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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Browns Burthen.

Brown, our insurance friend was told
by his wife, on Sunday, to be sure and
bring home at night something to eat.
So he purchased a couple of water mel-
ons- Not owning a paper mill the
dealer could not do them up, and
Brown took the market basket, con-
tanning the Sunday dinner, between his
teeth, water melon under each arm,
and starts for the cars. First one mel
on slipped back, while the other went
forward, and while balancing them by
an ingenious system of jerks, the bas-
ket got swinging and nearly pulled eT-
cry tooth out of his head. Brown re-
tired to a doorway to readjust things,
and then started on his way, with the
consciousness of being late for the
train. Oh! how slippery those mel
ons were! They lurched and slid, and
revolved on their axis until Brown
thought they must be alive. Then
man passing by, who saw Brown doub-
led up, and trying, whitehall seated on
the sidewalk, to bring equilibrium into
play once more, offered to help Brown.
So Brown stood up, and the man push
ed one melon frontWard and the other
backward, and everything would have
been all right had he not pushed the
latter one too far back, so that it slid
out from under Browns arm, into a
tub of eggs that luckily stood on the
sidewalk and prevented the melon from
being broken. Brown left it, however,
after paying for some dozen eggs, also
not taken bV him. and started afresff
with but one melon. He was now
obliged to run, and presented truly
pitiable sight, as the small children
remarked who were fighting over abau-
doned fruit Finally he reached the
depot just as the train had started, put
the basket on the platform, tossed the
melon on after it, jumped on himself
saw the melon bound down the steps
on the other side and burst on the
track, and then went home and told his
wife he could not find any decent fruit
in the market Boston Traveller.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
A Swimming Collar.

The swimming collar, new inven-
ton, is very thin and light India
rubber, circular, cylindrical inflated
tube, which is placed round the neck
by being drawn over the head before
imitation; or, in those for use Of wo
men, tied round the neck. 1t is then
inflated through a small tube long
enough to reach the mouth As, how
ever, the India rubber cylinder would
not of itself be strong enough to bear
rough usage, it is enclosed in an outer
cover or case of elastic cotton, similar
in texture to cotton stocking; which
outer cover, being smaller than the in
ner tube, is tightly fillei before the
latter is SO, and thus receives all the
strain from any outward pressure OF
blow. This is the same principle as
that on which the American inflated
tubular boat was constructed, which
sometime since crossed the Atlantic
from New York to Southampton. Th'
buoyancy of the collar, which viii
float an iron weight of eight pounds
will raise PERSONS head quite out o
the water, and float him with his moutl
about four or five inches above its sur
face. The actual weight of the cola
is less than two ounces.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Diferent styles of Dancing.

[En Perkin in the Graphic
The fashion of dancing is not at all
cosmopolite-not even national. In
Saratoga the different styles make a
medley.
1t you see a two hundred pound man
and woman perspiring around with
their pompous bodies tossed lightly
and springily in air, arms swaying
Keeping good time, and making grand
PersIon salaams for bow in the Ian
GERS, you can set them down as be
longing to the old Tweed Fisk Leland
Americus Club school.
If yOG see a black eyed youth with
long Lair, and young lady with liq-
uid black eyes, and she has two hands
on the young mans shoulders at full
length, and she stands directly in front
of him, and they both go hOpping
around like Siamese twins with wire
springs under them you can wager they
are from Louisville, Memphis, or Lit
tie Rock. They have the square toed
wrestling step.
If you see young fellow grasp a
young lady firmly around the waist,
aeize her wrists, stick to her hand out
like the bow spirit of Sound yacht,
and both hump up their backs like q
pair Of mad cats on door yard fence,
and then go sliding slam bang against
people, over people, through people,
up and down the room sidewise, back
wards, and up and down like saw
mill gate, you can bet on them having
learned their dancing from the Morris
town, Riverdale and Yonkers socia
hles. 1t is the suburban New York
saw mill jump pup.
If you see a couple sliding gently
and slowly, and lazily through the
Lancers just half as fast as the time
but keeping step with the music, qui-
city sauntering through the ''grauG
chain," too languid to whirl partners
talking sweetly all the time, as if they
we're strolling in a graveyard, you car
rest assured that they are from New
York. and from the most fashionable
section between Madison Square and
the Park. This is the graveyard saun
ter step.
If you see fellow clasp girl melt
ingly in his arms, squeeze her hane
warmly hold her swelling bosom TO hi
and they both go floating down the
room locked in each others embrace
then protruding from profusion o
illusion and lace and so on, rely upon
it you can set the two dowa as belong
ing to the intense Boston school. l
is the melting Harvard Jacket race EN-
brace.
Massachusetts, take our hat!
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Max Adler's Patriotism.

The accounts in the Boston papers
of the latter part of June, of the cele
bration in that city of the anniversary
of the battle of Bunker Hill. show that
Boston displayed an enormons amount
of enthusiasm upon the occasion. AS
we lost that battle, it is simply fearful
to think of the intensity of the patri-
otic devotion which Boston would dis
play if we had won it. And isn't it a
little wild, at any rate, for the people
to become frenzied with joy because
they have been beaten? Take our own
case. In June, 1868, we enlisted in
the militia and marched out to defend
the State of Pennsylvania. One day
we met some rchels fooling around on
the other side of the river from Har-
risburg, and those of our comrades
who did not instantly remember that
they had important business to attend
to at home, betrayed a singular dis
position TO fly up to Williamsport, Pa,
in order to check any rebel force which
should attempt to cross the New York
state line into Pennsylvania. We
alone, of all the regiment, held our
| SAONA4S- 4 w pLOuNt W ny wv OIdNG
to fear the foe, too eager to serve our
country to retreat in the moment OF
danger we merely stepped into house
close at hand, slid into the cellar and
lay il the refrigerator for two days,
living on some cold ham found there
in-and determined to hold that re
frigerator against the foe, to the death.
We were never recommended for pro
motion in any of the reports, strange
to say. The generals all seem to have
overlooked the matter somehow
Now it would be perfectly absurd for
the people of Harrisburg to celebrate
every year the anniversary of the re
treat of that militia regiment-and We
appeal to them not to do it, no matter
what Boston does. Ii Harrisburg is
Just, it will erect monument to u.s.
Say statue of Sergeant Adler forked
down over a brass horse with hollow
cast iron tail, with his fore legs on
silver plated refrigerator and a figure
of Il cold ham in his mouth. If tht
heroic deeds of brave men are to bt
made historic, here is. the chance. Jus
tice requires something to be DONE
If we are not straddled over bras:
horse, we will let the country go t,
destruction before we will ever fortif,
ourselves in another refrigerator
Saturday Evening Post.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Our Young and our Old Men.

There is the more need of bringing
students out of their dens to study the
life of nature, now that n certain super
fetal study of nature tends so often 70
blind them to the life and soul of
things, and to put mechanism in the
place of mind. Whatever may be the
reason, there is not the same ideal en-
thusiasm at our universities as some
) cars ago. The old faiths do not dom
mate young men at once, and the pa
triotic fire of ten or twelve years ago
has to a great extent gone out under
the discussions, strifes, and scrambles
of politics. France and England tell
very much the same story. Legouve,
in his brilliant book or Fathers and
Sons, writes that no Frenchman has
any spark of enthusiasm till he reaches
the age of forty; and the average Ok
| ford student who sets the pattern for
Young England, seems to care more
for health, muscle, and ''plenty OF
coin,'' as the phrase is, than for the
old devout ways or the new radical re
forms. Lord Lytton's story Of Ken
elm Chillingly is true and good book
for our time, and shows we'll the fall
ing off among our young men from
the high ideal of the best days and
characters. OF course, there are among
us and everywhere in Christendom
young men of the noblest type and of
flaming conviction and earnestness
but the leading character tends more
to the plucky athlete and the dasEing
gentleman than to the thorough schol
| ar and the ideal thinker. 1t is neVei
; we'll to croak about the present time
or to insist that youths of twenty on'
shall have the gray boards and rip
: wisdom of tnreescore- and-ten. Ye
; there is something noteworthy in tn
fact that our old men are often taking
: the lead not only in careful thinkin;
and grave experience, but in bold EN-
i. terprise and cheerful humor. Our grea
|. poets and our best statesmen are me
x long past the heydey of young blood
s. and certainly the men who have led o
l. the new times in Europe and Americ
! have not been chickens either in az
}; or temper. Seward and Bismarck hav
;: been our leading statesmen in the ne
future of the Anglo-Saxon race; an
n if we are looking for true love of nj
l. ture and quick sense of the change
S. and the meaning of human affairs, "
A. must remember that Emerson has ju
st passed seventy, Bryant is near eight.
j. and that Tennyson and Longfello
i. are having quite Homeric heads al
n faces Harper's Magazine.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

= Frederick Douglass has said some
good things to his colored brethren IN
Louisville, Kentucky-good for peo.
pie of any color, in any climate, in
any community. Here is q sample :
when I ran away and came north, I
worked for nine dollars a month and
saved money. For twenty-five years.
or nearly so, worked for S400 a year,
and saved money, and every man in
this country who is a man can save
money if be will. But he will not save
it by walking the streets and smoking
cigars. He will not save it by playing
billiards on one of your back streets.
I dislike miser, yet miser is more
respectable than spendthrift. It is
not necessary that every black man
should become a rich man, but we
must have representative class at any
rate. There must be an actual num-
ber of representatives of intelligent
and wealthy men,"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
The Largest Bridge in the World.

The London Builder gives the fol-
lowing dimensions of a bridge to be
constructed over the Firth of Forth /:
sThe structure will be by far the larg-
est bridge in the world. 1t will be 100
feet in height, and will contain nearly
100 spans. The greatest span' in the
center, will be 1900 in width, or near
ly third of mile in extent-dimen-
sions which are without parallel for
any similar piece of architectural con-
strnction; and the smaller openings or
spans will be $50 feet in width, being
considerably beyond the average di-
mensions of the largest spans in ordi-
nary bridges. 1t will cost SO, 900, ,O00- !"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

- A man in Easton who had stolen
some wood, tied it in bundle, and
made of the other end of the rope q
slip knot, which he placed around his
neck. Before he had gone very far,
the bundle slipped, and he was strang-
led to death. What an awful lesson is
taught by the fate OF this unhappy man
Does not this terrible visitation, COM
ing so swiftly upon the victim, at the
very moment when his sin seemed to
be successful, and making the object
of his crime the instrument of his des-
truction, afford an impressive warning
Does it-net prove~to every man who
intends to steal wood that instead of
carrying it in slip knot, it would be
much better to cart it off in a wheel
barrow or furniture wagon? Thus il
is that day by day we learn useful and
valuable lessons from the experience
Of good men who have gone before
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Seeing is Deceiving.

Here is row of ordinary capital let
ters and figures
SSSSSXXXXXXXZZZZZS3s 3s33S8SSSs
They are such as made up of two parts
of equal shapes. Look carefully at
these and you will perceive that the
upper halves of the characters are a
very little smaller than the lower
aalves-so little that an ordinary eye
will declare them to be of equal size.
Now turn the page upside down, and
without any careful looking, you will
see that this difference in size is very
much smaller than the bottom half. 1t
will be seen from this that there is a
tendency in the eye to enlarge the up
per part of any object upon which it
looks. We might draw two circles of
unequal size, and so place them that
they should appear equal Once q
week.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

= A young married friend tells a
good joke on himself perpetrated by a
little three year old "pride of the fam
ily." She is the only pledge of love
that has twined itself around the heart
and affections of himself and wife A
few evenings since a minister visited
the family and remained until after tea
At the table the reverend visitor asked
the blessing, and the little one opened
her eyes to the fullest extent in startl-
ed wonderment. She could not under
stand what had been done, and it was
with great persuasion that her mother
could keep her quiet during the time
IT, ey were at the table. When they left
it, she walked up to the minister, fol
whom she had formed q great friend
ship, and said: "What did you say al
the table before we commenced eat
ing?" "My little darling, l thanked
God for His goodness in giving US to
eat, so that we might grow and b.
strong" Papa don't say that
"What does your papa say ?" ''POpi
says, 'Godlemighty, what support
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
: A Peoria boy in a vigorous chas,

A Peoria boy in vigorous chase
after rats, recently, broke down a shelf
in the cellar and immolated six jars OF
preserves. He gazed on tue ruins
without sigh, caught and killed the
rat, laid it among the debris, and daub-
ing his faithful dogs nose and legs with
the fruit sent him up stairs while the
boy hid in the coal shed. lie heard
feminine shrieks of dismay he heard
the wrathful obiurgations of his sire
he heard the unsuspecting dog led into
the back yard and shot, and spreading
forth his hands said solemly, "Anoth-
er victim of circumstantial evidence
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
Al St. Joseph. Mo. there is /,

At st. Joseph, Mo-, there is q
certain Nathaniel Jackson, sperson of
color He has doubts of the fidelity
of Mrs. Nathaniel Jackson. When
ever he has occasion to be absent
from home, and be is frequently abb
sent, before departing he reads to-
Mrs Jackson the following impressive
document: MRS. jackson: / am
your husband, and you must mind no
other niger but me. You know that
will never give you up; will stick
to you, if have to wade to my chin in
blood to do it. I am a bad nigger
hen get mad, so look out for me '
I am coming" And then he goes.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

A young lady who is studying
French, lately wrote to her parents
that she was invited out to dejeuner
the day before, and was going to a
fete champetre the next day. The pro-
fessor of the college was surprised to
receive a dispatch from the old man
a day or two after, saying: "If you
can't keep my daughter away from
these blasted menageries and side
shows, 1 will come down and see what
ails her."
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
: An extensive land slide in o

An extensive land slide in Ore.
gon lately carried an entire township
into an adjoining county, and the resi-
dents of that wondering town now re-
fuse to pay their taxes in the county
they slid from, because they are not
there; nor will they pay them in the
county into which they slid, because
they say they don't belong there.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

1t is said that the proprietor of
one of the principal hotels at fash
ionable summer resort has already
cleared over forty thousand dollars on
this seasons business and the season,
as everybody knows, has been an ex-
ceptional poor one. When a landlord
can make respectable co npetency for
life on his business of less than quar-
ter of year, the public can pretty
well understand how numerically they
are rouoed in their hotel bills.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

"Plaze, SIR" said an Irishman to
a traveller, would yez be so oblingin'
ss to take me great coat TO Boston
wit yes?
YES said the man in the wagon,
''but how will you get it again?"
"Oho that's mighty aisy, so it IS, "
said Pat, "for shure Ill remain inside
nv If -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

A Dubuque grocer refuses to ad-
vertise in the papers, but spoiled $50
suit of clothes in covering the fences
and walls with painted sign which
read; "Buy your Kodphish and Kau-
ply at Bilson's."
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

The moral and physical emotions of
the anthropoid apes are just now the
subject of con siderable discussion and
inquiry. Sir Edwin Landseer, as is
we'll known, painted a picture of
weeping monkey, and it is now con
ceded that some species exercise an af
fectionate care for their dead. Mr..
James Forbes adduces in evidence of
this an observation of his own, to be
found in his ''Oriental Memoirs" aud
suggests that the very primitive relig
ion-worship of the ancestors com
mon to the lowest savages and tho
highest anthropoid monkeys. The
passage is as follows: "One of 6
shooting party, under banyan tree
killed female monkey and carried i
to his tent, which was soon surround
ed by forty or fifty of the tribe, who
made great noise, and seemed dis
| posed to attack the aggressor. They
retreated when he presented his fowl
ing Piece, the dreadful effect Of whicl
they had witnessed, and appeared per
fectIy to understand. The head of thu
troop, however, stood his ground, bab
bling furiously; the sportsman, who
perhaps, felt some little degree of com
junction for having killed one of the
family, did not like to fire at the crea
ture, and nothing short of firing woulc
suffice to drive him off. At length ht
came to the door of the tent, and find
ing threats of no avail, began la
mentable moaning, and, by the mos
expressive gesture, seemed to beg 70
the dead body. 1t was given him; h
took it sorrowfully in his arms an
bore it away to his expecting compan
ions. They who were witnesses o
this extraordinary scene resolved new
er again to fire at one of the monke
race.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

- A man from Detroit had about as
lively time the other day as can we'll
be imagined. Striking across lots to
visit neighbor, he had reached the
middle of the field when he remember
ed that it contained specially uncivil
bull, and received tangible proof there
of in the shape of the bull himself
charging toward him at terrible rate.
No tree was in reach, the fence was
rods away SO in default of better
refuge the farmer crept into hollow
log that lay in his path. The bull saw
the man, saw the log, and to it trans
ferred his attentions. Says the local
chronicler: "The log was large but
old and tender, and every time the bull
hauled back and jumped for it, he GOV
cred himself with glory, clouds of harb
and wood. Sometimes he whirled one
end, and then he gave the centre &
heave, and then he knocked a foot of
the other end" When the farmer was
nearly convinced of the approach ins
end of his existence the neighbor!
reached tue scene and he was saved.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18
What She Said.

A colored man living onsMacomb
street having long admired q colored
widow living in the next block above,
and being afraid to come out bold and
reveal his passion, went to white man
of his acquaintance the other day and
asked him to write the lady a letter,
asking her hand in marriage. The
friend wrote, telling the woman in a
few brief lines that the size of her feet
was the talk of the neiehborhood, and
asking her if she couldn't pare them
down little. The name of the color
ed man was signed, and he was to call
on her Sunday night for an answer.
Yesterday the writer of the letter met
the negro limping along and asked
him what the widow said. The man
showed bloodshot eye, q scratched
nose, lame leg, and a spot on the
6 calp where a handful Of hair had been
violently jerked out, and he answered
in solemn tones. ''She didn't say
muffin an 1 din't stay dar morn i;
minute r'- Detroit Free Press.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

- Aunt Grace-My dear children,
you will all be pleased to learn that
you have got new brother. Small son
and heir-Oh! how awfully jolly! Let
me be the first to go and tell mamma
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

A new cable telegraph is being
laid between the city of Lisbon, in
Portugal, and Brazil.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-18

Miss. Eudora Nuckles, formerly
slave, graduated at the Davenport
Gowa( high school, recently. She
took creditable position in her class
throughout, and at graduation was
considerably surprised to receive q
gold watch and chain, the gift OF a
number of white citizens.