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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
Affair in a Watch.

A story is told of two boys living
in Western New York, many years
ago, whose father, on returning from
a visit to the East, bought them as a
present a silver 'bulls-eyeh watch.
There was a warm discussion as to
which of the boys should carry it one
day, and the other the next; and that
the one not carrying the watch
should always have the key in his
possession. The watch was the only
one in the settlement, and the display
of even the key was an enviable
ornament. One day the elder Of the
brothers was TO make q journey to the
city, to be gone two days; and, after
a long and serious consultation, it was
determined that he must maintain
the dignity of the family by wearing
the watch; but the younger was to
retain the key. So they bethOught
them to give it good winding, that
it might run for twice its usual period
of 24 hours. The key was applied
and twisted vigorously for 10 minutes,
when they found to their eOnsterna-
ton that the little machine no longer
"ticked." They shook and thumped;
but no signs of life appeared. So
then a diagnosis was determined
upon. After careful inspection of
the interior mysteries, the elder
brother exclaimed, "I have it Joe!
Don't you see that fine hair curled up
in there? that's what stops it."
Fact" said Joe, "that must be it.
Can't we yank it Out?' \ pin was
ut once bent up into a hook, and ''the
hair" was "yankedn out. The watch
didn't go any better when relieved
of it; and to- this day the boys have
not been permitted to forget about
the watch with the hair in it.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
WHOLE NO. 1852
AdinSting EXDenSeS.

An English paper in this pleasant
and forcible way begs people to draw
the important distinction between
regulating their expenditures by other
peoples, instead of by their own
wants and purses: "If you want to
live in a vain show, regulate your ex-
penditure by the expenditure of your
neighbOrs; if you want to live wisely
and manfully, regulate your expendi-
lures by your actual wants, including
of course, the wants of your mind as
well as those of your body, and the
wants of your family as well as your
own. A eomely dress is good thing
and a proper application of money;
but dress of particular cut and color,
not wanted for any other reason eX-
eept that Mrs. Goldsmith or Miss Fill
agree over the way has got one, is it
not a legitimate or thrifty eXpendi-
ture of money. If you really want q
better house than you now inhabit,
more airy, more free from damp, more
fitted to the size of a growing family,
the likelihood is that you could not
make a more advisable use of your
money; but if neighbOr Gilpin has
recently had a windfall, and on the
strength of it has taken a handsome
villa, and seems to hold his nose in a
rather higher stratum of the atmOs-
phere than he used to. don't you take
the villa opposite merely to be on
equality with him. A ph@tOn is q
nice thing to have. and a drive in q
clear summer day brings bloom to the
cheeks of the wife and children. All
right; have your phetOn-prOvided
always that the reason of your buy
ing it is not that your wife cannot
bear to see Mrs. Tomkins nodding
from ph8tOn while she walks afoot,
and provided also that the money thus
laid out is not required for more sub
stantial wants. such as a good school
ing for the boys and a fair provision
against a rainy day. A trip to the
seaside may be of such benefit to the
family as to pay itself by shortening
doctors bills; but the seaside breezes
and the braeing waves have never en-
tered the service of fashion, and they
will do you and yours as much good
at cheap watering place as at a dear
one. 1t is needless for us to extend
our illustrations. Every reader who
keeps his eyes open and can observe
what is going on in society round
him, will be able to add to the list.
There is practically no great difficulty
in distinguishing between the expen-
diture which is incurred for show and
that which is incurred for sound and
substantial reasons.n
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
How the Chinese 90 TO Church.

The congregation is composed prin-
cipally of men and boys, dressed in
their every day clothes. Some of
them stare about them or talk with
each other. Instead of sitting down
and paying attention to what is said,
many stand up and walk about. Per-
haps some will come up to the
speaker, and try to look over his
book, if he reads from the Bible; or
they will examine the foreign stove,
if it is cold weather, and there is a
fire in it or they will stand in front
of the clock, and watch it for awhile.
Others have with them parcels of
merchandise, or a fowl or some vege-
tables, etc, they have bought or wish
to sell; and if it is warm weather,
very many will strip the upper part
of their bodies naked, and fan them
selves, so as to be as cool as possible
Oftentimes, unless forbidden to
smoke, several engage in smoking
little pipes of tobacco, having first
struck a fire by means of flint and
piece of steel and some very dry pa
per. Almost every Chinaman carries
about him his pipe and tobacco, and
materials for striking a fire. Some
times a beggar-wOman will enter the
chapel, and bawl out Justify for cash.
1t is very common practice for most
of those who come to stay but short
time; and when one goes out, all of
his mates and friends usually follow.
If an idol procession, or mandarin
and his retinue is passing along the
street, or some sudden or unusual
noise is heard outside, the bows and
most of the men rush out to see what
is to be seen, after which some of
them will perhaps come back.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
A Model NJ. ID,

I had just finished my supper, and
was enjoying my cigar on the deck,
when | heard a man declaiming, in a
loud voice, to two or three attentive
listners (but evidently intended for
''whoever it might concern" at the
time) on Pathology. Being, as it were,
thus invited, / also became a listner
to something like the following:
"There il is nOwI Well, some
people talk about seated fevers. don't
know any thing about seated fevers !;
there amt no sich thing as a seated
fever. A isketer bite is seated fever;
cure the bite, and the fever quits you
quick enough. Jes' so with a bile
the same thing. There amt no such
thing, l tell We, as a seated fever
Fact is, and you can't rub it out, your
regular doctor practices according to
books; now I practice aecordin' to
common sense. Take a case now:
There was DR.. Rugg, of our village,
the very Samson of the Materier
Mediker. Wa'al he treats fevers ac-
cOrding to the books. What's the con-
sequence? 1 get all the patients!-
He met me one day, and says he to
me, says he, How is it that you git
all the fever cases@ / told him eX-
actly how it was; and it is so.n
"Well, DOCTOR" interrupted one Of
the listeners, "how do yOu treat fea-
vers ?ii
"Well, there it is, you see! You
ask me how I treat fevers. If you'd
ha' asked me when first commenced
practicing, 1 could ha' told yOu-can't
tell you now. treat cases zacly as /
find 'em-aecording, as / said afore, to
eommOn-sense. And there il is Now
there was Mrs. Seuttle; she was ta-
ken sick. All the folks said she had
the consumption; hadn't the consump-
ton more'n you've got it Lsingling out
a burly listner, who weighed some two
hundred and fly or three hundred ];
had two doctors at her at once; didn't
do hera single moSseL o. good. Wa'al,
they sent for me; and as l went into
the house see a lot of tanZy and
flock of chickens by the door Felt
her pulse. Says land she'll never
forget it till her dying day does come
saws /, you amt no more got the
consumption than I've got it, not n
Bit And there twas, you see! In
two weeks cured her."
"Well, but Doctor, how did you
cure her?"
"There it is again! l told you | see
a lot of tanzy and flock of chickens
growing at the door. gin her some
of the tanzy and fresh laid egg
brought her right upi It's kill or
cure with me. Fact is, gentlemen,
continued the doctor. 81 call myself
an officer. My saddle-bags is my
soldiers; my disease my inimy; rush
at him, and 'ither he or me has got to
conquer. Tnever give in."-Drdlcer
HdTper's Magazine for July.
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Kanfa-

Many people, says the "Fat Con-
tributor," are in perpetual fear that
they will "eome to want" but when
is there time in any ones life that
he don't want something? Some
want one thing and some another
The baby wants to stick his thumb in
his eye, kick over the teapot, and
wants his three meals a day. The
little boy wants top, a roeking-hOrse
and a licking at regular intervals.
The little girl wants a doll, and
wants to play out doors with the boys.
a little older, the girl wants a beau,
and the boy wants q bow-an-arrer.-
The young lady wants q piano, and
Greeian bend, invitations to the opera
and the exclusive use of the front
parlOr Sunday nights. The young
man wants a fast horse, a diamond
pin, credit at the tailOrs, a mOustaehe.
gin cocktails, and no words from the
'Old man." Mature matron wants
select circle of society, carriage with a
liveried driver, the best pew in church
presidency of some fashionable benev-
Olent society, wealthy matches for her
daughters, and no foolishness. Mas
culine maturity wants safe invest
ments, credit at the bank, few friends,
plain clothes, daily paper, an eleven
O'Clock tod" prompt dinner, slip
pers, and a "night-eap-" Old age
wants to keep up a spretense of being
young sometimes, but generally
wants only a quiet place to die in.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
Hints on COurtship and Marriage.
THE LAW OF coxJUGAL SELECTION.

With regard to the proper eombina-
tions of temperament in the marriage
relation, Psychologists have differed,
one contending that the constitutions
of the parties should be similar, while
others, on the contrary, have taught
that contrast should be sought. 1t
seems to US that neither of these state
ments expresses fully the true law of
selection. The end to be aimed at is
harmony. There can be no harmony
without difference, but there may be
difference without harmony. 1t is
not because a woman is like a man
that he loves her, but because she is
unlike. The qualities which he lacks
are the ones in her which attract him
the personal traits and mental peeu-
liarities which combine to make her
tCOmdnly; and in proportion as she
lacks these, or. possesses masculine
characteristics, will a woman repel
the opposite sex. SOa woman admires
in man true n1dRliRess, and is repelled
by weakness and effeminaey. A wO-
manish man awakens either the pity
or the contempt of the fair sex.
This law, we believe, admits of the
widest application. The dark-haired,
swarthy man is apt to take for his
mate some aZure-eyed blonde; the
lean and spare choose the stout and
plump; the tall and short often unite;
and hOmely men generally win the
fairest of the fair.
In temperament, as in everything
else, what we should seek is not like
ness, but a harmonious difference.
The husband and wife are not cOun-
terparts of each other, but compile
ments, halves which joined together
form a rounded symmetrical whole
In music, contiguous notes are dis
cordant, but when we sound together
a first and a third, or a third and a
fifth, we produce a chord. The same
principle pervades all nature. Two
persons may be too much alike to
agree. They crowd each other, for
two objects cannot occupy the same
space at the same time. While, there
fore, we do not wholly agree with
those who insist upon the union of
OppOsites in the matter of tempera-
ments, we believe that a close resem-
blanee in the constitution of the body
between the parties should be avoided,
as not only inimical to their harmony
and happiness, but detrimental to
their Offspring.-Phren. Journal for
July.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

GETTING MIGHTY SHORT.-A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Times
has had this experience:
Boarding the lightning express ON
the Little Miami Railroad, last eve
ming, we had comfortably doubled up
preparatory to taking a snOoze, when
we were saluted by tall African, as
follows:
''LoOk here, boss, I want to ak YOU
a question. rs good way from home,
and wants to know if rs on the
right track?"
Where do you want to go, Uncle"
we asked.
''To Fort Gibson, way down in Ar
kinsaw, sab. Now, boss, rs ignorant,
and wants to know if rs on the right
kear for Cineernati ?r
We assured our sable friend he was
all right.
Look heah, boss, 1 dosn't know
nothin when Use away from home,
fact, sab. When I started out from
Washington city had a powerful lot
ob desc heah"-exhibitin that Dor
ton of his through ticket which he
had not given up. 'Ebery now and
then a gentleman comes round and
tars off a little piece. Tell you, sab,
it's gitten mighty short. Fraid it
amt gwine to hold out TIL / get
through"
This last remark created quite a
laughter, in which the jokiest joined
heartily.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30
What is Enameling! Is there 'any
Such Thing.
[From the sunday Mereury.

FROM the sunday Mercury.l
The enameling of female faces and
busts is now a branch of masculine
business, and is quite lucrative. A
chiropadist on Broadway devotes a
good deal of time and attention to this
line of trade, while man called Saus-
son initiates his example. The pro-
cess of this enameling is somewhat
curious. The belle who would enam-
cling 90 is first examined with a
microscope, and any rough hairs or
fuZZ which exist upon the cheeks or
bust is at once removed with linament,
or plaster, medicated soap, or.scissors,
or tWeeZers even. Being thus pre-
pared, the cheeks or bust are coated
with Il fine enamel, which is composed
of arsenic, or white lead, or other in
gradients made into a semi-paste, and
pleasantly scented. An ordinary
coating of enamel will endure for n
day or two; but to render the opera
tion of any permanent effect, the coat
ing process has to be repeated twice q
week for varying periods, according to
circumstances, and the circumstances
of its owner. The penciling of the
eyebrows, so as to render the contrast
more striking, is sometimes included
in the enameling process; while the
eyebrow is also trimmed or shaven,
Just as the mOustache in n man.
1t costs. a good deal of money to be
well enameled. The prices of enamei-
ing vary, but the average price-list of
the various stages is about as follows ::
For enameling the face TO last once or
twice, from $40 to SIS; for enameling
face and bust temporarily, from SIS to
$50; for enameling the face to endure
one or two weeks, from SIS to S25; for
enameling the face and bust, to last
about the same period, from S25 TO S35;
for permanently this is for six
months), keeping the face in a well
enameled condition, from $500 to $3.50;
and for keeping the face and bust both
in the same pleasing state, from 800
to 5000. So that from its very cost
alone, enameling should become fash
iOuable
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A remarkable discovery has just
been made by man at GrenOble, by
which it is calculated that cemeteries
and graveyards will become superfiu-
Gus. At the decease of an individual,
the body is plunged into a liquid
invented by the man of Grenoble,
and in about five years the individual
is turned into stone The secret of
the petrifcation is known only to the
discoverer. But he goes further. He
says that in thousand years time, if
persons will only preserve their rela-
tives and friends, they will be able
to build houses with them, and thus
live in residences surrounded by their
ancestors.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

There is a wretch in Wayne, Mich,
who is violently opposed to deeorat-
ing the graves of the Union soldiers,
but says he is willing to give S25 to-
ward garlanding a rebels grave, and
would like to erect monument to
J. Wilkes Booth, as large as the depot
wood piles. composed of the skulls of
Union soldiers"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A Yankee having once told an
Englishman that on one particular
occasion he shot nine hundred and
ninety-nine snipe, the Englishman
asked why he did not make it a
thousand at once. NO" said he,
mot likely Pm going to tell lie for
a single snipe." Thereupon the
Englishman rather "riled," and de-
termined not to be Outdone, began to
tell a story OF man having swan
from Liverpool to Boston. ''Did you
see him ." asked the Yankee. "Why,
of course I did. was coming across,
and our vessel passed him mile out
of Boston Harbor." "Well, Pm glad
We saw him stranger, COS yer a wit
ness that / did it. That was me"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

ATTITUDE OF PRAYER.-AlthOug
in prayer the attitude of the body is
of much less importance than thestate
of the heart, we should not be utterly
Indifferent with respect to it. Among
the Jews the customary posture was
standing, as will be seen by turning
to the following passages: Kings,
VIII, -; , Chronicles. VI, u;
Mathew, VI, ); Mark, XI, 25. The
Jews, however, were not confined to
the standing posture, but when they
would express humiliation for their
sins, or were more than usually
earnest in supplicating mercies, they
knelt or bowed themselves. See
Exodus, XXNIV, s; Chronicles, VI,
l3; Kings, VIII, "a; Ezra, IX, 5;
Acts. IN, 10; Daniel, VI, 10; Isa,
XCV, 8; Mathew, XXVI, 80. These
two pastures, standing and kneeliDg,
are far more proper and seemly than
sitting; which, observes an old divine,
''is a rude indecency, except in case
of necessity And remarked Bishop
Hall, "I will either stand as serv-
ant to my Master, or kneel as sub
ject to my Prince"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A JOKE ON CHILIs.-A darkey, suf-
fering from a severe attack of the
chilIs, was observed in the streets OF
Louisville. His teeth were chatter
ing like a reaper under full headway.
He was eating a watermelon on the
curbstone, and some one told him the;
eating it would give him the ehills;
He looked up with his mouth half full
and a slice in each hand, and shiver-
ed out, ''Dis is de way tuck de chills
eatin desc tings. l got de chills on
me now, boss and likes watermelons
better'n 1 does de chills kase dere amt
no danger OBJ it maxim me shake
wus'n / duz. I'll eat dis'n if / dies
afore l gets to de rines."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A young lady in Piqua, Ohio, adver-
tises for 175 young men to form gap
ing club to stand at the doors of the
churches at the commencement and
close of service and make impertinent
remarks upon the dress and person of
the ladies. She invites all applicants
to attend the church doors next Sun
day, and promises to register and pub
lish their names, personal appearance
and general want of brains. Good
fOr that young ladyi
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A merchant being unable to live as
comfortably as he desired, and at the
same time pay his debts, failed several
times in business, and made assign
ments of his property. Finally he
died. Among those who had cause to
remember him was Mr.. B, who,
meeting one Of.his neighbors, was in
formed that Uncle c. was dead
had paid the debt of nature. SIS that
sO?" replied B, ''why didn't he
make an assignment ?"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

A veteran topper has been reading a
series of articles on liquor adultera-
tioE in New York-the analysis of the
liquors showing an average of about
sixty-five parts of water to thirty-five
of spirits.
'''They don't give the spirits a fair
chance,n said the aged bacchanal,
they'll keep on fooling with water
till they depOpulste the earth again"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

a Minnesota gardener has tried the
Paris green and ash remedy for pota-
to bugs, and says it is effectual. The
remedy is compounded by taking two
parts of Paris green to twenty parts of
ashes. A common meal sieve was
used in putting it upon the plants
Twenty-one pounds is sufficient for
one acre of potatoes.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-06-30

In Waverly place, New York, lives
a family of three, whose united age Is
only tiOenty-nine years and a few
months. The PHYSICIANS certificate
describes the father as schoOl-boy,
aged fifteen, and the mother as a
schoolgirl, aged fourteen. The child
is only twelve days old. 1t is pleas
ant to know that the yOungster has
been born TO q handsome fortune,
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OHERIFF,S SALE

GHERIFF'S SALE.
OThe State Of Ohio, Trumbull County, IS.
Robson King & Co. In Trumbull Com
VS.. SmOn Pleas.
Moses Hudson, ct. al.
By virtue of an order of sale issued out of
the Court of Common Pleas, of Trumbull
County, Ohio, in the above named case, TO
me directed and delivered, l have levied on
and shall expose to public sale at the door
OF the Court House in the City Of Warren,
TrumbuH County, Ohio. on Saturday, the 2lth
day Of July, A. D., 1863, between the hours of
one and three O'Clock, p m. of said day, the
following described premises, to-wit: Situ-
ate in the village of Newton Falls, and the
Township of Newton, and County of Trum-
bull, being the half of small Lot No. 40 in
the'village plat of Newton Falls, aforesaid,
and more particularly described in a con-
veyance by Jehial Jacobs, to Moses Hudson,
dated 2ith of October, 1854; recorded in Trum-
bull records book 81, pages 10 and %. Also
a certain other lot adjoining the above, and
described in conveyance from A. Phelps and
wife, and John James and wife to Moses
Hudson, dated May 90, 1877. recorded in
Trumbull records book 8, pages Is and l9,
fronting on East street in said village, and
on The east side thereof, bounded on the
South by lot OF II. Carlisle; on the north by
q lOtof r. A. Burbanks. Appraised at $4,000.
Terms Cash S. NJ. LAIRD, Sheriff.
Sherifrs Office, June D, lS69-5t.
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DARN FOR SALE.-For sale on
reasonable terms, good farm lying
partly in Pennington and partly in Nieso-
potamia townships, and - miles north of
harrington west corners; containing lis
acres under good state Of Improvement,
well watered, and desirable for dairying or
raising crops. The owner will sell now cheap
as he intends going west.
EPHRAIN ASPER.
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BANKRUPTCY.

OANh hH u 7 Z I.
In the District Court Of the United States
for the Northern District Of Ohio.
In the matter Of James 3. Dunlap, Bank
rupt. In Bankruptcy.
To trhOHl Il may COIlceTn:-The undersigned
residing aJ Warren, Ohio, hereby gives no.
tice of his appointment as Assignee of Jas.
3. Dunlap, Of the City Warren, County of
Trumbull, and State of Ohio, who has been
adiudged Bankrupt upon his own petition
by the District Court of said District.
r. W. RATLIFF, Assignee.
Warren. O.. June g. ISt9-3t