Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Every dove has a cote, and every dog
pants.
No bird is actually on the wing. The
wings are on the bird.
1t takes less time to get over ones mis-
fortune then to be reeoneiled to a neigh
boris good fortune.
The young man who took a seat near
the object of his alteration exclaimed,
''This is juxtaposition that suits me -
1t is now estimated that Georgia's crop
of dried peaches will amount in value this
year to 81, 800 900.
William Shehan, of Fort Wayne, Indi- |
ana, died one nightlast week from the eff
fects of drinking a pint of whisky at one
drink.
The President will leave the White
House for his summer residence at the
Soldiers Home about the 18th of this
month
'"The nearest I ever came to cannibal-
ism, y said old Lord George Bentinck,
''was when I swallowed a little London
porter"
When boy bats a ball through par
lor window, the boy may not lose his in
ming, but the man who owns the window
is invariably put out
John F. Coyle, formerly editor of the
Washington National Intelligencer, de-
nies ever having received a>pael1age from
Booth, the murderer of President Lin
coin.
An Illinois man, with foresight
worthy of a better cause, popped the
question on a railroad train, and now the
county she had better commence pro-
ceedings for breach of promise.
Before and After.-A dreamy writer
says it would be curious to follow pound
of silk from its spinning until it becomes
a lady's dress. No doubt; but most men
would prefer to follow it after it becomes
a dress and while the lady was in it.
Canada claims to have produced the
) largest cheese on record. From the Inger-
soil factory has been turned out a cheese
weighing 1000 pounds. It was feet 1C
inches in diameter, and. 81 feet in cireum-
|
: cows, or 80 tons milk, to produce it.
There is general rejoicing in Washing.
ten over the liberal appropriations for the
district. There will be over four million;
available there for public purposes after
July1. Large sums will be used on the
streets, public grounds and buildings, ant
s the improvement of the Capitol will be o
IS a marked character.
A Good Conductor two ladies wer,
walking along the street, one exclaimed
as the sky suddenly darkened: tThere'
a thunder storm coming on. I'm so afrait
of lightnfng!'' To which the other calm
ly replied: every we'll, my dear; thel
let us step into this car, which seems t
haye good conductor
One thousand three hundred and seven
ty-eight pieces of skin, taken from tn
arms of friends, have been engrafted o
the head of Mrs. Jonas Hay, of James
town, who lost her scalp by her hair catel
< ing in the mill machinery in which sh
was working. Mrs. Hay is rapidly recol
ering, and is now able to ride out.
Treasury officials who have heretofol
pointed with pride to the monthly stat
ment showing reduction of the publ
debt, say that owing to the lavish appr
priations by Congress, it will not be no
sible during the ensuing fiscal wear
further decrease the debt. The month
? statement will show small, but contin
GUS increase.
The Minneapolis Tribune estimat
that the wheat crop of the State will
twenty-five per cent. larger than Ii
year, which would bring it up to t
enormous total of SO, ,00o, 900 bushels. G,
B. Wright declares that the population
the State will increase 100000 this ye
81. from imrnigratlon-mOre than the agg