South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-11-24
Facts and FancieS.

Facts and Fancies. sIl q
Coming to grief-Meeting trouble halt
way. aoal
Light employment Building castles
in the air. e11 e-li
The grandest verse in existence-The
universe.
A woman voted in Detroit and nobody
objected.
Cool proceeding An ice man elcping
with nice girl. 31sa ls-7o
1t is easier for man to be engaged
than to be engaging. .lti 7aIi -
tits no uncommon thing for hot words
to produce a GOODNESS. a 20
A Wisconsin Justice of the Peace
granted himself divorce. e sTa7
Thunderation Samuel" " is the name
of famous Western Indian fighter.
Sponge paper is now manufactured in
France. The materials used are erdin-
airy paper pulp and finely divided sponge.
The army bakery in Washington is
said to furnish soldiers with four pound
loaves of bread for each pound of flour
used. -
An indignant gas consumer says that
there's no use in abusing the gas COM
panies, for they've always vile retort
ready.
A physician has discovered that the
nightmare, " in nine cases out of ten,
is produced from owing a bill to the
printer.
The largest salary paid to railroad
official in the United States is $4,000, !.
and President Gowan of the Reading
Road gets it.
The Massachusetts mills have sent an .
agent to Hong Kong to employ coolies !.
for operatives. A cargo OF them is ex-
pected at Salem. ~ -, e..sf-s.,+-.
Smoking Is very much on the decline
in England. At the universities not one,
man in five now smokes, whereas few.
years ago at least four in five did. =,
Danton said to his executioner ~
have had good time of it let mego to
sleep then you will show my head to
the people it is worth the trouble
An epitaph on a tombstone reads:
Oh, fatal gun, why was it him
That you must kill so dead !?
Why could you not have missed your aim,
And fired above his head?
Over the door of cobbler's shop in
Savannah, Ga, appears this legend
Boots and shoes is made hear-ladies
and shentlemens repaired. Kun in
hear"
Can you realise Mrs. Malaprop's be-
wildermentat hearing her grandson read
from an article in the paper, about
Rome: "The ground is 50 parched
that it is full of fishers 4"
In England the extent Of land covered
with trees has increased forty thousand
acres in the last thirty-fve years, and
tree-planting is encouraged among land.
holders by liberal premiums. g4..
A fellow feeling: Indignant Old
Lady" Guard do you allow smoking
in this compartment ?" Obhging Guard
.Haw, weel, if name o the gentlemen
object, you can take bit draw o ths
pipe"
A man in Ohio, who was acquitted OF
murder on plea of insanity, secured
the lawyers by giving them mortgage
on his farm but now repudiateS the
mortgage on the ground that he was IN
sane when he made it.
A bashful young man was escorting a
bashful young lady, when she said. en-
treatingly, "Jabez, don't tell anybody
you beaued me home" "Don't be
afraid" replied he, I'm as much
of it as you are" That set
tied it.
"Ma, why don't you speak ?" asked
little Jake. "Why don't you say suthin'
funny ?" "What can say Don't
you see I'm busy frying dough nuts 7?
Say suthin' funny, indeed "Wal,
yer might say Jake, won't yer hay' q
cake ? That 'ud be funny for gou.
The most hopelessly incurable form OF
says DR.. Clouston OF the Asy-
lum at Carlisle, England, is that which
consists chiefly of monomania OF sus-
picion of poisoning, with hatuclnatlons
Of hearing. 1t is only by being taken
in time that such case is ever cured
1t has become known that no legal i'm
pediment exists to the marriage OF Alexis
with an American maiden, as the Rus
sian Royal family are not limited to roy
al blood. This is very encouraging to
our bellies, who are thinking how GO Mrs
would look on paper.
A Young man named Stricken commit
ted suicide at Leavenworth. His father
was kindly demonstrating against his
dissipation, and remarked that he would
rather follow his son to the grave than
see him a drunkard, when the young
man replied " Here goes, father, and
PIT a pistol to his own head
and discharged it.
A friend reports this of a family to
which, during the past Summer, he paid
\ delightful visit in Chicago "The
husband was shot and killed in his own
house by a burglar on Saturday night;
he house was burned on Sunday night;
md now the news comes that the wife
oerished, with the corpse, in the con-
iagration that annihilated store, dweF
iug-place and everything"
A lady teacher in Sunday-schcol
had occasion to illustrate les
son on faith, by the story OF child
who was told by his f; ther to drop from
an elevated place into his arms. The
father could not be seen by the child,
vet, when commanded, it dropped. Upon
the teachers asking her class what was
shown by this story, q bright little tel-
low immediately replied, at showed he
had pluck"