Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-28

A nomadic wOOdpecker has beel
acting rs ghost in a Saginaw house.
Grieving for misfortune is addin:
gall to NORWOOD.
!: Christianity commands us TO pas
by injuries: policy, to let them pas:
by us.
Men are born with two ewes, but
with one tongue, in order that they
may zee twice as much as they say.
Beauty is no local deity, like the
GIoek and Roman gods, but omni-
present.
Watermellons sell as low as ten
cents apiece in Chattanooga-withOut
butter, of course.
Never have a wooden leg made OF
ORR, because the oak is apt TO produce
acorn.
A recent letter says that the new
/ echo at Lake George is punctual, and
has an Irish accent.
The colored Methodist preacher
who was shot while stealing corn near
Columbus. Ga, had his leg ampata-
tated.
There never was any heat truly
great and gracious that was not also
tender and compassionate.
Base ball is Ofgreater antiquity than
supposed. IL was played on the Ark
when the dove was put out on a fly.
The campaign has already made
business good for the flag and banner
makers.
Wherever the experiment of cheap
T iltoad trains have been tried. they
have been found remuneTative-
A half centuary ago tomatoes were
called love apples, and considered
poisonous.
The Ell ergetic reaper is rivaling the
busy little buzz saw in making bust
ness good for the surgeons.
Smoking valley, in Oregon. has a
boiling spring. in which meat and
vegetables are cooked with facility.
Spite of liquor laws, Boston affords
its police a steady average of 1000
drunk and d~isorderly cases per month,
Half the vices in the world rise out
of cowardice, and one who is afraid of
lying is usually afraid of nothing else.
Tweed expects to go to Saturn when
he dies-so that he can JOIN n of the
rings.
Ifyou let the cat out of the bag.
never try to cram it back again /; it
only moEp maftara WOrSp
The cats in the country smash one
million dozen lamp ehimneys in a
year, and lay the blame on innocent
hired help.
An Irish schoolmaster advertIses
that lie will keep a Sunday school
twice a week-Tuesdays and Satur-
days"
In what way does a lady treat a
man like u telescope? When she
draws him out, looks him through,
and then shuts him up.
Covering the floor Of Il hen-house
and yard with six inches or so of tan
bark will effectually keep all hen
lice or other insects fIom the premises.
1t doesn't matter how watchful and
vigilant a girl is; ifa rude fellow kis-
ses her. it is ten to one he will do il
right under her o
A negro boy in Goliad, Texas, in
trying to drown some little puppies
in a pond, made a mistake, fell in,
and was drowned himself.
A thief was lately caught breaking
into a song. He had already got
through the first two bars, when a
policeman came up and hit him with
a slave.
1t is generally believed to be dan
gerous 10 travel on railroads, but sta
tistics show that it is the safest meth
cd of locOmotion on land ever yet de-
vised.
The Grant and Wilson clubs of Yer
mont proposes 10 have a great Repub-
lican gathering at Bennington on
the anniversary of The battle, the 10th
day of August.
1t is proposed to substitute iron sup
lOTts for timber in coal and other
mines, in order to secure strength and
remove a fruitful source of disaster in
case OF HTe.
There is much truth IN the remark
that 1.-THE best campaign document is
the newspaper. Men will read lively
newspapers who will not take the
trouble 10 cut the leaves of q pamph-
let"
Abraham W. Ballard, of Michigan,
was killed by lightning a few nights
since, while in bed asleep. His wife,
who was sleeping with him, knew
nothing of the occurrence until she
awOke quite late in the morning and
found him dead.
which a thousand leaves are drawing
sap. When L consider the steady
pull which the pulpit makes on
Christian minister, l marvel not that
the sermons are 80 poor, hut that
they are so good and ] think that
neither the pulpit nor the ministry
have any thing to fear from n just
comparison of their results with those
of any other learned pa OfessiOn in So
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