Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-03-23
Clippings.

Savannah is sending lumber to Great
Britain.
John Bright is said to mediate visit
to America.
Liberia IS anxious for annexation to
the United States.
ShebOygan, Wis, has had IIg DAYS Of
continuous sleighing.
COnstantinOple has had the reality Of
ice and snow this winter
HarPer's Ferry is to be made water
ing place, and large hotel IS to he built
there.
F The PresbyteFians are about starting
( newspaper at Chicago, 10 be called the
Interior"
A Missouri town is rising money to
buy tombstone for man hanged for
I hOrsestealing who has been found innO-
cent
General Hooker has given the artist
B Walker commission to paint the "Battle
Above the Clouds" The price is to be
Sl6,OOO.
a man in New Orleans court Of jus
I tice, being examined as witness, was
asked if he were born in WedlOCk. No
answered the man. 4 was born in Tex
as.U
WIFE, says a gentleman Of New
/ Haven, has Willie been baptized - NO,
my dear, not yet; but why do you ask,
John ? Because there is a great deal
7 Of smallpox about, and il out to be done
at once"
! A member Of the South Carolina House
/ heard the notes OF the menagerie band
outside, and forthwith moved that dis
/ honorable body move to de window to
see de show pass 1t moved.
THERE are some forty thousand Indi-
ans i'm California.
/ Cape May has the honeysuckle and /
/ lilac in bloom.
/ Green corn is in market in Texas.
The Ohio Senate adopted a resolution
/ providing for an adjournment Of the
! Legislature March 81.
4 The Franklin Bank Of Baltimore has
/ formally resumed the retention Ofits
outstanding circulation in coin.
Suits have been commenced against
/ the bOndsman Of the late Treasurer Of
Butler County, Ohio.
I The total shipments Of treasure from
! San Francisco since January l, amount
( to Sc, 1913, 600, including g, AIS, 600 sent to
New York overland.
An inexperienced farmer tried to
make corned beef by giving his oxen
whisky.
/ Cabins says nerves make the man.
| He was mistaken. They make the wO-
man.
A monster concert saloon, with a reg
( iment Of pretty waiter girls is to be
opened on Broadway, New York.
Boston IS jealous because New York
is going to have two executions, and
she can't have any.
Opera-hOuse Pike is going to build
another at Cincinnati, if the city will 1
give him the land and furnish the mon /
ey.
LADY Librarians have charge Of no less
than fourteen public libraries Of impOr- .
tance in this country.
Work has had to be suspended at the
Scranton, Pennsylvania mines, because
the mules are all sick with the dypthe
ria.
A doctor at Dubuque, Iowa used q
stOmach-pump for two hours on a man
killed by the cars, and then he had to
reckon that life was utterly distinct.
A reliable gentleman tells US that at
religious meeting among the blacks;
a cOlOred preacher requested that some
brother should pray. A half-witted fel-
low commenced string of words with
out meaning. At this the paTsOn raised
his head and inquired Il
Who's dat praying? Dat you brud-
der Nose? You let somebody pray dat's
better acquainted with the Lord
Two young ladies in certain house in
town the other night we're heard to sing
as follows:
40 for man!
. for a man
0 for a mansion in the sky ~
Before they could get any further two
young blOOds outside responded:
80 for a gal
0 for a gal
o for a gallon Of old rye"
A few days ago a very strictly dressed
individual called at an Out-Of-the way
shop on Howard street, over which hung
the name Of Doctor Jeffries.
is the Doctor in y he inquired Of a
dilapidated darkey who answered his
summons.
He am dat, sir, was the smiling re-
jOinder.
Tell him think have got the small
pOX and wish to consult him.
The white Of the darkey's eyes grew
intense, and his dusky complexion as
sUmed rapidly a creamy hue.
'GOlly, boss, what you say? :?
Tell the Doctor Pm sick with the
smallpox and wish to see him,
The RstOuished African gave wild /
n L. !.
slamming it in the visitors face cried .
out:
Leave dis yer house, don't want no
smallpox
But the doctor
'GOlly, boss, Use the doctor, but aint .
good at small-pOx.'.-N 0. Picdy1gle.
How TO Stop SNoRING.-Itis is said to
/ be fact, that, if YOU are sleeping in a (
room with one who is in the habit Of
snoring aloud, if you commence whistl- /
I ing any air, assuming low tone, and /
! gradually raising it, by degrees the snOT- !
/ ing will cease without disturbing the
sleep Of the snOrer.
/ The London News, of the first of
| March, speaks thus in its editorial col /
umns; "a Negro Senator has taken his /
! place in the United States Senate. It is |
/ difficult for Englishmen to realize the /
extent Of the revolution in American /
statement which this fact indicates. (
| The utterly improbable case of work .
| ing man being called to his seat i'm the A..
House Of Lords would not be at all par
allel to that of the Negro Senator from |
! Mississippi taking his scatin the United /
/ States Senate. The events is purely Il 1
victory of American principles over /
American prejudices.
The very pretty optical illusion by /
which gold fishes and canary birds are |
made to apper to be joint occupants of a ,
huge vase Of water is getting to be pop
ular. 1t is very simple. The bottom Of !
the vase is cOncave-cOnveX the apex
rising about fifteen inches above the |
base of the circumference. This dome /
forms the superstTucture Of the bird cage, |
and the bottom, supplied with drawers F.
and properly ventilated, serves as a ped /
estal for the vase. Until recently this |
pretty arrangement has not been seen /
outside of museums. It is now getting |
to be part Of household OrnamentatiOn. /
THE man who don't advertise has his