The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-26

Railroad Company and recovered.
The railroad obtained a new trial,
and were beaten again, On excep-
ton to the verdict of the Judge the
defendant obtained a third trial,
which terminated IN a verdict for Mr..
Coleman for $4,000.
When an extravsgant friend wish
es to borrow your money, consider
which Of the two you had rather
lose.
Who can have any respect for q
man who, on passing a laundry and
seeing the girls at work, will consent
to make such remark as "Wring
out wild belles?'
"Father, why don't we ever see any
face at the Window" asked a son Of
his parent, as they were passing an
insane asylum. Because their heads
are turned" was the afbectioaate
father reply.
"Every cow should fatten one pig"
is an old rule and a good one; that
is, the daily product Of a good COW
should be in buttermilk and whey
enough to feed the pig, after the
cream and cheese are extracted.
A sentimental chap in Rhode Is
land intends to petition Congress, at
its next session, for an appropriation
to improve the channels of affection,
so that henceforth the course of true
love may run smooth"
"Pve three cents left" said loaf
er, $50 I'll buy paper with them"
"What paper will you buy2" said a
friend, curious to learn the literary,
taste Of his acquaintance. "a paper
Of tobacco" replied the loafer.
In New Hampshire, the following
is posted on a fence: Notis-"Kno
kow is aloud in thees medders eny
men or wimmin letten thar kows run
the rode wot gifts inter my medders
aforeseed shaI hav his tail cut orf by
me, Obadiah Rogers.
A Western switch tender, caught
naping at his post, excuses himself
by remarking that the safety of
railway greatly depends on the sound
ness of its sleepers; but the local
jailOr retorts that such sleepers are
only safe when they're bottled in.
AS proofs of the fact that girls are
useful articles, and that the world
could not very well get along with
out them, late writer states it as
fact that if all the girls were driven
out of the world, in one generation,
the boys would go out after them.
A down-ea editor says his exper-
fence in journalism teaches him that
there is nothing in this world that
will so disgust and sicken the gen
eral reader as to learn, after wading
through the particulars of an awful
accident, that there is a probability
of the victims recovery.
Magma Charta was translated into
English in 1858; the Psalms of Da-
vid were done into meter in 1910;
plays were first performed in English
in 1928; wills and settlements were
first written in English in 1347; and
the first speech in English was made
in Parliament in 1862 by Sir Ed
ward Turner.
'Nice weather for corn!" said a
minister up the valley to one of his
parishners, the other day. eyes"
said the old farmer, but bad for grain
and grass" A few days later they
met again. "a fine rain we had
yesterday" said the minister; 'good
for grass and grain" ''Yes," was
the reply, "but awful bad for corn!"
A German thus beWails the loss of
his faVorite horse: 'Von mite the
oder day, when I was bin awake in
my sleep, I hear something vat I
thinks not yust right in my barn,
and I yust shumps out to bed and
runs NIT de barn out and ven was
dere COON, I seez dat my pig gray
iron mare, he var be tied loose and
run mid de stable off; and ever who
will back bring, yust so much pays
him as vat bin customary"
The report from the dead letter
office reveals a startling amount of
epistolary carelessness. OF nearly
three million letters, sixty-eight
thousand could not be forwarded for
the reason that the name Of the coun-
ty and State were left out of the di-
rection; four hundred thousand were
unstamped, and more than three
thousand were mailed with no direc-
ton at all. And, strange to say,
these letters contained money orders
to the amount of two millions of dol
laas.