South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-16
NUMBER IL.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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the same as other good companies.
WHY are Cashmere shawls like des
people? Because you can't make ther
here "i- -T7r-si1 = c
The best estimates give Nebraska owe
Al 900 children between five and twenty
one years old 7-., yi..r. t-.---,
Z PREMIUMS, policies and dividends ar
paid in cash il the Mutual Life, of Chi
cago.
THE young lady singer who though
she could make her voice clearer by strain
ing it made great mistake. r1t
FIVE hundred and twenty five thousan,
six hundred trains leave London in tn
course of one year. ,--
In 1881 five Suits for divorce were en-
tered in Middlesex, Mass IN 1841, "A; il
1851, Al; in 1861, rs; and in 1871, pol.
Why is the first chicken of brood lik
the mainmast of a vessel? Because it is
little forward of the main hatch
A TEXAS paper prints list of 100 pc.
sons murdered, by Indians in eleven year
in one county in that State. Among tht
killed were many women and children. g
! A WESTERN editor, who doesn't know
much about farming any way, suggest:
that for gardening, a cast-iron back, with
hinge on it, would DE an improvement or
the spinal column now in use.-B0St0z
Post. af o-ial say
ALAN stopping his paper wrote to the
editor: " / think folks ottent to spend
ther mummy for paypur, mi dadda diddant
and every bodo sed he was the intelligents
man in the county, and had the smartest
family of bois that ever dugged taters." dt
A SAILOR, whose sweetheart had a very
handsome set of teeth, attempted to kiss
her but she eluded him and gave him a
box on the ear Just my luck" said the
gOOd-natured sailor; Z" I'm always getting
wrecked on the coral reef" y ~. sr1
Z a YOUNG married lady being applied to
for asitustion by a servant girl, she asked,
9 Why did you leave your last placer"
q Why, you see, ma am, replied the girl,
u was too good-looking, and when 1
opened the door the gentlemen always
look me for the missis.n .-,.-..,-
THE Turkish Ambassador was at pub
ic dinner in London recently, in company
with some of the magnates of the land !:
he president gave as toast, in eompli-
nent 70 his excellency, "The Sublime
Porte. and the Turkish Ambassador" The
waiter echoed it down the table, "a sup
,ly of port for the Turkish Ambassador"
THE Prussian authorities state officially
hat the assertions of the French news
,apers about the large number of French
nen who were said to have been AOgged
y order of the German officers are un-
bundled. That mode of punishment was
administered only to twenty three persons.
Vine civilians were shot after trial by mil
tary commissions. 81 Trr -rl
THE Scranton (Pa) Repu5iicdn states
hat it knows of mule that has been
rought up in the coal mines, that under
lands so well what it is expected to do
hat, when pulling a loaded car up slope,
nd finding its strength is not holding out,
, will catch hold of q sill with its teeth,
nd thus keep the car in position until
he driver succeeds in blOckading the
TheeL
TT B well known thaticebergs cool the
'ater around them to very considerable
istance. An American gentleman named !
lion, has made this fact the foundation of |
n invention to protect vessels against |
)llisions with icebergs He proposes to |
essels an apparatus so arranged as to |
Iund an alarm the instant the ships keel
lters stratum of cold water. ffo
CHAMBER's JOURNAL gives this illustra-
on of the power of India-rubber to |
saden sounds: ave once visited a fac I
,ry where some forty or fifty copper
niths were at work in a shop above our
eads; but, what was remarkable, scarce a
,und Of their noisy hammering could be
card. On going upstairs we saw the
Iplanation. Each leg of every bench
.sted ON cushion made of India-rubber
fittings. This completely deadened the
,und. I" fr-
WELL" said an old gentleman, the
her day, +" have been forty seven years
| the business, and can say what very
w can after such experience; in all that
me, my friend, never disappointed but
lampGe for our young mercantile COM
unityl' replied the person addressed.
What pity that one time occurred 4: how
as it ?" Why" responded the old gen.
eman, paid the debt when it became
lie, and / never, in all my life, saw a man
much astonished." .l
CALIFoRNIA papers tell of man who,
aving lost considerable portion of his
ose in fight. picked up the severed part
Id put it in his pocket, and subsequent
T, having gone home and bandaged what
as left, put on his best suit and started
II q surgeon. When the doctor was ready
reunite the separated parts, he called
r the piece, and the mutilated man, to
s horror, found that he had left it at
1me, and after searching vainly in all his
ockets, said: i beg pardon, doctor; it
a rough joke on me, but left my nose
home in the other vest"
ONE of the latest uses for paper is to
nploy it for the manufacture of railroad
lr-wheels. The paper is cut into discs
le diameter of the wheel, less the thick
ess of the tire, and subject to. q pressure
one and half tone to the square inch,
i'd then secured by iron fanges held by
1lts passing through them and the paper
he wheel then receives a steel or iron
lnged tie. The advantages claimed for
e use of paper for this purpose are, that
is nOiseless, does not swell or shrink
ith the weather, affords stay to the tire,
I'd a lateral support in turning curves,
apts itself to any trifing inequality of
e inner surface of the surrounding tire,
ID is stronger than any other material of
e same weight of which wheel can
'ssibly be made. .-r-.-....- -aa--
THRY have had bread controversy in
'ashington City. Some weeks ago fault
IS found with the bakers for raising the
ice of bread; and, a practical baker tax
g the ground that bread1could be made
r five cents 3 Loaf, while others claimed
could not, to settle the matter it was ar
nged that three barrels of flour should
purchased and baked atthe government
kerry, the officer in charge to be the arbi-
{. The result was yield of 260 pound
ayes of bread to the barrel of flour, cost
2 1915 per barrel. This, it is stated, is
variance with the past experience of the
ashington bakers, who have not been
lie TO obtain more than 250 pound loaYes
I'm the barrel in the regular course of
siness. -l .. 49,.
A YOUNG couple were betrothed In
ales, some twenty years ago, and the
ung man, in order to acquire a home,
me to this country, promising to send
: her as soon as that should be accom-
ished. He devoted himself to medicine
tn so much success that competency
IS soon secured, but at this juncture the
Us father became helpless invalid, and
g refused to leave what she considered
tn Of duty, even for the man of her
oice; so that q GOODNESS arose, resulting
a complete estrangement, and he mar {
d young lady whom he found here.
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