The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-04-05
BREVITIES.

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The King of Denmark drives a fine
sesm of raindeerz.
Forney lakes a little old rye for his
stomach's sake.
Aningenious New Yorker has in
vented a pocket umbrella.
MI. Greeley has promised TO 90 to
Texas to eat apples.
Johnny Steele, the oil Prince is now
baggage agent.
Sumner is to Cameron, q Bismarck
lie 10 Gemoralized Bear Hickman.
What profteth it if a man gain San
Domingo and lose New Hampshire.
The President uses Fcrney to put
out the Republican fires.
A Washington joker brings out
John A. Logan, for President.
The New York Herald thinks that
Charles Sumner is q first class hater.
Grant uses m immense amount OF
tobacco, and is a great spittoon.
Hawthorne is regarded az a Byronic
Puritan. What is that2
William Dayis, a American, re-
Gently Jumped roma Pyramid aud
SEoke his NECK.
Pauline Lucca the great Berlin
singer will visit America this fall.
Colonel Drake, originator of the oil
traffic of Titusyille is said to be in
destitute circumstances.
The statesman thinks Of the next
generation-ths politician of the next
Greeley thinks the day is rapidly
coming when personalities in papers
will cease. innocent Greeley.
A young lady in New Hampshire
was defeated by her father for school
committee.
The President dinned Forney and
begged him to take the Port collector
ship at Philadelphia.
A young lady of twenty seven sued
an old man of seventy five tor breach
Of promise.
A sound Democrat in Connecticut,
refuses to have Greeley make a Publ
can of his son. Right.
The Cicninnati Chronicle says thai
Sumner says that General Grant is a
fool. How personal!
A Kentucky man says he takes
the Cincinnati Enquirer because the
news is SO old and mellow.
A cartridge factory exploded at a
city in France aud eighteen persons
were killed and forty wounded.
In England they have courses of
scientific lectures for workingmen at a
penny each. Sensible,
Queen Victoria, has been vaccina-
ted and it is expected that all Eng
land will follow the fashion.
The Japanese have asked for copies
of our postal laws for adoption by the
japanese government.
The Emperor of Russia has become
a confirmed drunkard. All efforts to
reclaim him have proved fruitleas.
An eccentric person in Portland
himself by throwing people
into the river and then rescuing them.
30 Holt, and forty FIVE Of his friends
have signed the temperance pledge.
And this was "done tor Joe, because
he loved me-
ne vile Of Bismarck is said to be
vaFy pis1a. and not very good looking,
za6 olsea- rallies Bismarck on his
cLoica OF a wife.
ANoble county woman, dying late
Iy, left by her will all her property to
her children-except the ''old mare"
which she kindly left TO her husband.
Jones and his wife agree grandly on
one point, she thinks moro of him than
of anybody else in the world, aid SO
does he.
Doctor, how shall I go to work to
expand my chistf n asked a misery mer
chant OF a physician. "By charging
your heart" responded the doctor.
In proof that all who belong to &C.
cret s~ocietie. are not wide awake chaps
it is put down for a fact, that when
you come across 4 sleepy lead, he is a
nod-tellow.
Potter Palmer, the Chicago million
airc, announces that his taxes on real
estate alone for the last year amour
ted S65 600.