The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-30

lion previous to the spring.
Free Press. f-- f-.-- ,4..r .,,.,.
If Jacobs ladder was now to be
placed against the entrance of Heaven,
as of old, you couldn't induce anybody
to ascend it An opposition elevator
would get all the passenger traffic
Net1 Rdren Register. ..r.'-'
A college student from this city in
rendering to his father an account of
his term expense, inserted: ITO char
ity, thirty dollars" His father wrote
back: "Charity covers q multitude of
sins."-M Y. Commercial.
-"Ten ne,'' he said,
=. a. What day you'll wed, -
& - / want NO more child's play" S.
Thus urged to mate
In welded state, - - -.
At once she Sat day.
--Cuaanafi Saturday Night
A Milwaukee girl suffering from
lockjaw was left alone with q mouse by
the shrewd hysician, and she contrived
to open her mouth enough to give
yell that made the crookery in the china
closet rattle.-Boston Post -....
E. Il am coming by and by
You win hear my plaintive cry, ...
In accents mild and gentle as q lamb;
Ere long I'll be ON deck,
RAG Bringing ninety cents peck.
Sing hey! the sweet potato that yam.
fs. st Louis Times Journal.
considering the rapid destruction
of forests, very many thinkers profess
to exercise of mind regarding the fuel
of the future. They may rest assured,
however, that good hot fires will be in
some way provided.-Nes0 Orleans PIC
a,une.
"A very careful Bridgeport man al
ways carries q bottle of whisky in his
pocket as an antidote for rattlesnake
bites. He is now ffty-three years old
and has never once died of rattlesnake
bite; and he attributes his escape to the
antidote. -Nerristoso's Herod. -
You army chap" as girl said to
her military lover.-Philadelph Sum-
dag Item. "That's where you soldier
yourself" he wrote back when he
eloped with another girl.-OttosOo Re
prbiican. This may be trooper haps.
Hussar for the other girl.-Boston Post.
APE street grocer has placed on
exhibition q beet measuring twenty
two inches in length and two feet in di-
ameter. We dislike to take him down,
but one of our hotel proprietors lately
pitched into the street q beat six feet
high and thirty-eight inches round the
chest--Albany journal.
-s.What brought Grant homer" mys-
teriously demands Missouri contem-
porary. We did't follow the game
close, but he might have got in hard
hit to center field, or hot liner to third,
badly muffed, or a daisy cutter out to
left field; it's enough to get home when
you are on third and have lively hit
| ter at the bat.-Hdtobeyc. -s-''.- ~
"A young man who lost q bet of oys-
ters with three of his friends, said he
wouldn't pay it unless he was four stew.
-Cincinndti Saturday Night. He has
since made . bet with nine of his
friends, and says he in ten stew pay
this time if he loses.-YdDcob Strauss.
Eleven stew them himself, if no. one
else will.@Grs. Although he eight
stew Cincinnati Commercial.
old lady (on donkey)-" Boy. boy,
isn't this very dangerousP' Boy
"Werry dangerous, indeed, marin;
there was q lady ridin' up here last
year, and the donkey fell, and the lady
was chucked over the cliff and killed"
Old lady-"Good gracious, was the
donkey killed, tooP" Boy"
marin; that's the VERY donkey
London Fan. ~ =
A William goat at Newburg butted
himself to death against q circus bill
pasted on a stone wall. After q care
full examination of the layers on his
horn, made at great expense by the
State Geologist, his origin was placed
somewhere back in the dead languages.
The next day after the accident Chat
ham street restaurant in this city hung
out the sign: :" New Spring Lamb. -
NeU YORK. Paper.
| They were courting-" What makes
the stars shine so dim to-night?" she
said softly. 80 Your eyes are SO much
brighter" he whispered, pressing her
] little hand. They are married now. 81
wonder how many telegraph poles it
would take to reach from here to the
stars" she said musingly. lone, if
it was long enough" he growled.
Why don't you talk common senseP'
l-Rockland Courier.
Professor Peters was one of the few
men who didn't get excited over the
walking match in New York. Right in
the middle of the walk, when all New
York was losing its head over the
match, Professor Peters preserved his
equanimity and attended strictly to
business. He discovered a new planet
| on the Oay tnat hOwel made his south
mile. And his discovery is of every bit
as much value to the business interests
of the nation as was the international
walking match NorristotDn Herald.
"A firm ofLondon solicitors inserted
an advertisement in the Standard, offer
ing q reward of EGO for information re-
garding a young lady by the name of
Linda, who is missing. The descrip-
ton of her person is unusually explicit;
it is even stated she has cross tatooed
on her right leg. A correspondent re-
marks: see Linda and a reward of
ego in every young lady of seventeen
that ! come across, but they vanish
while am thinking how / can deli
cately put the question about the tattoo
mark.-London Truth.
Some of the newspapers publish o
useful domestic recipe" every day