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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
Little by Little.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, of Brooklyn,
always true to the cause of temperance,
| in recent sermon upon the influence of
little things, referred to tobacco and in
temperance. He is reported as saying.
"Again, It's so in the formation of bad
habits. Take the habit of lying. A man
| begins with what is called white lie,
and after while there is no limit to his
| falsehood. So in the habit of using to-
bacco. There is no danger of my being
personal in my remarks, for you all use
| it. Iquit that habit because it made my
hand tremble, and [ too easily lost my pa
tience, and thought had no right to do
anything that would make my hand
tremble or make me lose my patience.
But we all know how hard it was to get
the habit, how sick it made us at the start.
You begin, perhaps, with cigar which
your father or some minister has thrown
| away, and you have gone on until you
are slave to habit which is ruinOus to
any man of nervous temperament. How
| gradually you came on toward it! There
are hundreds of men in this house to-day
who would confess that the habit is in
| furious to them, but somehow they can
not stop. How, my brother, did you get
| this bondage on you? In one day? In
one hour? No. BY little and little So
with the habit of intemperance. The
first day man don't go and wallow in
the ditch. If he is we'll off he begins with
| sparkling champagne or lively Clicquot
or three KS. Now in the midnight, while
trying to kill the snakes on his delirious
pillow, he cries out to the doctor to give
him rum. o young man! stand off from
the beginning of evil. Though you should
charge me with Hibernicism, [ will risk
it, and say: Stop before you start. You
say: Il mingle with evil associates, and
am not contaminated But ifyou stand
anywhere with them you will get splashed
with mire and pollution and moral dirt.
This panther of evil habits has a velvet
coat and sleek skin, and comes softly
| through the night to mans temptation
and squats before the SOUL But if you
have felt the clutch of his claw and sharp
cut of his teeth, God pity you. Remember
we may not only go down gradually our
selves but take others with us little by lit
tie. A minister of the Gospel STOOD In a
reform meeting, and he was showing how
that man might take strong drink mod
erately and yet do right, and. how the
head of family might have strong drink
ON his dining g-table and yet do right in all
this matter; and after he had made a
powerful and eloquent argument, he sal
down in the pulpit. Then an aged man
arose in the audience and said: Il have g
broken heart. 1 have buried my only
sor.. He started life with beautiful pros
poets. He is to-day in drunkard's grave
and when he was dying he told me thai
he started that awful habit at the table o.
Christian clergyman, and that Christian
clergyman is the man who just sat dowr
in the pulpit!' o! may God keep us from
ruin and keep us from taking others t,
ruin.''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
DROLL RLUNDERs,

By the Insertion of one letter in place of
another, anewspaper, not long since, re-
porting the danger that an express train
had run in consequence of a COW getting
upon the line, said, ''As the safest way,
the engineer put on full steam, dashed up
against the COW, and literally cut it into
calues!''
A Scotch newspaper, reporting the
speeches at a Scott centenary meeting,
made one of the orators exclaim, with
more truth than accuracy:
SO Calednola! stern and wild,
Wet-nurse for poetic childn'
Though not so numerous as those of the
Emerald Isle, Scotland is not without its
| specimens of this blunder. Two opera
tives in one of the border towns were
heard disputing about a new cemetery,
beside the elegant railing of which they
were standing. One of them, evidently
disliking the Continental fashion in which
it was being laid out, said, in disgust
cpd rather dee than be buried in sic a
place." ''Weel, it's the vera reverse VII
me-" said the other; ''for I'H be buried
naewhere else, if Pm spared"
The first Lord Lyttleton was very alb
sent minded. 1t is declared of him that
when he fell into the river by the upsetting
of boatat Hagley, che sank twice before
he recollected that he could SWIM
Some blunders arise from misappre-
hension. A bishop of Oxford sent round
to the church-wardens in his diocese a
circular of inquiries, including the ques-
ton, docs your officiating clergyman
preach the Gospel, and is his conversation
and carriage consistent Herewith ?'' The
church-warden of Wallingford replied
F'He breaches the Gospel, but does not
keep carriage
A doctor who had one day allowed him.
self to drink too much was sent for to see
a fashionable lady who was ailing. He
sat down by the bedside, took out his
watch, and began to count her pulse as
well as his obfuscated condition would
permit. He counted ssone, two three >
Then he got confused, and began again
'Fone, two, three, four" Still confused
he began again, some, two.'' No; he
could not do ii. Thoroughly ashamed OF
himself, he shut up his watch, muttering,
''Tipsy, declare-tipsy !" Staggering tc
his feet, he told the lady to keep her bed
and take some hot lemonade to throw her
into perspiration, and he would see her
next day. In the morning he received
the following note from the lady marked
FFPrivate'':
''Dear Doctor-You were right 1 dare
not deny it. But am thoroughly ashamed
of myself, and will be more careful fol
the future. Please accept the inelose6
fee for your visit' "a ten pound note
"and do not, entreat of you, breathe {
word about the state in which you fount
me.''
The lady, in fact, had herself beer
drinking too much, and catching the doe
tors murmured words, thought they re
ferred to her. He was too far gone to SCI
what was the matter with his patient, ,ant
she too far gone to observe that the docto
was in the same condition!
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24

The San Francisco Chronicle calls the
mother-in-law ''The queen of Terrors.''
The right kind of a man will always
have his life insured. It gives his wife's
second husband start.
"Crying widows marry soonest re-
marks the philosopher of the New York
Commercial. FTYour still widow remains
widow STILL"
Wives should always sit up for their
husbands, instead of getting their SER
wants to do so. 1t makes two hours diff
ference in their arrival.
Nothing aggravates a young man more
than to have his sweetheart's little broth
er take his unfinished cigar from it hid
den nook and surreptitiously scoot with
| it.
There are some scenes almost too pure
and sacred to be viewed by the thought
less world. One of them is 2OO-pound
woman with mole on her chin talking
baby" to an ounce-and-a-half canary
bird in brass cage.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
The Fate of a FIIrt.
Youngstown Register.
Tableau !

Youngstown Register.
The Pittsburg Exposition is over for
this year, but there is one thing connect
ed with it that will be read with interest
here. Rather good-looking couple from
the country boarded a train here the day
before the Exposition closed, and with a
number of others went to Pittsburg. Ar
riving, the girl met an old acquaintance,
with whom she soon became uncomforta-
bly, (for the other chap friendly. She
and her Pittsburg friend stuck together
like wax all day, viewing the sights, ap-
parently Oblivious of the fact that her
escort was around. When the hour came
for starting home she went with her Pitts
burg friend to the depot, and hung upon
his arm until just before the train started,
her escort the while looking very much
displeased. They boarded the train, she
taking seat just behind him. The con-
ductor tapped her on the shoulder for
"tickets." She leaned timidly forward
and said:
''Tickets, john"
''Tickets, be d-dl'' said John. "Get
your ticket from the fellow you trolloped
around with you all day."
This was followed by loud laughing
from number sitting near, some OF
whom had been watching the girls move
ments during the day, and she had to sc
down into her pocket for the necessary
wealth to pay her fare to this city.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
Poisoning By Paris Green
New York Observer.

New York Observer.
DR.. w. Badger, of Flushing, Long ISL
and, calls attention in the Medical Record
to two cases of poisoning which recently
occurred in that vicinity, from the use of
Paris green for destroying the Colorado
bug. He says:
In the first instance, two young ladies
had helped themselves to apples which
grew on the edge of potato field. One
experienced no trouble, while the other
suffered from a severe attack of arsenical
poisoning. About two weeks subsequent
ly another woman was affected, though
in less degree from the same cause,
who had also procured her apples from
potato-patch, but in a different locality
from the first.
In each case but one or two apples had
been eaten. The poison, ''Paris green,"
had probably adhered to the fruit in pow
dered form, or had been washed over
them by rain or dew, and being devoid
of taste or odor was eaten without sus-
picion. Always wash or pare apples.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
The Gamblers odds.
New York Observer.

New York Observer.
Our correspondent, &C., in last weeks
Observer, gave an astonishing revelation
of the gambling publicly permitted at the
Connecticut A Agricultural Fair. The facts
are almost incredible. It is wonderful,
indeed, that such things can be done in
the Gland of steady habits.'' This vice of
gambling is rapidly growing, and ought
to be suppressed by the strong hand of
the law. Our correspondent shows very
clearly that the managers of the play al
ways have the majority of chances on
their side. He says:
'What this majority is l could not de-
termine. A friend calculated with me,
to that is, the gambler has twenty per
cent. the advantage of any player. L
| think this estimate is too large by half.
But [ certainly think the managers
| chances of gain are ten per cent greater
than the players, and his chances of loss
ten per cent. less.
''The famous gambling-hells of Europe
are sustained upon a percentage of chances
in their favor four times less than the
AON CoGIIudJS nave ulduOs anu JlloIE
| owners grow immensely rich with this
small advantage in their favor--but mark
the advantage is infallibly in their favor,
! there's no mistake about that; and no
matter who wins thousands, they are abb
solutely certain of winning thousands
plus.
''The longer the bank plays, the richer
If Tho ho
the larger is the pile of silver on the vel
vet cover. OF course, some of the players
| win money. This is the bait that draws
the fish. As certainly as some player
wins money, the bank wins more. The
bank desires the players should win mon
| ey. All the bank asks is one chance in
ten certainly in its favor; not that it will
give nine chances to the players-not a
bit of it. It will divide these chances
equally between itself and the players,
and only take ten per cent. advantage /;
and, given this advantage and unlimited
play, the end is unlimited prosperity to
the bank.
Everybody is not ruined who plays
against the bank-the first time. Many
go away with full pockets. But the bank
knows they will come back to the bait
ground, and that the next time they play,
even if they win, they have diminished
their next chance of success by one-tenth
more; so that in ten or eleven successful
plays, supposi ng the player gets the ad-
vantage of every chance that does not be-
long certainly to the bank, the bank re-
covers all its losses, with usury.
''With the utmost composure the gam
bier sees some greenhorn carry away a
large sum won on a lucky hit; he relies
upon that certain tenth or twentieth; he
is willing to take his risk equally with the
player among the other numbers. The
wheel is made with mathematical precis
ion, and the play is made to correspond
, with it.; and this nicely is adjusted in the
gamblers favor. He must get rich, if the
wheel turns long enough-that's the Ger.
tainty of what he is pleased to call his
speculation -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
The clean Newspaper.

There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against journals
which make it their special object to min
lister to perverted taste by seeking out
and serving up in a seductive form dis
gusting and licentious revelation. There
is good reason to believe that the clean
newspaper is more highly priced to-day
than it was four or five years ago. 1t is
also safe to predict that as people in all
ranks of life, who protect their own, at
least, from contamination, become more
conscious of the pernicious influence of a
certain class of journals, called enterpris-
ing because they are ambitious to serve
up dirty scandals, they will be careful to
see that the journals they permit to be
read in the family circle are of the class
that never forget the proprieties of life.
Already men and women of refinement
and healthy morals have had their atten-
ton called to the pernicious influence of
bad literature, and have made commenda-
BILE efforts to cOunteract the same by caus-
ing sound literature to be published and
sold at popular prices. These efforts are
working a silent but sure revolution.
The best authors are more generally read
to-day than at any previous date. The
sickly sentimental story paper and the
wild ranger and pirate story-book are
slowly but surely yielding the field tc
worthier claimants. To the praise of the
decent newspaper, it may be said that
where it has place in the family and has
been read for years by young as well as
old, it has developed such healthy tone
and such discriminating taste that the
literature of the slums has no admirers
Fortunately the number of such families
is increasing in the land, and, as they in
crease, the journal that devotes itself tt
sickening revelations of immortality will
be compelled to find its supporters solely
among those classes who practice vic,
and crime or are ambitious to learn t.
follow such ways.-Price Current.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
HUMOROUS.

a Nor"lch tenant has been importnnad
so frequently for his rent that in a cline
of evaporation, the other day, he turned
on the landlord with the cogent and con-
elusive retort: ''Now you needn't put on
so many airs, old man. Why, 1 owe
enough in this town to buy up all your
old houses"
A Yankee auctioneer lately indulgedin
the following little bit of the pathetic:
''Gentlemen, if my father and mother
stood where yoa do, and didn't buy these
boots-these elegant boots-when they
were going for one dollar, should feelit
my duty as son to tell both of 'em that
they were false to themselves and false to
their country
Because tailor sits on his feet, does it
follow that he is a cornseated man?
Customer lin quest of a particular brand
of cigar)-''Are those these?'' Dealer
taffablyJ-''Yes, Sir, these are those"
Speaking of the dead languages, pro-
fessor,' inquired the new student, ''who
killed them?''
The eompositor who made it read, s'In
the midst of life we are in debit" wasn't
much out of the way.
Lady-'And how long have you been
out of placer" Lady Help Indignant at
''out of place'')-"I have been Daalapropos
only few weeks, madam
There is no disgrace in being poor
the thing is to keep it quiet, and not let
your neighbOrs know anything about it.
1t was in Chicago. The lady leaning on
the arm of an elegant and wealthy young
man, and leading her little daughter by
the hand, when suddenly the child cried:
ooh, ma! look there! See that gentle
man that's passing. Don't you know
him?" emo, my child. % 'FWhy, NAM
ma, he was pa last year,
The Chinese Encyclopedia meets long
felt want, and no family should be with
out it. 1t is published at Pekin, in 1920
volumes, and at the price of $500 is the
same as given away. EfGet the best.''
There is lawyer down East SO exces-
sively honest that he put all the flower
pots out over night, so determined is he
that every thing shall have its dew.
'sWill you settle that old account of
| yours this morning?'' said a colonist.
''No, Sir; you are mistaken in the man;
1 am not one of the old settlers.'' =5a-
A Western editor thus kindly alludes
to contemporary: "He is young yet,
but he can sit at his desk and brush cob
webs from the ceiling with his ears.''
| The gang of burglars who work for
seven straight hours to hammer safe to
pieces to secure fourteen cents know how
a country minister feels next day after
donation visit.
sFThis country" remarked traveller
| in Northwestern Iowa, ffsettles up very
rapidly ':Y-a-a-s,'' replied the native,
nervOusly watching the movements of a
constable dOdging along the other side of
the field, ''settles up darned sight fast
er than the people do.'' And before the
traveller could ask him to explain, he was
making mile minute across the track
less prairie, with the constable bad Sec
ond.
Who was the author of that little poem
beginning:
| '"Tis sweet to love, but oh how bitter
To love girl and then not git her"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
Young WiTe's curse.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Coroner held an inquest yesterday
afternoon upon the remains of Chilly"
O'Brien, shot by officer Jones.
As the officer stepped down from the
stand, where he had gone to sign his
statement. a loud cry-a mingled scream
and groan-startled every one from their
seats, 1t was woman's voice, and, as
everybody instinctively knew, that of o.
Brien's young wife.
course you! Curse your she cried; ;
''my curses on you forever for numbering
my husband, you dog!" She held up
both hands, appealing to heaven in the
agony of her grief, while tears flowed
down her cheeks.
The officer turned slightly pale at the
awful earnestness of the wife's curse, and
tears glistened in his eyes. 'tIt was my
hard duty," he solemnly said.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
Story of a Jack-Kn1fe.

More than seventy years ago young
man owned jack-knife, which he sold
for gallon of rum, and by retailing by
the glass made enough to buy two gal
Ions, and by selling that was able to in
crease the quantity he purchased. He
got barrel, then cask and at last large
stock, and having a turn for business and
industry, he became rich, and when he
died left $50, 900 to his three sons and one
daughter. The daughter married man
who spent her money, and she died. The
sons entered into folly and extravaganza,
and two died of dissipation and poverty.
The last of the family lived for many
years on the charity of those who had
known him in his prosperity. He died a
short time since suddenly in barn,
where he had laid himself to take drum
ken sleep. On his pockets being exam
ined, all that was found in them was a
string and jack-knife.
So a jack-knife began and ended the
fortune of that family.
This is true story; and the father who
bought and sold rum, no doubt had plen-
| ty of it in his house and on his table. In
giving and recommending it to others,
his sons learned to like it.
They were like the little boy who was
following his father through a field OF
potatoes. The father several times eau.
toned his son not to tread on the pota.
toes.
At last the boy said, Gather, an
walking exactly in your footsteps"
Let every father ask himself, s'Do
wish my son to walk in my footsteps p
and let every boy ask his father, ''Do yor
wish me to walk exactly in your foot
steps, father?'
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24

If, as reported, diptheria is making its
appearance here in any considerable num-
Der of cases, the parents of the city would
do well to give heed to the following,
from communication to the Cleveland
Leader, on Diptheria and its Causes:
elbow many times my heart has ached
to see delicate children with their lower
limbs exposed, not only in cool but in
damp, chilly weather; nothing to protect
them but thin stockings and thin shoes,
suitable only to the warmest weather.
Should we wonder that diphtheria carries
off so many children? The wonder to me
is that the mortality is not greater. /
consider that this unsuitable manner of
clothing children, is the promoter of
more cases of diphtheria than all causes
combined, especially in this variable eli
mate. 1t appears that parents pay no at
tention whatever to the changes in the
weather from June to November; no mat
ter how chilly or cold the weather may
be, the thin stockings and absurdly short
dresses, and exposed neck and arms, are
| to be met with upon our streets anywhere.
| 1t seems to me that the attention of pa
rents should be called to this great neg
lect on their part to properly clothe theil
children according to the state of the
weather, no matter what should be the
season of the year. Itwould appear diff
cult to overlook this subject of clothing
| in our search after causes for diphtheria
| What physician does not know that the
blood recedcs from or shrinks, as it were
from cold loca Iities to seek more con
genial latitude. And where will it got
Why, it can only find shelter in some O.
the vital organs, and then what is the re
suit? Congestion of one or more organs
unless the person happens to be possessed
of sufficient vitality to bring about re
action in the circulation. Some children
have this and recover, while perhaps il
the meantime many others less favored d
suffer and die.
Seth Green, who is much at home wit
fish, has just received another gold media
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
Highly Esteemad.

DR.. Prices Unique Perfumes, Pet Rose,
Alista Bouquet and other odors, are rich
and highly esteemed perfumes. They
are used by the most polished and refined
persons for their powerful, durable and
exquisite fragrance. No toilet is complete
without them.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-24
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Masonic DtrectOry for Eayette County
Ohio, for the Year ISIS.
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