The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-04-15

Over 1000 women have Joined the
London Union of female bookbinders,
started few weeks ago
Rhode Island bristles with spelling
matches Some of the dictionary words
reach clear across the State.
A German countess is said to have been
engaged in collecting all the poems writ
ten in every language, in honor of the
rose.
The newspaper publishers of Boston
will contribute from 500, 900 to $4,000 to
the Postoffice Department under the
new law.
Ex-senator Ross, of Kansas, is now
foreman on Lawrence paper-a position
he held eighteen years ago. before en-
barking in politics,
Frequently the reading of single SEN
timent in newspaper makes an impress
sion on the mind which tinges the whole
subsequent life for good.
"Confound the luckr' exclaimed a
Louisville woman when she looked over
a daily paper and couldn't find a word
about the Beecher Scandal
A Chicago paper says that young
widow in that city, who writes we'll. is
training herself for an editor. We hope
we are not the editor she is training her
self for.
''Ol for those good old days." sighs
an Indiana editor, when this office re-
ceived enough Patent Office reports to
keep every stove red hot, from Novem-
ber to March"
Gen. Trumbull, heavily armed is look
ing for the athletic proofreader of the
Delphi Monitor The Generals lecture
was on Irish Orators" and not on Irish
Praties," as the Monitor announced.
London is ahead 1t has more Jews
than Palestine, more Scotchmen than
Edinburg, more Irish than Dublin, more
Catholics than Rome, and more thieves
than Chicago.
The greatest discovery at Pompeii is
that of a woman making Il fire in a cook
stove while her husband is in bed and
asleep. She was a noble woman.
1t is said hatnothing will cure a poets
affection for his idol sooner than to catch
kernel of a hickory nut with hair-pin.
An economical farmers daughter in
Massachusetts, put off her wedding day
because eggs We're up to forty cents a
dozen, and it would take two dozen for
the wedding cakes and pudding.
prominent Detroit Universalst,
some months ago, married a red headed
widow with four children, and last week
remarked to a friend: 81 was blind when
believed there was no hell l see now
Nevada brides won't stand much fool
ishness at wedding. Recently<one of
them while going up the aisle of the
church stopped short SIC! sSsst!4 licked all the
skin e@9if the shInS> 81 groomsman who
trodSss4f-hhe her trail.
When common japanese goes into
the presenca of an office-holder he must
say: Great and distinguished child of
the sun, deign to put your foot upon my
neck" There's some pleasure in hold
ing an Office in that country.
be of interest to know that a lady of
Providence, R. L., during leisure mo-
ments, has spelt six hundred and fifty
words out of the word congregational
ist, and in no case repeating letter in
the formation of word.
An aged colored individual stepped
into a store on Woodward avenue, and
asked how the thermometer stood: "a
hundred and forty-nine degrees below
zero y replied one of the clerks "Is dat
a fax p exclaimed the old man; then
I've Tossed 81. ! jist made bet it war
hundred an fifty"
M. L. Dunlap, one of the editors of the
Chicago Tribune, is fortunate man. He
works for newspaper and makes money;
he has been in the Legislature and was
not bribed; his girls and boys married
young, and now enough gas wells have
been found on their farms to supply them
with light and fuel
"Wake up, Judge, wake up; there's
burglar in the housel' said Mrs Portly,
in Brooklyn, 10 her husband, the other
night. The Judge rolled out of bed,
grasped his revolver, and opened the
door to sally forth for the robber. Then
turning to his wife he said: Come. Sa-
rah and lead the way. It's mean man
that will hurt woman"
Business seems to be dull in San An.
tonia, Texas, just now. The Herald says:
Times are SO hard that, when the boy
who goes out on Saturday to collect bills
for leading dry goods establishment
comes home with seventy-five cents, and
has the ceiling of his pants worn out by
the boots of the customers from whom
he has collected it, the proprietor regards
it as q good day for collections"
An Irishman went into a gin-mill in
Louisville, took drink. and came out He
stood few minutes. when things COM
menced workin'. He grabbed his ssom-
ach. twisted his face out of shape, rushed
back into the gin mill and shouted to
the bartender: Say, l axed We for
whisky, an We gave me the wrong bottle;
hand me barrel o water until pour, it
down an drown the torchlight procession
that's goin through me this hlissed
mint Ochl murther, I'm on firel" and
they put him out"
Those patent insides" are sometimes
ridiculous. The cable, week ago, an
nounced the bad news that "the Pope
has had another chill" and here comes
forty-sevcn Wisconsin newspapers with
patent insides announcing that the
Pope has had another child"
A lady of Albion, Maine, is now the
shorthand reporter in the courts of Au-
gusta. She has also reported for the
courts in other towns in the State.
Short hand writing is business for
which many ladies would be peculiarly
well fitted. The art once thoroughly
mastered, must give remunerative occu-
patton.
They got up q surprise party Thursday
night last on a young married couple, at