The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-22
sBREVITIES,

Edwin Forest, the great actor has
been playing at Cincinnati.
A Wisconsin Justice granted him
self q divorce. Convenient
The instruction Algeria, is said to
be entirely suppressed.
a plot to overthrow ThiersSand re-
store the Napoleons has failed.
A Panther carried off, little girl
near Mobile Alabama, recently.
There are eight pin factories in the
United States.
The Prince of Lippe is the richest
monarch in Germany.
In Colorado they call a bald man a
man with his head above timber.
An Iowa woman put starch in her
husbands beer but it didn't stifin
him.
The man who goes through a bill of
fare. may be said to have dined out.
Trains on the Pacific Railway are
getting suow-bound.
Twenty new railroads are to be con-
structed in the State of Ohio,
Cleanliness is next to godliness, and
it is soap that is next to charity,
One thousand ladies recently atten-
ded a political meeting in California.
At Louisville the bed of the Ohio is
used as a favorite promenade.
The whaling business in this region
is on the decline the boys are glad.
Plymouth rock now presents an ir-
regular surface of about four feet.
Sacramento's richest mar was once
common vagrant.
Poverty is not a shame, but being
ashamed of honest poverty is.
He that is too proud to ask, is too
good to receive charity.
A wise man will keep his own Sc
crets. a foolish one will hire his kept.
Have no more friends than you can
keep watch of conveniently.
Booth has enacted Hamlet twelve
hundred times. That will do.
A steam yacht is sailing on the Sea
Of Galilee. What next?
A gold brick worth 81, 600 was cast
recently at Baker city, Oregon.
Columbia, Tennessee, boasts of a
corn cob shaped like a head.
Nearly two millions o fpeople prefer
baked missionary tor dinner.
Grant has been arresting negro Ku
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A Minnesota widow harvested 100
tons of hay and lost go by fire.
Black marble and sable furs will be
used for trimming silk and velvet COS
tunes this winter.
A proud mar in New York refuses
his own company lest he might de-
grade himself.
Mrs. Moore of Indiana, thrashed
her husband for getting drunk. She
is the bride of lam-er-Moore.
The endearments of ones sister are
very great, but Jonathan says he pre-
fers some others mans sister.
A shrewd waiter at one of our wat
ering places says that the most plain in
eating are the most accomplished.
In England, last year, one man out
of five, and one woman out of four
who married, could not write.
The way to command respect and
plenty of room in a crowd, carry a
pot of paint in each hand.
As the climbing up a sandy way is
to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full
of words TO a quiet man.
What an unlucky sutton did. He
wooed, and she wouldn't. He cooed,
and she couldn't.
The darkest day in any mans career
is that wherein he fancies there is an
easier way of getting a dollar than by
squarely earning it.
A genius in Canada has succeeded
in distilling whisky from the stalks
and leaves of the Canada thistle. The
whisky, it is needless to state, is very
sharp, penetrating and pungent.
On the west side of the San .Joa-
quin river an irrigating canal is being
dug at the rate of three quarters of a
mile per day. 1t takes water from
the head of the river and is intended
to distribute it over the dry lands lei
to the Diablo Mountains.
Something John Buck Didn't Find
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