The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The gamblers I-deal-four aces.
OF what trade is q minister at we'd
ding?-Ajoin-her.
THREE card monte has invaded En-
glish railroad trains.
ALWAYS hanging around-the fellow
who puts up wallpaper.
THE first hospitals for the insane were
in the sacred temples of Egypt.
DAVID DAVIS pronounces the new
hug waltz a failure. Post.
SHEEP-sHEARING by horsepower is
the latest labor-saving invention out
TIE pancake is like the orb of day,
rises in the yeast and sets in the vest.
The Indians are fast retiring to their
reservations, which are six feet under
ground.
A CENTRAL PARK, New York, official
gets 81 $50 year, and has a man to
do his work for 81 day.
CAN any undertaken. when disposing
of his business, reckon on the good
will of his patrons?-Andresos' Bazaar.
Books are q mans best friends.
They never go back on him when he
lends them to a acknowledgements
Standard. rs 4-sH esn5
WALTER RICHARDSON, of Carpenteria,
CAL, states that he raised this year
1000 pumpkins, by actual count, on an
acre of land.
PAUL and Silas prayed themselves
out of jail; but it is by preying nowa-
days that most people get in.-StaI-
,oater Lunabernaan.
A MAN in London, England, has gone
crazy because he could not ascertain
why the tide ebbs and flows. This is
case of water on the brain.-Free Press.
A NEVADA woman scolded her
Chinese servant for not properly clean
ing fish, and going into the kitchen
soon after found him energetically
washing it with brown soap.
SOMEBODY'S Coming When the
Dewdrops Fan," is said to be very
beautiful song. Somebody's Coming
When the Note Falls Due" is not SO
enchanting.-NorTistos0s Herald.
A LAZY fellow once declared in pub
lie company that he could not find
bread for his family. 'tNor l." replied
an industrious mechanic; :" am obliged
to work for it."-Yonkers Statesman.
GREAT joy sometimes proves fatal.
Therefore it is with some misgivings
that we announce to the world that
Massachusetts baseball player hanged
himself few days ago.-PhitGdelph
Chronicle Herald.
DURING the past two years stock
raisers of Illinois have lost $3.50, ,920
by hog diseased! It seems as if it would
pay Illinois farmers to study the dis
ease and pay good sums for "sure
cures"
The Queen of Greece washes her own
dishes. We have often suspected that
the lady in question washes the dishes
in our restaurant, and leaves a goodly
portion of herself on them also.-Jersey
City Journal.
LETTERS intended for this point
should be in future addressed: "Steam-
boat Landing at the mouth of Wolf
River, Taxing District, Shelby County,
Tenn, opposite Hopefeld, Ark
Memphis AUalanche.
NOTWITHSTANDING the decision of
the United States Supreme Court in the
Reynolds case, business is as active as
ever at the Mormon Endowment Home,
at Salt Lake, thirty marriages having
been solemnized there on Jan. 9.
TIE SEA OF FoRGETFULNEss.
From rolling wave to wave we press
Adown Times flowing tide,
To that great sea FOrgetfulncss,
And In its bosom hide.
From the German Of Herder.
MAMMA says it is not polite to ask
for cake,'' said little boy. mo"
was the reply, cit does not look well
in little boys to do so." But said the
urchin, "she didn't say I must not eat
a piece if you gave it to me. ."-Boston
Globe. m
SOME scientific men claim that the
earth is drawing nearer the sun every
year. We don't know about that, but
we do know that throughout the season
the bottom of the strawberry and black
berry boxes comes closer and closer to
the top every day.-Rasok Eye.
LET us all go to France to be sick.
The village doctor in that blessed land
never asks for more than five francs for
q visit, and if you give him two he will
take it and be satisfied. Indeed, when
he makes out bill for services during
a year, two francs per visit is the in
fee.
THEY had a Christmas tree at Dead
wood and as each mans name was
called he went forward and got his
gift. One, was considered &C little
off," received "hangman's noose,"
with card attached saying: twenty
four hours to git outen the town." He
took the hint.
IT is noticeable fact that the people
in the prairie country of Iowa do more
work than any other people in the
West. This is because there is nothing
about the top rail of barbed wire
fence that invites men to sit on it and
talk politics while the grasshoppers get
in the crop.-Hds0k-Eye.
The pumpkin crop in Missouri was
large this year, and the st. Louis girls
find the fruit just the thing to darn
their stockings over. A st. LOus poet
might truthfully write of the pumpkin:
It is good to darn stockings,
And darned good for pies.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In the near future the customer will
say unto the barkeeper: "Gimme a
cocktail with plenty of glucose and
citric acid, and not too much methyl-
lated spirits;'' and having tasted, will
say: ssNot quite SO sweet as usually
take it-a little more muriate of tin,
please"
THEY were out riding. Said Theo-
dore: "What tree, Angelina, bears the
most precious fruit?" Angelina"
Dory! can't tell, unless it is the cherry
tree." Theodore looks unutterable
sweetness as he gazes into Angelina's
eyes and says: The axle-tree, dar-
ling. g.''-Boston Transcript.
1T is cited as a curious fact that the
public affairs of England, Protestant
are directed by Jew; that in
France the most >important
of the Government are di-
rected by Protestants, and that the
Minister of Foreign Affairs in Turkey
Is Christian.