The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-02-20
EDITORIAL GOSSIP.

Iho U ,. Express agency at Fremont has
been discontinued The NJ. T. Express Co.,
win have charge of express shipment for that
point exclusively.
A lawyer Of Clyde, who had recently join
ed the Democracy and taken to drink, was
arrested last week and punished with i'm
prisonment and fine. "Bad company, Tom
replied
The sandusky Register, in noting the tender
of hospitality by the Union Club of Columbus
says; awe doubt not every Columbus
Republicans latch string will be out, aud
we hope the Ninth District will send at least
five hundred delegates on The 4;h of March
to test the hospitality of our capital friends,
who nre capital fellows
Oberln College has received from Rev
Mr.. Bushnell, African missionary, among
other curiosites, the skin and skeleton of
gorrilla.
On Saturday the Infrmary Director, of
Cleveland, distributed to the poor fourteen
hundred loaves Of Dread, and eighty sheep.
Over one thousand families have been thus
assisted in that city during the winter, by
genech relief committee.
Mrs oalscs Smith is out in advance or the wo.
men reformcrs. In letter 10 the Journal Of
Health. shc says;
' stand 70 the point and nail my eolors to
tho mast In defense Of it-thgt II is right proper
and delicate FOR woman to choose her husband
and the man thus distinguished by her choice
will feel more onnobled aud sanotihod."
Not always, Mrs. Smith Suppose the
man "distinguished by her choice prefers
less notoriety, has he any rights, under the
proposed new order of things, that you are
bound TO respect? There Is a Train Of
women which, tenderhearted as We are, we
would like to see run Off the track and
smash up. These women, if they could,
would turn the world upside down, and
reverse the laws, social and civil We
think the same reason, Mrs. Smith, why
you can not raise beard, ought secure TO
the poor "lords' their other prerogatives
Surface TalkeTs.-lfthere is greater in.
Fiction thAnto be thrown into the society Of
one, who talks to be heard, we have yet to
discover it, They usually attach great Inn
portance to their words aad per consequence,
are loud and obtrusive, they imagine that
all ears are open TO catch the gems Of thought
which flow from their tongues, like sap from
a sugar-tree. Large words enter largely into
the makeup Of their conversation, and the
latest pronunciation is mouthed in a know
ing manner. An extremely self-satsfed air
prevadcs the whole rehash, (lor such their
conversations most frequently are) and
knowing look couples the disconnected ex.
clamations in mastery manner.
There are two kinds Of surface takers
the one would win the admiration OF his
hearers, for the seeming knowledge with
which providence and an education has bless
ed him, while the other caters to the vnl-
gar tastes, with low wit, slaug-phrases, and
bar-room adectiyes.
If the one is more to be despised than the
other, it is because probably outward inhu-
ence and popular taste have done more TO
accomplish for him what was inherent in the
other.
You meet these word venders in all the
various walks and 5y-ways of the world, -
on the cars, in steamboats,, at hotels, on the
streets upon change, lin fact everywhere.
at home and abroad, and you always fnd
them n nucleus around which are gathered
an audience of gaping listeners, drinking in
their wit or wisdom with an avidity that is
startingly prevalent among our absorbing
conntrymen.
AS long then as we have these ever ready
listeners, we shall have no lack Of surface
tslkers,--no lack OF wordy illuminators to
light up the prevailing gloom with high
sounding phrases and brilliant witticism.
Council PrOceedlngs.-..Nonday even
ing. Feb. l7th,-Pressnt Fiege, johnson, Smith,
and Noble.
On motion tho Clerk was instructed 10 draw
orders on the proper funds for sls7 e5.
petition from members OF the No. Fire
Company was presented, praying for an appro-
priation OF money to purchase trumpet for said
Co. The Chief Engineer Of the Fise Dept. was
ordered 70 purchase them trumpets at a moder-
ate cost.
On m otlon II was ordered that Mr.. Noble pur-
chase sixteen water proof coats for the pipemen
OF the several Fire companies OF the city.
memorial from the County Treasurer, asking
compensation for duties as City Treasurer, Sas
referred to the committee appointed to settle
with the City Treasurer
On motion the Clerk was instructed 20 draw an
order on the city Treasurer for $50 in favor Of
DR.. A. B. HoVsy, as additional compensation for
services rendered The last year, Health ofheer.
The ordinance extending the city limits, passed
its third and last EeAding.
The ordinance regulating the City Fire Depart
paTtment, passed itl hrst reading: