The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-11-13
VARIETIES.

set ltSeu.
AT spelling match one man spelled
'passnip," and got beet.
If you let a man a loan he will let
you alone, for long time.
The miser is a man who lives like
beggar because he is afraid of dying
like one.
1t always makes young man era
zy to have his mother propose to buy
his clothes for him.
There are only three things you can
get for nothing in this world-air. water
and advice.-Syracuse Herald.
The under dog in q fight deserves
no pity He will pitch into a smaller
dog than himself the moment he gets q
chance.
ALI flesh is grass. And this ex-
with some modern beefsteaks.-Philade
phia Chronicle Herald.
-" That puts q different face on it, !"
said the swindler when he raised check
from twenty to two hundred dollars
Cincinnati Commercial.
If every man put himself down at
the valuation placed upon him by his
neighbors, lots of us would be offering
to sell out very cheap.-Ctncinnati Sat
srday Night.
The words majolica jar" are pro-
nounced ma-yol-ica-yar" by persons
of culchar, and with such an accent as
would be given by mouth talking while
holding hot mush.
| The barber's razor took hold of his
beard with a vengeance, when he
looked up and said, apologetically:
"My dear sir, came in to get shaved
not to get tooth pulledr'-IHrrser' S
Falls Reporter.
| "A fashion writer tells us that "the
buttoning of dresses in the back is GO
ing out Of fashion," If your unmarried
aunt still affects that style, you may
tell her it is behind the age-if you dare
to.-Boston Transcript.
When the old gentleman comes
home and finds his daughters have 60,
his slippers and the easy chair and the
evening paper ready for him, he real.
ICES that it is the season for fall open.
ing of his pocketbook.
-Cetewayo, the captive Zulu King,
is said to be rather handsome man,
and "wears a two-dollar tablecloth oi
the ordinary red and green pattern y
We judge his newspaper portraits don''
f1atter him.-NorriStotCn Herald.
-"Do you mean to call me liarP'
asks a ferocious old gentleman. "Well
no, not exactly" temporizes his friend
Z" but if / saw you in the company o1
Ananias and Sapphira, should say
you were in the bosom of your family
Talk about a woman being at los.
for an expedient. She's never at a los.
| Co.. h,,f chasS IN, q
crowded street-car and wants to scratch
her head, she simply changes the loca
ton of hair-pin.-N. Y. People.
From report of a recent wedding
we quote: "The presents were many
and magnificent, but good taste forbade
their exhibition" That is the sort o.
good point for q dollar store.-Neso Ha
zen Register.
-.sWhat brought Grant homer" mys
teriously demands Missouri contem
porary. We did't follow the game
close, but he might have got in a hart
hit to center field, or hot liner to third
badly muffed, or q daisy cutter out te
left field; it's enough to get home wher
you are on third and have a lively hit
ter at the bat.-HatDkepe.
Professor Schmidt thinks thai
sponges may be propagated "by cut
ting the live ones into small pieces, at
taching them to Jumps of rock, and
sinking them to proper depths" in the
sea. We have seen q few live
sponges that we would not object tc
seeing this experiment tried upon, ever
if there wasn't the shade of shadow o.
a hope that tLey would propagate
worth a cent.-Bestos Transcript.
Some of the newspapers publish s
/" useful domestic recipe" every day
The other day in place of the recipe
one of the papers published the follow
ing notice: 1--WE sincerely trust tha
our readers will forgive us. YESTERDAY
in giving q recipe for the chilblains w,
inadvertently stated that the remedy
was to be taken internally. 1t is, OF
the contrary, for external use. W.
hope that Providence has restrained tn,
hands of our beloved subscribers, fol
every one who drank of this compounl
is dead by this time. We present il
advance our coincidence to the bereavet
families. ."-Boston Courier.
1t may perhaps interest school boy
to know that Prof. Knapp, of Germany
has invented q new process of tanning
without the use of bark. The thickes
hides. he claims, can be tanned by hi
process within seventy-twe hours
Teachers, however, will probably sticl
to the old method. They can't tai
hides now without blubber, but i
doesn't take 'em anything like seventy
two hours to accomplish the job. 1
Prof. Knapp's process of tanning wer
to be introduced into our schools, pupil
would find q copy book concealed be
meath their garments, where it woul,
do the most good, q hollow mockery
The old way is preferable-to the boy
-Norristoton Herald.
-"Talk about your narrer 'scapes,
said Czardine, 81 must tell you 'bou
the one had. Ten year ago last win
ter went out into the woods wher
bear and panthers were thicker tha
gum chewers in q female academy.
/ soon got my eyes onto q big nobl
lookinF bear. My gun had been loade
| with bigger load of powder thai
usual Just pulled a bead onto tha
: bear and cracki went the rifle and owe
d went the bear, while my gun gave on
powerful kick which laid me out fla
: on the ground. But the best of tn
9 thing was this: l didn't see bi
panther. which was on the bluff benin
& me, and as shot the cuss jumped 70
: me, only to meet the butt of my gu
!. which was going his way, and the ugl
=; brute fell dead with his skull crushe
: in by the gun stock. Whitehall Time,
= There is youngster in Virgini
d City, New, who never fails in answer
Il ing any question put to him. Th
e other day his father tried to :. stump
. him with this problem: "My son SUI
pose you had kitchen in the nortf
d west corner of your house and q stabl
!. in the southeast corner of your yart
so that when the wind blew from tn
r northwest there was strong smell {