfis'
flee. They smear the cross with blood
they paint the crucified with liYid coun-
tenance, stiff lips, eyes dry with sorrow
but nobody ever made sacrifice with
out confessing 1t be the happiest thine
he ever did. Nobody ever let his lfs
run out in free human love, without Be.
ing in an ecstacy. 1t is privilege of
the angels to have mercy rise so high
that it brims over, and goes tricklinc
away to feed beggars. To have so mud, !,
humility that it cannot contain iiself
but will give all for love, is bliss almost
too deep for mortals. As the greatest
boon he can bestow, the Christ on the
eve of his death promises his Joy 10 bis
disciples. OF course, you do not under.
stand this; do not understand it: vere
few people do understand it; it is the
great mystery, Still it is profoundlv
and literally true-some of us under
stand the delight of communicating
thought; more of us understand the .les
light of communicating pleasure; more
still understand the delight of comma.
nicating life to offspring. Guess from
these the delight they have who COM
municate goodness; who give theis
souls; who pour out their being, ever.
though it be through the flood-gates 81
death.-Rsv. 0. B. Froihiinaaass
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Aoetp
VANITY.
BY GOETHE.

BY GOETHE.
{ I've set my heart upon nothing, you see;
\ HurrahI
And so the world goes well with me;
Hurrahl
And who has no mind to be fellow of mine
Why, let him take hold and help me twiDs
A wreath for the rosy Nine.
| set my heart at first upon wealth:
HuFrah!
And barted away my peace and health;
~ But, ahl
The slippery change went about like air;
And When had clutched handful here,
Away it went there,
l set my heart upon travels grand:
"a Hurrahl
Add spurn' d our plain old fatherland:
But, ahl
Naught seem d to be just the thing it shoule
Most comfortless bed and different food,
My tastes misunderstood.
set my heart upon sounding fame;
Hurrahi
And, lol Pm eclips'd by some upstart s name
And, ahl
When in public life loom d quite high,
The folks that pass'd me would look away
Their very worst friend was l.
And then set my heart upon war;
Hurrahl
We gain'd some battles with eclat,
Hurrahl
We troubled the foe with sword and flame,
And some of our friends Jared quite the same
lost leg for fame.
Now I've set my heart upon nothing you see
Hurrahl
Aud the whole wide world belongs to me.
Hurrahl
The feast begins to run low, no doubt;
but there's a fountain above that will never
r. run out,
1t VIII ne yer run out.
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A SECOND GRACE DARLING.-Tbe
Providence Press has the following -
"On Tuesday last, while the wind was
blowing a gale from the southeast, three
men started off in a skiff from the shore
at the lower end of the inner harbor of
Newport, to rescue a sheep which had
by some means got adrift, but owing to
the gale they we're neither able to reach
the sheep or return to the shore, and
were fast being swept off into rough wa
ter, where their skiff must inevitably
have been swamped. In this situation
they were discovered by Miss Ida Lewis,
daughter of Captain Hosea Lewis, keep
er Of Lime Rock Light, who at once
took the lighthouse boat and put off to
their relief. She reached the men, took
them from the skif, which she took in
tow, and afterward went in quest of and
saved the sheep, and landed the whole
safely on terra .frma. This is not the
first act of this description performed by
this young lady.
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Sor The gatIt 9oIks


I-N
There was once farmer who had
horse which had served him fGthfuli7
till he was too old to work any lcnge5.
and then his master would not give hzlsl
anythiRg To eat, but sad:
al cannot really fihd any use for Yoa
now, but still / mean you well, and So
if YOU will show yourself strong enough
to bring home lion, | will requite you
but now you must make yourself scare
in this stable.H
So saying, the farmer drove the pooE
horse out: and he went with drooplnz
head towards the forest to shelter him
self there from the weather. In aIDons
the trees he met a fox, who asked WHY
he looked so eareworna and walked sa
downcast.
"Alasp' said the horse, "agarice afs
fidelity dwell not in the same house to
gether; my master has forgotten all tils
services which | have rendered him soI
so many years, and, because Lam uns.
bic now to work any longer, he viii not
give me any fodder, but has driven me
out of the stable"
''Without any hope :" asked the Fcx.
'The hope is poor" !" replied the horse !
she said that if were strong enonga
to bring him back lion be would Ee<
ceive me; but he knows well enough +
cannot do that"
'Then l will help you," replied fhs
fox; now lay down and stretch youFsell
out, and do not stir, SO that you mar.
appear dead"
The horse, accordingly, did as he ewas
bid, and the fox went to the lion who's
den was not very far of, and said 6
him, Smear here lies a dead horse
come with me and you may make cap
itaI aImeal."
The lion accompanied the fox, and
when they came to the horse the foz
hsaid: ~ --2
"Hist listen to what | am about II
say; you can have this at your conyeni
ence; viii bind it to you BY the tai
and you shall then drag it away to your
den, and devour it at your leisure"
This advice pleased. the lion, and, n
order that the fox might knot the horse
tail fast to him, he stood with his baek
towards it quite still. The fox, howss.
er, cunningly tied the lions legs togetss
er with the hairs of the horses tail, and
pulled snd knotted all so carefully thst
no strength could divide ii. As soon =
his work was finished the fox tapped the
horse on the shoulder, and cried:
drag, my friend, tIrag!7
THE horse jumped up at once and
drew the lion away with him. The
beast soon began to roar, so that all the
birds in the forest flew away for terror
bat the horse let him roar while he our
ely dragged him to bis masters door.
Now, when the farmer saw this proof e
the fidelity of his horse, he thought
better of his former resolution, and said.
to the faithful animal, "You shall re-
main with me now, and live at your
ease And so the good horse had good
meals and good treatment till he died.
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Bishop McIlyaine has accounts from

Bishop McIlyaine has accounts from
Mrs. Bedell as late as Nov. 10Th.
Bishop Bedell had been able to get
to Nice, from Geneva, without injury,
having occupied eleven days in jour
ney which can be done in "a hours. 1t
was then 6s days since he was taken i'll
at Chamouni. The kind physician, DR..
Depraz, who had attended him with
such tender, sympatbizing and faithful
care, accompanied him to Nice, and
after three days there, took his leave,
advising that, as the sea air of Nice was
found not salutary to the Bishops throat
disease, he should 90 to Rome, by slow
journeys, and settle down quietly there.
1t is encouraging, and a matter OF
thsnkfulness, that, when Mr.. B. wrote
ne had some return of appetite, and
was able to walk with pleasure for a
short distance, in a slow way. This
account Is the most cheering we have
had.-Westsrn Episeopalians
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A Locomotive engineer.

When a man has a liking for thing
it's as good as being clever. In very
short time | became one of the best
drivers on the line. That was allowed.
I took pride in it, you see, and liked
Fit. Ne, didn't know much about the
engine scientifically, as you call it; but
| could put her to rights if anything
went out of gear-that is to say, if there
was nothing broken-but / couldn't
have explained how the steam worked
inside. Starting an engine is just like
drawing a drop Of gin. You turn q
handle, and off she goes, then you turn
the handle the other way, put on the
brakes, and you stop her. There's moi
much more in it so far. It's no good
being scientific and knowing the prin-
ciple of the inside; no good at all. Fit
ters, who know all the ins and outs oi
the engine, make the worst drivers,
That's well known. They know toe
much. It's just as I've heard of man
with regard to his inside; if he knew
what a complicated machine it was, he
would never eat, or drink, or run, or dc
anything for fear of bursting something
So it is with filters. But us as are moi
troubled with such thoughts we &C
ahead.
But starting an engines one thing and
driving of her is another. Any one, q
child Almost, can turn on the steam and
turn it off again; but it amt every one
that can keep engine we'll on heroad,
no more than it amt every one who car
ride horse properly. 1t is much the
same thing. If you gallop horse right
off for mile or two, you take the vino
out Of him, and for the next mile or two
you must let him trot or walk. So it il
with engine. IL you put on too much
steam, to get over the ground at the
start you exhaust the boiler and ther
you'll have to crawl along till your fresh
water boils up. The great thing il
driving, is, to go steady, never to lei
your water get too low, nor your fire toe
low. It's the same with a kettle. L
you fill it up when its half empty, i
soon comes to the boil again. Another
thing; you should never make spurts
unless you are detained and lose time
You should 60 up an incline and dowr
an incline at the same pace. Sometimes
a driver will waste his steam, and wher
he comes to a hill he has scarcely
enough to drag him up. When you're
in train that goes by fits and starts
you may be sure that there is a bac
driver on the engine. That kind o
driving frightens passengers dreadfully
When the train, after rafting along, sud
denly slackens speed when it amt neal
station, it may be in the middle of 1
tunnel, the passengers think there il
danger. But generally it's because the
driver has exhausted his steam.-Dick
ems Christmas Story.
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From Iowa comes a capital temper
ance story. Judge Quay, the temper
ance lecturer, in one of his efforts there
got off the following:
All those who in youth acquire hsb-
it of drinking whisky, at forty years Of
age will be total abstainers or drunk
ards. No one can use whisky for years
in moderation. If there is person in
the audience before me whose own ex-
perience disputes this let him make it
known; i will account for it, or acknow-
edge that / am mistaken.
A tall, large man rose and, folding
his arms in dignifed manner across
his breast said:
81 offer myself as one whose own ex-
perience coutradicts your statements.
care you moderate drinkerl" said
the Judge.
81 am"
"How long have you drank in mod
Grafton"
'Forty years"
"And was never intoxicated I"
"Never."
"Well," remarked the Judge, scan
ming his subject closely from head to
foot, "yours is singular case. yet
think it is easily accounted for. l an
reminded by it of a little story A
colored man.. with. loaf of bread and
flask of whisky, sat down TO dine by the
bank of clear stream. In breaking
the bread some of the crumbs dropped
into the water. These were eagerly
seized and eaten by the fish. That cir
cumstance suggested to the darkey the
idea Of dipping the bread in the whisky
and feeding it TO them. He tried it. Il
worked well. Some of the fish ate it
became drunk, and foated helpless on
the water. In this way he easily caught
a great number. But in the stream
was large fish very unlike the rest
1t partook freely of the bread and
whisky, but with no perceptibIe effect
1t was shy of every effort of the darkey
to take it.
"He resolved to have it at all haz
ards, that he might learn its name snd
nature. He procured net, aud, sftel
much effort, caught it, carried it toes
colored neighbor, and asked his opin
ion of the matter. The other surveyed
the wonder moment, and then said
'Sambo' understands dis case. Dat
fish is mulIethead. 1t. han't get any
brains In other words, added tht
judge, "alcohol objects the brain, and, o
course, those having none may drink
without injury"
The storm of laughter that followed
drove the moderate drinkcr suddenly
from the house.
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A bankrupt merchant returning
home one night, said to his noble wife
''My dear, | am ruined everything we
have is is in the hands of the sheriff.
Aftera few moments of silence, the wife
looked calmly into his face and said :
'Will the sheriffse Il you9" "Oh, nor
"Will the sheriff sell me ?'Oh, nom Will
the sheriff sell the childred? +? "Oh, no?'
''Then do not say we have lost every
thing. All that is most valuable re-
mains to us-manhood, womanhood,
childhood. We have lost but the re-
suit of our skill and industry. We can
make another fortune if our hearts and
hands are left US"
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EVERY vABIEgE OF
JOB PRINTING
NEATLY AND QUICKLY DONE.
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The owner of the omnibus lines of
Gottenburg, Sweden, some time since
provided each of their vehicles with a
water reservoir, from which the pas
sengers can quench their thirst. They
have now extended their courtesy by
providing each traveller with a news
paper giving the latest intelligence, and
which he can read while in the omni-
bus.
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Alexander Gun, an excise officer in
Scotland being dismissed from his en-
ployment by misconduct, an entry was
made m book kept for the purpose, as
follows: "a. Gun discharge for ma
king false report"
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Jewels of great beauty and value, be-
longing to Polish young ladies, are to
be ratified for in London, to raise funds
to assist exiled lovers to finish their
studies.
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Made Of Imperishable materials, enameled inside
aud out to prevent rust ard the exterior has 6ne
Rosewood anish. When properly cemented the re-
mains of the deceased free from irruption Of
ter or the depredatons Of vermin, and may without
offensive odoT be kept long desired, thus obvi.
sting the necessity Of hssty burslf. have them Of
ell siseE.
Frauont. Jan 1884 @. W. TSCHUUY.
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There is no grester obstacle to suc-
cess than trusting in something to turn
up instead of going to work to turn up
something. sfs
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