The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-21
ODDS and ENDS.


An Irish girl was employed by wealthy
family of North Adams, Mass, eight years
ago, at the age of ten years; she sOou became
ATTRACTIVE and stole the hearts Of her EN-
ployers, who had no children, and they re-
solved to bring her up and give her a
Protestant education, which they have done
by sending her to Saratoga and other female
seminaries. She is now eighteen years of
age, and is an accomplished young lady.
She is to sail for Europe in few days with
her adopted parents
A eoRREsroSpENT Eritesi "To see Niagara,
you buy eleven silk dresses for your wife
and six shirts for yourself You then get ali
the ready money you have, borrow all your
friends have, and mske arrangements for
unlimited. credit at tive or three good, sol.
vent banks. You then take six trunks.
some more money, 9 nurse, colored ser
want sOme more money, and then, after get.
ting some more money, and extending your
credit at one or two more strong banks, you
set out. II is better, ifpossible, just before
you leave, 10 mortgage your homestead and
get some money" @es pr7-
AWEsTERN theatrical manger has knaek
of doing" people out of their salary. A
young actor from New York, who had Joined
his company, ventured after two weeks en-
gagemert to hint that be would like his
money. What exclaimed the indignant
manager, you ask me for salary, after the
characters have given yOa to playS The
fact is, my dear sir, the man who plays
Claude Melnotte and other lOvers ought not
to expect any EalaryI Yes, said the light
wasted youth, but my board is due, and /
shall get turned out of my bOarding-ho
aud the truth is, have nothing to eat.
Keep cool, my boyl replied the manager,
'blackberries will soon be ripel' r. r..
THERE is church in East Haven. Conn.,.
which was dedicated in the month of Sep
tember before the battle of Lexington. and
the society was organized one hundred and
sixty-fOur years ago. ALI the clergynien
who have officiated as pastors lie buried IN |
the cemetery near by. The church is built |
Of stone, which was entirely worked out by |
the nejghboriDg farmers, who were, with |
one exception, unpractised in masonry, and |
though erected nearly hundEed years ago,
the walls look as well and firm as If done |
yesterday. ta 8oEafqs1
The last of Mr.. Prang's chromos is a'copy |
of a landscape By 7. Morvills, 1t represents
cheerful winter scene, with small cottage
in the middle ground, behind which large /
tree spreads out its branches against the
sky. On the right couple are Safeguarding,
and on the left there are persons skating on
small pond which lies under a gently slop-
ing hill, at the summit of which is a rural
church The lower part of the sky on the
right eOnFasts its sOmbre gray with the light
and cheerful sky, whish predominates and
gives tone TO the whole picture. The sub
ject is pleasant one, and the execution will
compare well with that of any Of Mr.. PraDgs
chrOmOs. The same house has also p6Blish-
ed an excellent chrome illustrative Of Whit!
tiers poem, The Barefoot Boy and an
nOunces the following for publication on the
lst of September: Sunset, California
scenery, after Bierstsdt; Horses in a storm
after R. Adams, ard Tomatoes after VIM
Herring.