The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09

The worst seat which a nan can si
on is self conceit-
Phoebe Carey, the talented and
well known poetess, died at Newport,
R., l., last Monday.
Ladies are beginning to return to
the primitive style of wearing theil
hair parted in the middle.
How is it that those who make a
practice of always being late at church,
invariably wear ~squeakiDg boots.
Drinking large draughts of rain
water with plenty of "wrigglers" in it,
is the latest cure for consumption.
A man in Ashland recently became
sudnenly bald-headed; his wife caught
him kissing the hired girl.
Whatever Midas touched turned in
to gold. In these days. touch a man
with gold, and he'll turn into anything.
"Will you have me Sarah ?" said a
young man to a modest girl. mo,
John, but you a have me if you
will"
We have an employe in this Office
who set a column of primmer, one day
last week, in four hours, without a
space in his box-It took picking"
"Infant" was ''taken back the.
other day by finding ten cents in his
vest pocket. He wants to be taken
back again.
A good newspaper does more to
build up a town and county than any
other public institution, and gets less
for it
81 wonder what uses my eyes to
be 20 weak" said a fop to a gentle
man. "They n in a weak place."
replied the latter:
When a certain mathematical den
fist living up town has a difficult tooth
to pull, he extracts the root by means
OF lOgarlthmS.
Bret Harte, it is stated, is paid ten
thousand dollars a year to write where,
when, and what he pleases. This is
one of the 'tricks that are dark"
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has been left $780,
600 BY the will of the late Thomas J.
Duncan, OF Pittsburg.
Apples in Lorain County, are fall
ing off the trees, it is reported, in con-
s~equenceecf being stung by the curcu-
lilo or some other insect.
Masonic statistics officially prepared
show that there are All lodges in Ohio,
with a membership of %, LOST, of which
2,2S2 were initiated last year.
The young lady of Toledo who
snatched a powder flask from a child,
and threw it into a stove, is perfectly
with her first efforts in blast
ing
care dose bells ringing for fire ?"
inquired Simon of 1iberius. mo,
indeed" answered Tibe 'dey hab
got plenty OBJ fire, and dey's ringing
for water"
Old Money Bags says that a girl
with an income of three thousand dol
lars a year or more, is always an OBJ
ject of interest, because she has so
much principal. |,
A boy at Danville, ILL.,, went to
''fooling" with a circus leopard, the
other day, when the beast made a grab
at him, and lacerated his arms so that
it would probably have to be amputa-
ted.
An old gentleman named Thomas
Shanks attended the pioneer meeting
In Kenton OH the 4th of July, and
was the oldest man present, being
101 years old. !
It is probable that Hon. Charles
Francis Adams will be appointed the {
Arbitrator at the Geneva
Conference under the Treaty of Wash :
ington. ,
DR.. w. w. Dawson of Cincinnati ]
has been elected to the chair of Sur
gerry of the Ohio Medical College,
made vacant by the death of Dr.. Black q
man. :
The New York papers will have l
heir little jokes about Colonel James e
The Times says of him that he e
s "First in peace, first in war, and t
irst in the pockets of his CO untrymen." f
A beautiful young lady of this town !.
ost her silk gloves five years ago, and [
vas surprised last week when her BIZ 2
lie accidentally fell off the table to see y
long-lost gloves roll put on the Y
DOR. =
An exchange says that a lady re- !.
in company, the other even Q
1g, that two of her daughters were of il
ge and the youngest all but. We Il
an hardly credit it. 1t seems i'm =;
that a young lady should be =
0 deformed. o
E51S It
Gen. Pleasanton settles all connect
re by saying Grant may kick him
ut of Office, but he won't. resign
here is one of the Radical blue hens
for you. Well that is the