The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-11
NUMBER IL
Olla-Podrida.

h'Su' NN"NiuS "a mottO IN
fire works.
Berlin people ate i,Oii horses las,
year.
Theirs is grandfather only thir-
ty-oGO yeats old in Vermont.
A poultty riddlo-maker asks, ,"why
is hen immortal 2" and answers,
"Becausc her sou never sets"
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
cannot remember anything longer
than seven days.
Lord SSdmouth said ono day: ANY,
brains arc gone to the dOgs this
morning" Sir II, Nichols at once
cjaculatSd' "Poor dogs p'
Col. Alexander Poor, Of Bloom.
field township, Jackson county; died
on the 18th inst, aged a years.
He went to Jacks n couHty from Vir
ginia in lS9. Hc served in the war
of 1912, aud was elected TO the Ohio
Legislature on tho Wing ticket in the
fall of 1916, aud served oHo term.
Papers in Idaho not only publish
lists Of births, but add to the an-
nouucements the weight of the sever.
al additions to the territorial popu-
lation.
N. Wing, Of Bridgeport, c., ro.
ports 30 pounds of wool taken from
a three. sear.old buick weight of
carcass 100 pounds.
Tony Weller used to say that pow.
erty and oysters went together. His
sharp son Sam, if Dickens only know
enough, would have made the same
remark concerning riches and advor-
tising.
4 Western gehius defines a co.
quotte as box Of snuff, from which
every lover takes a pinch, Her hus-
band, Fortunate, or unfortunate
wretch, as he may think himself, gets
the box--on the ear.
The Birmingham (Euglaud) Post
describes the casting of n pair oi
rollers weighing Is tuns each or SO
tuDs to the pair, They are Is feet
inches long and about SO inches in
diameter, the largest in the world.
A man was struck by locomotive
at Knoxville the other day. tossed
fifteen feet into tho air and neatly
caught ON the top of tho Dnginc, with
only sprain Of an ankle.
Abar Of pate mcrchautable tin,
weighing S5 pounds, has been turned
out in San Francisco frbm ore from a
tin mine at Tenescal, San Diego coun.
ty, California.
Ayoung gontlomau, speaking of 0
young beOuty's fashionable yellow.
ish hair, called it pure gold, at
ought to be-" quoth X, at looks
liko twenty four carrots"
"Comc, wife, said win, ar pray
you devoto just halt minute to
mend this coat, which nail had
chaucGd to rend." "'Tis10 O'Clock, -
said the drowsy mate. II know"
said viii, 'it is rather late, but 1t /.
never too late co mend"
A mouse hest, feather6d with fout;
teen dollars of gr6eGbacks and frao-
tiohals, was found in a store at Greeu
Bay, Wis, wbereupon a local papei
observes: "This is strong argume n /
For the resumption of specie payment,
as even the lower animals are grow.
ing wasteful and extravagant under
an imitation Of paper currency"
The following epitaph is put forth
by some one as having been written
by the old bachelot to whom it re-
lates:
"At three score Winters ond died,
A uheerless being, sole and sad;
The nliptlal knot never tied,
Ana wish my father n6Ser had"
A lrrge Onion planted sd near ros>
bush as to touch the roots, will great
ly increase tho ordor Of The flowers,
aud the water distilled from such ro.
ses is far superior in favor to other
rosowater. So says a Massachusetts
paper.
A hog was killed at Springfield;
ILL.,, the other day, in whose stomach
were found thirty-six ten. penny
nails, half an old file, and a suspen !.
der buckle. This is supposed to ac-
count for the recent mysterious dis
appearance of small boy in that
ucighbOfhood.
An observing individual, in a very
healthy village, seeing the sexton at
work in d hole in the ground, inqnir-
cd what he was about. "Digging a
grave, SIR" "Digging a gravel Why
| thought people didn't die often
here; do they2" "Oh, no, sit; they
never die bat once"
At n school at Wallsend, near
Newcastle, England, the master ask
ed class Of boys the meaning of the
word appetite" when, atter short
pause, one little boy said: 81 know
sir-wheh I'm eatin' lin Apply, and
when I'm done I'm. tight,
An I-ish woman, who 10 always at
war with her neighbors, and whose
troubles are never at al end, was
cohpldihiug to her milkmdn the 9th. :.
CT mofning about every thing rising
to such high prices, To show her
that such was not the case, he said,
"Madami the price Of milk is not ri.
sing" "No, bcdad,' she answered,
"nor the crane nayther."
Judge Wordeu, one of the most
respected citizens of Mansfield, died
few days ago. Judge Worden was
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