Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-09-14
The CHRONICLE.

The deep sOundings made in con-
neetion with the laying Of submarine
cables show the average depth Of the
Atlantic Ocean to be 1900 feet.
The dissatisfied puddlers in a west
ern city who marched oRin a body in
the midst of their days work, prOba-
bly, believed in striking while the iron
Is hot.
AeOrresp0ndentOfthe Germantown
Telegraph who lost seventy chickens
by gapes last year, now says that fresh
water daily, with a lump Of roll brim-
stone kept in it, will be found a GER
tain preventive.
The following advertisement is pub
lished In an English church paper :
Home wanted for an unmanageable
boy, aged ten, with a clergyman.
Strict disciplinarian, accustomed and
willingto birch. Liberal terms Sings
in choir"
The New York census takers found
in a family child about five years
old without any name. The father
wanted one name, its mother the 9TH
er, and they would not compromise.
An Illinois woman who couldn't do
a benevolent action without some adj
mixture of feminine spite, shook all
the best apples Off one of her hus-
bands trees while hanging herself on
1t is announced that Marshal Ba-
Zaine received orders "to use all his
influence TO protect journalists from
accompanying the French army INTO
Germany" So far he has obeyed in
structions with commendable fidelity.
Letters from planters in the interior
to their factors in Charleston, saws the
Charleston NeDs, unanimously agree,
that the crops both Of corn and cotton,
are finer than they have been at this
season, any year siRce the war.
Upon the bridge over the Platte,
leading out of Denver, Colorado,
there was not long ago this inscrip-
ton: mo vehicle drawn by more
than one one animal Is allowed to
cross this bridge in opposite directions
at the same time"
Jones says he is about sick Of seeing
the improbable paragraph to the effect
that eighty-three West Point appli-
cants were rejected because they
couldn't spell correctly" He thinks
any boy OF the period could spell"cOr-
rectly" if he were only careful to put
two RS in it.
We learn from the London Sport
ing Gazette Of August 20, that Nj.
Cryer, of Salem, Ohio, has made a
valuable importation Of greyhOunds.
Dogs are tested in England i'm races
arranged specially for them, and those
imported by Mr.. Cryer have been
successful in the contest.
The false hair trade Is doomed.
Olive Logan has discarded chignOns,
wears her hair plated in two chinese
quese down her back, and declares she
will so wear for full evening dress on
the platform during the entire COM
ing season. She will fight it out on
that line if it takes all winter.
Count La Grange's racing stud is
to be sold at auction in London next
month. It includes the famous Glad
iateuT, which has won for his owner
$40, 900 in stakes alone. American
turfman are urged to procure this
this splendid animal for the United
States.
AGiant by the name off. Sheridan.
has Just died at Had=ick, England,
was the landlord Of an inn there,
and only 80 years Of age. "Big
FranitU os he was called was 7 feet 3
inches in height, measured IS inches
round the chest, and weighed y stone
avoirdupOis. He was a native Of Ire
land.
Two IrishnIen were One day engag-
ed In roofing n house, when one OF
them lost his hold and fell to the
ground. The other fastened to him
and inquired as he lay Frustrated and
still, Mickey are you dead" mo"
replied Mickey, mot dead but spach-
less"
4 cnnntry Clergyman, paying pro-
fessional visit to a dying neighbOr,
who was q very churlish universally
unpopular man, put the usual ques-
ton "Are you willing to go, my
friend? ?" "Oh, yes" sand the sick
man, IT am" "Well," said the sim
ple-mlnded minister, al am glad you
are, for the neighbOrs are all willing"
THE Elmira editor that tried to
raise cabbages by planting soar krout,
and failed, has been reading what
Mr.. Greeley knows about farming.
Some time since he planted a quanti-
ty of seed, and then went to all his
and contracted to furnish
them with canary birds on the first of
September. Failing to furnish the
birds, he explained that he had plant
ed six quarts of canary seed, but that
he didn't raise a COMPOUNDED bird.
AN excursion Of merchants and
business men is organizing in New
York to 90 out West and eXtermin-
ate a large quantity Of bufaloes for
amusement. None Of them have
been introduced to a buffalo. and
they are not sure whether buffalOes
grow on trees, or are caught with q.
hook and line, but the men are conf
dent they can bring peace to our
country, if once brought face to face
with the enemy.
A great many boys complain that
there + no places. Perhaps it is
hard to get just such as you like. But
when you get a place-and there are
plaees-this big country, we are sure,
has need of every good boy and girl
and man and woman in it-Whenyou
get a place, we say, make your self
useful in it make yourself necessary
to employers; make yourself so neces-
sary, by your fidelity and good beha-
Yior, that they cannot do without you.
Be willing to take a low price at first ;
no matter what work isif it be honest
work do it well ; do it the very best
you can. Begin at the very lowest
round of the ladder, and climb up.
The great want anywhere is faithful
capable workers. They are never a
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