South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SKY-LIGHT-Stars.
A NOTICE OF PEAL-Lightning.
CAPITAL SPoRT-Money- hunting.
THE END OF A CANDLE-To give light.
NEW NAME FOR TIGHT BooTs-Corn
cribs.
THE TEEToTALER's PARADIsE-The
Temperate Zone.
In what color should a secret be kept?
In violet
THE average price of a good horse in Los
Angeles, California, is $13.
HARTFORD, Conn, claims to be the
wealthiest city of its size in the United
States.
In what circumstances is a woman
that wears stays? Slaughtered circum-
stances.
IF, you would lay in a supply of old
wine, be sure and make it out of elderber-
ries.
CHOIR singers in New York this year
command high salaries. First-class SOLO
lists easily get $1,000.
INSURE your life in the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, to the amount your farm is mort
gagged for.
Two of the proofreaders on the Lon
don Times are lawyers, who look out for
anything libelous.
THERE landed in Canada last year
e6019 immigrants, of whom $4,000 after
wards left for the United States.
THE President of the Oldest Life Insur-
ance Company in New York is insured in
the Washington Life.
A MAN has got so deep into debt that
not one of his creditors has been able to
see him for months.
AN advertiser in one of the papers says
he has cottage to let containing eight
rooms and an acre land.
A desk at which Benjamin Franklin is
said to have learned to write, was sold at
auction in Newport, R. l., the other day,
for ten cents.
DoN'T let your cattle stray; they often
wander to the most mysterious places; we
once saw a cow-hide in a shoemakers
shop.
A YOUNG lady who was perfectly thun-
derstruck at hearing of her friends en-
gagement, has since been provided with
lightning-rod.
GRANDMA" said shrewd child, do
you want some candy?" "Yes, dear,
should like some" "Then if you'll buy
some, I'll give you half" said Polly.
"WELL, what is it that causes the salt
ness of the water of the ocean," inquired
a teacher of bright little boy. "The
Goldfish" replied the little original
JOSH BILLINGS says flies have big ap-
petight for getting into things; they are
the fust at the dinner table, and alwuz take
soup, and don't leave until the cloth is re-
moved.
ABOUT the year 1885 the Legislature of
Pennsylvania passed a resolution that "no
member thereof should come to the House
barefoot, or eat his bread and cheese on
the steps"
A YOUNG man says that there may have
been such thing as real true love in Old
times, but that now the notion is entirely
obsolete; and if you ask young lady
naw-a-d days to share your lot, she immedi
ately wants to know how large that "lot'
is.
"DoEs the train start this evening at 35
minutes past 6, as usual asked an elderly
lady of arailroad employe. No; it leaves
at % minutes to Z" was the reply. Dear
me, dear me, how they do change these
trains !"
"TELL me, angelic host, ye messengers
of love, shall swindled printers here below
have no redress above?" The shining
angel band replied: "To US is knowledge
given; delinquents on the printers books
can never enter Heaven"
THERE is a story going the rounds that
a boarding-house keeper died and left all
her property to young man just because
he never complained about the hash and
things. 1t is evident that the item is pub
lished at the instigatiol of boarding house
keepers, who think young men will take
warning, and quit complaining in hopes Of
being remembered.
John Hatfield, who died in Troy, n. Y,
a few days ago, was the first maker of lu-
cifer matches in this country. He cut
them out one by one with his jack-knife.
The chemical composition necessary to in
sure combustion was prepared by him, the
ingredients at that time being known in
America only to himself This was in
1886.
CoNsTANcY.- young British officer in
India, who was shOckingly mutilated and
disfgured in battle, after mature reflection
requested comrade to write to his be-
trothed in England, and release her from
the bridal engagement Her noble reply
was worthy of true woman Tell him
if there is enough of his body left to con-
tain his soul, shall hold him to his en-
gagement."
LoNG ago Spallanzani discovered that
bats which had their eyes put out were
able, nevertheless, when allowed to fly
about in a room, to avoid threads stretched