The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-24

ALI efforts TO make hay by gas
light have failed ; but it is discovers
that wild oats can be sown under il
benign and cheerful rays.
A Pennsylvania farmer states tina
he cured his daughter Of the GreciaI
bend by pouring water on her AM
holding her out in the sun until sb
warped back again. y
"A Boston paper.has an article head
ed-the future Of Boston. Any on
who has ever attended Sunday schoo
ought to know all about the future o
such a place.
The following is the inscription OF
a tomb stone at Columbia Tenn.-H'
escaped the bullets of the euemy tob
assassinated by a cowarthyLpnp.
Henry Ward Beechet says that tn,
man who carries a flower garden in hi
heart has got back a part ofthat Elder
from which our great forefather wa:
expelled. s q
Persons who prefer stale bread car
have their taste gratifed by sending
to Pompeii, where they have loaves
that were baked over e~ighteen-hun.
dred years ago. 4s vsl1s,i
Lady Franklin, who is now in New
York, is not the widow of Ben Frank
lin, the old printer, as many Radicals
suppose, but OF the man who went a
fishing for the North Pole, got a bite
and was pulled in
Mr.. Piley of Manchester N II. kill
ed his vile with a chair because she
got drunk. He learnd her better
than 10 get drunk when il was his day
to be Intoxicated,
81 am afraid, dear wife, that while
l am gone, absence will conquer love-"
D.. never fear, dear husband, the long
er you stay away the better ] shall be
pleased. oil
An exchange says that there is no
so calculated to call out the true
earnestness of woman aud to enlist her
most earnest devotion ms doing up her
waterfall.
A passenger on the Albany train
put his head out of the window at Spy
tsn Duyvil bridge, and when he took
it in his head wasn't N. He was the
most surprisedest man you ever saw.
His funeral occurred the nextdayr
A lawyer called on a Kentucky ed
tor and told him he mnst retract some
ncomplimentary words or fgh4.-
There was no retraction, and when
the lawyer left the. office his eyes were
black and his nose bloody.
a French paper asserts that seven
Der cent of lunatics are made so by the
employment of hair dyes. This is
evidently a confusion of cause and eff
ect for no one who is not already
insane would use hair dyes
Anna Dickinson is wrestling with
mosquitoes at the White Mountains.
There Bre more of the mosquitoes
han there is of Anna, and at last &c
they had a ''backbold' on the
sepulchre. Two to one Oh
Anna if she shoots her mouth off at
hem.
AT a public sale of books in Lon
on, Drew's Essay on Souls was
.noeked down to a shoemaker, who,
D the great amusement of the assem-
ly, asked the a%uctioneer if he had
any more books on shoemaking to-
Ell"
"A school committeeman, not over
thousand miles from the Huh"
1 making some remarks at the close
{ an examination of a school, thus
omplimented and criticised the schol-
rs. "You read well, and you spell
vell, but you hain't sot still"
AT the late Ascot races a French
over-elated with the victory
f his countryman's horse, Sorette, re-
marked to the Princess of Wales -
That admirable race, madam, h7en-
ed us for Waterloo" ':True". an
wered the Princess. ''but at Water
70 you ran better still.
J: The artIess generosity of youth is
Illustrated in an incident told of n
title Albany boy, his face besmeared
nth molasses and his rags futtering
n the wind, running up from the river
Furnishing dirty shingle, and scream
ngsat the top of his voice to a COM
AIDE ooh, Bill Bill! get as many
oys and shingles as you can, for
=. - - - 80