The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-05-17
BREVITIEs,

Geld Is Ill in New York City.
The weather csntinnes frosty.
The ffris prospect Is very poor.
Cofn planting bas commenced.
Wheat and oats are looking finally.
The prospect for a hay crop is good
"A jury gave 19 cents damages in (
breach Of promise in Indiana.
Gay yopng fellows hereahouts are
a. srsighhY;as aeas.
"A Parson In Indiana will asht tht
devil and bugs this summer.
Mrs. Darlington wants specimens 0;
s1tinguished characters
A preacher says some people cant
tel the gospel trumpet from a dinner
horn.
In Mansfield, q jury agreed-:o
send put for a gallon Of the best lager
IN the market.
A young artist was recently appre-
hepded in the act of-drawing on her
stocking and clipper.
An insane man at New Orleans
threw q Gtfle nephew out a third story
window. He wa not much hurt.
A Yankee has invented an artificial
honeylcomb. Now If he can make
honey and fill it, the bees can rest.
Tha Boston Post knows a young
man IN THAT city who smokes $4,000
worth of cigars a year.
Out west when g VIGOROUSLY lazy
man 10 caught at work they have him
arrested for meddling with industry.
Brigham Young has ordered daily
players by the Utah clergy against the
grasshopPers this summer.
A man in Boston Is 90 shcrt that
when he is Ill he dosen't know wheth-
er he has headache or corns.
The books in the library belonging
to the British Musium occupy twelve
miles of shelving.
: party by the name of Jones has
written a book 10 show that the United
States Is the Kingdom Of Heaven.
Solomor's wisdom Is said to be due
20 the fact he had seven hundred wives
whom he consulted on all occasions.
Benjamin Franklin Of Minnesota,
lost both legs and both arms in the
late war. He draws . pension.
The heather Chinec is making
whiskey in California by fermenting
old rice and rubber shoes and things,
md the revenue people are after John
San Francisco reports a mammoth
mushroom-three fset in circumter-
ence, and weighing FIVE pounds eight
ounces.
Cant a man nod assent to what
the preacher saysP was the reply made
by one of our church goers when &c,
eused of sleeping IN church.
There were made on Kelley's Is
land, last wear, nearly q quarter of a
million gallons of wine, all of a much
better grade than the average vintage
A Western writer gives 1t as his be-
lief that If as much attention were paid
10 improving corn as IS given to grapes,
a hundred million bushels might be
added to the annual crop.
A dandy in New York had his pam
falcons made so tight that he could
not get his boots on, and if he put his
boots on first, he can't get his trousers
on What q ix!
The young lady who represented
the goddess Germania in the German
Peace Festival in New York has died
from BRAIN fever, caused by exposure
10 the sun. She wore nothing on her
head but q wreath.
Oliver p. Morton, in the presence
Of u. g. Grant, called the latter "the
greatest statesman seen for thirty
years" The authority is equal to the
compliment, and both were of match
less delicacy. The kettle calls the
pot white.
Attending church is accompanied
with difficulties in Leavenworth. One
ofthe congregation sat down on a bent
pin that his son had prepared for him,
add immediately arose and commenced
praying, He was elected as irrever-
ent, and fined ten dollars for injuries
20 the sexton.