Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-02
The CHRONICLE.
Miscellaneous Items.

The area of timbered lana in Kan
sas is estimated at $500, 600 acres.
The Kansas Legislature elected Miss
Emma Cambell Enrolling Clerk.
Grace Greenwood is in favor of Civ
ing the ballot to every woman who
owns a sewing-maehine or wash-tub.
y kentucky mother called her son
out of church and vhaled him for be-
ing a deacon. The deacon baekslid
for about five minutes.
If counties would compel their ply
sicians to Isl this, there would be no
need of pest houses. If YOU value adj
vice and experience, use this for those
terrible diseases.
y land and lumber company in
Maine is about to erect a building for
the purpose of manufacturing Kind
ling wood for a foreign market.
The banks are refusing fifty and one
hundred bills of the First National
Bank of Jersey City, n. J., on ae-
count Of some OF the unsigned sheets
being stolen.
The Belle Gabrielle" hat, the latest
Paris conception, is high, and is made
of green, blue and black velvet, with
feathers on one side to match, fasten-
ed under a rose.
Alexis st. Martin, whose side wa
shot away in 1872, in such a manner
as to expose the action of the digestive
organs to the surgeons eve, is still
aIiva onE wall in Gayapdi,b Nrt
The Minnesota Senate consists OF
twenty married men and two bachel-
ors. In the House there are forty
one married men and six bachelors.
Majority of married men on joint bal
lot, fifty-three.
A little girl, who knew her cate
chism only too well, was found astray
in the streets of London, and, being
asked her parentage and place of birth
answered that she was a "child of i "
and "born in wrath"
1t is a common and q most dirty
practice to get your breakfast water
in the evening, and keep it in the
room W night. 1t will purify your
room in a measure, but foul itself.
Josh Billings has issued a supple
mtnt tOhis famous essay on the mule.
1.-THE mewl is a larger burd than the
guse or turkey. 1t has two legs to
walk with and two more to kick with,
and it wares its wings on the side.of
its head"
Ground glass windows are said to
be destructive of health, because they
diminish light. The difference OF
light transmitted through clear and
ground glass is about fifty per cent.
in favor of the clear glass.
A cross-eyed young man and a
young woman similarlyafficted went
to an Oculist in Elmira, on Monday,
and had their eyes made straight
They intend to be marriednext week,
and don't intend that even their eyes
shall be crossed IN their love.
Some gentlemen from Columbia.
s. c., while on a hunting expedition
last Friday in the swamps of the fork:
of COngaree and Wateree rivers, cap.
tured an alligator seventeen feet in
length and weighed $50 pounds. He
broke a eolored boy'sleg before he wa
secured.
1t is not work that kills men; it is
worry. Work is healthy /; you car
hardly put more upon a man than he
can bear. Worry is rust upon the
blade. 1t is not the revolution thai
destroys the machinery, but the frie.
ton. Fear secretes acids; but love
and truth are sweet juices.
And so it is with the drunkard.-
Far up a great many pairs of winding
stairs in his heart, is a door, and on
that door is written Man, and we
must knock at it once, twice, seven
yea, seventy times seven, that it may
open unto us.-John b. Cough.
Two daughters of a thrifty farmer
in Princeton, ILL.,, fifteen and seven
teen years old, completed on Monday
evening the task of walking eighty
miles within twenty consecutive
hours, for a prize of 800. They be-
gan at 8 o'clock in the morning, and
finished at S:23 in the evening, having
one hour and thirty-seven minutes to
spare.
An oyster shell, opened in Macon,
Georgia, lately, was found to contain
only a little fish, two and a half inch
es long, and alive and in good condi-
ton. The little creature must have
been imbibed by the oyster in some
draft of sea water while in the shape
of o spawn or minute minnOw, and,
growing in its p~TisonhOuse, finally
returned the hospitality of the oyster
by devouring it.
An illustration of the operation of
the ranking privilege is given by the
Davenport iowa Gazette. On the
evening of the 10Th inst. there arrived
in the post office of that city G regis
tered letter, duly franked, in the shape
or a large canvas-covered trunk weigh
ing at least three hundred and fifty
pounds. 1t was mailed at Washing
ton and directed to San Francisco.
There is a queer suit being tried in
Ulster county, n. Y. a young lady,
who wished to marry a youth with
$4,000, promised a lady s., 200 for her
assistance if the game proved success
full. The young man fell a victim, of
course, but the successful bride refused
to pay the $1,000 when demanded,
and this suit is the result.
4 married gentleman, every time
he met the father of his wife, COM
planned to him of the ugly temper and
disposition of his daughter. At last,
upon one occasion, becoming weary
of the grumbling of his son-in-law,
the old gentleman exclaimed: "YOu
are right; she is an impertinent jade,
and if L hear any more complaints of
her / will disinherit her," The hus-
hand made no more complaints.
A Philadelphia publican missed
money from his till Every means
was employed in vain for the discov-
cry of the thief. He slept alone in
his bar-room one night undisturbed,
but in the morning every bit of paper
money was gone from the drawer. At
length the drawer was removed. In
one corner a hole was found Just big
enough for the entrance of a mouse
For years the little creatures had been
renewing the lining of their nest with
national currency of every small de-
nomination. The quantity recovered
filed a cigar box. 1t was cut virtu-
ally into paper down, and amounted
in the aggregate to several hundred
dollars.
In addition to the fact that ieeIis
than water, there is another
thing ahOut IL which many