The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-06-14
BREvITIEs.

The best cure for povcry-A an Of
fetal sinecure.
Laura Fair, says she is not afraid to
DO hanged.
What shape is.a kiss? Eiiptical-
of course.
John Bright is travelling in Scotland
for his health.
The ghosts are still after Hoffman,
of Wooster Ohio.
Queen Victoria, has ruled England
thirty-four years in June
Do you wish to get up with the
lark7 The go to bed with it
General McDowal,1 will spend the
summer in Connecticut.
Winnie Ream, is said to be a hand
some likeness Of the picture of Mad
anne de Stael.
George Alfred. Townsend, is a polyg-
amous romance writer at Salt Lake.
He is a queer writer.
A lady said that before she was
married her husband vas 4 riddle to
her, but now he is an acrostic (cross
stick.)
The Philadelphia Bulletin pronoun-
ces american Religion" by John
Wriss, 'ta perfect success as a humor-
ous book"
ri WAS the Roman matron, whose
IONS were jewels, q mother of pearls? ,
"No, my child the Gracchi were
Comedians J"
The name of TuiIeries is derived
from thefact that the tiles (tuiles) used
in Paris were formerly manufactured
on its site.
A contemporary says of a very
prominent military general, that "his
sword was never drawn but once, and
then in o rattle"
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When the black caterpillars cons
down on a Tennessee district, the
farmers turn in the turkeys, who have
Dietof Worms.
"I knew he'd fall" said Uncle
Borough, when he heard of the mis-
fortune in business os a neighbour
"N nv 2" "Cause he would buy the
earliest SARGE that came into market"
President Grant has accepted an
invitation to visit Bangor, Maine, on
the 18th of October, to take part in
the opening of the European and
North America Railway to st. John.
The Rochester Union tells us that
"Olive Logan says she is thirty two
years old" Yes, that is about her
age. We remember hearing her say
so in 1927, says another editor.
An old lady, observing a sign over
a tailoring establishment bearing the
inscription, Fountain of Fashion"
exclaimed, "Ah, that must be the
place where the squirts come from
A Kansas lady who went to n thea
tire and handed the man who took the
tickets a fine tooth.comb instead of
her ticket, discovered her mistake
when the door-keeper told her she
could not come in.
Alice Cary's Sunday evening re-
captions for the New York hterati and
journalists are being initiated by Mrs.
Prof. Youmau anil Mrs. Fields, wife
of the editor of the New York Evan
gelist.
"Pa," said a lad to his father, 81
have often read of people poor but
honest; why don't they sometimes
say rich but honest?" Tut, tut, my
son, nobody would believe them,"
answered the father.
Every. seventh person in London is
in receipt of public charity. The cost
of aiding this class has increased dur
ing the past ten years sixty eight per
cent. faster than the growth of the
great metropolis.
A mother was amused the other
day to hear this bit of argument"
from her little boy "Mamma, don't
zee how Satan could have turned out
TO- be such a bad fellow-there wasn't
any devil to put him up to it"
An Australian gentleman, examin.
ing a mining claim, was seized, strip
ped and covered with wool. He went
and got-himself photographed in this
guise, and sued his assailants for 3d.
600 damages, putting in the picture
as evidence.
Another negro cadet has arrived at
West Point, Henry Alopzo Napier,
from Tennessee. He is about eight
cen years old and darker than Cadet
Smith.
A shoe in which the Princess Royal
had been christened, was q ecially sent
all the way from Berlin to be thrown
after the n~ewly-wedded pair, the Prin-
cess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne.
a parson reading tic funeral ser,
vices at the grave, forgot the sex of the
deceased, and asked one of the mourn
ers, an Emeralder, sis this a brother
or asister?" "Nayther," replied Pat,
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