Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-06
MELANGE.

furnishing Two citizens for violating the
liquor law. Tod honiinies, tod sententia.
The Khedive offers 3 per cent. interest
To any one who happens to have an odd
lG0, ,oO0, 900 TO lend, the security for the
loan being simply his own high princ-
pies.
A Philadelphia man has wasted much
time and little talent in copying upon a
postal card the whole of an editorial al
tiele from the Ledger, containing / ,5S3
words.
An utterly unscrupulous Jester wishes
us to ask the Pacific Mail Company
whether, now that it has got rid of its
it couldn't get rid of its
steamers well.
Libby prison, since the libbv-ration of
its eaptives (and very small ration they
had there), has been converted into a fer
tilizer factory, which brings it into woIs.
odor tllan before.
An electrical machine has been invent
ed to be placed in the holds of vessels to
give warning wifeI. Il leak occurs. 1t is
also expected to have some effect in the
way OF lightning ballast.
Still another imbecile is advertised to
display his ust-for-fun-ambulism on il
rope stretched across the Niagara River,
UtloW ttic SItub fsiiI, but WIFI Tic CildllCt
for great fall below him.
4 prOlane wretch observes that the
difference between a fruit-preserving
f;ictof'y and the Rev. Mr.. Hammond's
addresses to children, is that one is can
ming and the other canting.
A Western astronomer announces that
the moon, instead of being, as common
ly supposed, devoid of beat, is incan-
,lacr.a,t s,tn,ya tba ,n.sihilitv nf cnStaip-
ing animal or vegetable life.
Tie Burtis Opera House at Davenport,
Ia, has been converted into "A fancy ba-
kerry, which reminds the inhabitants of
the roles sustained there by Booth, JEFF
fersoil, Kellogg, and Nilsson.
The Yankee barber's chair has been
introduced with great success in Lon
don, showing that, i'll one instance at
least, the civilized Briton may profita-
bly, initiate the American shavage.
a sanguine Virginian is writing
pamphlet to prove that the Dismal Swamp
is capable of being reclaimed by drain
age, and he predicts that it will ut some
future day be the richest district i'll the
South,
A bradford, Ia, Junior Base Ball Club
plays short-handed ut present, the catch
er having received Il hot foul in the
stomach and stepped from the home
plate into the inetfable glories of the life
beyond.
The Union Prayer-meeting of Bloom
field, Ia, has PASSED Il resolution declar-
ing Nthat we deprecate the establish
ment of a theatre in our midst, and that
we will labor and pray that it may he
short-lived."
Not to be behind hand with the farm
ers, Lhe ice companies have increased
their charges this year on the Plausible
ground that, like ali other crops. the ice
crop. too, was seriously affected by the
frost last winter.
They talk of business men as lacking
in proper appreciation of holy things,
and yet English tradesmen centuries ago
valued an e'angel" at 10 shillings sterl-
ing. whilst theological etymologists de-
fine it as s'one sent"
New Hampshire is seriously begin
ming to think OF amending its eonstitu-
ton by abollshing the clause which pro-
vides that none but Protestant church
members shall be eligible TO the Govern
or's chair or to the Legislature.
Leather made from the skin of the
white whale is now Il regular article of
at some of the villages on
both fine and durable, aud shoe-thongs
made of it are said never to break.
A quaint man who exposes ''resur-
rection plants" for sale in Broadway
says that he has been obliged to lower.
the price of his wares in consequence of
dull times; but he adds that, from the
very name of the plant, it will certainly
rise again. -s
A AWoonsocket, r.. L., farmer was re-
Gently arrested for trying to get his hay
in on Sunday when rain seemed immi-
,nent, the State constable refusing to toll
crate such an irriligious example within
sight of all the inhabitants of the coni-
monwealth.
4 The untimely demise of San honest
milk-pedler" is inournfully chronicled
by the press of Oswego, the residents of
Which bereavcd city think of erecting a
monument TO the departed with the de-
Spairing epitaph, 9 We ne'er shall looS
upon his like again.
+ Minnesota is about to establish the
60 Hamline University" wherein every
department of knowledge is to lie eN-
haustively taught, to the utter shame
and annihilation of Harvard and Yale.
AS to philosophy, of course Bacon comes
naturally in the Ham-line.
1t is reported that the band of brigands
who robbed the railway train in iowa
have been traced to Nodaway county,
Mo. Let us hope that Nodowav county
will, on this occasion, be smarter than
its name, and keep wide awake ior the
capture of the rutiianS.
A tedious old man is reported from
! New Hampshire who has attained the
age of one hundred and seven years,
seventy of which he has passed in u state
| Of partial imbecility. Crushed corn is
said 10 have been his diet, and cider his
drink, nearly all his life.
Bar Harbor, in Maine, having set it
self up as Il fashionable watering-piace
withoat departing from its primitive ig-
norauce of drainage, sewerage, or ven-
| tilatiou, has managed to create a ellen
tele of about l 200 summer boar,lers and
! an epidemic of typhoid fever.
The persecution of the church by un-
regenerated Western worldlings has cul-
4 minated in the arrest of a Wisconsin
1 clergyman for getting drunk and un-
mcrcifully beating his little son, accord
ing 10 Solomun's injunction concerning
spare rods and spoiled children.
Niagara is recommended us a resort
for sufferers with ''hay-asthma; - moi
so much for the reason that summers
|
fall, ~ that it is enthusiastically cured
by the amount of paying through the
nose one is forced 10 do there.
4 nugget OF gold weighing sevcl
ounces has been found on the land of m
honest farmer at ltillS,lale, Mich, wh'
had been encouraged 10 prospect lay th'
u assurances OF the State GcoiogIst that
all searches for gold la Michigan mas
prove nuggetory in their results.
Temperance men are in trouble abou
the story of uiau who WAS found lyin:
dcad-drunk in Il samd-pit near his dwell
ling With n large morcasin snake lyiu'
dead besi le hin. lie had been bitten il
three places by the reptile, which die'
of the whiskey that saved the man.
NJ. Fernand Papillon has eslimlie
that man of average weight produces
in the climate of France, $500 heat
5 units per day, or Il sufficient amount :
: raise seven gallons of water 10 the hoil
e ing point. How much does the Aner'
i eau produce in such weather as this!
Y A physicians horse, il valued at les
!, than 800, is exempt from taxation /
9 Connecticut, but the doctors justly n
d mark that they can't get n shay d'envr