Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-12-06
MELANGE.

Italy thinks that It's soil aud climate
are suited to a tea for the culture of the 8.
Chinese herb. 4s ,tf ov,s,.t s...s. 81. ., /,
The local-option districts of Ohio are
tantalized by an unexpectedly abund-.
ant production Of native wines. .
Some Chinese agriculturalists have
been successfully cultivating rice near
New Orleans. flooding their fields from
| the Mississippi, by means of syphons. :
| The Chinese shoemakers at North Ad- /.
| ans, Mass, have organized trade
| union of their own and have protested
against the discharge Of any of their
number. i.si'esl asa t,, 80. --r.
| Fadovor tells us Mrs. Faloyer ssys
she has found out why certain poet
calls himself Joking Miller; it's be
cause there's so much chaf in his vers-
es. See? w. fIi IRIS p if.
| is 4 worm, despondent .esident OF
Hoosic Falls last week tried Intellectual
| ~ to commit suicide by swallowing sew
eral dozen vermifuge iozcngcrs.
| When Wisconsin coroner wants
little ready money sll he has to do is to p
drive his jury out TO the uearest grove OF
stout -limbed trees and cnt down one ef
the suspected horse-thicvss.
An Intelligent Massachusetts horee
recently walked by himself into the VII
lage smithy with a broken shoe, and re-
fused to let the blacksmith shoe him osis
until it was replaced by a new one.
y New Orleans child, whose death.
had been formally certified by the fani-
/ ly physician, was frightened out of It's
coffin by a clap of thunder last week,
just as the hearse drove up 20 the door.
The Morinons' are said to be not only
| M a X ra.lf orae hat,
opinions and practice in Maine, bnt also
no making converts. Several Mormon
elders have been holding forth In that
state. era tessti s5i.s o's .E,.s
A cotenparary Indignantly ASSERTS
that Spain is henceforth under q ban---a
s'sauarc American ban" doubtless In
tended. Wouldn't it be We'll to raise Ii
10 a higher power and pns 't under a
Cuban: Il sail--s-.5 i--ss se.s.,
As an Indication nf what We might
expect If weman's rights gained the as
Amazonian children &C the age Of three.
years are addicted to the use of rum
! and tobacco. - - Sd fs9csr
An elderly widow OF Cincinnati, has
brought snit for breach, OF promiee
against fieklc sexasenarian suital,
which. from the effective use made OF
the old bean, reminds a local reporter of
the battle of Agc-in-court. s'
The first class ia arithmetic at the
Farmington (Me..s public school,, cut- !
4 tivates triggernoIaetry by pistol prsc-
tice at . target chalked on the black.
board, and the teacher scarcely dafes to a
object so long as the pupils aims arc
high. 80 = =.
i Emulous of the metropolis, jury a.
bonneville, No., has convicted . young
man who took up 4 rock and dashed out
} the brains Of another Boonevillain, OF .
homicide, and the Judge has fined him
500 and sent him to tho county jail for,
sixty days. IL was lucky for that man
that he did not steal an eighteen dollar :.
horse. s~@.e5
4 couple OF Naughty little hoss Ia \
Providence, II. l., thought they would /.
be safe from ever being found outiu.s
stealing a detective officers horse ansf
wagon; but as they were enjoying thetr: :
felonious ride, patrolnan on the others
side Of the State recognized the clnip-
age, and stepped over and arrested both,
of them. '''t t,s scr
, The proverhial uncertainty OF the law
has been curionsly Illustrated at Chica-
so. \ prisoner Was bronshs up on y
. charge OF burglary. and bf advice OF
his counsel plead guilty. 1he Stae,s
Attorney, hoWever, staned his belief slaa,
: the u.an Was innocent, and declined 10
prosecute, ana the judge ordered hila
) discharged. fa
The milk dealers of PORTLAND and the
surrounding districts are organizing u
. "Maine nairymens' As ISOLATION, which
| in view of the obvious connection Of
>'main" with an abundance of water, AZ
, in the case of the lrriny main, aQneduc.
y main, &C., gives OCCASION tor numerous
, eowarily insinnations IN the part OF the
), local press.
I y singular circumstance, oBe doubi-
less without parallel In The history oI
| tho country, Is recorded m SCHUYLER Co..
, Ill. \ man named IL. N. Wheeler. OK
: birmingham, in that eoanty, enlisted in
n the United States Army in Missouri, i,s,-
= der General Lyon, in lssil; MAS wound
ea. captured and paroled, a.d by some
4 strange oversight wss not discharged
I from service untila fcw days ago. when
; the proper papers were made out, un,i
! his back pay and pension, amounting t.
d near $4,000, were handed him.