Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-12-22
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PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.

Telegraph wires.
A listener complains that in the
debate at a late meeting of the Milk
Producers Association nothing
was said about water.
Norwich, Connecticut, has on
exhibition a silver shekel, said tc
have once been in one of the vaults
of King Solomon's temple.
They have a man in Memphis who
practices law before the Police
Court in the morning and peddles
pills during the afternoon.
John Mccarthy, of Troy, was
sentenced last week to a years i'm
prisonment, with hard labor, for
having stolen a cotton umbrella.
An Illinois Postmaster gives no
tice as follows "After this date
everybody must lick their own pos
tage stamps, for my tongues given
out"
After a wedding it was formerly
custom to drink honey dissolved
in water for thirty days-a moon S
age. Hence the origin of the hon
ey-moon.
The Alta Californian has learned
by "a private letter from Washing
ton" that President Grant intends
to make a tour Of the Pacific States
next Spring.
"Do you like Goldfish balls, Mr..
Virgins ?" Mr. w. hesitatingly,
81 really don't know, Miss; | don't
recollect ever attending one"
A boys idea of having a tooth
drawn: THE doctor hitchel fast
on me, pulled his best, and just be-
fore he killed me the tooth came
out"
A negress, speaking of one of
her children who was lighter color
ed than the rest, said; 81 nebber
could bear dat brat, cause he show
dirt so easy"
Watertown disputes the wood
saving championship with Oswego.
They have a man who can steal,
saw, and split a cord of wood in
side of one night.
His aboriginal Majesty, John
Cha -sa-kee, died last week
in Michigan at the age of lO7, And
this is what was the matter: Olea-
Observation-Disclosures.
An IrishmAn being asked in
court for his.certilicate of marriage
showed q big scar on his head
about the shape Of shovel, which
was pronounced satisfactory.
Mary Krumpasitlzkosoki was re-
Gently divorced from her husband
at Jelersonyille, Ind, and now
finds relief In her maiden name,
Ponvintamatowski,
President Wolsey, Of Yale Col
lege, it is said, will soon desire to
retire, and as his successor, Rev, J.
p Thompson, Of New York, q very
competent man, is proposed.
The marriage Of Mrs. Tower, of
Lowell, Massachusetts,, a divorced
wife, was recently nullided because
she had contracted it without the
sanction Of the Supreme Court.
A balloon school has been open
cd in Paris under the superntend-
ence Of Mons. Gordon, who is us
ing the great depot of the Orleans
railway as mandatory Of bal
looms,
A remarkable fact, stated in a
London letter, is that the children
Of the Prince Of Wales, at the cir
Gus, alaughed at the tricks as III
they we're the children Of common
people"
Down in Crawford county, Indi-
ana, the amiahle school teachers
"choke, whip, beat, knock down,
and otherwise maltreat their schol-
ars," according to the Leavenworth
Independent.
Paris Figaro declares that q ca.
rier pigeon which was shot while
going into Paris with importantI
dispatches, swallowed, and thus dis
troyed the same, while rolling its
eyes in It's death agonies.
A New York fashion paper says
Among the handsome young men
in the District are Messrs, May, of
9 street, sons Of the eminent sur
geon; Mr. Il. d. Mckee, aud Sam
uel Phillips, talented member Of
the bar.
A writer thinks that il the prop
er way TO spell tho is "though,"
and ate "eight," and bo "beau,
the proper way Of spelling pota-
toes is "poughteighteaux" The
new way Of spelling softly is
psoughtleigh."
A young man in Louisville ex-
amined keg Of gunpowder with a
red hot poker TO see II twas good,
1t Is believed by his friends that he
has gone TO Europe, although a
man has found some human bones
aud a shirt about twenty miles from
Louisville.
A cunning lawyer, meeting with
q shrewd old friend on q white