The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-02-15
BREvITIES.

Beecher says Raul was a blear-eyed
Jew.
Jim Mace is classed under the head
of English sparrers.
Nilsson is at Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky.
An Iowa man is recommended for
Governor because he has money.
The people of Paris are starving for
food. The horrors Of wal.
Horace Greeley is telling what he
knows about the American people.
If the people could tell what they
know of Greeley it would be funny.
Grant, falsifed when he said Prus-
sia wanted Domingo Bismarck de-
mics II.
The last brother-in-law appointed
to office, is a person named Cramer.
Lucky family.
King William enJoins the people of
Alsace and Lorraine from entering the
French service.
Edwin Booth, one Of the finest ac-
= tors in America, is thirty-seven years
old. His father was Junius Brutus.
Professor Silliman is 1ecturing in
the west on his favorite topic-the
science Of Chemistry
Jimjam Jubilee Junior wants to edit
q newspaper: Let Jim buy out the
virtuous Pomeroy.
Horace Greeley, the white coated
s republican philosopher is sixty years
old. May he live forever.
Rochefor5 the beggar, is republish-
ing his repulsive ISLANDERS upon Nape,
leon and Eugene Of Paris.
Mark Twain threatens to cease wri-
ting for the periodicals. He will be
fully engaged i~nsfeeding that boy on
milk.
jerome Patterson, a Bonapart, and
grandson Of Jerome Bonapart, was
one of the defenders of Paris.
James Gordon Bennett, is aboutto
erect a new and handsome block OF
buildings on Broadway New York.
An Arctic expedition has discover
ed vast coal fields in Greenland, and
botanical specimens showing a luxu-
RANT vegetable growth.
A doctor was asked to dance the
& Lancers. He declined, but expressed
a willingness to lance the dancers.
The following question is now being
discussed before the Bangtown Deba,
ting Society t: "Can a big man ache
harder than a little man!
~Steam," said DIR. Lardner, lis the
Great anaihilator-it annihilates time
and space" eyes" said another,
"and multituIes of passengers too.
A very penurious lady was SO affect
ed by a charity sermon, on q recent
occasion, as 10 borrowa dollar from her
neiehbor. The effect was but NO.
mentary, 30 she put it in her own
pocket.
The British and Foreign Bibls So
ciety, having secured a suitable loca'
ton in the Corso, Rome, have open
ed q Bible der OF, with the sign over
the door: "Sacre Bible in diverse lin
gue."
Ten or twelve full blooded indiana
desire to become students i'll Highland
University, kansas, with a view to en-
ter the ministry in the Presbyterian
Church.
There are seventy Swedenborgiar
churches in this country, only half o
which have ministers, and there ar
only four theological students in the
New Church Divinity School.
La st year the Methodist Church ex
tension society raised 100000 an
aided 10 churches in SO differen
States and territories. The growt
of that church, however, is less rapic
than formerly.
A big moonstruek youth came foo
ing aroun d a house in Lexington til
other night with a cracked guitar an
q creaky voice, singing, "Put me j
my little bed" A window wal fnall
opened and the gentleman informe
that if he didn't ''dust," they woul,
"stand himEon his. little head" .fffn;
The New York Tribune sneers a
the "posthumous snobbery' which
flooding the magazines and newsps
pers now q days, in the way of { Kec
elections" and "Memoirs and Remir
sciences of great mon lately deceased
That means James T. Fields and tn
Atlantic.
A Quaker lately popped the que!
ton to a fair Quakeress as follows
"Hum-Yea and verify Penelope, tn
spirit urgeth and moveth me wondei
fully to beseech thee to cleave unto me
flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone
"Hum-truly, Obediah, thou hal
wisely said inasmuch as it is write
that it is notgood for man to be alon'
10 I will %sojOurn with ttee."
Holmes gives the following splel
did type of innocence; "One of m