The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-01-14


An "Indian suffrage party" is be.
Ing organized in Texas, On tho
score Of intelligence they would be
acceptable enough, as tAcy arc all
red men.
The Perrysvillc rioters, who clean
ed out a whisky shop last week, have
been acquitted at their trial in Ash.
land. Twenty-Five Of them we're la.
dies.
A negro woman in Brownsville,
Texas, owns a black snake which
visits the ncighbors poultry yards,
swallows the eggs, and is made to dis
gorge on its return home.
A rich grotto OF topaz, from which
have been extracted blocks weighing
from two to three hundred pounds,
aud valued at nearly Gl,0O0, has
been found in Switzerland.
Dialogue Grant-"Badeau, what
are all these letters about that ' on
are laughing over" Bedcau-"All
applications for Office" Gen. Grant
well, twist them up into cigar
lighters
A little girl attending a party was
asked by her mother how she enjoy
ed herself. "Oh, said she, al am
full Of happiness couldn't be no
happier unless | could grow"
In passing Faneuil Hall the other
evening, we caught some boys throw.
Ing stones at that venerable s,ruct-
ure. "What are you doing, you
young rascals p we demanded.
''Morely rocking the Cradle" !" replied
ono oil tho youthful reproBates.-
Boston TfonScripL
81 am tired of this cat.aud dog
life" said an over sensitive aud vir.
ulant wife, TO rather dull husband
who replied by pointing to tho rug
on which old Touser aud Kitty lay
quietly asleep, and saying, 81 should
never tire Of such cat and dog life
as that" "That ia lite before mar
riage," responded the wife, site them
together aud you'll see the fur Ay."
A Connec,icut editor fell on an
icy sidewalk last week. He did not
use "uuparliameutary language, as
some would have done, but bit his
lips, rubbed down the bruises, aud
while a benevolent smile radiatcd his
ooun'enauoe, remarksd 1--WE don /
cherish any i'll will; but for light and
entertaining reading matter, recon,
mend to us the obituary of she Man
who owns this sidewalk"
HES PmLosopr.-"Now, young
people, said a professor of natural
history TO his class, "now, then, as to
hens. A hen hasthO capacity Of lay.
ing just coo eggs aud no more, aud
she hnishes the job in just about five
years. Now, what is to be done with
her after that?' "Cut off her head
and sell her to Doarding~house
keeper for spring ohiessa p e1-
claimed Sn urehin, whose father dealt
In poultry.
During the war Georgia so oldier,
while in camp near the house Of his
sweetheart, scnt hera boquet with a
card attached, upon which was the
following poetic eifusion;
"Accspt this bokAy from iellAr
Who on has hurt the kannon b-llsf,
Has listened TO the aies Iootsn,
Aud helped TO do a heap ofshoouA
Has seen the war clouds dATkly rise,
Like hily 1uAEArls when they dire,
Who now is bigger than his dad,
And wants W marry mighty bad
A clever gentleman, aud something
ofa wsg withal, fell a victim to tb,
Wiles Of "John Barleycorn." recent
y, and became "sea sick, il th'
Hibernianism may be allowed 81
that he had to anchor in a fence cor.
nsr and "heaye." Holding on TO .
rail, he poured forth pTomi,cuou,
cascade "tremenjus to behold A
sympathizing friend, while passing
feelingly inquired, "Isllo, what's th,
matter? are yoa sick?" The victim
turned upon him look in which wal
concentrated perfect avalanche o
reproachful contempt, aud burte,
out between intervals Of his copiou
upheayals--"D--a you, ds-e.i,po a
Lin p'Fu'pu.kiDg foI fun 2"