Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-05
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1t takes $4,000 worth Of fuel annually
to counteract the GOODNESS of the present
tenant of the White House.
Having gotten over its scare about its
past cholera, Memphis is giving its care
to the prospective coal-era.
The residents of Brookline seek a for
enslc injunction against the possible an
neXation of their town to Boston.
A woman from Mississippi died last
week aG Pittsfield, Mass, OF what the
local doctors call Asiatic cholera.
An embalmed mermaid is attracting
crowds of spectators, who likely never
heard OF Barnum, at Los Angeles.
Despondent Western agriculturists
talk of establishing an eye and ear in
Urinary for their potatoes and wheat.
Following up the spirit aroused by
the sJubilee" the City Council of Bos-
ton has appropriated $4,000 for open air
concerts this summer.
Fish diet is said to promate activity of
the brain. Accepting this, Lent should
be prolific in brilliant literary produce
tions, especially of the fast kind. 4
New Jersey made handsome profit
out of its State Prison last year, and
feels quite encouraged in its efforts to
increase the number of its criminals.
A cooperative company hat been or
ganized in Springfield, VT, for the man
ufacture Of dolls, which it is hoped TO
convert into dollars. -
Beaver Dam, Wis, has On foot pro-
ject for Large boot and shoe factory"
the boots >made elsewhere not being
nearly large enough for its market.
An amiable New Jersey woman is un-
der arrest for flooding the sidewalk in
front of her premises with boiling water
for the benefit of bare footed wayfay-
ers.
The members of the Iowa Press Asso-
citation are going to ''eXcurt" to Niaga-
ra Falls i'll June to the extent of $50 a
head, if they can get $50 ahead of their
business.
The refusal of the Post-ofliee officials
to receive one cent coins in payment for
quantities of postage stamps is charac-
teriZed by our Scotch contributor as. n
take-nickel quibble of a specious sort.
A sensitive. .SanFlancisco belle. habitu-
ally carries whalebone switch to whale
beauin' young gentlemen, and they say
it only heightens the previous switchery
of her manner.
n iOfCI Cdltctt HIS SlTl u Mo-
due, i'll response to which misunderstood
compliment the lass lifted handful of
hair from the top of his head--a modi-
fed scalping operation.
A Philadelphia mantuamaker inpru-
IDENTIFY announces that she makes her
dresses fireproof, not realizing that her
customers wish toilettes to attract rather
than to repel their flames.
,,o,>n,c ,>,o+o,t 4,,oa
all the bother made over the laXity of
their marriage laws. only 494 divorces
were granted in that State last year; not
so much as one and half day.
The master sail-maker of the Charles
town (NTass.) Navy Yard is engaged in
repairing the identical flag 2lluded to in
tile song of the "Star Spangled Banner,''
which waved over Fort McHenry in
1914.
The Congregationalists OF New Hamp-
shire have appointed a committee 10
present their protest TO the Boston and
Maine Railway against carrying the
cream of New England society in ''milk
trains" on Sunday.
a scene not down in the. bills was
enacted in Boston theatre few nights
ago when lady got herself into box
by drawing a pistol and attempting to
shoot a gentleman who was in the box
with her.
An old woman in Maine crossed over
n bridge that was marked Dangerous"
without seeing the sign. On being in
| formed of the fact on the other side she
turned about in great alarm and re-
crossed it.
The female operatives in the Worces-
ter envelope manufac:ory have struck
for one-thousandth of q cent more pay
on each envelope, and the proprietorS
declare that such an eXorbitant increase
would ruin their business.
The disinterested patriots of Massa-
chusetts, who "volunteered'' for the
glory of their country and S-per month
and rations during the Mexican war,
will hold their quadri-centennial meet
ing in Boston on the 18th proXimo.
The congregation of the only church
at Mount Washington, Mass, consisting
of one old lady, has unanimously re-
solved to consolidate itself with the
neighboring parish OF South Egrcmont
to save the expense ola pastors salary.
There is said to be some difficulty
about the telegraphic communication
in Wisconsin, but they hope to set it
right as soon as they can clear away
the snow deep enough to get down to
a the wires.
ga man NAV not marry his grand
mothers" but there seems to have been
nothing to prevent young woman from
marrying her grandfather in Indiana a
fortnight ago. However, Indiana mar
riages never did come under ordinary
rules.
: A girl in Macoupin County, Ill.,. told
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could milk three cows while she WAS
milking two. He failed, aud at last az
counts was practicing on all the COWS he
could see with the hope of getting an
other trial.
That the child must frequently he the
, father of the man appears from the an
nouncement i'm the Alpena (Mich.a ,
, Pioaeer, that a child named Jaruac re-
, sides there, which is over six months
old, being only thirty years younger
than its grandparents.
5 Rhode Island repels the rihall iests
{ made upon its dimlnutiye size by grave
. ly asserting that Providence has i've
; cemeteries covering 2Sl acres, without
+ trespassing on the aiioiuing States
/ This may be so; bat, il So, where under
5 Providence do the live people residey
: The tunnel mania threatens to hccom,
: a great bore. A san Francisco paper
proposes to burrow under the bay be
: tween that city and Oakland, and
: Russian railway contractor wishes t,
make car-path through the Carpathiar
Mountains.
a A Mongolian maiden was sold for s.
ut n Chinese auction in Idaho u few day
e ago. Her purchaser, having done =
much bidding for her, she is 10 do hi
e bidding hereafter. II It We're not tha
n the late Mr.. Lincoln Ind absolutely abol
/; ished slavery in the unitcd States, W
il should say that this looked very niue
E, like it. .-
A law Of England enforced in IA
h seventeenth century: "All women, !,
whatever age, rank, profession or Il,
II gree, whether virgins, wives or widow
y that shall from and after this Act, in
lp pose upon seduce and hetrav into maj
rimony any of His Maiesiy's male sui
L. iects, by scents, paints, cosmetics, washI
artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish weo
m iron stays. hoops, hi9h-heeled shoes {
bolstered hips, shall incur the peralty
w the laws in force against witchcraf
ce sorcery, and the like.