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The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-17

J. J. NoRY, n. d. L. h COOPER, N. D..
MORY d COOPER.
nHYgICIANS AND SURGEONS. has
opened an office in Prof. Rusts BLOCK,
on the cerner Of Washington and Madison
streets and are ready at an hours during day
and night 10 attend 10 professional calls
Msy be consulted In German or English.
nl4-
WILLIAM j. CRAWFORD. n. D..
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
"a ofice in Empire Block, over Wilson q
Lambertson's Grocery store. thankful for
patronage during the past three years, and
will continue to serve the public in All
branches of the Medical Profession. Resi-
dence, Perry St.,t wo doors west OF Wash
ington.
Nov. l6, 1S73.-iy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
An Opium-Eater.

1t is said there is one opium-eater in
this city who has fully counted the cost.
He began to eat opium when about 35
years old, and finding a few years later
the habit firmly fastened upon him, he
determined that he could not live at the
longest more than 80 years. He way
then taking half agrain a day. He figh
ured out the amount of morphine thai
he should require in 80 years, allowing
an increase of a quarter of asgrain a
year. He then made a deposit of
money sufficient to supply him with his
regular allowance during all those
years, and now he goes about c%ontinu-
ally under the influence of morphine,
viewing ifeaand the world in which he
moves as if he saw them from the large
end OF an Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
conscious of an inclination to distin-
guish herself by some ridiculeus out

conscious of an inclination to distin-
guish herself by some ridiculous out
burst.
"My dear," said Mr.. Archer, ''this
is my sister Alice, the half-sister you
have often heard me speak Of" m
How Mrs. Archer went through the
motions on this trying occasion she new
or knew. Why, of course, he had a SIS
Annie Walters brother. Curious she
had not suspected--but she was so re-
Eeved, glad, nervous, shamed, all to-
gether, that the safest thing she could
do was to cry. She felt that she had
been trapped, but somehow it did not
make her angry. Angry, with her hus-
bands arm around her, and Ethel beg
ging her to be happy-with tears in her
own eyes!
"You see, mamma, we couldn't get
along without you, after ALL" said
Ethel, trying to hide her trepidation
under cover of volubility, for Ethel was
generally a quiet little thing. "And papa
was so wretched, and so lonesome,
and so altogether unlike papa, b q
when Aunt Alice's husband went
to Europe, on business, Aunt Alice
came here to help him keep house.
And you'll forgive us for not telling you
all, won't you, for I thought it all out,
and wrote as 1 did about Aunt Alice
because-it seemed to me,'' she added
with a touch of the shrewdness of the
dawning woman, "you'd be sure to
come, then"
"You wicked little schemer!" was
the reply, with smiles and tears, s'didn't
you suppose that l, too, was lonely and
miserable, and wanted to see papa?
Don't you think my heart ached for
both of your" asked Mrs. Archer with
ready tact. "The fact is, my dear,
home isn't home unless l have you all )"
and choking with emotion she hurried
to her own room to have a final cry.
And final it was. Now
that she had taken the plunge
and stood no longer ~shivering outside
of duty, Mrs. Archer was willing to con-
cede almost every thing. The house,
its appointments, the streets, their mag
nificence-the people, all were perfec-
ton, and took on the splendor of her
new happiness. She often laughs now
over the conspiracy that forced her from
her narrower home-life, and she always
repeats to her young married friends,
"Never refuse, without insurmountable
reasons, togo with your husband where
ever his honestinterests may lead him."
-Demorest's Monthly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
The Windsor Castle of To-day.

The Queen still comes to Windsor for
some part of the year, and now and then
a foreign prince makes a brief visit, and
the Castle wakes up to something like
the gayety of old; but it is not the
same. Now and then, too, the married
sons and daughters come and fill the
Old house with their children-fresh
voices, always cheerful, with again and
again a new Victoria, to renew the rec
objection of the others. l can not tell
you how many these children are; al
ready they have grown beyond count
ing, and make a little tribe in them
selves. But better than the stately tow
ers of Windsor the Queen loves High
land Balmoral, with its Scotch-French
turrets-this dear paradise" as she
calls it, where all has become my dear
est Albert's own creation - or Osborne,
by the sea-, where he delighted in the
song of birds"
But our Castle, the hospitable and
calm in it's stately old age, does not re-
sent even in this desertion. The trees
rise round the gray walls as green as
ever; the music peels as sweetly through
st. Georges; the sun shines as in its
brightest days. These towers reign as
in a tranquil, unbroken sovereignty over
the broad rich country as far as an eye
can reach; more proudly royal when
the great standard floats from the
Round Tower, yet never less than king
ly; as fine an embodiment of state and
strength and Beauty as ever was made
in stone. How many lives have come
and gone under this shelter! How many
touching stories of happiness and sui
fering, and love and pity, cling to the
old walls, which are so much older than
most things; older than steamships
and railways, and all other modern dis
coveries which we are so proud of; old
er than your America--nay, older than
Shakespeare and all our poets! En-
gland had no literature, and the great
Republic of the West no existence,
when the circle of the Keep first wore
the English flag to show that the king
was there; and we shall all of us be
moldered into dust and forgotten, be-
fore decay will be able to gnaw away
this everlasting stone.-MrS. Oliphant,
in st. Nicholas for October. q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Fun with a Spider.

Spiders in many respects are just Ink
other animals, and can be tanned and
petted, and taught a great many les
sons, and which they will learn as
readily as a dog or cat. But you must
take the trouble to study their ways,
and get on the good side of them. One
day l had been reading in a book how
spiders managed to get their webs
top Of a tall tree to another. l went
out and caught a large garden-spider,
one of these blue-gray sprawling fell
lows, and fixed him up for my expert
ment. l took a stick about eighteen
inches in length, and fastened a piece
of iron to one end of it, so that the stick
would stand up OIL that end OF itself.
Then | put this stick in the center of a
large tub half full of water, and placed
the spider on the top of the stick. /
wanted to see if he could get to the
"land," which was the edge Of the tub,
without any help. He a down first
on one side of the stick, and then the
. other; each time he would stop when
he touched the water, and, shaking his
foot as the cat does, he would run up
again. At last he came to the conclu-
sion that he was entirely surrounded
by water-on an island, in fact. After
remaining perfectly quiet for a long
while, during which, l have no doubt,
he was arranging his plans, he began
running around the.top of the stick, and
throwing out great coils of web with
his hind feet. In a few minutes little
fine strings of web were floating away
in the slight breeze that was blowing.
After a little, one of these threads
touched the edge of the tub and stuck
fast, as all spider-webs will do. This
was just what Mr.. Spider was looking
for, and the next minute he took hold
of his web and gave a jerk as a sailor
does with a rope when he wishes TO see
how strong it is or make it fast. Hav-
ing satisfied himself that it was fast at
the other end, he gathered it in till it
was tight and straight, and then ran
with it to the shore-a rescued casta-
way.-ChrtStian NeWs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
The Hollering Woman

There is, says the Burlington HaWk-
eye, one %sshollering woman" in every
street. A woman who goes after
any body, but always calls across the
street. Who never looks for her chill
dren, but rushes to the front gate and
shrieks for them until, in the pauses of
her shouting, she hears them answer
ing from the room she has just left.
Every street has n "hollering wom-
an" No street has more, for al soon
as two "hollering women are thrown
by 5pitiless fate upon n street, the
neighbors vacate and emigrate until
rents come down, or, as it often hap
pens, one of the ~''hollering women
pulls up stakes and goes elsewhere, for
they can not brook opposition. The
sshollering woman" generally manages
to keep her street in a lively state of
evolutionary excitement, and if you hap
pen to live within understanding dis
lance your diurnal serenade is some
thing like this: ssTommy! TOm-mee!
Tonn-my! On, Tom! You Tom! Come
right along here and break up some of
this dry wood, or III break your back!
Mary! You, Marcel! You get right
down off that tree-box this mint, you
great tom-boy, or III skin you
within an inch of your life!
Marcel Oh, Miss Pinkhard! Miss
Pinkhard! Oh-h-h! Miss PinkharG!
Won't you tell your milkman, when he
comes, to stop at my gateP Mine come
this morning before we was up. E-ras-
mus! E-ras-mus! E-e-e-rasmus! E-e-
erasmus! Come right home and take
this pail of molasses back to the grocery
and tell him if he can't send what l
ordered ! don't want any. Erasmus,
| say! Oh, Miss HARRISON! How's the
baby's measlesP Did you try that tea
| sent over last nightP Who cut your
new polonaise? Ma-ree! Mary!
Where's Emeline gone to, I'd like to
know? Didn't I tell you not to let her
get out of your sight a minuteP Now,
you hunt her up and bring her right
home. Good-morning, Miss Barnaby.
Did you know they was burglars over
to Throopses last night? Got in at the
kitchen winder, and took a pair of Mr..
TROOPS pants, with a dollar and a half
in 'em, and Miss TROOPS big jet breast
pin! Where you going? Tommy!
Tommee! oh, Tom! Mary, I say!
Erasmus! Oh, Miss P~inkhard!" The
serenade continues at random all day
long, and is familiar to every n who
has lived within gunshot of the "hol-
lering woman"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
A SOmnambulistic Book. Keeper.

The family of .asTroy brewer were
aroused before daylight last Friday by
martial tones in mid-air. Tramp.
tramp, tramp, the boys were marching
somewhere above them, and a Drill,
Sergeant, with the lungs of a Logan or
a Tarbox, was giving them the manual
OF arms. After a hurried investigation.
they found the genial b~ook-keeper Of
the firm in a somnambulistic state, on
the fla roof of the brewery, drilling an
imaginary company of boys in. blue.
He had attended a torchlight procession
on the previous night, and. while asleep,
a risen in his night clothes and WALKED
frona his apartments to the adjoining
roof to perfect the discipline of the
boys. He now has aiweH defined and
cumulative infuenza.-Uica On. "
Herald.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
"NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.

A lady enters our dry goods store, i
Steps to d clerk who stands near the door,
Asks him to show her the latest STYLE,
And she pulls over the goods meanwhile.
Says she: II want a dress for my niece,
VIII you please show me that under piece?
Oh, / didn't see it was a polka spot, o.
That is too near the one she's got 49, -
That piece with stripes would just suit me,
It's just as pretty as it can be;
But she wants a better covered ground, .
With a sort of vine running round.
She dom want it too dark, nor yet very light,
Not striped piece, nor yet very bright y
i think she'd like what you showed me last, AZ.
But do you think the colors are fast?
Cut off bit before l decide. H
III take home a piece and have it tried.
/ had a dress like that last fall
And the colors did not wash at all.
i like those patterns there on the end,
I'll take a few samples for a friend;
Now, one of this, if you'll be so kind, e
And one ofthis, if you don't mind. j SOD,
The incest styles I've seen this year,
And you'll secure the trade-no fear.
I've forgot the price-'twas cheap enough,
It's q sort of dark, plain stuff;
Do you think you have it in the store?
The dress is spoiled if / can't get more.
Will you put these samples in a bill? A.
I'll know where to get them if you will:
I'll take them home; if she thinks they'll do
You'll see me back in a day or W ~
-NeaDarE Register.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
els a Paint Mule a HOss Z"

Nothing is more remarkable than the
| facility with which tho colored popula-
| ton become acquainted with the forms
of law, and the practical management
| of a case in Court. There was q str1k-
| ing illustration of this fact in the Re
| cordor's Court this morning.
The prisoner was accused of riding
across one of the bridges in a gait faster
than a walk, and the proof was that he
galloped a paint mule over Houston
Street bridge. He managed his own
case.
His Honor said: 81 think I'll have to
fine you, J~ohnsing." gyod..tH.s
May l ak yer a few q~uestions?"
"You may" 4 - mr., B..
"Isn't thar a sign over dat bridge,
warning people how dey must ride" .
"There is; and that makes you all
the more guilty"
"It does, does it? Now, Mr.. Record
err, is dat sign what I has to go byP Is
dat the lawP" g#a
"It is" .a
"Well, den, dat sign reads, walk
your horse or you will be fined Don't
it, don't it, bossP" "a
IL does, JOnnSlnS.'
"Well, the proof is, l was gallopin' a
paint mule, wasn't it, boss?'
"Y-a-s, I believe so," said his Hon
or, beginning to smell a rat.
"Now, if your Honor is willing to ad-
NIT dat a paint mule amt no boss, l1l
rest de case heah. Becase you see de
law is I shall walk my boss, and, as it
was a paint mule, dat is fatal to the in
dictment. You is a lawyer, and you
ought to know dem pints most as well
as myself"
Recorder: "Ahem! For the purpose
of this suit, Johnsing, I'll regard that
paint mule as a boss" B.
Prisoner: "You Honor will please
note my 'ception. I jess wants to make
one more pint. Allowin', for the sake
of argument, dat a paint mule is a boss,
de sign reads: Walk your boss Now
[ has de witnesses here in Court to
prove dat paint mule boss was not my
boss at all. De law say walk your boss"
Recorder: "I1l fine you $40, John
sing" -I
And as Johnsing was conducted to
the lookup he expressed great sympa-
thy for the taxpayers, as he intended
to bring a suit for 800, 600 damages for
false Imprisonment.
He is now, however, at work on the
streets.-SGn antonio Herald.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Sleep.

There are two kinds of sleep, the
complete and incomplete. Complete
sleep is a temporary metaphysical
death, though not an organic one.
The heart and lungs perform their Of
fees with their accustomed regularity.
1t is characterized by a torpor of the
organs of the brain, of the external
senses, and of voluntary motions. In
complete sleep is the activity of or
more of the cerebrian organs, while
the others are in repose; this occasions
dreaming. Sleep is v~ariously affected
by health and disease. Man in time of
health sleeps in tranquility. He rises
In the morning refreshed and prepared
to go forth to his, daily labor. New
strength is given him; langor is gone,
and all the faculties, both mental and
corporeal, are recruited. But the sleep
OF disease is far different. 1t is short
and unrefreshing; disturbed by fearful
sights and frightful dreams. Stupor
and sleep are different, though supposed
by somf to be synonymous. In both
there is insensibility but it is easy to
awaken = person from sleep, while It is
sometimes almost impossible to arouse
one from 'stupor. 1t is frequently the
case in sickness that the person lies for.
several days in stupor, totally insensi-
ole.} Though sleep be natural and ne
cessary to the languid mental and cor
poreal faculties, yet it is often brought
on by some external cause. j Heat pro-
duces sleep: We witness it in the sum-
mer season ? 1t is common to see the
laborer devoting an hour in the heat of
the day to sleep. A heated church is
likely to bring on sleep. Variety,
whether in sight or, sound, prevents
sleep, while monotony of all kinds is
apt to produce it, - f'saD
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
1HE FLOWN BIRD
A Japanese song.

n ap6nG song
80 BY RIcHAED HENRY sroDpARD. - e
The maple leaves are whirled away,
= The depths of the great pines are stirred,
Night settles on the sullen iay.
As In its nest the mountain bird.
My wandering feet go up and down, =
And back and forth. from own TO town,
Through the lone woods, and by the sea,
To find the bird that fed from me;
4 followed and / follow yet
Ihave forgotten to forget
NY heartgoes back butt 40 on
Through SUMMER heat and winter snow;
Poor hearth we are no longer one,
We are divided by 0urWOeL
Go TO the nest l built, and lall-
she may be hiding. s~ztsralE-
I me- e 1eags n nest I, 4 ~ m ,sn ss% ssns am
sMy sleeves with tears are always wet
] have forgotten to forgeti
Men know my story. but not me-
o such fidelity they say, %
EXists not-such a man as he
Exists not in the world ts-dayi
If his light bird has flown the nest,
She is no worse than all the rest; ssns sav,
Constant they are net-onlygood
To bill and coo, and hatch dae brood;
He has but one thing to regret y
He has forgotten to forgetf
All day I see the ravens fly,
1 hear the sea-birde scream all night;
The moon goes up and down the sky,
And the sun comes In ghoEtly light; s
Leaves whirl, white flakes about me blow
Are they spring blossoms, or the snow: g
The tine has come for Us toSpart; -,
Be still you win be happy yet
For death remembers to forgeti,
e I ..8* -ScriJmer for October.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
The Late DIR. Winship.

The Fall River (Mass.) News saws:
"The demise o fDr. George B. Winship,
OF Boston, at the early age of AZ years,
removesth the most celebrated liftist of the
century. In early life he was weaker
than the average of young men, and
subject to inirm health. As such he
entered college in 1850, but soon after,
being grossly insulted by a student
whom he was unable to chastise on the
spot, he was so angry with himself that
he resolved to gain strength enough to
do it or die. Accordingly he entered
Peter Stewards private gymnasium,
and went into training under that col
pred disciple of the famous English Ben
digo, and Peter in due time brought out
his muscles to his own establishment.
Visiting his former antagonist, he cool
y informed him he could apologize for
the former insult or be hand
somely thrashed, and the fellow came
down with a handsome apology, and
peace continued. Winship discovered
that certain parts of his body needed
strengthening, and that lifting only
could do it. Accordingly he organized
a lifting exercise, which he used o
larly for many years, till he reached
the enormous result of raising 1900
pounds from the ground by his own
powerful strength. Cut of his expert
ments has grown the present system of
health-lifting. DR.. Winship probably
carried lifting too far, for some time
ago he began to be afflicted with incip-
lent paralysis, which has increased in
spite of all remedies, and he has fallen
at last, as do most athletes who forget
that caution is the parent of safety. He
leaves only q wife, 2, nr
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Patchwork in Bank Notes.

The Bank of France has been COM
PEELED to prosecute one of its employees
for a~bstracting bank notes which had
been laid on one side previous to being
destroyed and putting them into circu-
lation a second time. 1t is the custom
in the Bank Of France to let a large
quantity of notes accumulate before de-
stroying them, and, as a precaution
against their being used a second time,
each note, when it finds its way back to
the bank, has two small pieces clipped
out of it, and the word "annulled"
stamped upon its surface. The accused,
Jean Baptiste Allamassey, who was
employed in this department, succeed
ed in abstracting several bundles of
these notes, and, by dint of incredible
patience, managed to cut them up and
make fresh notes with the pieces, in
such a way as to avoid using those
fragments where there was n mark.
He carried on this fabrication for some
time without detection, and would per-
haps have escaped detection if he had
not been so unfortunate as to drop his
po~cket-book, containing some of the
false notes, in the Champs Elysees. 1t
was picked up by some dishonest per-
son who put the notes into circulation.
Allamassey had forged the name of the
cashier to some of the notes, and was
therefore liable to penal servitude for
life; but the jury, as usual, discovered
"extenuating circumstances" and he
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment. The extenuating circumstances
perhaps were that the $4,000 odd which
he had embezzled was all lost in specu-
lation upon the Bourse.-PaU Mali Ga
zette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

james Mahan, a brakeman on the
Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western
Railroad, in attempting to couple a car
at Danvilla, Ill. caught his foot in a
frog, and, being unable to remove it.
was run yer by the train, and SO bad.
~ injured as to make NECESSARY ! the
amputation of one arm and one foot,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Miss .Jennia Ar Ea;,aa,1s

Miss Jennie M. Fairbanks, a public
schootteaeher of WhitehaHs N. Y,
committed suicide recently by islmpinr
INTO the canal. She was highly fespeci
ed, and no cause can be assigned TO-
the act except temporary insanity
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

"A MAI can't travel into a woman's
affections by getting on her train.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

1NA AA0SS cAN Az CO0HS AK W JlC
head of the table to turn pale at, the
shock, before Ethel came bounding
back with glad weloomings and laugh
ter.
go papa, she has Gomez mamma is
here! / knew it was her--I knew Tom
and Dickey though [ saw them at the
very end of the lawn. Come in, man.
ma-Welcomle to California; @, now
our home will be p~erfecti'N 3
.e9Ot course, mamma came in and fell
with "a weak, little hysterical cry on
MIR. Archer's shoulder. ~ OfEoJurse she
saw the handsome stranger who had
been keeping house, and she looked on
with a half smile, and IN air of WE'LL
bred composure. But In his arms, witt
many and many a sweet and tender
word, many a pet name whispered Id
her ear, all her uneasy misgivings SEEM
ed to have flown away.
"My darling," said Mr.. Archer, as
soon as he could release himself from
the happy, rosy little prattlers who were
half crazed at sight of him, you havn't
been introduced TO my-our-hoase-
keeper"
81 shall be very happy to make her
acquaintance, MI, Archer" The rair
with which this. was said, the proper
degree OF condescension, fine arrogance
and half concealed disdain which had
been studied up to the mintltest shade
for a week past, would have delighted
even Machiaval himself. Mr.. Arcler's
dimples grew riotous on the instant.
Ethel also turned suddenly away, as if
Nebraska advertiser., 1876-07-06

An Episode of unusual character
convulsed O Sabbath School In a
neighboring town few Sabbaths ago.
We hope we will not be considered ir-
reverent for recording it. 1t appears
the Superintendent was endeavoring
to convey to the minds of the children
the spiritual significance of the lambs,
the sheep, and the shepherd.
Now says he, you are the lambs,
the teachers are the sheep-what am
I?'
After some pause, an urchin having
more knowledge than discretion, as
suringly shouted, Il guess you must
be the old buckv The Superlntend-
ent has the sympathy of the commu-
nity.
Nebraska advertiser., 1876-07-06

AN AWKWARD PAUsE.-A young
gentleman undertook to relate cir
cumstance, one sunday evening, In
the presence of some young ladies'
He commenced as follows:
"A lady friend and myself, last Sun
day evening, went to Bed
With a sudden spring the old lady
bounced him utofthe house. The next
day the old gentleman met him in the
street and asked him for an apology.
Il was about to cay commenced
the young man, that a lady friend
and myself went to Bed when a
sudden thrust from the old man 8
cane started him back several feet,
upon which he exclaimed at the top
of his voice
~ lady friend and myself went to
Bedford street church. you old fool
Ne,Cqrk Union.