South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-01

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| THE TIES OF BUsINEss.-Adver-tise.
WHEN a wife reigns, it seems natural
that she should storm too. She generally
does.
MEXICAN newspapers are discussing the
annexation of Mexico to the United States.
DIVIDENDS are paid in cash in the
Washington Life Insurance Company of
New York.
THE day to pick your wife is Choose
day. "Wednesday is the day to be mar
ried on, of course.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago.
Boston used last year 49,, ,435 barrels of
ale, and 5S,065 barrels of lager beer, which
cost the retailers about $3,000,O00.
A MAN up in Portsmouth, n. H., named
his two children Ebenezer and Flora, and
always spoke of them as "Eb" and "Flo."
ALI RIA PAsHA, Governor General of
Broussa, has recently received from the
| Sultan of Turkey jeweled snuff box of
the estimated value of $12,5O0.
THE boy who wished that he was foun-
tain so that he always might be playing,
didn't reflect that fountain doesn't play
unless it works well.
A YOUNG man in Down East camp
meeting asked the prayers of the assembly
because he "could not sit down to a meal
without eating three times as much as he
ought"
AN immense raft, 1000 feet long, and
containing 10000 cubic feet of timber, re-
Gently passed through the drawbridge at
Rouse's Point, n. Y, and entered Lake
Chsmplain.
AN unknown Philadelphian, of COM
mendable generosity and unparalleled
medesty, has given 100000 for the pro.
jected Presbyterian Hospital at West
Philadelphia, and earnestly requested that
his name shall not he revealed.
DoN'T bother editors when they are
busy. Quilp stepped into the imperial
sanctum this morning to ask what he'd
better write about. "Write aboutp
growled the disguised chief: 81 think
you had better right about facep and he
did.
THE Messrs. John Taylor 6 Sons, of
England, are said to be the greatest min
ing firm in the world, the largest employ |
ers of labor in that department, having |
mines in every quarter Of the globe. In |
Great Britain alone, the number of men |
employed by them is $4,000.
A CURIOUS typographical bull is pointed |
out IN the new edition of Pope's works, |
published by Murray, in London:
Behold, four kings, in majesty revered,
With hoary lChisky and forky beard"
The lines are from "The Rape of the |
Lock-" and whisky" should of course |
be whiskers."
THE Chicago Republican adopts this
method of introducing its list of marriage |
licenses: "The Clerk of the County |
Court wore a diamond pin in his shirt
front and ssrdonyx smile on his brow
as he slung out dispensations to throw
tea-kettles at each other, to the following
couples yesterday"
FROM statistics for the year ending Nov
1, 1870, it appears that there were 112, $50
births registered in London during that
period. OF these children Al Az were op-
Grated upon by the public vaccinators-
36,0SS under one year of age, and 1856
over one year. The number successfully
vaccinsted was 40,842, leaving 602 failures,
or rather less than per cent. For vac
cination purposes London is divided into
five districts, with an aggregate OF 134
vaccinators.
A CANADIAN sailor is experiencing the
woe of having an impulsiVe woman as q
wife, and she the woe of being impulsive.
He came home from sea the other day,
bringing but $15. She thought he should
have brought more; and from mild re-
and gentle upbraidiDgs they
rapidly grew angry, finally coming to
blows, and then and there separating
' forever" 1t turned out that the man had
placed $40 in the savings bank, but felt
called upon to defend himself first against
the angry words of his wife and her base
less charges before explaining what he had
done with the money.
THE Heathen Chinee knows thing or
two about the duties and discipline of
public conveyances, the introduction OF
which among US would be regarded with
more favor than some others of his peculi-
arities. At Hankow, not long ago, COM
plants of extortionste charges by boat
men, induced mandarin to disguise him
self as a cody, and take passage on small
ferryboat. He was stopped in midstream,
md compelled to pay heavy overcharge;
md on arriving at the other side, at once
ordered the arrest and decapitation of the
waterman. If that sort of treatment was
.ried on the Niagara Falls hackmeD, or
indeed on the same class elsewhere, there
would be hope of salutary reform in
heir habits.
PRINCE BIsMARK is the hero of the
olloW ing anecdote: "The value of good
,igar," said Bismark, as he proceeded to
light an excellent Havana, is best un
lerstood when it is the last you possess,
md there is no chance of getting another.
At Koniggratz had only one cigar left in
ny pocket, which carefully guarded dur
ng the whole battle as miser does his
treasure. did not feel justified in using
i. 1 painted in glowing colors in my
mind the happy hour when I should enjoy
i after the victory. But l had miscalcu-
ated the chances" "And what was the
cause of the miscalculation?" "a poor
lragoon. He lay helpless, with both arms
crushed, murmuring for something to re-
'resh him. 1 felt in my pockets and found
had only gold, and that would be of no
1se to him. But, stay-I had still my
cigar. 1 lighted this for him,
md placed it between his teeth. You
should have seen the poor fellows CRATE
'ul smile. Inever enjoyed cigar so much
&c that ono did not smOkab