Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-26
THE CHRONICLE
A head wind-A sneeze.

A mead Wlnd-A sneeLe-
A marine sweI.-the pOroise.
A smart thing-A mustsrd plaster.
The Court Of Italy incurred twelve
days for Napoleon.
Sing Sing eonviets complete LOO
pairs Of shoes and ] Gao pairs Of boots
a day.
H~iDdoostsn contains 1S5, 03T, 900 peo-
pie who pay revenue to the British
Government.
The measles are thick In Jackson
County. In the town of JaeksoIrthere
are owe 400 cases.
The peach crop of Ohio is said TO
be utterly destroyed by the unexam-
pied cold winter.
What is the difference between a
sailor and a beer drinker? One puts
his sail up and the other puts his ale
down.
san Diego, Cal, is luxuriating on
green pers and ripe tomatoes, while
Santa Barbara prides itself on its fine
Strawberries.
The January thaw began in Cana
da on the last day of the month, the
thermometer lin a few places) having
gone up to zero.
"Spicer, +" in the Boston CoommeF
cial Bulletin, thinks that King Rich
ard III. was a prOhibitionist, because
he stopped King Henry's bier.
"Ifyou don't want the SCOT, don't
go up the chimney was the reply
of u Macon, Ga, editor to respectable
parties who requested him not to
mention the fact that they had sbeen
arraigned in the police courts.
The Delaware Indians, in New
York, live in frame houses, res cut
away coats aud staDd-up collars, fail
in business and compromise at fifty
cents on the dollar, and are getting
quite civilized
A Connecticut sexton prevents the
congregation from shifting about
and changing seats by dexterously
applyirg 8 COB of pitch to their per-
sOns as they enter the sanctuary
He says the church is no place to fool
around in"
What agOnies must that poet have
endured. who, writing of his love,
asserted in his manuscript that he
kissed her under the silent stars"
and found that the compOsitor had
made him declare that he kicked
her under the cellar staiFs.n
I'll D.l,.D~I
to e anything more sinful in burn
lug corn, which only requires three
or four months to grow to perfection.
and which can be produced on the
same soil year after year, than it is to
burn a tree which it has taken scores
of years to grow.
A Swede stranger took the SMALL
pOx at New Salem, Illinois, and the
neighbOrs pail O'Neil IS a day to
muse him. When the Swede recOv-
cred O'Neil was taken down with the
same disease, and the SWede nnrsed
him through, and then brought in a
bill of s. per day for his trouble. Vir-
tue is its own reward.
The disabilities of Robert NJ. T.
Hunter, of Virginia. were removed
by the House last Friday. MI. Hun
ter was speaker Of the Twenty-sixth
Congress, and was a member of the
Senate from l847 until he Joined the
rebellion in 1851. He was al one time
Secretary of State of the Confedera-
ey. There was no opposition to gran
ting him amnesty.
The death OF a misery old woman
is recorded by the Cincinnati news
papers. Her name was Elizabeth
Bieve. but she usually was called
Matches Mary, as she peddled those
articles, and did so to some purpose,
inasmuch as she left real estate valued
at So, 900, and Nlittle sum in cash. She
was irregular and incorporate in her
ways of life, and her only son and
heir is Row a prisoner in the House
of Refuge.
An eccentric eolored man, known
as BLACK Philip died in CHmru
township, Berks county, Pa, recently,
of old age. Before his death he left a
message with a lady to the effect that
his relatives would find some money
by digging at q certain spot in the
real Of his cabin. Last week, after
digging down nearly four feet, a cop
per kettle was unearthed, which con
tanned twenty-seyen pounds of gold,
silN eF and copper coin, all OF old date,
amounting ia value to about s 1900.
In Manayunk lives German alder
man, named Peter Denim, proprietor
OF abeer saloon. lately elected aOOffice.
His first case was a suit as to who
should pay for breaking a window
glass. Two Germans bad q fight, and
one threw a stone at the other, who
lodged it, and the missile went crash
ing through the window. They were
arrested and brought before Peter, and
after bearing the evidence, this learn
ed scion Ofthe law came to the follow
ing decision; 81 am te law, unit ven
I'm pebint te ear, I'm Peter Dehm,
unit / can shist see through dis case
like as clear as day. IF dis man had
not dodge his pig Dutch head, de
window vas not get proke, So I say
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