Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-06-21
MELANGE.
The Emperor of Morocco has eighty
stlidc -

The Emperor of Morocco has eighty
"kids."
The ssbase-ball fever" is eminently
Catching in its nature.
Cincinnati is getting itself pretty
thoroughly vaccincinnated on account
of rumors of smallpox.
Three boys and a girl were contribu-
ted to Milwaukee's census by an enter
prfsing German matron last week.
Legislative stationary" in Iowa
are no longer to be allowed to include
hardware, groceries, or wearing apparel.
Illinois is under marshal law AS re-
CARDS chills and fever, and the inhabi-
tants can't keep qui-eight without qui-
nine.
The late John Carpenter, of Mar
quette, Mich, knocked the ashes out of
his pipe Oh the head of a keg of blasting
powder.
A hardened and undutifnl reprobate,
aged nine years, is under arrest i'm
Peoria, ILL.,, for robbing his father of
paper of tobacco.
Thieves break in and steal in the Gin
cinnati station-house 10 such an extent
| that the police have scarcely any clubs
or overcoats left, and the authorities
think of engaging private watchman.
Platte County, Nebraska, wants some
| body to do something wicked. 1t has
nice cOmmodious county Jail, but for
eighteen months past has been unable to
get a single prisoner to put therein.
A Neapolitan lady who was very
much s'under the whether'' has been
quite restored by having the blood of
living sheep tranfused into her veins
after all other remedies had been tried
! in vain.
A Chicago city father propounds as
the fundamental basis of Sunday liquor
legislation the proposition that "Whisky
is n thing which can be kept over from
Saturday till Monday, but lager bier
cannot"
A noble Swedish opinster proclaims
her desire TO find DIR. Livingstone some
more, which will doubtless cause that
intrepid traveller incontinently to go
and lose himself again in the most i'm
penetrable jungles attainable.
The special agent of New York in
lsurance company having traced the
origin of some recent fires at Arrow
Rock, No., to incendiarism, the alleged
culprits were promptly hanged last week
by vigilance committee.
merchant Of Hartford, Conn.,, hav-
ing discovered a liaison between his
book-keeper aud his wife, took the ter
rible revenge of dismissing the former
from his employment and sending the
latter to live with his mother-in-law.
A lisping American ultramontane up
holds the assertion that 'sGerman Prote-
thtanth are more immoral than German
Catholicth," because they are know to
be "Loother IAN" Christians who hold Ia
the Roman See.
Iowa has reduced the weight of its
1
eight pounds. Perhaps because Iowa is
averse to hiding her candle under y
bushel, and wishes to make the bushel
light enough to ohviate the necessity foi
such proceeding.
Massachusetts, wonders at the rise of q
/ Delaware millionaire who began his
, mercantile career as poor boy "by Dor
rowing 81 and investing it in apples. ="
The thing that Massachusetts can't un-
derstand is how any one could be. so inn
prudent rs to lend 81 to a poor boy with
out good security for principal and in
2 terest.
, A gentleman who believes not at all
in the holiness of Mr.. Schuyler ColfaX
suggests to Harper's Weekly and Thomas
Mast that good cartoon might be made
by representing the recent Vice-PreSi-
dent inundated between his two hands,
5 inasmuch as his stealing propensities are
so much at variance with the sanctity OF
his trunk.
n The Meriden Conn., Republican says
: that young America, having given ur
0 various collecting manias, has taken Il
q collecting "busineSs cards" of course
n it alludes only to the youth of Connect.
r cut, and generalizes too rapidly. If thi,
r be not the case it wilr be years before
Mr.. Pater's notions OFFS perfect sestheti,
= life may have fultillment in this unhap
:, | py land.
t, "Floating island" is a very nice thims
i at dessert, hut it isn't so nice when /
If gets away from the desert and float
about SO rs to obStrGct ,lavigation, as /
d the case in Flagstaff Pond, in Maine
1t where well wooded island severa
20 acres in size drifts around in so capri
a cious manner that the lubermen ar
lc obliged to tow it out of the way b,
e. means OF oxen, in order to send thei
he logs through the outlet of the pond int
" Dead River