Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-11-01

A Georgian. by no means fair, lately
borrowed her grandmother's last dollar
to pay carman for taking her to the
poorhouse. -aizga7 as-d FYsd fss4rg ha
A Wisconsin magistrate has invented
a new process of divorce. which consists
in repeating the marriage ceremony
backwards. 80
An Illinois magistrate lately, fined his,
son ten dollars, forgetting that, as the
culprit was minor, he was himself
responsible for the amount. M 81 ir'i''t
I Since the establishment of womeri's
medical colleges in Massachusetts quite
a business is said to have sprung up in
secondhand coffins. .e,,.,.5-, ssd,o,-s 80
Newburyport supplements its Juvenile
ghost story with a tale of petrified cat
discovered in the belfry of church long
suspected Of pussyisn,. s'' ''i''' 9'''
California is preparing a rich treat
in the shape of a boy only fifteen years
old, who has already been raised to the
height of 6 feet inches ss-d fis,n.
The State Minerologist of Wisconsin
announces that there Is enough iron ore
in the neighborhood of Black River Falls
to supply the demand of the United
States for the next ten centuries. Asit
NAd psipeis SefereAy ConueIuH Cne
conduct OF /" the hens that are standing
around barn-yard doors doing nothing
while eggs are selling at so cents per
dozen," and. suggests that. although Z.
purely lay question, it is one in which
the clergy might well test the efficacy
of prayer. g" 2" Ff" s' gphfl4
Sue Gates, a young miss at Westmofe-
land, n. H., recently Worked one day
and half on the highway to pay her
road tax. She said she never was so
taxed in her life asshe was to get through ID.
with the job.
At the recent Caledonia Club games
at Scranton, Pa, one feature was fat
woman's race for q new bonnet. The
leanest contestant weighed $50 ,andi three e
others weighed, respectively, 200, 232,. 4
and 251 pounds. - ...,f,,,. .,.,,,,-. .
The Cincinnati girl who, on the night !,
of her marriage, was kicked out of bed
by her husband, who had the nightmare,
wrote to a friend the next day Saying
that her wedding life so far seemed like
a horriddreanf. yrfG yssli ..sv5 ri...i sidi-ea
Pennsylvania iron producers willLbe
delighted to hear of the Rhode Island
Railway Commissioners recommends
ton $ that there be increased protection
to stoves. !" 'i'' 'ii''i - '-'l'isi- "a
Michigan cheese manufacturers are
i'm quandary concerning the obser!h
vance of the Sabbath, and don't see their
whey to reconciling business with
One of the results of having a young
medical woman as city physician in >
Springfield, Mass, is that young gem
| tlenan of that ilk has had himself vac :.
cinated by her twenty-One times within
a few weeks. 5ssftt,.,,i,,--,, q.
The plan of perforating duplicate rail- :,
way tickets recently introduced here, is
declared inadmissable by Massachusetts
conductors, as the mixing up Of SO many
punches on the trains would conflict 90
with the provisions of the liquor law. +.
The doctors are not quite sure whether
| a young lady at indianapolis is dead or,
| not, and the family, instead of keeping
coffin in nice cool place in the receiving
| vault of the cemetery, where they go to
see her every day. -4..I.itl. .1Tuar.
Maine druggists are complaining of
the remarkably maine conduct of a dep
uty United States marshal, who goes
abont incOg., with a lame horse, fer
which he begs little alcohol, and then
extorts $120 as a bribe not to prosecute
the apothecary for keeping liquor with
out a license.
The town council of Osoge, Ia, has
been asked to prohibit the sale of corsets
by merchants within the town limits.
Of corsets unaccountable how rural
SOlons, averse to waist, can undertake TO
stay the sale. :,
Owing to lack of shining hours dur
| ing the past winter, the little busy bees
of Michigan have not gathered honey all
the day this summer from every opening
flower. Some apiculturists have lost as
many as twenty swarms.
The Mansfield Qnl.) Preventive Asso-
citation puts down the liquor, trade by
sending a committee of fifteen members,
who march two abreast to the saloon in
dicatcd, and sit and knit. Odd as nis
this style of prOces sion, 1t is even sO.
"Several thousand Poles'' are expect
ed to colonize along the route of the,
Illinois Central Railway in the vicinity
of Ashley. The precise extent of land
disposed of is not mentioned. but sur
veyOrs tell us that 30L4 square yards go
to Pole. .......- ,1ss.-. -l,Ft.
An English philologist is raving about
the word "pockethandkerchief, which
he considers a disgrace to the English
language, on account of its length and
clumsy construction; and the worst of
it is, he saws, that there are no syno--f
nvmes for it except "cly" and "vipe,"
both of which are slang. f-3 a.
An angler on Trout Lake, Ontario,
lately had his hat blown away ,and while
rowing hard to recover it was surprised
to see it spinning across; the water at
tremendous rate. On oyertaking it he
found that a large trout had taken an
artificial fly affixed to the hat, but the
L.R1 &l. ~
secured. .sr-s- -ia- s-.ss
Bv way of stimulating strictly agri-
cultural pursuits, the New Hampshire
Agricultural Association offers hand
some premiums for horse-race and a
baby show at its forthcoming fair. Per-
h.ps the managers have heard of ''baby-
farming" aud fancy it to be a rural ii,-
dustry which ought to be encouraged.
1t appears one woman has been found
vino can hold her tongue. Mrs. Annie
Ryan, of st. Louis, was wanted to testify
in the trial OF her husband. who made
murderous assault upon her. but she
refused to testify, aud the judge sent her
to Jail for forty eight hours. Still re-
fusing to testify, the Judge ordered her
. to Jail again, to stay until she should be
willing to give her testimony. She was
finally set at liberty by another Judge
4
,, phant. 50
A San Francisco father recently
brought his daughter Fannie. aged Is,
, before police court, asking her COM
initial to the industrial school, and as
/ the girl appeared to be greatly in need
of some salutary restraint the appfca-
, tion was about to be granted, when the
. budding lass accomplished an effectual
stay of proceedings by producing proofs
that she had been married two years
before. The old mans eyes fairly hung
out on stems when he realized that the
little girl he had been busily thrashing
, for so long had all the time been another
. mans wife.
Some time ago young man named
I, George Mayo,an assistant railroad agent
: at Tenille, Ga, fell in love with young
lady of that place named franklin, and
after awhile seduced her under pro-
, mise of marriage. Then his affection
d turned to heartlessness. and one day
7 when Miss Franklin asked him when he
l should marry her he replied that he