Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
The
Miscellaneous Items.

AAHCOhN AttulSs
Ohio has q, OO0more boys than girls.
Poor girls!
The profit of the richest gold mine
in California last year was $40, 900.
Efforts are being made to ~replenish
the streams of Vermont with salmon,
The losses by fire throughout the
United States for the year, foot IN
S4O,6S4, OOO.
Marble, almost equal to the Italian
marble, has been found within a few
miles OF Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Anna Dickinson has another new
lecture, which she calls Down
Breaks"
Even now, at the close of January.
the grasshopper is a burden in New
Jersey.
Every man, woman and child in
america uses, on an average, 500
matches a year.
a man too busy to take care of his
health is like a mechanic too busy TO
take care of his tools.
Quantities OF bogus Jewel
ry are now worn. Alaska diamonds,
worth n cent, are fashionable.
Why is a badly conducted hotel like
a musical instrument? Because its a
vile inn.
A fellow out west comes to the
truthful and practical conclusion
that,
He who by, his biz would rize,
Must either bust or ADVERTISE"
The name of the Chief Justice has
been applied to a locomotive on the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Salmon p. Chase"
The snow falls upon the Aims this
winter have been Unprecedented, and
the Mount Gents railroad has several
times been completely blocked up.
"Hug Me Tight" is the name of the
new jacket for ladies. 1t is intended
to be worn with the kiss Me Quick"
bonnet.
Somebody has stolen the only hearse
in Pennington, Conn.,, and the author
tiles offer a reward of S25 for its return
with the thief in it.
a man in ChillicOthe, who scorns
to advertise, has exhibited on a piece
of barrel head at his grocery, "Korn
Meel for Sail"
Babies are the coupons attached TO
the bonds of matrimony-the interest
is due at random.
1--WE see," said Swift, in one of his
most sarcastic moods, what God
thinks of riches by the people he gives
them to-"
Great principles are at the bottom
of all things; but to apply them to
daily life, many little precautions and
incidents are needed.
Literary ladies are seldom hand
some-a wise arrangement of Provi-
dence, tending to the preservation of
the peace of families.
Brick Pomeroy had a narrow escape
from death in Central Park on We'd
nesday last. His horses ran away,
throwing him on his head.
Mark Twain is about to be married.
Twain shall be one flesh, and if
she wants you to go with her to the
opera once, go with her Twain.
An old maid on the wintery side of
fifty, hearing of the marriage of a
pretty young lady, h%erfriend, observ-
ed with a deep and sentimental sigh,
We'll, suppose it is what we must
all come tor
A Milesian, born on the last day of
the year, felicitates himself on his
narrow escape from not being born at
all. "Be jabers," says he, "and if it
had been the next day, what would
become of me ."
A clergyman out west has hit upon
4 novel plan of making his congrega-
ton come down. When the coIlec- |
ton has been taken up he asks all
who contributed to rise. Then he
asks a blessing on them. Most any
nan will pay five cents for a blessing
n church, and consequently most
pay.
a Good Templar in California has
satisfactorily explained. to his lodge
low he happened to indulge in a four
spree. He has ordered a dozen ,
bottles of mineral spring water, which |
lis playful wife quietly emptied and
e-nlleu with whisky.
a mysterious deaf girl has been ag-
San Francisco. 4 reporter d,
vent to interview her, and while 4
down the points INDUCED in
emarks which would not have been
complimentary if shecould have heard
hem. She stood it for some time.
nut finally emptied the coal. scuttle
yer him and pitched him down
tairs.
1t is not very pleasant to think
hat, after all the African explora-
ions of the last hundred years, we
re no nearer the source of the Nile
han men were in the time of Ptole-
ny. DR.. Livingstone leaves us as
much puzzled as ever, and indeed, in
imates as that it has no source at all. =
FOR he says it has probably twenty /
Ources," which, of course, makes the
ource as much of a mystery as ever,
nd it is very likely that people will I
ever come to any agreement on the
Perhaps nature herself, in
he midst of so many springs, lakes
nd water courses, would be puzzled
D say what or where it is. The chief
knowledge we have gained from Liv-
ngstOne concerning that secluded
region is, that it is a wonder
ul kind o frainy upper country, draw
ng down the clouds into a thousand a
ushing streams, u of which may I
tossibly be considered the source Of
he Nile.