Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-13

MELANGE.

MELANGE-
A single firm in Boston has imported
nearly 1000 cases of wine within six
weeks.
The Saratoga Railway thinks it is pre-
eminently entitled to, call itself
grand trunk line."
''Tonic becr'' is now sold in some Ger
man houses of entertainment. Teuton-
ie beer is sold in all
The successful plan for the new Chi
eago Courthouse is said to have been
the work of an office boy in that city.
The Connecticut Legislature has de-
clared that people may fish through the
ice in East Hampton pond all the year
round. 1922
A Bow-Bell musical amateur wishes
to know if Wagner's new opera, the
"Valkyr," has any reference to "Hook-
ey Nalkyr." ..-... ..c...
The Cape Cod Company still pur-suez
its ship-canal project, and expects coon
to commence operations which will cast
Lesseps in the shade. d
A Vermont coal-cartman has sudden
ly Inherited $32, 500 from an English
relative, and has consequently brought
his coslin' TO a full stop.
A wicked Boston paper hints that the
State constabulafy would rise as one
man if they heard of Myer-beer being
given at a pnbIic concert. .tiI
New Jersey has acquired such repn-
tation for hanging its criminals that
You be hanged' has been suggested as
a new motto for the State.
San Francisco has produced an ict-
theological cross between the shark and
the porpOiSe, and batherS who have seen
it say it looks very cross.
The widow of Vermont peddler
claims $4,000 damages from the bar
keeper who sold liquor to the man who
murdered her late husband.
Cotton plants in Georgia have al
ready grown tour feet; so that the crop
will not be forfeit, after all the balefnl
representations of the spring.
Fishermen in Samiaca Eay are now
having good sport with kingfish, Span
ish mackeral, and bonitoes, but the dog
fish comes too frequently to their barks
The School Commissioners of Chicago
have determined that pupils shall not
be taught two languages ut once lest
they be thereby rendered double
tongued. fa
Milbury, Mass, is circumstantialIy
particular in recording the demise of
one of its citizens at the age of one hun
dred years, three months, and twenty
eight days.
A matron of Mitchell County, Ia, Sc
cured this mention by not recognizing
the difference between stomach bitters
and laudanum, and yet she had brought
up ten children.
Philadelphia. not content with chron-
faIi ht,t,a I<,,x ~
daries, reports the demise of a canary
airy place equal that?
The Hartford Comm Water Commis-
sioners< have just discovered a trifiing
leak III their mains through which 90
600 gallons have been escaping every
day for year past. $50
An imbecile person whose physician
has burnt deep cavity in some portion
of his anatomy with nitrate of silver
wants us TO print his opinion that such
practice hole o. caustic.
An English physician has saved the
life of a boy bitten by an adder by ad-
ministering copious doses of hot whis-
key punch-which is another punch on
| the head of the teetOtallers.
A new Jersey baseball player is re-
|
brain, which is manifestly impossible,
foreasmuch as ii he had any brains he
| wouldn't have played baseball.
The addition of glycerine to the wa
| ter in locomotive boilers Is advised, to
prevent incrustation and consequent ex-
| plosion. or course, if it was night
road, glycerine would not be safe.
The Brattleboro spiritual continue
tion of Edwin Drood'' (Which is said
10 he a very dilute solution of the mys-
| teryl has drewed to an end, and is ALI
| nounced for publication this month.
| A freight agent has been heard to re-
mark that the farmers oughtn't TO COM
plain of droughts any longer, as the ac-
| ton of the oranges" has caused light
trains ON all the Western railways.
The Iaundresses in a Bridgeport,
Conn, shirt factory have struck ON ac-
count of the introduction into the IRON
ing department of male operative, on
whose etfeminacy they vent much flat
| ironry.
Edward j. Eddy, the sixteen-year-
old son OF a prominent resident OF Chi
cago, has been sent to the Reform
School for voting himself an increase of
back pay to the extent Of horSe-pistel
When one learns that the United
States contain 1000 drug stores, each
of them dispensing on an average
score of prescriptions day, the only
wonder is that so many people die ma
tural deaths
A Japanese police commissioner has
been cashiered, and his entire estate
| confiscated, for taking hribe to wink
at the doings OF a disorderly character.
How fortunate that our civilization is
more advanced!
A French physician has discovered
| that the peculiar odor of Russia leather
has a very beneficial effect upon weak
lungs, and he advises consumptive pa
tients to repose upon pillows covered
with that material.
| A Vermont paterfamilas has sued his
next neighbor for giving his family
smallpox, and the defendant threatens
a counter suit on the ground that the
plaintiiiS took it from him violently
without his permission.
a snapping-turtle weighing So lbs.
was lately killed in bay of Rice Lake,
Ont. On being opened it WAS found to
contain the partially digested remains OF
wo~young ducks, and a piekerel that
must have weighed at least u pound.
The total aestinarians of Illinois. are
debating whether strycnine would not
/ be pardonable to counteract the had ex-
ample OF a dissipated resident of Roch-
ester who persists in remaining hale
aud hearty despite l06 years of continu-
Gus Indulgence in whiskey and tobacco.