The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-27


And his paints are the flames and fiushes
OF sunset and sunrisei
Charity, Wisdom, Patience,
Fortitude, seif-cOntrol-
These come, Ike Autumn colOrs,
Richly to paint the SOUL
For that Is toned and meIlOwed
With all Masters art,
Only vixen Life's October
Has wrought upon the heart.
The census of 1870 will cost the
Government 81 10000.
"A good work maketh the hear
glad.
Adversely is goddess with golden
smiles.
1--we had had the privilege of max
ing the Eleventh Commandment, it
would be this-Owe no man.
The sting of a bee carries conviction
with it. It makes man a bee-leaver
at once
Human hair to the value Of S., 1895
was entered at the Boston Custom
House for the week ending October 8,
1870.
Two shoemakers out in company
were asked their profession. Says one
of them, 81 practice the heel-ing art;"
land ], 1" says the other, 'fabOr for the
good Of mems soles."
LII n po--;4+ oo,o,5 ~, b,,,,,5,,o5
and six years, died near Pine Bluff,
Ark, a few Gays ago, He served un-
der Gen. Jackson, at New Orleans, in
1916.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety appeals to the churches for help.
"The society bOrroWs no money"
Money is due to the missionaries,
which can not be sent until it is sent
In by friends. Receipts in six months
1000; payments, $4,000.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of the
State of Kentucky is in session in
Louisville. Over three hundred su-
bordinate lodges are represented. The
dedication ceremonies of the Masonic
Widows and Orphans Home were
performed By the Grand Lodge.
The Conservative Convention for
the Third Virginia district has nomi-
mated Colonel Albert Ordway for
Congress. OrdWay was an officer of a
Massachusetts, regiment, and the
first provost marshal of Richmond af-
ter the evacuation.
An Oregonian six footer exhibits in
the State Fair six footed colt of his
own raising, md also. q bull with two
tails. In the latter instance, how
ever, the prize win probably be
awarded to a Hibernian who offers a
tale with two bulls.
When youthful man aspires to whislzers,
Ana finds perchance that hairs betray
By turning sandy, red or yellow
What art can sOoth the youths dismay?
The only art his sguilt to cover,
To hide its shade from every eye,
And make him every inch the lover,
II he won't shave ft-is to dye
A singular suit is in progress at Do
yer, New Hampshire. A boy named
Frank Cassier represented himself as
a wild animal, and so imposed on a
man named WaterhOuse that he shot
him and put out one of his eyes
Cassier's father now brings suit to
recover the value of the eye. Young
Frank has retired from the wild AMI
NAL business minus an eye.
A lady in Francestown, n. H, has
q peculiar mania for cats, and q short
time ago was in possession of thirty
three. A few weeks since she was
taken III, and the boys of the neigh
borhood INDUCED in grand cat hunt.
Twenty-eight subtracted from thirty
three leaves five-the precise number
of cats now owned Dy the eccentric
lady of FrancestOwn.
Joe Meek, the Oregon trapper, went
TO Washington as a territorial messen-
ger. His good looks and relationship
to President Polk made him a great
favorite with ladies. While prone
nading one evening, lady inquired
whether he had ever married. Eyes"
Joe said, 'I have wife and six chill
dren." tsOh, la ~ continued his
friend, "and isn't Mrs. Meek afraid of
the Indians ?'' uAfraid of the In
dians % replied the frontiersman 'I
reckon not; why, she's an Indian |
herself.h
A party of young men were telling |
what they would do if they were ship
wrecked, far out upon the sea, and |
left buffeting with the waves without /
a plank to sustain them. Each one |
gave his opinion excepting Paddy
Murphy, who, after being asked for |
his, replied: "Bad cess to We, coward
ly set of spalpeens; ye'd all be after
savin' yourselves an not trying to
save anuther. Why it's Paddy Muir
ply that would swim to shore an
save himself, an thin come back and
thry to save anuther.n
A young man by the name of Spen-
Ger Campbell, of Minersville, Meigs
county, Ohio, committed suicide by
hanging, on Sunday afternoon last
lie had been reading a novel, one of
the characters of which ended his ex-
istence by hanging, and after reading
that part Of the story he procured a
strap and chain, fastened them to-
gether, attached one end to a beam
and the other to his neck, and swung
himself on into eternity. 1t is said
he had to hold up his feet in order to
keep them from touching the floor.
and that, when found, his knees near
ly touched the floor.
The Fort Wayne Gdsette saws
"Out in Jackson township they have
remarkable ways of curing diseases.
A little girl out there was advised to
wear charm about her neck for fif-
teen days, and then her father was to
take il and ride bareback twelve miles
as hard as his horse could 20 to the .
Meumee river, throw the bag into /
the water, and then return, being care /
ful to be Just half way home by sun
rise. All this was done, and we sup |
pose that the child is well by this |
time.D
sTsay, cap'n," said a little-eyed |
man as he landed from the steam
boat PetOna, at Natchez-'I say
cap'n. this 'ere amt ALL" tfThat's all 4
the baggage you brought on board,
sir.r replied the captain. t'Well, see, (
now, it's accordin' to list-four boxes, /
three chests, two BAN boxes, a port 4
manly, two hams lone part cut, three
ropes, inyons, and tea kettle; but
I'm dubersum, I feel there's some
thing short, though Fve counted 'em
nine times, and never took my eyes
OVEN while on board; there's some
thing not right, somehow" ''Well,
the times up; there's all I
know OF; so bring up your wife and
five children out of the cabin, and
we're off, "Them's um, darn it,
them g um I knowed I'd forgot some