The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03

A London boy wanted to play soldier
with the servant girl. He thought the
pistol wouldn't go off, but it did, and the
girl is played out.
He commenced with, "Oh! can those
lovely eyes of thine'-when she stopped
him short and told Linn she wasn't can
ming that sort of fruit just then, and
wouldn't be coaxed to do it either.
Friend to scientific authority: doctor.
how is man to tell mushroom from a
tOadstOolg' Scientific authority: "By eat
ing it. If you live it is a mushroom; If
you die, it is a toadstool."
DR.. Talmage's six days talking match
with the Brook IN Presbytery Is next or
der. Bets are ripe.-[Troy Press
A clergyman of Albany suggests that
the wages of sin be cut down and the sal
aries of ministers raised peg or two.
A Michigan farmer has been seventeen
years building barn, and now he wonders
how long it will take him to paint it.
A Boston divine holds that no sermon
can have proper influence until it has
been delivered fifteen or twenty times to
the same congregation.
When man discovers that he has got
away with $2,674 13 worth of tobacco and
cigars during his life he doesn't decide to
stop smoking and chewing, but to do more
begging of his friends
The foolish man foldeth his hands and
saith: There is no trade; why should I
advertiser But the wise man is not 80.
He whoopeth it up in the newspapers, and
verify he draweth customers from afar
off.-Ex.
Says a Chicago correspondent who has
been out there: ''The saloon, lodging
houses, restaurants, dance-houses and
theatcrs are making money, merchants are
certainly not The Leadville excitement
was got up by railroad companies. assist
ed by newspapers at Denver and Leadville,
who wanted to get people there for the
purpose of making money out Of them.
Hannibal Hamlin is the only remain
ing Senator who deems it his sacred duty
to wear a swallow tail dress coat at morn
ing session. Visitors at the Capitol dur
ing the next two years should improve
their opportunity to behold the spectacle.
The venerable Hannibal's term will run
out in 1881, and then morning swallow
tails will be extinct torever.-[New York
Telegram.
An important discovery of q test for
diamonds has been made by Professor
William Crookes, of London, the full de-
tails of which have not yet been made
known. He finds that rough diamonds
emit an intense blue light when subjected
to the action of electricity in a tube from
which most of the air is exhausted. Dia-
monds placed among other gems can thus
! be easily distinguished.
In the United States paper is in general
use for all purposes. One not only gets
butter and lard from the grocers in paper
,, trays. but bulk oysters are now sent out
! from the dealers in paper baskets. Paper
panels in frames, to divide off larger rooms,
| an introduction from Japan, paper boots,
buckets bowls, car-wheels. boats, baskets,
roofs, and blankets are now old inven-
tions.
, In Germany glass appears to have many
uses: A glass muff white and curly; glass
| hats for ladies' with glass feathers; glass
t wool, not to be distinguished from the
, genuine, and quite as warm, being non.
| conductor; glass carpets, cuffs, collars
+ wells, and dresses, are the novelties in
E torduced by Mr.. A. Prengel, glass artist
8 and spinner, of Vienna.-[SO say the Her
t rnhut German newspapers.
One of the most ruinous habits OF the
: Russian peasants is displayed at marriage
! celebrations. A peasant, to celebrate the
marriage of his son, procures twenty -hve
:, gallons ofwhisky, to get money for which
he sells his horse, cow, or pig, and is read,
: to become q pauper. He cannot resist tn
practice, for custom requires that tn
: population ofthe village, men. womel
y and children, must get drunk.