The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-07-27


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Miscellaneous.
Silver ore has been discovered near
Lexington, Va.
The Odd Fellows are to have new
Hall in Evansville.
Chinese pirates recently ch,oroform-
ed an entire ships crew before killing
them. -.s..o
The graduating class at Ann Arbof
numbers seventy five-ihe largest
class that ever left the University.
Bayari TayIor's father and mother
sailed for Europe, last week. They
go to visit friends in Switzerland.
Domestic infelicity seems contagious
in some families. Only one of tho
four sons or Charles Dickens father
lived happily with his wife. '''s
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A visitor at Cape May recently
missed his pillow in the morning and
after searching while found it laitf
up over his ear like bit of lead PEN
Gil. -.s< 1l,a.L
"Always read the newspapers" says
Charles Beade; ''they are, compared
with books, what machinery is com!
pared with hand labor"
The postmaster Mt Savannah has
been too busy attending political meet
ings to lay in a supply of Psjstag3
stamps, and the citizens are gruns
bling. zi2fsa
A girl near Dayton, Ohio, recently
won a bonnet by throwing her father
twice out of three times in a wrestling
match. SIS =
A Pennsylvania minister was re-
Gently given a donation party, at
which the gifts were six rolling pins,
a pen wiper, and two quarts of dried
apples, vintage of 1864. 7s7s r
A Missouri editor declares that he
will never quit editing while God
gives him strength "to swing a pencil
or stick a moral cookie burr under
crupper of loyalty and sham piety."
The German scribblers tried to get.
''The Mystery of Edwin Drood7 into
their language, but, after tracing IL
few chapters, gave the task up aS
hopeless.
The daughters of General r E,
Lee. General Francis, H. Smith, 81
the Virginia Military Institute, and
General w. u. Pen,lleton, aro stll-:
dents at the Virginia Female. Institute,
Stanton, Virginia:
No one man doubts the fact that
Shanghai hens make failure of bring
ing forth good offspring from porcelaip
door-knobs. An Indiana hen tried it
and perished in the attempt. 1ai
Exchanges are busy taking up the
item to the effect that "GaribaldIs
book never paid" 1t is the opinion
of successful travellers that G;lribaldi
never said it did.
1t is given out by those who have
practically demonstrated the fact, that
if one smears himself over with kero-:
sene oil when he goes to bed, he need
have no fears of mosquitoes.
A ootemporary says that it is awful
ly hot and dry around Paris. Judging
from the tone of the Enperor's tenn
per, just now, one might say it was.
The. a1iti-Chinese feeling in North.
Adams, Massachusetts, is 50 strong
an American employed to teach the
arrived Chinese the English language,
has been attacked with volleys of
stones.
The fact is not known to all ladies
that hair cut from the head of a corpse
never retains either curl or wave af--
ter death, nor the glossy, lie, Ii lse' ap.
pearance of hair cut from brain cita.
del endowed with life.
'"Let i'm CO. D;,n'l,'' said an old
farmer to his: son Who had caught a
young rabbit-e1et i'm go. and when
he's grown bigger at somebody elsc's
expense, you jest catch i'm ag'ln." -
Daniel let the rabbit go, but he never
caught him again.
Two New York coroncrs over the
body Of ALDERMAN Scannell, one
claiming the right to hold the inquest
because he was first on the ground,
and the other because of political
affiliation with the deceased. The lat
ter triumphed..
A New York girl who ran away
with her lover to New Haven, by
steamer, was surprised ON landing to-
hear her fathers voice, he having
come on by rail and fanked her. She
ran under a passenger train, which,
starting up, badly bruised her ankle.
She screamed, and her father took her
home.
There are sentimentalists in Rome
looking for the house in which the
melancholy Montague lived. They
have met with poor suUccss thus far.
Let them interview one of his rent
receipts, and the heirs and executors
of his landlord. ia1si
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