Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-01-03
MELANGE.

MELANGE.
The first fractured leg of this years
base ball season is reported from Iowa.
Grasshoppers are setting the wheat
crop all awry in Texas.
christian gymnasts'' give moral en-
| tertainments In Chicago.
| Bismark is in Minnesota, Its tle
name of new town there.
A colored lady of Georgia is the hap
mother of forty-nine children.
Mississippi hires out her convicts at $l6
month and doesn't find them.
Habit is cable. We weave threads Of
IL every day and at last we cannot break
it.
California thinks that the abolition of
toll-gates would be thing to be ex-tol-
| led.
Rhode Island is almost rid of small,
pox. Ii didn't take much of It to go
| round.
A Californian topper recently pledged
his false teeth to get his regular "rum
and gum"
England proposes to limit the rate of
speed on railways by Legislative railen-
tando movement. .st
Technical query for manufacturers.
Is 'shop twine" the correct thing to use
for skipping-ropes?
| Bridget Cook says that she's afeared
| of kitchin' colt when its wetter-fn-airy
| than in the street above.
Why should Irish tradesmen give
more trust than Others? Because they
are of the sell-tick race.
| Louisiana sugar planters complain
that they can't fill their sack o'rhino un-
der the free-labor system.
Call Providence slow city indeed.
Why an active man was run over by a
funeral there last Friday.
Tennessee is duly grateful for a new ep
izootic which is causing immense NOR
tality among domestic cats. ~ +fe
| The very last--Boots and shoes are
just the things in which one might ex-
| pect to hear of a "cOrner."
| The captain remarks that steerage pas
sengers ought to be very well behaved,
| they have so much deck-o'er-'em.
An arithmetical reporter vouches for
| 2S5, 900 stitches in patchwork Quilt
mrde by an old lady OF Quincy, Ill.
typographical error in an Alabama
paper relates to the s.thief clerkship'' i'm
one of the Government departments.
Taunton, Mass, is tauntin' It's town
officials about the vile stenches which
rise from its neglected thoroughfares.
Indian Orchard. Mass, is attracting
population away from Springfield by
charging 25 cents less for itnoxication.
| An Indiana clergyman has taken to
preaching his sermons in rhyme, per-
haps to make up for their lack Of reason.
Western people have been burning
corn for fuel all winter because 1t was
SO cheap and now whiskey is Is cents a
glass.
California announces the discovery of
a spring of "natural lemonade;" but
local chemist says it's nothing but lime
water.
A Charleston murder trial had to be
postponed last week on account of the
sudden delirlum tremons of one of the
jurymen. sa
A hardened criminal six years old
was arrested and fined last week i'm
New Haven for trundling his hoop on the
| sidewalk. resss
A patriotic Bostonian is deeply indig-
| nant because nobody in Detroit will give
him a dollar for a genuine sword from
| Bunker Hill.
Florida announces that when the sup
| ply of invalid visitors is exhausted il can
make a handsome living out of its Him
| liable oyster beds.
Owen County, KY, is ready 10 swear
that it has a boy ten years old who
weighs only eleven pounds; but this is
really ''too thin., M
Why is a tooth in greater danger be-
fore it decays than afterwards? Be
cause in the former case it is in a pre-
carious condition.
Des Moines. Ia, has got a second-
hand street rail car, and is looking ont
for an opportunity to buy a track that
will fit it at auction.
The painter wasn't very far wrong
| when he make made village chemists
sign read; Physicians prescriptions
carefully confounded.''
| ASaxon barber who professed to keen
| other peoples hair from falling in Ok
| ford, Mass, has himself fallen heir to a
large estate in Europe.
The reason why Professor Agassiz was
esteemed BY his imtimates as such a firm
I
ticient in Hick-uheology.
A Washington paper announces that
| the public printer viii shortly issue a
complete complication of the. postal
laws of the United States. ..
A Missouri girl washed all day, made
supper off twelve boiled eggs and then
danced all night. The funeral process
sion was nearly mile long.
The most unpopular man i'm Virginia
is one who has made the accidental dis
covery that kerosene is as effcacious US
whiskey to cure rattlesnake bites.
Gopher, or prairie squirrel, is said TO
| be very plentiful IN parts of WISCONSIN
this season. When ot,ser Provisions are
scarce the inhabitants go tor gopher.
1t will take at least six years more to
build the spires of Cologne Cathedral TO
the required altitude of 600 feet; but the
architects motto is '.Dum spiro spero."
| California agriculturists are going
| largely into ginger. They haven't gos
much beyond the first syllable as yet, but
hope to 10 so when their plants ger-min-
ate. " s5s
| The English Attorney General pro-
| poses to reduce the number of jurymen
in all except capital cases to seven, aud
to render valid the verdict of majority
of these.
| San Francisco's Australian steamship
line has turned out a one-horse-traliaa
sort of an affair. after all the money sunk
in it, ane has been wound up to stop
running.
| Part of the old Libby Prison is con-
verted into a sunac mill; perhaps in inn
i'itation- of the shoe-making industry
commonly introduced in Northern pen-
itentiaries.
4 live frog with an ancient Mexican
| coin In its stomach has been set free from
the centre of granite rock in Colorado,
if the miner items in n local paper are to
be believed.
A physician said of quack that she
was such an ignoramus, that, il he could
take a lantern aud go down inside his
patient. he couldn't lind out what the
matter was"
The suburban residents OF Tndianapo-
lis are divided between baseball uine