The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

Patti is spending a fortune ON her Welsh
castle.
Miss Kellogg, it is said, goes tn Europe
to marry Prince.
Pennsylvania has adopted the New
Hampshire tramp law.
BY the laws of Kansas, women have the
same property rights as men.
Mr.. John G. Whittier had but two sis
ters and both of them are dead.
Mr.. G. w. Julian is about to begin the
practice of law in Washington.
Mr.. Spurgeon is writing weekly letters
to his London flock from France.
There are few forgers in Russia. Only
ono person in four hundred can read or
write.
One hundred and seventy-four of the 632
Of the Boston University are
women.
There are in Kiota. Japan, sixty-fnur
schools. Education is com
pulsory.
A St. Louis man drank pint and half
of fiery whisky on bet, and died in con-
sequence.
hOSSutn ndS SCnt oJO lIdllCS sfS HIS COLL
tribution for the relief of the people of
Szegedin.
Sotheru has been suffering from gout,
and his hops in Dundrcary have been in
sad earnest.
A firstclass club, the Parthenon, is TO be
started in London, in which no liquor will
be allowed
Two English girls have started black
smith shop in Louisville, KY, and have
plenty to do.
Carlotta. of Austria and Mexico, never
speaks, and can with difficulty be persuad-
ed to take food.
The two elevated railroads in New York
city are carrying an average of fifty million
passengers year.
Although petroleum has been known to
exist in Japan for 200 years it was not
utilized until 1875.
Work has been resumed on Strasburg
Cathedral and the restoration may be
completed this year.
are adopting bicycles instead of hoIs, as
a means of Iocomotion.
The New York Central railroad has
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trains, except books and papers.
Commodore Garrison has subscribed
81, 900 toward the bonus required to build
the Southern Hotel in St. Louis.
A Philadelphia firm is shipping street
cars to England, Germany and Australia.
Most of them are ''double-deckers."
The Philadelphia police very properly
have prohibited a competitive exhibition
of sheep slaughtering on the stage of a
variety theater.
A Scotchman has bcilt Il large manu-
factory for chloride of potash -on the
borders of the lake that covers Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has 10000
acres of good land, managed by his son,
and on it he has 200 sheep, for which he
has n great fancy.
A portrait, said to be the missing one of
has been discovered ut Sgd
ney. 1t has been despatched to England,
insured for $3.50
When the Princess of Wales went to
open a hospital in Norfolk in the middle
of April, snow eight inches deep was ly-
ing on the ground.
Two-thirds of the sugar imported at
San Francisco in the past three months
paid no duty. 1t came from the Sand
wich Islands, duty free.
An old Chelsea tea set of twenty-five
pieces. ornamented with deep blue
band and gliding was sold at recent sale
in London for over a. 900.
The city government of Manchester,
N. H., voted to exempt from taxation ten
years all manufacturing enterprises where
not less than $4,000 is invested
Thomas Durant of North Solon, Ohio,
while engaged in boiling maple sugar in
the woods, slipped and fell backwards into
the boiling sap, and was so dreadfully
sea lded that he died ON the Sth instant.
Two trees have been found in Victoria,
Australia, that are larger than the biggest
trees of California. They are of the eucs-
lyptus variety, and measure 435 and $50
feet respectively.
An inquiry into Irish endowed schools
has elected the fact that IN 1916 a school
at Rathvilly, Carlow was endowed with
$15, 600 under the will of Benjamin DIS
well, broker in Dublin.
Superintendent Groves, of Delaware,
like many other wise men, holds that of
all the schools the primary school re-
quires not only the highest teaching power
but the rarest personal fitness.
Four-fifths of the gloves made in the
United States are manufactured at Glo-
versville, Fulton county, N. Y, where a
population of $4,000 find profitable em-
plOymeAt in the industry.
Secretary Sherman, General Garfield and
Stanley Matthews have promised to be
present at the Ohio Republican State con-
vention in May, and to speak at the ratifi-
cation meeting following 1t.
The Rothschilds, of Vienna, have had
is to iun between Paris and Vienna for the
special convenience Of members of the
great banking firm in each city.
The late Joseph elliott, the steel pen
after he became rich, had a
mania for collecting olu Italian instru-
ments, and, although he. knew nothing
whatever about music, he became the
owner of 500 viol,ns-
The city of Altoona, Pa, is indebted to
the State for corporation taxes To the
amount of S4,2OS, and the authorities have
been notified that unless they pay up the
city will be put up at auction and knocked
down to the highest bidder.
Neeah Bay, at the northwestern part of
Washington Territory, is rather damp
locality. The average rainfall is 123
inches per annum. In 1854 there fell 132
inches, or eleven feet of water. In Feb
ruary of this year the fall was ABB inches
and in March 1888 inches, or over four
feet In two months. What a help such
rains would be to our street cleaners
A couple of Bucksport, Me-, were mar
ried by Justice. He afterwards discov-
cred that his term had expired at the time
OF the ceremony, and that it was illegal.
The husband proposed second marriage
but the woman said she believed she did
not care to, that she had had enough of
married life for the present, and she left
town for Boston.
A German inventor proposes to make