The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-10-16
A stern dutY-A helmsman's.

ing there.
A stern duty-A helmsmans.
A fighting dog-A West pointer.
An intellectual dog-A type-set-
ter.
Balloons might be used by police
men for taking people up.
Never attempt to form an opinion
of women's weight by her sighs.
Soldiers ought to be good physi-
ognomists. They all know how to
write about face.
Thirty families from Iceland have
settled in the eastern part of Shaw
ano County, Wis.
What is the difference between a
belle and a burglar2 One wears
false locks and the other false keys.
A Pennsylvania newspaper says:
"On Tuesday Mr.. Undercoffer raised
one hundred and forty three bushels
of potatoes"
Mr.. Beecher is 81 years of age,
and reads fine print without lenses.
He never uses glasses for any kind
of literary work.
Ah Sing has been stealing things
from his employers in San Francisco.
There will be music when All Sing
is sent to jail for his crime.
When a young man who parts his
hair in the middle goes down on an
orange peel, nobobody seems to care
whether he ever gets up again or
not.
In the match between Russell and
Harmon at st. Croix, N. B., last
week, the former jumped 95 feet
two inches, and the latter 35 feet g
inches.
"Is the candidate for Sheriff hereT"
asked stranger as he looked into
an Illinois bar-room. eyes: why2"
answered Is men as they rose.
A telegram from St. John, N. B.,
announces that "a house occupied
by three families, three barns and
two Sheds" was burned the other
day.
Love is faith, is charity, is gentle
ness; all truth, all peace, all beauty,
and all virtue dwell in this one short |
word; the rule Of life, the precept of
our death.
Quilp, who has heretofore been a
Universalist, now believes there are
two things destined to be eternally |
lost-his umbrella and the man who
stole it.
Hotel-keepers justify the high |
prices they charge, from the fact that
they have more sat steak" than any
other class. 1t is rare that we see
the thing so well done.
All the brass bands in New Eng
land are to meet in Massachusetts
town next Summer and tune up to-
gether. The design is to find out
whether the moon is inhabited.
The Rev. j. L. Matthews sued the
Standard, of New Albany, Ind, for a
$4,000 libel about two years ago.
The corner lots he intended to in |
vest in are still on the market.
Sausage season is approaching:
Oh, kittees! In our hours of ease,
Uncertain toys, and full of heas;
When pain and anguish hang DER men,
We turn you into sausage then.
a Connecticut gentleman recently
introduced to newly-married man,
congratulated him warmly and said: |
"Ah, these Litchfield County girls,
make clever wives; I've had three of
'em.
After throwing eight boys over
the fence out of a watermelon patch,
a Clay County Missouri woman said
to them: "Now see ere boys
you'll keep this thing up till ye get
me riled."
Witty sayings are as easily lost
as the pearls slipping off a broken
string; but = word of kindness is
seldom spoken in vain. 1t is seed
which, even when dropped by chance
springs up flower.
"You charge me 80 Osequins," said
a Venetian nobleman to sculptor,
"for bust that only cost you ten
days labor" you forget" cried
the artist, that had been 80 years
learning to make that bust in ten
days"
Susan Jane must have been scan
tily, dressed when she was looking
out for her love and sang II
"HeT came tonight; the winds at rest,
The moon is full and fair;
Iwear the dress that pleased you best
ribbon in my hair"
The Milwaukee Sentinel SAYS that
in recent speech at Ripon, Wis.
when Senator Carpenter exclaimed,
Where now are your Reformers?"
one of them awfully practical fellows
"He's over in the beer sa-
DON playing pigeon hole"
The best elocutionary exercise
yet devised for little scholars is that
# having them read the list of ex-
libitors at the Mechanics Fair, par
icularly the part relating to ''rag
ugs." When child has repeated
ag rugs score of times he will sub =
nit to any indignity that his teacher j
nay see fit to impose upon him.
Boston Globe.
The Atlanta Netcs says that gold e
re near Dahlonga, Georgia, is said
o be yielding the enormous amount
f $4,000 q ton. The mines are p
wned by capitalists, one of them,
he Acqueduct, having been sold to
Ir. Hand, OF Ohio, for 100000. 1t
) expected that by next summer g. -
90 persons will be employed in the n
lines. :"