Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-26
MELANGE-
Sharp blades-Horse raisers.

colored collector
The books III the running brooks were
probably volumes of water.
The agricultural market being f1accid
Kansas rs cnltivating f1aXseed crop to
meet it.
'sWet groceries they call 'em in Nan
tucket, which is still a brandy and Wa
ter place.
Can geological clergyman, with
collection Of ores, etc, be called cabi-
net minister?
The State Insane Asylum for persons
whose delusiOn is homeopathy will be
opened in October next.
The prohibitionists have agreed that
Massachusetts physique will be improv-
ed by having no more-ale.
Rasper being told he looked seedy, and
asked what business he was in, replied
1.-The hard-wear business. Look at my
wardrobe"
An Illinois editor speaks of an ''eigh-
ty-year-old octogeuarian" in his town,
"Who has seen the SHOWS of three score
years and ten.''
An old lady thinks the Government
Bonds must be a family of strong religi-
GUS instincts, for she hears OF so many
of them being converted.
g Captain Jack cocktails are an
nounced. Tho bar-keeper who claim
the invention of them says that they ale
tirst-rate for raising hair.
Passing by drinking saloon the 9th
er day we noticed the sign, Lager
Bier" This may be all right in Ger
man, but il reads very ominonsly in
English.
In connection with the contemplated
balloon voyage of Prof. Wise, it may be
as well to state that the fruit stores are
now largely supplied with curranls
from the west.
The Howard County Fair, Iowa. offers
prizes of $5 each for the two handsomest
babies, male and female, placed on ex-
hibition. Prize pigs and calves obtain
higher premium.
The recently settled Danish dairy
colony III Newberry county, S. c., hav-
ing found their land unsuited for graz
ing purposes, is going TO see if Illinois
will serve their churn.
A distinguished Massachusetts phvsic-
ian has delight his bibulous patients by
expressing the opinion 'fcObblers'' often
exert a "heeling" action. Which may
be described as ''jeu-d'esprit-de,vi
sCaptaip Jack' actually has his Ell
iogist here. One of these speaks of him
as ''the man who showed Candy into his
tory" Another is going to glut the
mar ket with Captain Jack collars"
"Mother," asked a youthful Bostoni-
| an, who was eating "a birds-nest pudding
''what kind of a bird made this pud-
ding?" "a think the cOok-coo bid must
| have made it" was the quick response.
Multitudous matrimonial engage
rnents in the senior class at Utica are
| ,,1a,.t
ans doubtful about the advantages OF
admitting students OF both sexes into the
| college
The natural result of Dubuque's per-
sistent and cumulative putting OF itself
was hurricane last week which blew
amboats, trees and other light art-
cies about until the air was almost filled
with them.
| A sensitive Pennsylvania last week
went out and killed himself because a
few friends laughed at him: and, at
| about the same date, an Alabamian un-
der similar circumstances, went in ana
killed a few friends.
The italian boys who roam the city as
minstrels and shoe blacks are, in genei-
a. so filthy in their persons that other
boys avoid contact with them. Cempul
sorry washing would be a good thing 10
establish regarding them.
An English emigrant is reported to
have ''swapped" her baby for : dozen
of porter on the passage hither by the
Cuba. As lhe child was sickly, she
probably thought that her getting stont
would save it from small bier.
Two sisters, who were married a few
years ago at the same place and by the
same clergyman, now simultaneously
apply for divorces in Bostol, on the,
ground that both their husbands have
run away with other women.
Says New Orleans paper: ga girl
of this city recently ate box of CASTLE
soap TO get rid of freckles. The mourn
ers remarked very peaceful expression
about the mouth. at the funeral, but the
freckles were as numerous as ever"
Credit the Commercial Adrertiser of
New York with this: "Mrs. Brown OF
Burlington sings her Hush my Babe Ia
her infant son William, who measures
twelve months one way and one hundred
pounds the other. She spanks him
with pile-driver."
The Crislins of Maine decree fine of
E25 and three months imprisonment
for the caitiff who shall work for less
than trade-union prices. In what Bas-
tile and by what process this duress is
TO be enforced we are not Informed.
The press OF free republican France is
ordered to suppress the will of the late
| Emperor; but the Bonapartist party
will probably convince the Government
r that where there's n win there's "A WAY,
and that that will can't be kept away.
The fair grounds OF the Agricultural
Society ut PttSheld, Mass, still contains
e a snoW-driit five feet high aud thirty
I five feet in diameter, but there are fair
0 grounds for hope that it will melt away
5 before the time fixed for the coming e1-
e hibition.
d An Illinoisy tippler of Tenton, having
I rendered himself disorderly With dol
: lars worth of whisley, las tecovered
$50 damages from the bar-keeper who
e sold it 60 him. Six thousand per cent.
e on the investment seems a profitable
4 way TO use-N Nour-rye.
: One of the natural results OF the min
! ing mania " hich possesses the Ameri
Ii can mind happened last week neai
Cleveland, H., where the su6terrane9I
= delivers haveing eXcavated little 10,
u near the Surfack, the house of uuie
:. citizen suddenly disappeared with al
= its inmates.
k a short time ago Allen Ward, a ueSr,
It suspected of arson near Thompson Sta
le tion, Tenn, was taken from custody h,
le n baud of armed men, who attempted 4
IN hang him. lie escaped, was Shot ut an,
" wounded, and afterwards not seen unti
S a few days ago when attention was call
lie ed to his whereabouts hy rioe< OF h,il
to zar,ls, which were at work on his corps,
I'd His wife had sworn our warrau
he against three men whom she suspects q
committing the outrage.
I'd Springfield, nlinoiS'S capital. is sai
lg to be grooming under the tyranny
ne servantgalism. The Arazons of IL
10 kitchen have "hulled" the market an
- created II panic in that SORT of stool
TO They have got np ''corner' in Il
aforesaid kitchen, and cannot be hire
10 ut any price except with conditions TIA
IN Bridget is mistress ofthe establishment
We In consequence is placaried with "Gi
~ wanted" The papers contain name
iut Gus advertisements OF the same chara,
I'M er, and the ladies OF many househol
lea are doing kitchen work in preference
submitting to the inSolence of asgrt
sive servantgalism. \ servant left
good paving nllCe the al Ear lay h.,,aV