The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-18
CHIPS.

the race will degenerate.
Mittens for the hands come more
agreeably just now than from the
girls.
An old lady in England kept her
coffin in her room for five years, and
when she died the other day she
couldn't get into it.
An escaped Iunatic in Connecticut
is on begging tour with skunk in
his arms. He uses that animals pc
culiarities to enforce his requests.
Miss Susan B. Anthony says she
never heard so many men in one
place being simultaneously affected
with the sore throat as she found in
Washington in selecting Congress
men to speak at her Suffrage COnyen-
ton.
A member of the Wyoming Leg
islature seeking to sustain a point of
order, jerked his coat off, with-"Mr
Speaker, if some reliable man will
hold these duds, I'll teach him that
he is out of order" The point was
sustained.
'tSally," cried a girl, looking down
from the upper story of grocery
store, addressing another girl who
was trying to enter at the front door,
"we've all been to camp-meeting, ana
lce hdUe been concerted; so when yOU
want whisky on Sunday, you'll have
to come round to the back door,"
1t is reported that the Viceroy OF
Egypt has made an alliance with
Greece.
The Spanish Government will soon
propose a new candidate for the va
cant throne.
"Dan," said lit tie four-year-Old
"We've got one monkey in the house
it, Dan?" asked the little fellow.
"You," was the reply. ''Then give
me dime to buy the monkey
some nuts" His brother could not re-
sist.
An indianapolis woman recently
gave birth to child during her hus-
bands absence, and "the neighbors''
borrowed two other babies and placed
them in bed with the little stranger.
When the father asked to see the
child, the coverlid was turned down.
He coolly turned to his wife and ask
ed, "Did any get away?"
At the woman's suffrage conven-
ton in Vermont, Mrs. Howe said that
she knew a man who would frequent
ly exclaim, "Oh, halfness halfness
halfness :" She didn't then under
stand what he meant, but she think:
she understands itnow. Halfness, ac-
cording to Mrs. Howe, must be that
state of society in which one half OF
humanity lives without the other
half.
HE who rises late may trot all day,
and never overtake his business" So
said Franklin. A cotempOrary says
"We have watched those fellows who
are early risers, and as a general thing
they are the chaps who go to the gro
ceries in the morning. It's all non
sense about the smartest, and great
est, and wisest men being the early
riserS."
That was beautiful idea in the
mind of a little girl, who on behOldine
a rose bush, OF the topmost stem the
Oldest rose was fading, whilst below
and around it three beautiful crimsC Il
buds were justunfolding their charms s
at once and earnestly exclaimed tC
her brother, ''See, William, these lit
tie buds have awakened in time to
kiss their mother before she dies"
Moss agates, popularly supposed tC
contain specimens of real moss, but
which are simply silicious formations
penetrated with iron solutions taking
the form of moses, vines, trees, &c.
are found along the Union Pacific
Railroad at points for two hundred
miles from Cheyenne westward. The
blue and cream agates are the mos
highly priced.
DR.. c., of Sycamore, ILL.,, rid.
ing in the country one day, saw a sign
upon gate post reading thus: ''This
farm for SAIL" Stopping his horse, he
hailed little old woman, who stood
on tip-tOe, hanging out clothes. 81
say, Madam, when is this farm going
to SaIw "Just so soon, sir" replied
the old lady placing her thumb to her
nose, "as any body comes along who
can raise the wind" The doctor drove
thoughtfully on.
| A few years ago a gentleman re-
siding in the town of Friendship
N. Y, became interested in a pool
boy and educated him. The boy
went to Kansas, prOspered, and last
week returned for his aged parents
While at his old home he has learn
ed that son of his former benefactor
has recently had hard struggle OF
life, and he has discharged part of his
debt in gratitude by placing him at
the school where he himself was put
and providing for his maintenance
while there.