Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-08-03

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How To CURE CORNs.-Mr. Rose, a
merchant of San Diego, announces
that these creators Of much mis-
cry in the world, can easily and
surely be cured by applying a good
coat Of gum arabic mucilage every
evening on going to bed. He had
them forty years, and tried nearly
all the corn doctors and corn rene
dies in existence, without relief, until
he tried the above, which readily cur
ed him in q few weeks.
A man in Norwich, Conn, has
whitfield with a penknife, "A perplexing
bottle puzzle. He has taken an eight
ounce vial and set up in its interior a
perfect key about two inches long,
with four hoops on ii and both heads
in and he has stopped the bottle
with a wooden plug, which fits per-
fectly tight and is keyed inside, the
key pinned and the pin toggled. The
workmanship is excellent, and the
way it was done is a mystery.
Ifaman sleeps under my preaching.
says Mr.. Beecher, 1 do not send a boy
TO wake him up; but I feel that a boy
had better come and wake me up.
Men will not go where they are not
fed. When they go to Church, and
get nothing but cut straw, and straw
raised five hundred years ago at that,
and will not come again, I honor
them!
In Savannah, Ga, n can hear on
the streets the shouts of "Crabs gwine
by" Tomatoes gwine by" "Snap
beans for sale, come out and buy um, u
but no n ever hears the cry of
Newspapers gwine by" for a city
ordinance fOrbids the crying Of news
papers on the streets. Evidently
that city council needs civilization.
Van Amburgh's lion tanner went
into the cage at WOodsfield, Monroe
county, the other day with alacrity.
When he came out he brought the
alacrity with him, but left the seat Of
his pantaloons. He said he had no
use for it, andthe lion seemed TO want
it, so he let him have it.
AS Dr.. Dwight once passed through
a region of very poor land, he said to
a farmer: "Sir, perceive your land
here is not very productive" "NO,
sir" said the honest farmer, Tour land
is just like self-righteousness." "Ah!
how is that? ~ "Why, the more a
man has Of it the poorer he is"
LoRAIN COUNTY FAIR.-The time
for holding the Lorain Co. Fair, which
vas first set for the early part of OctO-
Der, has been changed to Sept. 10th to
sd, out Of courtesy to the Northern
Ohio Fair, so there may be no con-
hict between the two.
A Pennsylvania man was lately
aroused thinking that the Sioux were
taking his scalp. He found a guile
less mouse making a nest of his hair,
and was relieved in his mind.
A Tennessee robber let his victim
90 home for his money who basely vio-
lated the trust reposed in him by bring
ing back a shotgun and shooting the
coniding robber.
Henry Martin, the French historian,
publishes a long article taking the ground
that France ought to break with Rome,
seeing that the eXtravagant p-retensiOns
of the Pope are fatal to the liberties Of
the Gallican church.
Adrove comprising a thousand horses,
passed through Dayton, from Texas, on
the 2lst, and are said to be intended for
the French agent in New York, and
intended for the cavalry arm Of the
French army.
During the past year Ohio eontribu-
ted $50, 756, 900 to life insurance com
panies. Number of policies issued, IA,
ga; amount Of losses and claims paid,
S7O6, 200,
What is the difference between a
man paralyZed with fear and a Loop
ards tail? One is rooted to the spot,
and the other is spotted to the root.
1t is said that a dozen lives per day
are lost by trying to kindle fires by
pouring on coal oil. Don't try it I'M
less you want the undertaken to call.
Two ladies were seriously taken al
at a ball in Berlin from wearing a
green tarlatan dress, which was dis
covered to contain arsenic.
The latest style in gold bracelets is
in the shape Of a futed muslin cuff,
and is made of FURNISHED gold with a
diamond button and ruby buttonhole.
A lady who was not a Shakesperian
scholar, hearing the merry Wives of
Windsor" highly praised, inquired
how many wives Mr.. Windsor had.
Prof. Goltz says that if you take out
the brain in frogs and rub a wet fing-
er down their backs, that they will
croak as if pleased.
A mistaken tourist was found weep
ing over the ice-hOuse at Mt. Vernon,
thinking he was dropping tears at the
tomb Of Washington.
A lady in marlborough has been
bereayed of a daughter, who died at
the tender age Of eighty. The mother
has been a widow for eighty years.
An exchange wants to know if,
when young woman blush and weep,
they can be said to raise a hue and
cry.
Edwin ThOrne, Of Duchess county.