Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-25
Scraps.

An unpleasant sort of Standardization
among families
When are two kings like three miles? When
they make a league.
The latest and best woman's movement
Spring house cleaning.
Why is grass like penknife? Because the
spring brings out the blades.
Farmers gather what they SOW, while seam
stresses sew what they gather.
Mrs. Cree, who took second husband the
other day, evidently wanted to cre-mate.
Why is an industrious woman like clock?
Because her hands are ineessantlY at work
Dobbs thinks that instead of giving credit
where credit is due, the cash had better be paid.
A Yankee doctor has recently got up rem
edy for hard times. 1t consists of ten hours
labor well worked in.
An ambitious debating society is recommen
ded tO take as its next subject, (which is the
butt-end of goat?"
Think before you speak, and think before
whom you speak, think why you speak, and
think what you speak.
fit takes man two days to make post
hole in broken ground, how long viii it take
him to make broken post whole?
The Cosmopolitan claims to be the only
newspaper in Europe owned and edited by an
American.
A vocal phenmenon has recently appeared
in Fienaa--a tenor who from some eccentric
formation Ofthe larynx can sing two notes at
once.
The well-known Indian custom of castes or
scots to follow the same profession as their an
cestOrs holds good in Ceylon.
The following appeared in an Edinburgh pa
psr.-'iWe regret to find that the announce
ment of the death of Mr.. W. is q malicious fab
rication."
A pugilistie Irishman in England being
bound over to keep the peace on all British
subiects, remarked:-"The saints help the
first foreigner meet"
Somebody advertises in the New York Her
aid for Fan elderly man Jas assistant office boy'
Sunday school Teaeher-Next Sunday Wen
have "the Death of Moses" OveFjoyed Pu-
pil--Then he did die at lastl
Nilsson is said to have a superstitious passion
for horse-shoes. Rouzaud is small and wiry,
though, and lodges them nicely.
Fifteen years ago a Washington gentleman
scratched his name on q gold dollar and sen t
it on its travels. He has never seen 1T since.
The Detroit Free Press had advices from the
Indian country that the Pawnee Indians want
boots with red tops, or they'll raise another
fuss.
A mother advised her daugh ghter to oil her
hair. and tainted fiat away when the damsel
tlemen's vests.'
It is said that Jones, of Nevada, can sit on
more Of his spinal column and shoulder blades
than any other man who eyer hoisted his feet
against a wall.
Il is astonishing to see no W rapidly young
mans emotions will change when lady re-
ieves her waist from his encircling arm by in
serting about one inch of hair pin in it.
Mary Ksrla Dall-4~- -aaysA-st toGaA Of FIVE thGns-
and men, ten may be just;out oftwenty thous
aud women, perhaps one" And Mary is much
nearer right than she seems to be.
General Washington's family Bible is adver-
tised for sale. It is IN three large quartz vol
umes, and the public graveiy informedth at
it was presented to General Washington by the
author
teacher asked an advanced schoolgirl why
beer IN French was feminine. She replied that
it was probably owing to the fact that the boys
liked it so we'll.
The wave on which many poor fellow has
been carried away is the wave of lHce.edge
cambria handkerchief.
Indianapolis boasts of versatile divinity
student who breaches in English, prays in Ar
menian, singsin Turkish, and holds his tongue
in eleven other languages.
Some singers at a concert were somewhat
startled by finding that the selection, "When
wearied wretches sink to Sleep had been
printed on the programmes, "When married
WreGehess etc.
''COming events cast their shadows before y
Wayne Hevey, Bergh's editor, says the red on
drunkara's nose is a reflection from the re-
gions he is fast approaching.
They were going to put a man out of San
Francisco theatre for creating q disturbance
when voice cried, s'He's all right, he's killed
Chinaman!" and they let the man alone.
The mayor of Portuguese city once enumer
ated, among the marks by which the body of
drowned man might be identified, "a marked
impedimept in his speech"
"Father, forgive them for they know no
what they do" was Dean Stanley's whe1
he preached to the newly Duke and Ouch
ess of Edinburgh, soon after their arrival il
London.
Wild pigeons are brought into the village
along the Mohawk by the wagon load, anC
sold at 81 to 81 25 per dozen. They are caugh
by nets.
The fire and marine insurance business il
Michigan for 1873, exhibits the following sta
tistics: ] 03 companies, premiums received, 50
3,O37; losses paid, 81 ,436,67l or nearly g.
per cent.
About S4 900 have been subscribed to tn,
fund raising in Edinburgh for statue of thu
late DR.. Livingstone The design accepted fo
the statue is that of Mrs Hill, sister of Sir N 0
el Patton.
Thomas A. Pike, who has been on trial a
Portland, several days, for the murder of hi
wife, last winter, by throwing her violentl
upon sofa and breaking a blood vessel ha
been convicted of manslaughter.
The venerable George Robertson, member Q
Congress from Kentucky for three terms, com
mencing in 1916. and for twenty years on tn
supreme bench of Kentucky, died at Lexington
AGED ninety four