Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-29
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ueSSee.
A spirit Thermometer at Sparta,
Wisconsin, Saturday marked 45 deg.
below zero.
Six deaths from smallpox have Oc-
Cured in a single family at New Ha-
ven, Ind, recently.
1t is not unlikely that Congress will
pass a bill making the postage on let
tiers two cents each.
Danbury has three men who can
hold a woman's jaw. They are dem
fists.
Se~venty-five members Of the Ecu
menical Council have died since il
was opened in Rome, in December,
1869.
We see that several of u eontem-
pOraries are disputing as to which of
them "has had the best article on
milk" &c. The best article we ever
saw on milk-eream.
Miss Susan Porter, a young lady of
the town of Aurelius, CuyahOga eOun-
ty, has made a delaine quilt counting
S,676 pieces of cloth. 1t is made after
the rising sun pattern.
A cOtempOrary philosophers thus
without doubt, had Adam been an
Englishman his condition, with moth
ing to grumOle at and no good old
times to look back upon, would have
been the extreme of misery"
Miss Addie Taylor of Bridgeport,
G nneticut. attended a Frenchman
who was sick of small pOx a few,
months ago, and pow he has given
her a fortune of $4,000. AS a result
all the girls in Connecticut are look
ing for smallpox cases.
The New York MdI says the law
just passed in Kansas, giving mothers
control of their children, is q capital
measure and should be initiated in
other States. Children have had con-
troll of their mothers so long it is time
for a change. We believe in rotation
in the domestic offices.
An ingenious gentleman of KeOkuk
undertook To smoke out the rats from
between the floors and partitions OF
his house. He made it very hot for
the rats, but burned his house down.
This kind of rat eXterminatOr Is Ell
f~eetive, but cats are more economical
Reports from Minnesota of the Sc
verify of the recent storm state some
sixteen persons were frozen to death
Two men were found near st. Peter
sitting upright in a sleigh frozen stitf,
and wrapped in buffalo robes. 1t was
the most terrible storm that has Wis
tied that section since its settlement
"That bed is not long enough for
me-" said a tall, gTuf E~nglishman on
being ushered into his bedroom by
an Irish waiter, at one of Our hotels.
Faith. an you'll find its plenty long
81, when.you get into it," was the re-
piy, ''for then there'l be two more
feet added to it,"
The sharpest, so far this month, IS
the Troy girl. who makes her unsus-
pecting father the bearer of sweet
missives to q clerk in his ONCE who
has been forbidden TO visit his en-
plOyer's house. She pins the letter
in the old mans cloak. and when he
reaches the office and throws OFF the
garment, clerk gets it and responds by
the same carrier.
A young man decidedly inebriated
walked into the Executive chamber
Of New York recently, and asked for
the Governor, what do you want
with him ?" inquired the Secretary.
so, 1 want an Office with a good sala-
ry-a s%inecure." well" replied the
| Secretary, II can tell you something
better than a ~sineeure; you had bet
ter 60 and try a mater cure"
Another centennial birthday is ap
proaching-the four hundredth ami
| versary of old Nicholas COpernieus.
| It comes on the 18th of February and
is to be celebrated with imposing GER
emonies at Warsaw. He was the man
who first set the planets circulating
about. the sun, and certainly deserves
to have his birthday celebrated.
The House Committee IN Public
Lands agreed to Ketchum's bill pro-
hibiting the sale of public lands with
in the limits of any railroad land
grant at less than two dollars and a
half per acre, the restriction to apply,
however, only to lands actually taken
along the line of road and not to pre-
empted lands.
- LCuloN ATIC HAL III ha1 OAAAN
( been acquainted with his girl two
nights attempted to kiss her at the
gate. In his dying deposition he told
the doctors that just "a, he kissed her
the earth slid from under his feet and
mis- soul went u of his mouth, while
his head touched the stairs" Later
dispatches show that what allied him
Was the old mans boots.
Chiselhurst, where Louis Napoleon
died, is a parish situated in the eoun-
ty of Kent, eleven miles southeast of
London. The chief claims of the
place to historical distinction seem
/ destined to be neurological, as the
gaziteers mention as the only Incl
dent worthy of note the death of
William Camded, the celebrated an
tiquary.
"Whst do you call that?" indig.
nantly asked a customer at a cheap
restaurant, pointing out an objection
that he had discovered in his plate of
hash. "Wristband, with sleeve-but-
ton attached, sir" said the weiter
briskly. "Well, do you consider that
a proper thing for a man to ind IN
his hash ?n asked the customer, in
wrath. GOOD heavens, sir!" cried
the waiter, would you expect to find
a ten dollar silk umbrella in a fifteen
cent plate of hash?"
A Fort Wayne lover thought he
saw his sweetness talking owe the
gate to a rival, the other night. Low
/ er gathered a boulder and hurled it
with true aim at rivals head. Rivals
head proved to be a nieely-turned
globe on the gate post. Boulder Gu
Tomed on the head of sweetness
Father gave lover a dose of shot
Fido bit him. The splinters were
picked out of sweetness head, but
she declined to marry q man who is
jealous of a gate post.
The oft repeated question, "DOes
forming pay ?' is answered by this
incident A lawyer, in failing health,
bought 1000 acres of land near st.
Paul, Minnesota, at SO per acre. He
confined himself to the raising of
wheat. devOting LOO acres 20 the cul-
tivation of that staple. His yield in
| 1867 was 50, 700 bushels, gross price
S23, $50, profits Sl4,5OO. In 1858 his
WELD was 5000 bushels, with net
profits $50, 400. Thus in two years his
net profits, over and above the inter-
est on the capital invested, sufieed to
meet all the expenses of building,
fencing and other improvements, be-
sides returning to him all his pur-
| chase money, while the market value