Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-02
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MY KITTENS LIFE.

MY KITTENS LIFE
lMY pretty Snowdrop full of play,
AHA Turn your drowsy head this way;
What iSlife, pussie, say?
Life says pussie. winkIng her ewes
| And twitching her tail in droll surprise
Lifer Oh! it's racing over the floor,
Out OF the window, and iE at the door:
| Now on the bareback, now on the table,
| MI. balls of cotton. and skeins of silk,
| ANA crumbs of sugar, and jugs of milk,
| All so easy and comfortable.
Life? oh its rolling yer andaoyer
On the summer green turf and budding clover.
| chasing the shadows as fast rs they run -
| Down the green paths in the SUNNI er sun;
| franclng and gamboling brave and bold,
| Slmbing the tree stems scratching the mold;
| Now, what know Of life Pve tod.'
Gerunds in edo bakers.
A matter of corse--A coroner's in
Iquest.
Splrit-rappers are again on the tappy
lat Rochester.
A female fire company is talked of at
Lewisburg, Pa,
Texas steers draw forth st. Louis's
tears of jealousy.
| The sparrows have almost entirely
| abondoned Boston.
| The condition of Vesuyius is creating
some palaver in Italy.
A picturesque assembiage-The Pro-
tographers' Convention.
| Wachtel is raising his GO do " in much
| admired roles at Leipzig.
Thunder-shOwers have already beoun
to sour milk in Tennessee.
The big boy of a Connecticut public
school is thirty-five years old.
Santa Cruz, CAL, disgraces its name
| by prohibiting the sale ofrum.
| Another jury-in Plymouth, Mass,
this time-lately raified for a verdict.
The street-locOmotive experiment has
| attained popular 'steem in Louisville.
Our ship-builders are the only people
who wish the past season had more rig
gers.
Ph9niXville, Del, expends $3.50 a
year on its police force, and he isn't SAT-
| isfied.
Newburyport, Mass, is to be subjected
to the demnition grind of "Butler or
gan.''
| A colony of Friends, counting some
thous- thees, is to be settled in West
ern Texas.
Thirty new Chinese pupils are ex-
pected to arrive in Springfield, Mass,
this month.
bombay planters are making Bonn
bastic boasts to tine luxuriance of their
cotton crops.
Savannah, Ga, is singing 10 peanuts
| over the great plenitude OF its crop of
| that product.
Kentucky papers are giving para
graphic caudle anent the birth of six
legged lamb.
An Atlanta, (Ga.,) "medium "util-
| izes spiritual manifestations to turn a
sewing machine.
An American mser in London lately
economical himself to death, leaving a
fortune of 100000.
Nelson County, KY, nominates a
candidate elghty-six years old for the
| office of constable.
Potatoes are to be raised at the 'front.'
Ter army posts to give a-mealier-ration
to the soldiers fare.
The Stuttgart bakers have called their
rolls and risen on a strike, to Loaf until
| they get more wages.
| 4 Western Methodist minister has
Withdrawn from his church on account
of domestic iangles."
| An Iowa newspaper proprietor has
trained n large bull-terrier for the posi-
ton of fighting editor.
| Kerosene is down to 10 cents gallon
| in Auburn; which places suicide within
the reach of the poorest.
l.
tors opened a barrel at the last rail one
bitter(n) night last week.
Boston wants a municipal ordinance
passed to stop Victor Emmanuel's going
to the theatre on Sunday.
For the first time in twenty wears
Louisiana sugar-planters are satisfied
with their crop-prospects.
| Why is pickpocket's confederate
like the bassaltic rocks opposite York
ers? Because he's the pal as aids.
Ladies who wish to secure front seats
i'll the theatre at Pittshurg are obliged
to take off their steeple coiffures.
The only flags displayed on Washing
toms birthday in Norwich, Conn.,, were
trampled under foot on its sidewalks.
The postmaster of Bridgeport, Conn,
is reported to charge two cents extra for
s. licking and sticking postage stamps.
A Debuque benedict is writing letters
to the newspapers in advocacy of wife
beating, unbeknown to his mother-in-
law.
Peoria, H., wishes to he made sig
nal-station, guaranteeing to furnish the
most astounding weather on the conti-
nent.
The aristocratic "TrumbuIl mansion" :"
in the most patrician quarter of Hart
ford, is to be converted into lager-beer
, saloon.
When has a farmer the hest iustifica-
, ton for living? When he's a rasin'
tater. BY which you mean raiSoR detre?
= Certainly.
Il Moore County, Tenn, manufacturers
fifty barrels of whskey day, ami vet
the inhabitants, like Oliver Twist, cry
, for Moore.
An Apache chief convinced of the i'm
propriety of polygamy, has set Brigh;fm
: Young an example in killing live Of his
Q six squaws.
n stalwart yeonan, weighing seven
stone, welded last week, at uayerhiu.
Mass, fragile bride of 2i9 pounds ad-
! lvoirdupois.
Michigan University has eighty-three
/, female students, of whom thirty-seven
: are i'll the medical department aud four
! in the law school.
r An individual who accidentally ran
+ against an iron column, To the detriment
: of one of his optics, said he received his
( black eye by post.
/ The shad in the Connecticut River,
Il IKE sensible fish as they are, prudently
s refuse to pass under ANYTHING that LOOKS
like a railway bridge,
II resident or Con9ersville, Tenn, has
secured an extended series of obituary
notices by drinking eight glasses of
whiskey within an hour.
o jacksonville, H., bar-keepers are for
IL bidden to use ground-glass In their front
e sashes, or to put up window-blinds or
ir shades of any description.
Canadian lunatic was lately re-
II stored to sanity by escaping from an
IL as YUM aud spending three weeks in the
l. woods during the coolest weather.