The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-12-20
All Sorts.


All Sorts.
81 wish you would not smoke
cigars said a plump little black
eyed girl to her lover. t'Why NAV
not smoke as well as yCur chin
neyY' Because chimneys don't
smoke when they are in good order.''
He has quit smoking.
At the recent wedding of the
daughter of the chief Of the Piute
Indians with young Lieutenant, at
Salt Lake, the bride was "attired in
a blanket decollettee, with oyster
shell necklace, and ate heartily at
the wedding feast of fricaseed prai-
rie-dog."
Two years ago a Connecticut man
received gross insult from a neigh
Dor who lives quarter of mile OF
more from him. After long medita-
ton he has now purchased a peacock
and a jackass, and anchored them in
a field adjoining his neighbors back
yard.
"Mother," said a little girl who
was engaged in making her doll an
apron, 81 believe l will be duchess
when l grow up" "How do you
expect to be a duchess, my daught-
er?' her mother asked. "Why, by
marrying a Dutch man, TO be sure"
replied the girl.
A gentleman lately complimented
a lady on her improved appearance.
''You are guilty of fattery," said the
lady. "Not so" replied he, "for I
VOW you are as plump as partridge
cat first" said the lady, 81 thought
you guilty of fattery, but you are
now actually making game Of me-"
a strong minded woman in De-
troit made the following gentle re
ply to politician who had called at
her house to get her husband to go
to the polls and vote: mo sir, he
can't goi He's washing now, and
he's got to iron tomorrow, and if he
wasn't doing anything, he couldn't
go. run this 'ere house, do, and
# any one votes it'll be this same
Mary janet"
Is it not an encouraging glimpse,
IF Western civilization, which we
We get in the fact that Judge Lucas,
If Kansas, having fined
some monte gamblers, was compelled
% make arsenals of his pockets in
of their threats against
lis life. Nor is the view improved
" the further fact that the gamblers
lad sufficient influence with the peo-
lie of Kansas City to have the
Judge arrested on the charge of
arrying concealed weapons.
1t is only six months since Trum-
'ull said to an assembled multitude
n Cooper Institute that General
1rant was politically as dead as
AndreW jackson; and today Trum-
ull can give Moses fifty points in
he game and beat him, not only as
0 the fact of death, but as to the |
uzzle of sepulchure. No man know
th to this day where Moses is buried |
nd no man knoweth to this day |
neither Trumbull died of too much |
democracy or too lite Republican,
Wash. Cor. ST. Louis Demo
'dt.
A recent number of the Bombay
azette says that "the center Of the
asst African slave trade is neither
AfrIcs nor Zanzibar, but in Bonn
ay, whence the money is furnished
hich carries on the revolving traffic"
this is true, the British govern
ent can easily exercise the power
eeded to crush the trade, and the
'ecial qualifications of Sir Bartle
rere for that service will be most
'eful. He is intimately acquainted
It'll Indian affairs, and will, doubt
IS, exert himself to the utmost to
move this blot from the civilization
the age.
At the meeting of the creditors of
essrs. Bowles Brothers & Co., Of
ondon Paris, New York and Bos-
n, recently held in London, the
of Investigation present
their report. The committee ex-
essed the opinion that some of
e creditors may be found Grimm
y liable for the misappropriation
the securities of several of their
stomer, and that the London man.
ers have taken a considerable part
those Interpretations. They
d that the books disclose the most
'astrous prospects for creditors.
Roulette, abolished in Baden, is
out to migrate to the little princi-
lity of Liehtenstein, in Austria.
e sovereign of that country is one
the most insignificant in Germany
territory not being larger than I
ny estates in England. The cap q
|, Vaduz, contains from seven to I
ht hundred inhabitants, and it is 7,
badly there that the tables will Y
set up. Much will, however, have Y Y
De done before that town becomes, D
2 Baden, the rendezvous of all the la
asare-seekers of Europe. & &
)r. Holland discourses in Scrib- IL
s of American manners as fol-
s: "Fine manners will not be-
le universal and characteristic of Oh
erican life for many years. The tb fb
orption of the American mind in ct