The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-31


he spoke-the tone and the gesture
startling the assembly like a burst
ing bomb-"it is a tedious, thankless
task to preach to sleepy congrega-
tion!'
The Deacon's bald pate was eleva-
ted instanter, and under the impulse
of a shocked and offended spirit,
without taking counsel of his reason,
he shouted back
"Parson Kimballl Parson Kim
ball! if you want to try something
little more tedious and thankless,
just come here and listen to sleepy
sermonp
The reader may imagine the rest.
An Unfortunate Young Mana Sub
jeot to Spasms ofFondness.
The Lebanon KY, Standard re-
lates the following incident as hap
pening near Loretto, in that state. It
illustrates a complaint that is only
too common among a certain class
OF beaux whose silly ambition reach
es no higher than a fashionable neck
tie and the foolish boast that they
are like the butterflies who gather
sweets from every garden, but, un-
like the bees, they carry no honey
'home with them. These insipid
youths have about as much earnest
ness in any department of life as in
love-making, and secure as perma-
nent success. The girls should lean
them up against tree some bright
summer day and fan them to death
with rose leaf The STANDARD
says:
! A young man living not quite q
thousand miles from Loretto not Ions
ago laid siege to the heart of young
lady in Louisville, who in due time
surrendered the fortress into hi;
keeping. A day was appointed fol
the nuptials, friends were invited
good things to eat and drink were
provided, and all the concomitants
for well regulated weddings were
prepared. The day came, the guests
came, but the bridegroom-"tht
young man from the country'-came
not. He made default and the
lquestion on every tongue was, "Why
is this thus?"
| The mother of the bride that was
to be came up to Loretto and went
out to interview the son-in law that
should have been. She told him ot
her daughter-how, like "Amy'' in
"Locksley Hal" /" her "cheek was pale
and thinner than should be for one
so young" and how she was pining
away from disappointment and grief
The young man observed, deprecat-
ingly, that the young lady had never
been very fat; but the would be
mother-in law parried this thrust
and represented to him the impro-
priety Of his conduct in such NOV
ing terms that he felt bound to apol-
ogize.
He accordingly told the old lady
that he was sorry for having grieVed
and disappointed her daughter and
herself; but that he was the subject
of uncomfortable fits of loving, and
when one of these came upon him
he could not keep frcm. counting
somebody. This, he said, was q
Edisease, and he was in no sense res
ponsible for anything he did while
this temporary madness was upon
him. If he had, under the power of
this malady, made love to her daugh-
ter, he was sorry for it, but he could
not help it. If she doubted his
word, he said he could bring hun
dreds of physicians to prove that
such a disease existed, and hundreds
of his acquaintances to prove that
he had it.
The lady from Louisville went
home sadder ifnota wiser woman.
Before she left she expressed great
sympathy for the young man, observ-
ing that sit was such q pity he could
NOT be cured.''