The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-17


Not a post of hSnor2-a lamp DO t
at midnight to the man who dares not
leave it lest he peril MS equilibrium.
Lady Franklin, has returned to Viz
toria without goinsany nearer to Eng
land.
A CONVENTION of Illinois AZ ethnaists
is caHed~to meet at Bleomington$the
10Th and 10Th of Nov.
Virginia has a natural bridSe-but
that is no more than every one has on
his nose.
Wendell Phillips, is in a pet at the
idea of coolie competition with his co.
ored pets.
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If we cannot hear, it is not from Il 9
lack of ears, as the ass said to the corr
field 5' &
Enlightenment is the result of fire.
quent thinking upon the highest af-
fairs OF mankind. hf
One of our most skillful military cit
liens has so much confidence in him
self that he says he can drill a rock.
BulIock's jrd ,rsement of. the Geor-
gia Legislature is like a man indor =
ing his own note. 5-la3-3- aH
Lady Thorn is q thorn in the side
of her trotting rivals. Two and sweet
nineteen is about her atandard time.
When is a Chinese the most like a
vegetable? Why, when a cue cumb-
ers his head.
The nail : makers at Weymouth in
Mass. are on a strike. Those at Tan
ton demand Increased wages.
Massachusetts has three Mormon
churches, owing to circumstances of a
purely local nature-they don't sdvo-
cate p~olygamy, .lt3
A New Haven dispatch says the
propeller Parthenia was totally burn
ed in the sound, Sunday morning
No lives were lost. .f
l. Several thousand spinsters in Ma 9
sachusetts, after long years of watcE.
full observation, entirely dissent from
the proverb, "Man proposes"
Frank Noll, of Cincicinuati, a prin.
ter, fell from the third story of a bull
ding in Cincinnati to the pavement, |
and received serious injuries.
A man in Jail out west for horse
stealing has satisfactorily proved that
he is a murderer insu ad, and now the
Sheriff is after MIN for that. They
are bound to quarrel with him scmc.
how. |
The Louisville Courier Journal says
the charge that it never approved an
act Of President Grant is unjust =,
When he refused to receive the Cleye.
land pup, it said he did just right.
Hon. James Cavenaugh delegate
from Montana, has been earnestly en-
gagged in endeayoring to procure the
pardon of ONeill and others, recently
convicted for the raid into Canada.
Psychologists maintain that some
thing should be carried in the hat at
the present time as n protection from
the heat; but rapid young men need
not infer that it is a brick.
A lady recently deceased in New
Hampshire has left $500, 900 to found
Il college for young women, wherein
they shall be taught all the higher
branches of education enjoyed by male
students in other establishments
Alexander Dumas, the elder, isjust
quartered in a splendid hotel in
the Puerto del Sol, at Madrid, as the
guest of a rich banker by whom he has
been commissioned to write a history
OF modern Spain, for which he is to be
paid five thousand francs a volume,
Nathaniel Wilson, the renowned liv-
ing skeleton died on Friday last in
at the age of thirty years.
During childhood he was rugged and
healthy, but when in his sixteenth year
signs OF wasting away and loss offesh
to appear Although he
was a geeat eater, he at the time of his
death, weighed only sixty pounds
His disease was al affection of the
right lung.
Anthony Trolope says: "I do not
comprehend the reason for the exist-
ence of so many women; although
suppose Providence had some wise
end in view, in giving to every mau
at least eight or ten women to choose
from when he is able to select a wife.
The late Jacob y. Girard. of Ponoh-