The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-29
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~ 1Aa hoo AANN0 bS ONOH UP
to the sea.
Small talk-General Grants ora
tions.
Potter Shutdown is President of the
Seneca Indian Nation.
An apple tree in Indiana has had
three crops this year.
When a woman hangs herself and
the rope breaks it is fala-cide.
Miss Evans is to write the biogra-
ply of Alexander H. Stephens.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is prepar-
ing a history of his campaigns.
The buckwheat crop this year is
said to be enormous.
Napoleon has planted in his Tark
a willow from st. Helena.
Warrington is writing up Buffers
.ampaign in Massachusetts,.
The reform women are to have a
grand Convention in Washington. g.
IAN early spring-jumping out of
bed at five o'clock in the morning.
The most dangerous kind of a bat
that flies at night Is a brick-bat.
A Chicago sausage maker adverti-
es his wares as-dog cheap
Jane Swisholm has abandoned the
editorial field, and is preaching.
A podagogue wants to know if the
books of Shakespear in the running
brook, contains flowing sentences! 7
A leading citizen of Boston recently
asked information about a firm that
sold oblong tea.
Tell not YOUR secrets to your ser
want, for he will then be your mas
ter. l3.tj
Ifyou would have a faithful ser
want. and n that you like, serve
yourself. &
He who has no opinion of his own,
but depends upon the opinion and
taste of others, is a slave.
Temperance, indeed, is a bride of
gold /; and he who uses 1t rightly, Is
more like a god than a man.
Politeness is like an air-cushion-
there may be nothing in it, but it
eases u jolts wonderfully.
A good word is an easy obligation /;
but not to speak i'll, requires only our
silence, which costs us nothing.
Mind this.-It is better to accom-
plish perfectly a very small amount
than to halfdo ten times as much.
Tom, who did you say our friend
married p well, he married forty
thousand dollars-I forget her other
name.
The women who have been admitted
to the Michigan Agricultural College
are said to behave in a very gentle
manly manner.
A gentleman the other evening OBJ
ieeted to playing cards With a lady
because he said she had such a win
Mug way about her.
A young man in town, who is wrest-
ling with his first mustache, proposes
to name it after two leading base ball
clubs, because there are nine on a aside.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can /; and common
suffering is a far stronger link than
common JOY.
The Wesleyans of Canada are now
seriously discussing, for the first time,
the question of entering on foreign
missions. a-
A country girl coming from the
field was told by her cousin that she
looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by
the dew. eNo indeed" was the sim
pie reply, Chat wasn't his name.
~ The recall of the Papal Nuncio al
Munich is considered imminent. Nc
new developments have occurred in
the clerical questions lately agitated
there.
A California man requested his wife
in a ballroom, to hold the baby o
another mans wife while he danced
with the baby's mother-but she die
not held it. Some won't obey
Lostl-A small lady's watch with
white face ; also, two ivory young la
dies work-boxes. A mahogany gentle
mans dressing case and a small pony
belonging to a young lady with a sill
yer name and tail.
A French authoress says, ga ks
gives more pleasure than anything
else-in the world" To this an edito
responds, s'That writer evidently new
er experienced the childish rapture O
descending the stairs by sliding dow
the banisters."
At Abeline Kansas, last week,
lot of rascals stole the county safe ar
drove away with it. The wagon up
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