Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26


No Japanese wife is allowed to get
drunk without the consent of her bus-
band, and then her spree is limited to
one hour.
The number of emigrants that left
switzerland for over the sea i'm 1868
numbered 8 1852, of whom Ass came
to America.
A German servant thinks we are to
have an immenset transformation scene
soon. The Zodical light is to resolve
itself into another moon.
The stOrekeepers of Rome are dis
gusted because the meeting of the
Ecumenial Council has only caused
an influx of fifteen thousand strang-
ers.
Queen Victoria has received as pres
ents from the Chief of the Basutos, of
Moshesh, in South Africa, a magnif-
ficent tiger and a box OF diamonds
valued at $4,000.
y lady asked her gardener why the
weeds always Outgrew the flowers.
Madam" answered he, "the soil is
mother to the weeds, but only step
mother to the flowers"
The best thing that can generally
be done with good advice is to keep it
for personal use. Other people don't
care for it very much ; or if they do,
it is only to throw away.
"How could God make a woman
out of a rib. papa?" 81 don't know,
my child; it was a miracle" "AIi
the questions you can't answer YOU
call miracles, don't you, papa?"
a lady meeting a young woman
who had formerly been in her service,
asked, "Where do you live now,
Mary?n "Please ma'am, / don't live
now, Pm married, =" was the reply.
"Mother," said Jemima, "Sam
wants to come counting me tonight
"Well, what did you tell him ?p fOh,
/ told him he might come, 1 felt anx-
ious to see how he would act"
a young lady went to see the 'Mer-
ry Wives of Windsor the other eve
ming, and during the play asked her
escort to point out Mr.. Windsor, as
she did not see his name on the bill !
A friend was speaking to Thaekeray
of a lately deceased Bacchanalian.
said the great humOrist, with
twinkle in his eye, and a chuckIein
his sigh-"Ah" said he, take him
for half-and-half, we meier shall look
upon his like again."
"WhO's that gentleman, my little
man ~ was asked of an urchin.-
''That one with the spike-tailed eoat?'i
eyes, was the response. "Why. he's
a brevet uncle of mine" "How's
was asked. "'Cause he's en-
gagged to my aunt Mary"
A western paper says: 1.-THE young
who were seen feeding each
other, dove-fashion, over a gate post,
the other evening, had better be a lit
tie more cautious in the future"
Amember of the Wyoming LegisIa-
ture, seeking to sustain a point of or
der, jerked his coat off with-"Mr.
Speaker, if some reliable man will
hold these buds I'll teach him that he
out of order" The point was sus-
1Lc IclJtE CdIIleTS Ol TIE cOuQLrN
Are organizing a movement to get an
increase of salaries, and will probably
hold a convention in Washington
some time next month to memorialize
Congress,
The cOlOred people have issued the
first number of the NeU Era, an organ
they have established at Washington.
1t is to be a large and handsome week
", with the Rev. Selah Martin and
Fred Douglass as its editors.
An English country gentleman has
conceived the original idea of stock
ng his park with live snakes, and
ldvertises for a supply of all varieties
If these reptiles. What a charming
'esort for persons with a constitution
Il tendency to deLeriHm tremcns!
1t is etiquette in London for a lady
o cut her dame partner next day when
he sees him in the park or elsewhere.
\ girl who stops to speak to a man
With whom she was waltzed and
upped the night before, runs the risk
# being either numerically chaffed,
r perhaps severely and seriously re-