South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-11-10
Facts and Fancies.


Leaves have their. time to faIl-iust
now.
Frowns blight young children as frosty
nights blight young plants.
Who ever saw any body near fire who
didn't want to play poker
A Doctors motto is supposed to be
patients and long suffering"
a learned writer asserts that, after all,
energy quite as often drives off disease
as it brings it on. .-sf
In libel suit against alnewspaper at
Little Rock, Ark, for $4,000, the plain
tiff attained 81 in damages. f'si
The champion sexton of a town in
Maine has dug thousand graves, and
officiated at twelve hundred funerals.
The first daily newspaper in Virginia
was printed in 1870, and its subscrip-
ton price was fifty dollars per annum.
- The latest style in wedding cards is
very long and narrow, of heavily glazed
pasteboard, with a monogram or crest
stamped in silver. tE .rs7ira
One of the coats sent to the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association, to
be forwarded to Chicago, was labelled
My wedding coat" r-..-.,
The latest style of bride head dress is
"A wreath composed of small white ostrich
tips. The bridal vail is trimmed with
vines of lilies of the valley and iessa-
mine. 'sE T1 Oh
A young man having late railroad
Hoe, HE
gagement with young lady, because
she wears a train and is negligent about
her switch. 81 80 .....t..I. rf.,-e,A
The Chicago lake crib is two miles
from shore, and yet the keeper had to
keep the top of the building continually
wet to prevent its igniting on the night
of the fire. ir-t 10y --
Six West Point cadets have been dis
missed for hazing, and the authorizes
positively refuse to revoke the dismissals
from the Annapolis Naval Academy for
the same offence. T-ai .eiT 8 aVed
An old Bachelor, who bears his lonely
state with much equanimity, says 's 1t
is better to be laughed at for not being
married, than be unable to laugh be-
cause you are. - -..r..-
A railroad employe, on being nudgea
with a contribution box while asleep in
church, the other day, woke up enough
&C remark, 81 work on this road" and
returned to his nap. t.s1- .Lah
New ,,.sy cent and dollar revenue
stamps have Just made their appearance.
They are made of linen paper, colOred
blue, with scroll work. and bear litho-
rqph of George Washington
A young lady requested to be released
from her marriage engagement on the
ground that when contracted she be-
lieved her lover a "duck," but has
since found him to be goose.
The arrivals of vessels at Boston, dur
e nine months of the present year,
exceed those of the same period, last
year, by AT, showing considerable
increase in the foreign commerce of that
city. e- 9i-'saat
The cost of the war in Cuba during
the past year has been S62, 900, 900, and
the Colonial deficit for the year amounts
to S11, ,0O0,0 600 The Spanish Govern
ment asks for credit of $50, 900, 600 for
military purposes ...--t-.f -
Mrs. Leary, of Chicago, stoutly denies
the story that the great fire was caused
by the upsetting of kerosene-ol lamp
in her stable while she was milking her
COWS. She says the stable must have
been fired by incendiaries- She always
miIks by daylight >'-.a --oa
One cord of wood cut and split fine
and corded up beneath shelter while it
~, Oft
It has become seasoned than two cords
of the same kind of wood which has
been continually exposed to the alternate
influences of storms and sunshine.
"Mack," of the Chicago. Republican,
5 jocose under his misfortunes. In
out the difference between
Theodore Thomas fugacious fiddlers
md Nero, he explains that one fiddled
While Rome burned, and the others
canned while their fiddlers burned.
Experiments made on board an iron
,uilt sailing vessel, provided with iron
igging and lower yards of steel, and
With two pinnacle compasses on her
loops, and third placed between the
nizzen and mainmasts, the lower part
+ which was all of iIon-the deviations
4 the needle were respectfully ffty-six,
wenty-four, and thirty-fve degrees. ~
The following Characteristic funeral
tenn Is from the Kansas City (Mo.)
lines "The funeral of Mike Williams,
hot by Wild Bill, at Abilene. took place
d this city on Sunday, Wild Bill paid
he expenses of the funeral" The
Times adds: "Mr. Will
ANS, we have no doubt, deeply regrets
is inability to thank Wild Bill for his
berality
A young lady sitting at window,
ossing in her hand what might have
cen ball of white yarn, attracted the
ttention Of middle-aged chap on the
rect, whose gallantry prompted him to
old up his hands for catch She ac-
him. The article proved
, be an egg, and ahghted ON his nose
ut it is not to be supposed that the
dy knew it was a bad one. s...,
A Louisville wife, wishing to get nd
her husband at short notice, sent him
to the cellar with kerosene lamp for
pitcher of cider. She gave him Just
me to get the cider In one hand and
Ie lamp in the other, and then shouted
murder" She had calculated well
be doomed man sprang up the step,
10 lamp fell, and-the woman was free.