The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-17
ALL SORTS.

A woman in Springfield, Mass,
busies herself in making wills at 81
each.
An editor may not be religious,
but he generally has sn umbrella
which keeps lent.
G. L. Schuler, has a new sign.
This is a sign that he believes in adj
vertising-but he don't.-SWa, Dix
on, Ill.
A Poughkeepsie clerk loves the
very ground a Highland widow
walks upon. 1t is worth 5000 an
acre.
A Kentucky man purchased a
coffin fifteen years ago so as to have
it handy, and the other day he was
burned up in limekiln, and the cof-
fin was a dead loss.
The new jail at Danbury has five
occupants already. Although COM
paratively a young institution it is
so managed as to command the con-
i1dence Of the public. Danbury
Neags.
Tobacconists and drink-mIxers
lose $4,000 by swear-offs on New
Years day, but make double that
sum the third week in January
when the lambs come back to the
flock thirstier and hungrier than
ever.
Somebody has written a work en-
titled useful Hints for Ugly Girls, -
and the New York Commercial Id
vertiser declares that the book has
the smallest circulation of any liter
ary production in the United States.
a woman in Chester interfered
with her brothers courtship,and beg
ged him to stay at home evenings.
He waited until the evening when
she expected her own lover and COM
piled, and she says that fraternal af-
fection is a heartless mockery.
Some questions very naturally
suggest themselves to an inquiring
mind. An amateur farmer wonders
''Why, on all this fair earth, the
ground is spread bottom side up, so
that it must be turned over with a
plough before crops can be raised.''
A serious charge has been brought
against a school teacher in Illinois,
the specifications Of which are:" In
moiraltol 2. Parshalityl 8. Keep
ing disordly scholl! 4. Carrying un-
lade wepingsp' The committee man
who wrote the charge thinks Of run
ming the school himself next quar-
ter.
The Chicago Post asks this con-
undrum: Suppose there are six
hundred street cars in the city of
Chicago, and each street-car makes
eight trips a day, and three ladies
are compelled to stand up each trip,
how many brutes are there in Chica-
go"
A mamma in the rural districts
lately gave her fiVe-year-old hopeful
an outfit of fish tackle. Soon she
heard a shout from Willie, and run
ming out found one of her best hens
fast winding up the line in her crop,
whittier the hook had already prece-
ded it. Willie observing the troub-
led look of his mother quietly re-
marked: "Don't worry, mother. 1
guess she will stop when she gets to
the pole"
The Cincinnati Gazette's Colum-
bus correspondent says: 81 learn
that prayer is but as tufts of grass
to what the prohibitionists intend
treating the liquor dealers to after a
few dsys. Names Of all who visit the
saloons are to be taken, and to be ad-
ded to the scores already in posses
sion of the bands, and these are to be
produced as a cloud of witnesses a.
gainst the saloonists before the COM
ing grand jury"
The Supreme Court of Indiana
has declared unconstitutional the
18th section of the Baxter bill, which
reads as follows: "In all prosecu-
tions under this act, by indictment
or otherwise, it shall not be necessa-
~ to state the kind OF liquor sold,
or to describe the place where sold,
or to state the name of the person
or persons to whom sold. In all
cases the person or persons to
whom intoxicating liquors shall be
sold in violation of this act, shall
be competent witnesses to prove
such facts, or any other tending
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