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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Things 1 Have Noticed.

I have noticed that in society a wo-
mans soul weighs just the amount that
her clothes cost.
1 have noticed that most business
people are much more polite when
you scall to pay than when you call to
collect.
T have noticed that nature generally
repeats itself. When I see a very bad
child am pretty sure that the parents
have not always been blameless.
have noticed that when there is only
one daughter in a family, and her pa
rents are very anxious to keep her home
as long as possible, some chap coaxes
her off before she is seventeen. I have
also noticed that when there is house
full of girls, aud the parents are pray
ing daily for husbands for the same,
the whole lot are apt to live and die old
maids.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Underground London.

Underground, the city of London is
certainly the most wonderful in the
world. It is labyrinth of drain-pipes,
water-pipes, gas pipes, and underground
railways. There are points In the soil
of London where it would be extremely
difficult to find room for another pipe.
One company alone-the Gas Light and
Coke Company-supplies two districts
with nearly 400 miles of pipes, varying
in diameter from three inches to four
feet. These are the main pipes merely,
and from them every house and street
lamp receives on an average six or eight
feet of small piping. In addition to
these, and the underground telegraph
wires, there are no less than 2. 500 miles
Of drain-pipes of various dimensions.
Less familiar to us, but no less impor-
tant, are the lead and iron tubes-lead-
en- pipes with outer castings of iron
along which written messages, packed
in little felt and gutta percha cases, are
blown from station to station. The con-
venience of these messages is immense.
A steam engine forces in a blast of air,
and in about minute it travels a dis
tance of $50 yards. There are at pres
emit thirteen stations on the underground
railway; and as the people walk up the
streets of London, electricity is fash
ing messages above their heads, and lit
tie missives are whizzing and darting
Just under their feet As many as 1, SOC
messages pass to and fro in day. The
drainage system of London presents a
world of underground streets, some two
or three thousand miles in extent. AL
the drains empty into three great sew.
ers running parallel with the Thames,
which sewers connect in the neighbor-
hood of Victoria Park, and through
Barking Greek discharge into the river.
Men are constantly employed keeping
these drains in repair. Londoners new
er pour pail of water down drain but
at the depths of that mysterious oper
ture somebody is making way for it
A stranger, properly costumed, can ex
plore these depths, which resemble
vaulted galleries, in the sides of which
are traps f.rming various small chan
nels. When the storm waters come, a.
they sometimes do during thunder
plump, the torrent is fearful; SO mucl
SO that upon several occasions men hav'
lost their lives.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

arrived at that state of perfection that
they demanded slaves to wait on them
and administer to their lusts and their
demand was complied with. For time
the Roman legions were employed in
making war on the border counties to
capture prisoners to be carried to Rome.
The more powerful males were con-
sumed in the amphitheater in gladiato-
rial combats the others were distribut-
ed among the Communists as servants
and mistresses, to provide for their
profit and pleasure. After the de-
struction of Jerusalem, tens of thou
sands of the surviving Jews were car
ried off prisoners of war to Rome, and
disposed of as here described, with the
exception that the Government retained
multitude of able-bodied men as slave
laborers in building new Therm@, cir
cuses, coliseums, theaters, and other
public works of similar description, for
| the amusement of the Communists.
When one contemplates the actual
state of society in Rome during the
Empire, and reflects on the monstrous
causes that were at work for its destruc-
ton, undermining it and gnawing at its
but that it did sooner tumble to
pieces.
The Republic had reared up poii-
cal system of marvellous strength and
endurance the Empire built baths and
amphitheaters, and invented games and
diversions. The Republic devised laws
and politics based on the ideas of jus
tice and political equality. Honesty
and patriotism were the virtues mosi
esteemed in administration. The In
vincible sword of the Republican le
gions conquered all surrounding coun
tries. The privilege of Roman citizen
ship to which they were admitted, the
justice and equity of the laws, the
mildness of the administration, the pro
lection against tumult or tyranny, re
conciled the conquered nations t.
Roman rule, and made them loyal sub
jects and stout defenders of the dignit,
and majesty of the mighty Republic
Had it not been for the cancer of Com
munism, which ate the heart out of th'
Empire and destroyed it, who can tel
how long that wonderful Government
might have lasted? Who knows but i
would have survived until the presen
day, and Rome still be the mistress o
the world, and all its nations and tribe
merely provinces and States of the uni
yersal dominion.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Miss Nellie Grants Coming Marriage.

Washington correspondents state
that Miss Nellie Grant, the daughter of
the President, is engaged to be married
to a gentleman who is described by q
correspondent of the New York Graphic
as follows: Mr.. George Charles
William Frederick Algernon Sartoris is
a son of Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris-nee
Kemble, author of the charming novel
ette, GA Week in French Country
House." This, by the way, is the de-
scription of the home of her brother, in
France, and all the personages of the
story are drawn from life. He is
nephew OF Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler,
consequently a grandson of Charles
Kemble and great nephew of Mrs. Sid
dons. Mr.. Sartoris is remarkably
handsome, has very winning manners,
and is deservedly great favorite in So
ciety.
This will be the second Wedding at
the White House. The first was that Of
President Monroes daughter, Miss
Maria Monroe, who married her cousin,
Mr.. Gouverneur, of New York, March,
1920. Another marriage to take place
after Easter is that OF Miss Violet Blair,
granddaughter of Francis P. Blair, Sen,
The successful suitor is a young lawyer,
Mr.. Janin.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
General Notes.

A NFwBuRYpoRT, Mass, man sold his
fathers skeleton.
A DUCK killed a rooster in fight for
$50 in Chester, Pa.
FISHERMEN constitute the healthiest
class in Massachusetts.
A NEW YORK lady is experimenting
with Japanese servants.
TIE newest oil well in Pennsylvania
spouts 1, 600 barrels day.
The number of officers of foreign
birth in our regular army is IA.
A HEN in Indianapolis has been SO
affected by the Siamese Twins excite
ment, as to lay hyphenated pair of
eggs.
The Maine Legislature has refused
to repeal the law aboishing capital
punishment. The vote in the Senate
was 13 to 12 and in the House 73 to 81.
THE first railroad in India was com
pleted and the first train of cars started
in 1852. Since that time 5000 miles of
railways have been built and put into
operation.
THE new charter of San Francisco
| provides that women shall be paid the
same salaries as men teachers in the
public schools of that city. This is
simple equity.
THERE is minister near Bonneville,
Ind, who has been married three
times, his first two wives being sisters
and his third wife step-mother to his
first two wives.
| AN idea of the terrible nature of the
Indian famine may be gathered from
the statement that rice is selling at fou1
cents per pound, which is exactly the
price of laborer's daily pay.
| Mr.. SARToRoUs, who is to marry
Miss Nellie Grant in May, owns a farm
in Wisconsin, which he superintended
until the death of his elder brother
made him heir to the English estate.
THREE of the nine Judges of the
United States Supreme Court are ma.
tives of Connecticut - Chief Justice
Waite, of Lyme; Judge Strong, ol
Somers, and Judge Field, of Haddam.
LOVE me, love my dogl A German
woman recently walked to Window,
Minnesota, ten miles, after stray dog.
On her return she died from exhaus.
ton, and was found with the dog in he1
| arms.
SOME Cp,ebs may thank us for the
information that the woman in Kansas
who has used one broom for ffteeI
years is a widow. For our part, We
should like to know how often she ha.
used it.
THERE has never been a clergyman
lawyer, physician, editor, deacon
steward, church warden, class leader
nor son of clergyman in the New
Hampshire State Prison. They ar
too smart for that
THE press law of Japan prohibits
newspapers from discussing the laws
attacking the government, or publish
ing any articles of an evil tendency
The penalties vary from the chain gam
to being burnt alive.
A MAN named Kelly returned to hi
home few miles below Dubuque, re
Gently, after an absence of eight years
and found his wife married to anothe
man, she believing that he was dead
She has two children by her last hus
band.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
DanherrieS.

NATURES noblemen never descend to
mean action, and rarely eat with
fork.
A DANBURY boy has thirty-two warts
on the back of his left hand. He
CRATES all the horse-radish for the
family.
The hatchet which killed TecumseA
is found. We are glad of it. What the
country has sadly needed is a hatchet
that aoiU lie.
A WOMAN in black stockings was
soliciting charity of Danbury families
last week. A woman who will wear
black stockings is not deserving of
charity.
ALL nature was encased in ice on
Sunday morning. The twigs of the
trees gEstened in the suns rays like the
fingers of negro minstrels.
THIS is the last day of winter, and to-
morrow comes spring-the dear, blessed
spring, with it's smiling skies, blossom
ing flowers, caroling birds, and pains in
the chest.
THE only merit possessed by some
contributions we receive is that they
were never before in print. The merit
is so slight that we never have the heart
to rob them of it.
IT is mortally aggravating to boy
with hard snow ball in his hand to
chase another boy mile for the pur-
pose of hitting him, and then to miss
him by about eight feet.
THERE are some people whom no
sense impresses. To see man trying
to warm his feet through pair of rub
bers, and persistently attributing the
failure to the stove, is to feel like knock
ing his head of, and leave his body
standing"
Our correspondent George Alfred
Townsend, and the correspondent of
the Chicago Times, had personal en-
counter in Washington, a few days
ago. While we must deplore an exhi-
bition of such nature by gentlemen
still we feel glad that our correspondent
licked.
A DANBURY boy reporting small pox
in school was kept at home one day,
but his father, inquiring into the facts,
sent him to school next day. He anx-
| iously inquired of fellow pupil from
the Sixth Ward where he could get the
small pox he wanted to bother father
and die, to let him know that he meant
things"
We are daily in receipt of curiously
constructed compositions. We have
one on the fortunes of lover who died
on the eve of his marriage. It is pa
thetic in its nature, but is SO awkwardly
constructed that we are obliged to de-
cline it. One passage is worth preserv-
ing, We think. It refers to the dead
lover who is arrayed in his wedding
dress for the burial. It says There
was look of great pain on his white
face as if the coat pinched him under
the arms" However, we hope it didn't.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Varieties.
PARTY ties-White cravats.


A GOOD floor manager-A broom.
CALL loans-Those that are called for
in vain.
A ROOF which covers very noisy ten
ant-The roof of the mouth.
A THIRSTY one wants to know if they
drink stock ale at the brokers' board.
THE ship which the Duke of Edin-
burgh has now given up-The court
ship.
WHAT would a schoolmaster do if all
his pupils left him ?-Give it up? So
would he.
AN Indiana man, with a turn for sta.
tistics calculates that his faithful dog,
ten years of age, has cost him 1884 25
for hash and $25 for license. The dog
is now for sale. Price, 10 cents.
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. Stealing
money or horses is a serious business
out here, writes a correspondent from
Colorado but you can kill man,
and all that public sentiment demands
is that you shall not leave the corpse in
the way"
AT O recent fair in West Tennessee q
premium was offered to the young lady
who could cook the best dinner. Only
one applied, but she did her work so
well that she has been busily engaged
ever since considering offers of mar
riage.
A RAW countryman, gazing at o gar
| den in the vicinity of Boston in which
were several marble statues, exclaimed
Just see what a waste Here's no
less than six scarecrows in this ten-foot
patch, and any one of them would keep
| the crows from tive-acre lot r
| A wRKToHKD cynic writes ga bright
little five-year-old was looking through
picture-book the other night, when
she suddenly paused, gazed eagerly
into her mothers face, and, while there
shone in her eyes the light of wis
dom beyond her years, said-(we have
forgotten what she said
A MISSIONARY among the freedmen in
Tennessee, after relating to some little
colored children the story of Ananias
and Sapphira, asked them why God
does not strike everybody dead that tells
lie, when one of the youngest in the
room quickly answered, because there
wouldn't be anybody left.
In real property case before a
French Judge, at an early period of the
was contested, proved that the estate
had been in his family for more than
two hundred years. "Well," said the
Judge, a" it is now full time for another
family to have a turn"
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Rheumatic GOut.

An Englishman with rheumatic gout
found this singular remedy a cure for
his ailment /: He insulated his bed
stead from the floor by placing under
meath each post a broken-off bottom of
a glass bottle. He says the effect was
magical, that he had not been free fro m
rheumatic gout for fifteen years. and
that he began to improve Immediately
after the application of the insulators.
We are reminded by this statement, says
the Scientific american, of a patent
obtained through this Office for physi-
clan, some twelve or more years ago,
which created consi ierable interest at
the time. The patent consisted in plac-
ing glass cups under the bedposts in a
similar manner to the above, and the
patentee claimed to have effected some
remarkable cures by the use of his glass
insulators.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
The True Story of the "Arkansas
Traveller,


The scene is that of a dilapidated log
cabin in Arkansas. Its character,
trapper seated on an inverted tub, play
ing the first part of familiar air upon
an old violin, and his wife and children
in the background. A stranger enters
and the following colloquy ensues
Stranger do you do, sir? Are
you we'll?
Trapper-Stranger, kin you call man
who eats three square meals day,
drinks hearty, and sleeps sound, s'well?"
(Fiddles.)
Stranger-I think could. How long
have you been living here?
Trapper-D'ye see that mountain
thar?
Stranger Well?
Trapper-That wor h'yar when cum
h'yar. (Fiddles.)
Stranger-Thank you for the infor-
nation.
Trapper-You're welcome.
Stranger-Can 1 stay here tonight !?
| Trapper-WeI, you can't stay h'yar.
Stranger-How long will it take to
get to the next tavern?
Trapper-Well, you'll not get there at
all, if you stand thar foolin' with me all
night. Fiddles.)
Stranger-How far do you call it to
the next tavern
Trapper-I reckon it's upward O. some
distance.
Stranger-Do you keep any spirits in
his house?
Trapper-I guess thar's plenty down
in the graveyard. (Fiddles.)
stranger-How do you cross the river
ahead
Trapper- ducks swim across.
Stranger-How far is it to the forks
of the road?
Trapper-The road amt forked yet in
these diggings. Fiddles.)
Stranger does this road go toi
Trapper- it amt moved steI
since I've been h'yar.
Stranger don't you repair the
roof of your house? It must leak.
Trapper-Cos it has been raining like
all creation for three weeks. (Fiddles.
Stranger-Why don't you mend il
when it amt raining?
Trapper-Cos then it don't leak. Gid
dles.)
Stranger-Why don't you play the
second part of that tune?
Trapper-Cos I don't know it; kir
you?
Stranger-I can.
Trapper-You kin! Look h'yal
! strs nger, any man who kin play tn,
, second part of that kin go right int
Congress onto it.
Stranger-Give me the fiddle. (Take
, the fiddle and plays the entire tune.)
Trapper yelling with joy)-That's it
| by golll Do it again, stranger. Yahey
! (Sllaking hands, H'yar, stranger, max
yourself at home. You kin stay weel
-liv and die h'yar if it's agreeable
| H'yar, Sal, bring out that jug, an g
. dig some saxafrack root, an max
> the stranger a cup of tea. Shak
, hands again, stranger. By gon, your
trump-you are Play it again!
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
A Good Deed Brings S1,0OO,OOO to a
Florida Man.

We find the following in Jackson
vile ella. paper of a recent date
More than twenty years ago Major
Waldo A. Blossom, who is now in
Jacksonville, was resident of Wash
ington. While there chance cast in his
way young man named Larimer, in
whom he became deeply interested.
Larimer had been led astray by the in
fuence of wicked associations, and was
utterly dissolute and dissipated-to all
appearance a moral and physical wreck.
It is more than probable that Major
Blossom discovered redeeming qualities
in the young man, notwithstanding the
depths to which dissipation had brought
him, for the ''Good Samaritan " res
cued him from the gutter, gave him a
pleasant home, assisted him by counsel
and the aid of fine social influence to
make himself new man. After his
reformation was affected, the young
man returned to his parents. who re-
sided in Colorado, and for number of
years his generous benefactor heard
nothing of him.
In December of last year, Major Bios
SONS attention was called to an adv.r-
tisement in q Boston paper over the
signature of Larimer, inquiring the ad-
dress of w. A. Blossom. He responded
to the inquiry, and soon received a let
ter from the parents of his former
protege in CASTILLO county, Col, inform
ing him that their son in dying had
willed his property to him, in gratitude
for the kind deed of years agone.
The letter which feelingly alluded to
this act, gave the sequel to the reformed
mans life. He applied himself vig-
orously to business after his return to
Colorado, became an honorable and
useful member of society, end in few
years amassed large fortune, all of
which, valued at 81, 200, 900, will fall
into the possession of Major Blossom
next June.
No act of genuine charity is ever lost.
Somewhere in the conservatory of good
deeds the plant will put forth its BIOS
SONS and shed its perfume, perhaps in
the balm and brilliance of the Eternal
Morning, perhaps in the subdued light
and murky atmosphere of the mortal
life
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
The Tiehborne Romance.

After the Tichborne trials people must
overhaul and revise their ideas of the
impossible. Nothing has ever been at
tempted SO absurd, SO insane one may
almost say, as the scheme of the Aus
tralian butcher to make himself bar
onet and millionaire by simply lying.
He had scarcely a single point to begin
work upon. A young gentleman had
been drowned at sea, who was heir to a
title and great estate. His friends,
convinced of his death, gave his heri-
tage to the next of kin. His mother
alone, refusing to despair, advertised
for the missing one. The advertise
ment coming to the eyes of butcher
in Australia, he resolved to personate
the lost son. There was not one chance
in million that he could succeed.
There was no accidental resemblance of
person, of manner, or of character. Mr..
Nasby tried to get a drink once at Will
lard's Hotel by saying he was Charles
Sumner. But this attempt was no less
ridiculous. The baronet was little,
delicate, " scrubby" man. The Claim
ant was a man-mountain, weighing $50
pounds. The Baronet spoke French
more readily than English the Claim
ant did not know one word of the lam
guage. Sir Roger belonged to wide
spread family connection of which the
Claimant had never seen a single mem
Der. Yet he confidently sailed fo1
England and for seven years fought the
desperate fight which has euded in his
conviction as a felon, with a varying
success which must always remain q
wonder to succeeding ages. His trial
has changed mems opinions as to the
worth of human evidence. Dozens OF
witnesses, among whom was Sir Rogers
mother, testified that this was the right.
full heir. Several members of Parlia.
ment espoused his cause. Popular sub.
| scriptions assisted him in his scheme.
He was defeated at last by two things
by his own statement in regard to Mis-.
Radcliffe, which all England instinct
lively cried could not have been made b1
a man born a gentleman, and by the
| evidence of Lord Bellew, who said he
had tattooed Sir Roger in his boyhood
-NeaO York Tribune.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Real Estate and the Asters.
New York Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.I


There is more said on the subject of
rents in this city, in proportion to its
size, than in any other place in America.
One reason of this is because SO few own
real estate. Out of our population,
which now numbers ], 200, 900, there are
only $1,000 real estate holders-hence
9S5 persons out of every 1000 occupy
hired property. No wonder, then, that
the question of rents is SO important.
A hope. was recently felt among tenants
generally that rents would decline, but
this has not been confirmed, except in
respect to high priced houses. These
have come down, but come down to
what Why an $1,000 house can be
hired for Sc, 900. What good news to a
man who considers himself lucky to
earn 81, 900 a year The decline in first
class property is occasioned by the
heavy losses which SO many of the gen.
try met in speculation last year. Such
men as Henry Clews, Howe & Macy, and
others of this stamp, are compelled to
vacate their palaces. One of these
bankrupts had $50, 900 invested in fur
niture alone. A man who could thus
waste money need hardly expect to suc-
ceed.
Shakespeare offers the question SO
pertinent to the present occasion,
"What are thy rents ?" What thy
comings in? No man in America can
make more satisfactory reply than
William B. Astor, who is the chief
| landlord on this continent. But if he
gave clear answer we should find it
difficult to measure its extent. Indeed,
| it is impossible to form an estimate of
the magnitude of his estate unless by
comparison. To illustrate my idea I
may remark that in this city any man
who, commencing poor, may be able by
means of life of industry,and economy to
pay for a house, is reckoned very for
tunate. Very rare, however, does any
| poor man ever see his name among the
proud list of Is, 600 real estate holders.
Still more unusual is it to find anyone
who, in addition to his own dwelling,
has a house to let. To go still further,
it may be said that the owner of ten
houses is man of decided mark, while
as to the ownership of fifty there is not
score of such to be found in the city.
The majestic number of 100 houses is a
proprietorship which only one man out
of the IL, 900 can boast, and that man is
is not limited to this handsome number.
He has 100 for each day of the week,
not excluding the day of rest. In other
words, William B. Astor owns, accord
ing to close estimate, 700 houses.
Can anyone of our readers, by the aid
of this progression, form any idea OF
the Astor estate If SO, he can do bet
ter than can. The aggregate is .enor-
nous as to be crushing. just think of a
man walking up street, finely built on
both sides Qots 25 feet front). for near.