Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-10-25
SPACE. Nv. sw. 6w. 9 m. m. VI.
M]ELANGE.

- Austria proposes to amuse the Shah
with shahmois hunt.
A blind beggar in Dayton, O., recently
had his pocket picked of $426.
A panel game-Prisoners counsel's
challenge to the array" of jurors.
Texas lately exemplified woman's
rights by lynching three female horse
thieves.
The girl of the period is to discard
corsets. As jockeys say, she's fast but
she won't Say.
The Committee of Seventy deem it ex-
pedient to disband for fear that they
should get to weighty.
The women of Maine are pursueing
their mania by circulating for signatures
petitions for female sufferage.
For the Eastern quail ltately intro
duced into California the climate thereof
seems to be well qualified. agaaft
A contemporary comments ON the
of English law because the
Tichborne trial has lasted 100 days.
And Stokes?
North Bridgewater, Mass, feels like
"breakin' things generally" and is ac-
eordingly taking steps to establish a ma
tional bank.
1t is perhaps because "r;ches take to
themselves wings" that Wall street men
so frequently take ssfvers" in search of
them.
A firman affirmin' the feminine privil-
edge of shopping unattended in'C 'Constan-
tinople is setting the Turkish population
in fermentation.
Portsmouth, n. H., produces annually
an addition to numerous temperance Or
ators, 100000 barrels of ale and 10000
gallons of rum. 9.r t..5
Vermont talks about increasing its
Governors wages above the present rate
of $2.75sa day, so as to raise him nearer
equality with journeymen mechanics.
A hail-storm of gum camphor has
been tasted by veraclous citizens of
Wis.,. and they can't think
what it came for.
Cincinnati doesn't want any sewers.
because of its "nice rolling site." At
least it didn't want any until it got
sight of cholera.
Baltimore tailors threaten to cut work
unless their wages are raised; which
employers regard as shear imposition.
A Boston paper inquiries, "What be-
comes of the sons of successful men ?''
Why, they succeed to their fathers
property. ,sit
i An Iowa wife, who lately came into
possession of 5000, just stepped out and
procured divorce while the potatoes
were boiling.
Seven young women have entered the
University OF Vermont, much TO the de-
light Of the boys belonging to that inst
tuition. ,;i Ai
A lady of Beddeford, Me-, drew 5000
in ho ont, Lott n, nj HI:
that she is able to Craw any young man
in the town.
Servant girls in Montana get. $50 gold
a month, with the use of a piano and
isewing-machine besides three nights
"off'' in the week.
An imbecile pauper in NORTHAMPTON
County, Pa, almshouse has inherited
fortune ofa quarter of a million.
/ A select series of dog-fights is announ-
ced among other allurements for the
beau monde at Saratoga.
At Killingly, Conn.,. smallpox is pre-
,vailing SO killingly as to close all the
factories in the town.
Middlefield, Mass, sympathizes with
the honeymoon of a hewly-married
couple aged respectively seventy-eight
and seventy.
Massachusetts papers haye lost all in
terest in the excavation Of Troy since the
discovery of ssthe cellar walls of the first
house built in Yarmouth
Springfield, Mass, is having its streets
spriukled with mineral water from a
sulphur spring which makes ladies who
wear rouge sul-furious.
The west end of the dining-hall of new
Trinity College at Hartford is to be
graced by q ssminstrel's gallery;" per-
haps to give Westminsteral effect to
the intetior architecture.
Miss. Van Cott is preaching in Beaver
Dam, Wis.,, with fixed determination to
prey away the latter portion of the name
of that town before she leaves.
Miss Agnes Ethel, the actress, was re-
Gently offered SIS, 900 for her theatrical
wardrobe, but declined the money. She
is to be married shortly, the gossips
say. 1eia 3s.u'nE
81 Fred Grant went through La Crosse,
Wis, not long ago, passing one night in
the place, and now girl at whose
house he stopped claims that she is en-
gagged to him,
A Worcester, Mass, man stopped
drinking just because his wife proved to
him that he had been arrested for drunk
enness III times and had disbursed ST.
142 in fines.
The ultima thule of surgery has been
reached in New Haven If we may credit
local chronicle which tells of q patient
there who recently s'had cancer remov-
ed from her heart"
Hoosac Falls, VT, announces the early
pearl of the season. Size of pea.
None Of your Ceylon oyster abortions'
but out of a fresh Indigenous clam.
The Khedive is said to have remarked
that the sultan's firman granting him
independent power is merely affirmin'
what has practically existed for a long
time past.
Rhode Island proposes to enclose
Roger Williams Park with high picket
fence, to prevent nearsighted travellers
from accidentally stepping ON it while
crossing the State.
Residents of Waterbury, Conn.,, COM
plain of the unfairness Of stopping the
long-established custom of public bath
ing in the city reservoir, just because
a few monopolists wish to breed fish I'm
it.
The meanest man on record IS ver-
monter who refuses to pay his first wife
the money which he borrowed from her
to buy an Indiana divorce and cover the
expense of his wedding tour with anoth-
er lady.
The South Bend Tribune is .mulching
its subscription list by supplying an en-
craving of Mr.. Colfax to each new SUBJ
scriber. The engravings are, naturally
On steel.
,Bostonians are determined to nut a
stop to the trundling Of wheelbarrows
on the sidewalks, hopeing thereby to
improve the barrowmetric condition OF
the Hub. sta
As curious result of an ordnance pro-
hibiting the Sabbath sale of '.everything
except medicines" in Manchester n. HI.
all the drug stores We're closed last Sum
day. -
A carlinville, H., girl, who recovered
$40 dollars from young fellow for kis-
sing her against he will, offered him the
money back again few days afterwards
Ii he would "do it again."
A Roaring Branch, Pa, woman has
peeled over 200 cords of bark this sum-
mer, besides twice peeling the bark OFF
her husbands nose becouse he made
love to the milkmaid.
A woman in San Francisco proposes