Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-16
MELANGE
Ecuador has /" struck fle."

-'' MELANGE.
| Ecuador has " struck ile.''
CUT worm come again in Kentucky.
Binghamton means to have park.
Pareae permitting.
Waco, Tex. is awakened by a travel
ling dramaaic company.
Naturally enough Chicago court has
divorced Mr.. and Mrs. Freeloye.
d Oregon eguestriennes are said to be
addicted to saddley masculin habits.
Macomb, ILL.,, opened new opera
house with grand bawl - last Week.
A .profane New Englander dares to
call the HOOsaie Tunnel "a Blasted bore"
Austin, Tex, Is ex-austin' its re-
souces to supply itself with gas and
water.
Vermont hopes to make up for its late
greens by exporting its greeii-slate to
England.
= The Indian likes leisure. Let hint en-
joy his otium. But let it hereafter he
otiaaa cana di0. .......
Cincinnati, opposes to all empty forms,
has abandoned the official pretence of
street-eleahing.
An Illinois spinster proposes TO set
himself ap I'M "A rattle with 100, ,O0O tick
cts at 81 piece.
Boston proposes a conversion of bald
men next month; probably to relieve
the old wig party.
Good news for country schoolboys-
The last of the whalers has Just been
sold at Nantucket.
Fort Scott, KAN, has changed its mind
about establishing q savings bank, and
started cockpit instead.
Humane sportsmen at Savin Rock,
Conn, are practising on Mr.. Bergh's
mechanical "gyro-pigeons.'
Our archaeological correspondent as
serts that anany middy-evil customs are
still maintained in the navy. s,ts...
Pelham, Mass, paws $34 tax on a
thousand, and ,pities the people in big
cities oppressed by "rings.''
The fashionable beverage at Long
Brafith is known as sealsider. 1t Is
made with sugar and bitters.
A temperate Hartfort man proves that
lager beer is not Intoxicating by drink
Ing fifty-six glasses of it daily.
Colorado has borax to grind in the
| matter OF" Protection" having found a
bofax ground of inexhaustible extent.
AZ East Haddam, Conn.,, has built an
opera hoiIse which would Accommodate
| !, 200 musical connoisseurs it it had 'em.
| f. A gentleman from Ireland being asked
by u New York belle if he admired
small waists, responded, not In the
laceti.'' His'H He '!-+ ot
Keokuk, Ia, has organized limited
Inability temperance society with u
pledge not to take more than five drinks
per diem.
A comic temperance paper is to be
started in London, but 1t must neces-
sarily be without spirit If conducted for
saeh a caiisa. yy.T 5af sa t.ar. sa -
A Missouri beldam sans merci recent
| ly burned off her lovers whiskers be-
cause their color did not match that of
her best dress. -"
| A cure is advertised for " jumping
teeth,'' and the man who discovered il
will soon announce one for galloping
consumption. 4..ssf.,s..t .,t. .-
Mrs. Eliza Colbron, of Elmira, has
given birth to twenty-one children in
the last eighteen years. She might be
called 1itteraliyia fertile Lizer.
-aLatestfrom France--The iBonapartists
are sasguine, the Orleanisis airy, and
Republicans sanguinary, thus ceinbin-
ing the strong points of the Former two.
"Sweet clover - is announced by u
restauranteur as the latest deIicacy out.
Perhaps he has introdaeed it as set-off
against hay-fever, which is now in sea-
son. S.. ....,..... -.--- ..-.... ... .,..
"Irish broughs, with cork soles' are
Iannounced by a cordwainer. Enigrant
ships give the reverse Of this, since they
often bring us no end Of Cork souls with
Irish brogues. f..
One Lemuel Twait has been convicted
of perjury ia, a Western court, and not
a single Western Journal has had enter
prise enough to call him the champion
OF the lie-Twaits.
An unclaimed ear has been found in
the street of Middletown, n. ", and the
village clerk advertises that the owner
may recover it on proving property and
. paying expenses.
A local paper reports that farmers in
Lincoln County, Mo-, have TO 60 ten
miles to get water 10 cook with !; the ia-
ference being that they don't use it for
any other purpose.
with which fish block up their Cochi-
| ltuate water pipes, and say they ID rather
take their perch with rod or pole than
lby means of a plumber.
. The St Louis coopers are making a
war-hoop about the employment OF
, Chinese labor i'm their trade, and threaten
to staye in" and 's hung up y the
Mongolian interlOpers.
: A :" Mic-Mac remedy for smallpox -
, lis announced. The Mic-Macs, as their
t name Indicates, are tribe OF Indians
Idescended from Irish on the one side
. and Scotch on the other. sS
English pale ale Is frequently pre-
scribed by physicians of late for lady pa
! Itients with delicate constitutions. 1t is
, stated that lady patients with delicate
constitutions are greatly on the increase.
The subioined Ineligible item is from
4 1.-The Worcester's Pip T" A public
: spirited citizen of New Haven has pre-
: sented an officers billy to the polics
: foree with that the man shall cast lots
e Ito see who was own it,"
John II. johnson, the alleged mnr-
:. Ederer of Jonna Hess, In Connecticut,
3 claims to be u member oil the Russian
' nobility Those who half believe his
story, wOnld like to confront him with q
4 Russian knoutan '-knonter. ,s.
vi 1t is proposed 20 build at Tong Branch
\ by private subscription, a " Presidential
L mansion" to be consecrated ms u per.
q petual summer home for the chief magis
}. trate." This Is rather IN advance Of tn
;, third term suggestion. lt w
Z Miss Ritenoun, of Kansas City, Mo.
- was last week converted into an indeil
a nate article by u stroke of Tightening
IS while talking with y gentleman who es
"a capped uninjured. 1t is needless to ad.
that he wasn't a conductor.
B. The ladies of Biddeford, Me-. expec
to give their sex tone by performin,
2 tableau entitled the "Toilet of Death,
r. for which our nautical contributor snR
= gests that they will not rid themselve
n to go in stays, bnt simply be decked Il
J. shrouds. '"' "
3 1t Is sttted OF those huge Siberian
~ ~ bloodhouads. that IL they once get an
= person down, even their master. in play
n they are very apt to throttle him Il
w earnest Ihnl do this nuifhnllf an