Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-06-28
GLANDS of want or souls in pain,
Have not sought my door in vain :
have kept my fealty good,
rrn the hmm a N h1nI u nIlnad ,,
MELANGE.

MELANGE-
A Bostonian man got an idea into his
head one day last week, and the excise
constables are trying to find out who
supplied him with it.
A Minnesota man can't get license
to marry his step-brother's daughter,
the County Clerk insisting that it's a
case Cf aiece suit0r altrG crepidam.
Groton (Vt.) Millerites have cccasion-
ed deal of trepidation by announcing
it con the cards'' for the last trump
be played on the 18th proX.
The 'tBoston University newt
stitution, which is to eclipse Harvard,
will be opened next autumn for the re-
ception of fresh men and women.
South Carolina is telling such tall sto-
ries of mica mine lately opened there
that the press of neighboring States re-
provingly quotes, magis amica reritas.
Evansville, Mimi, which last year
used its s'local option" to prohibits
liquor selling, has just voted to reverse
its decision by an overwhelming major
ity.
number of church pews in st. Louis
were recently robbed of their Bibles and
prayer books by u paer ingenai padoriS.
who wanted to make his mother Il pres
ent of new bonnet.
Even the little girl of the period de-
velops tendency to artificial ringlets;
which she probably inherits from her
mamma. At all events, she false hair to
il somehow.
A petrified negro has been found in
an undertaker's garret at Roanoke,
Miss. 1t is thought that he undertook
the study of law and became absorbed
in blackstone.
The editors of Kansas are about to
make a visit TO Lincoln, Neb., and the
citizens of the latter place are making
preparations to give them a formal re-
ception at the Penitentiary.
Clergymen of various denominations
who engage in revival services ut Gales
burg, H., manage to dwell together in
unity by unfolding the plan of saliva
ton in alphabetical order.
Maine proposes to stretch its legisIato-
rial prerogative by an &c p6st .fdctO en-
actment declaring all places where
liquor is sold to be amenable to the ex-
isting statute against nuisances.
Shrewd Connecticut youths avail
themselves of the provisions of the
State liquor law to indulge in-expen-
sive sprees by refusing to pay for their
drinks, and threatening to prosecute the
bar-keeper for selling liquor to minors.
A Kentucky WAGNER finds from his
| account books that in thirty years jour-
neying over the turnpike between Mays
vile and Lexington he paid $23, 900 toll,
| which, as he justly remarks, told heav-
| lily on his business profits.
| Revolutionary veterans and Washing
| toms nurses having become common
place and stale, Maine editor has
started a new form of paragraph con-
cerning the man who has a walking
cane once owned by Benjamin Frank
lin.
| A little more than a week ago some
demented, newspaper correspondent in
Danville, n. H., divulged the fact that
no insurane agent had ever visited that
peaceful town. and now no citizen can
take a walk without heading process
sion of them.
The newspaper editors of Iowa are
compelled to forego their projected eN-
cursion on account of the refusal of
Eastern companies to give them free
passes; and If this be not curtailing the
liberties of the press they would like to
know what is.
| According to our correspondent i'll
Georgia, the snakes there are much more
| afraid OF the shamrock than of the real
crooks" which people were in the habi
of throwing at them. Which affords a
pat explanation of-the trick whereby st.
Patrick sent the reptiles to grass.
Tovele County, in Utah, could think
OF no other means for preventing the
extension of small poX than holding
public ceremonial of fasting and>prayer.
One would suppose that the ''vealy"
part of name might have suggested vac
cination as an adjunct to vaticination.
| Saratogian reporters are lost in SUR
misses as to what Mr.. A. Il. Stewart
means to do with mysterious million
| of bricks just arrived ut his lot near the
Grand Union Hotel. If we might ven
| ture guess we should say that proba-
blv he means to use them for building.
| An omissing missive in an evening
contemporary is made to read that 'sthc
small poX in Washington is becoming
| type and more tractable." From what
we have seen of the Washington style
| of beauty we can understand that small
poN may be rather "beeoming in type
| than otherwise.
The strike of the London gas-stokerS
has ended thus: The rank anu file of the
workmen have lost permanent employ
ment ut wages greater than those OF
skilled mechanics, and the others who
broke their contracts under circUm-
stances of greater aggravation have
been prosecuted under the Master ana
Servant act and sentenced TO short terms
of Imprisonment.
The Buffalo, Cory and Pittsburg
Railroad. upon which occurred the
fearful disaster at Prospect Station, has
been purchased by Colonel Phillips, of
Pittsburgh, President of the Allegheny
Valley Road, and OH Creek and Alle-
gheny River Railroad, thus making n
continuous line of road from Pitts
burgh to Brockton. ON the Lake Shore
road. Two hundred and twenty miles
of road, with all the fixtures, was trans
ferred on Tuesday last.
Rev. Mr.. Frazell, "a Methodist clergy
man at Elmwood, H., in a temperance
meeting pointed Il moral with the silver
plated coffin of the late Mr.. Leslie,
, VIII he said was purchased with the
4 slghs and @roans of drhnkartls' families
= the late Mr.. Leslie haying in his life.
5 time been publican as well rs sinner
: The relicr of the late Mr.. Leslie thcu
= armed herself with rawhide and cx.
e horted Mr.. Frazell from the parable o
4 the widows n.iult