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

p. T. Baraum is said TO have remem.
bered 4i2 editors in his will. We'd like
our giraffe now, before Barnum dies
Detroit Free Press. We don't expect any
thing more than the gnus, but we're not
proud TNycum Advertiser. What we
want is the rhino serious.-l Philadelphia
Bulletin. Lot of us would be content with
a bear living Port Chester journal.
Wonder if any of YOU are lion about this :?
bridgeport Standard. Mr.. Barnum give
us three sheers and tiger Danbury
News. 1t is to be hoped that Mr. Barnum
will put his seal on the will.-[New York
Telegram. This is a maiden effort of Mr..
Barnum's; but outside of the happy fami-
ly gives us camel o pard.-[H Herald p. 1.
We hope Mr. Barnum feels he otter ip-
clude u.s. [Yonkers Gazette. All these
punsters ought to be arrested for a hyenous
Offense.-[Buffalo Every Saturday. There
occurs to c-e-lOt time TO tapir off, Bing-
hamton Republican. o strich 1t out a lit
tie more and give us few lynx in the
golden chain.-Unadilla Times. We don't
propose to ape humanity; we'll take what
ever is given us. Owl that do Mr.. Bar
mum ?-[Oxford Times. This is all-i-ga.
tornament of nonsense. We will be con-
tent with a ring. Mr.. Barnum. Pony-up.
New York Mail. We, no doubt will
beaver of long list of disappointed ones,
and hence it may sound like a paradox,
to expect Mr.. Barnum to send us some
swans down this cold weather. Rich
mond (Va.) Baton. If Barnum viii keel
er round this way before he dies, he will
remember the Tribune editors in his will.
We mid get something KokomO Trib-
une. If Mr.. Barnum will will us our own
selection, We will not choose from the
above mixture but humbly request few
sur-e-pence, and we would like little
mon k-ey.-[Peru Republican
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
Spanish Guitars.

The country which of all others has as
sOciated the guitar with its national ex-
preston in music is Spain, on whose ro-
mantle soil it was introduced at the time
of the Moorish in"asion. There always
have the most tunesul guitars been manu-
factured. To the Paris Exposition were
sent guitars from Spanish instrument
maker the vibration of whose strings could
be prolonged twenty seconds when the air
performed required it. The workman
ship displayed ON these Gonzales guitars
is exquisite, and the instruments were sold
at the price of $500 each. The progressive
development of sonOrous power in music,
which begun in the second half of the
eighteenth century, has caused to disap-
pear from the domain of art one by one
all instruments whose voices are not very
strong. But as recently as forty years ago
the guitar was cultivated with passionate
feeling by multitude of persons of music
al tastes all over the world. Rossini, in
the Barber Of Seville, gets a charming eff
feet from it in the famous serenade. Still,
the days of the guitar, in any wide sense,
were even then numbered. 1t has not suf
ficient volume of sound to hold place in
the noisy music of the present, not to men
tion that of the future. Spain is now the
only country where the instrument con-
tinues to give active signs of life. Heard
amid the stiffness of the lovely moOn-lit
nights of Spain, struck by practiced
hand, and accompanied by a mellow
voice, it seems in perfect analogy with the
character of the nation itself-tender, gal
liant, dreamy, secret, and melancholy. On
the minstrel stage it is likely 10 hold its
own for many year to come. A potent
cause will retain it there; it is a capital
dummy. A valuable interlocutor or de.
sirable balladist who is not master of any
instrument can always hold guitar in his
hands and pretend to be strumming while
the others play-[Olive Logan, in Harper's
Magazine for April.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
Theatre Superstition i.

The superstition which ID. H. Harkins
is said TO have had in regard TO the evil
influence of the Partisan boxes on the
success of the Fifth Avenue theater,
brings to mind the numerous and peculiar
superstitions that pervade the dramatic
profession, both among actors and mana
gers. All sorts of things are supposed to
affect the result of new plays. and nerv-
Gus women could hardly invent more
causes of anxiety than manager nervous
about his house.
1t is said that when the BLACK Crook"
was first presented at Niblo's, ten or twelve
years ago, Mr.. Wheatleigh, the then man.
ager and partner of Jarrett & Palmer stand
ing by the gate on the opening night, re-
fused to let a woman and child, who pre-
sented themselves first, pass in until man
had entered. Upon being asked by Mr.
Palmer about his conduct afterward, he
said that it brought bad luck to any play
to have the first auditor a woman; and
from that moment he attributed the great
success of the spectacle to the fact of a
man having been the first to go in.'
A woman fainting in Il theater is regard
ed as very unlucky,-it certainly is for the
woman,-though, when theaters owe so
much of their success to the presence of
women both before and behind the foot
lights, it seems hard that they should ever
he supposed To bring lll-fortune. The
wearing Of white hat out of season by a
man in the stalls foreshadows of a failure
to the actor who discovers him, and the
presence of two cross-eyed musicians in
the orchestra, at once, is enough to destroy
the composure of the entire company
Clergyman in the audience is an especial
ly unhappy circumstance; and it is not
an uncommon thing after period of un-
successfulness for actors to declare that
there must have been minister in disguise
in the theater. This last superstition
doubtless arose from the long time enmity
of church and theater, which is rapidly
passing away. From this feeling also
probably sprang the prejudic against
theater made out of church edific. Actors
and managers agree perfectly that 1t is the
unluckiest of ventures to attempt to play
in a remodeled church.
A striking corroboration of this is GER
tainly the uniform misfortune OF the play
house in Broadway, opposite Waverly
place, formerly Rev. DIR. Osgocd's church.
1t was opened shortly after the close of the
war by Lucy Rushton, an English actress,
to whom some one had furnished money
enough to make the exeriment. She failed
in few months, and surrendered the thea
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
A Question OF Damages .

Some lawyers take very practical views of
cases in which they are retained. In a
certain town in Missouri Squire g.
was defending a charge of malpractice. A
colored man was suing for damages, his
wife having died shortly after an opera
ton for the removal of cancer. When it
came Squire G-'s turn to cross-exam-
inc the plaintiff, he asked: "Mr. Wilson,
how old was your wife when she died ="
"About forty-five, SIR
"Been in feeble health a long time, had
she not, Mr.. Wilson, and cost you a great
deal of medicine and helps"
Eyes, siI."
"You have married again, have you
noty"
"Yes, sir"
allow old is your present wifeg"
About thirty-five. sir"
"Is she stout and healthy, Mr.. Wilson ~
"Yes sir"
"Then, Mr. Wilson, will you please state
to this jury how you are damaged in this
case"
Mr. Wilson had evidently never taken
this view of the matter, and could make on
answer. The good and true men thought
he had made rather good thing by his
bereavement, and brought in a verdict for
the defendant.-[Ed Drawer, in Har-
per's Magazine for April.
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come and receive the communion through
the alter rails, he being more or less ex-
communicated by the chaplain of the
mansion where he was a state prisoner.
The church is supposed to have been erec-
ted toward the end ofthe 18th century, and
many parts of the interior resemble Dor
tions of Henry the Seventh's chapel at
Westminster. This arose from the cir
cumstance that the same architect had
been employed on both.
But more interesting to Americans than
the tombs of the Spencers, or the tradi-
tions of kings, are the memorials of the
family which gave birth to one who was
more than king amongst men. On the
pavement of the chanccl, beneath the
| shade, as it were, of the splendid Spencer
monuments, is stone slab bearing the in
scription:
Here lieth the bodi Of lawrence Washington some
and bere Of Robert Washington Of Sovlgrave in the
countie Of Northampton Esquirer who married Mar
garet the eldest daughter of William Butler OF Tees
IN the coune Of sussexe Esqurer. VIII, had issue by
her s sonns and daughters, which Lawrence Deces-
sed the Is Of December A. Dni 1916.
Those that by chance choyce of this hast sisht
Know life to death resigns Is daye to night;
But ~ the sums retorne revives the day
So Christ shal though turnds 10 dust and clay.
Beneath this inscription, deeply engrav-
ed in stone, are the arms of this Lawrence
Washington, impaled with those of his
WIFE
This Lawrence Washington was the lin
cal ancestor, presumably the great-great-
grandfather, of George Washington, the
first president ofthe United States. Near
this memorial, but in the nave, Is the
grave of another Washington, the brother
of Lawrence.-[Ha Harper's Magazine.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
The WAYS or Trade.

When young Hyson, who is a commits
sion merchant and an importer, came
home to dinner one evening last week, he
found Mrs. Hyson just parting with cal
Ter and describing some "lovely" Chinese
lanterns she had bought at Veneer's, on
Washington street.
Hyson's face grew dark as the narrative
proceeded, and when the door closed upon
the visitor he turned to Mrs. H. with lower
ing brow and asked, "What have you been
fOOling money away on at Veneer'sy'
Don't be such bear, Harry" said Mrs.
H., II only bonght a dozen of these lovely
lanterns, nice for ornaments and pretty to
use in the country next simmer, and they
were only 81 each; did you ever see any
thing like them before?"
"See 'emr groaned Hyson; ''they sent
me 1900 of 'em in the Mandarin, and l
have only sold one lot, and that was 100 to
Verneer for $15." Tears and tableau.-
From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
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.Pfxun and Ki.Nfne.,

She wasn't after hair-dye, cosmetics,
scented soap, or any Of those gimcracks,
but when the druggist had finished put
ting up a prescription to cure long.faced
boy of hacking cough, she turned from
the stove asked:
do you keep drugs and medicines and
pizuns and SO on?'
''Oh, yes. we keep all such things"
"And kinineT
"Yes, we have quinine."
swell, called in to see about gittin'
some pizun and some ki-nine, but dun
no. So many folks have been slaughtered
by druggists mistakes that I'm eanemost
afraid TO even ask for camfur gum, tho 1
suppose can smell camfur gum farther
Have you ever killed anybody by putin
up morphine for bakin' powderg'
Never"
"Been in the business lOng?"
Only twenty-one years"
"Well, you Orter know gum 'Rabic from
sweet oil by this time, but some men are
awful keerless. I've had brother
pizuned by wrong medicine, and Pm a
little shaky. Where is your XII nineT'
This is it," he replied, as he took
down the jar.
She wet her finger, pushed it into the
jar, and then rubbed it on her tongue.
ldSttS Inc IL uut L uuhuO NuiS tu'hs
amt morphine?"
Eyes, very sure"
"Sure your clerk washed the jar ou
clean afore he put the ki-nine in?"
"Oh, washed it myself"
"If this shouldn't be the ki-nine you'd
have the law put to you the worst kind
We've got money in the bank, and wee
never settle for no $4,000"
"I know it to be quinine."
"Well, then, gimme fifteen cents worth
and want down weight, too. If I'm
treated well Pm great hand to trade a
one place, but the minnit I see any stingi
ness or cheatin' yoke of oxen couldn'
pull me into that store again"
| He weighed out the drug, labeled itwitf
great care, and then he said:
Now, l want ten cents worth of pizur
to kill rats.,'
"What kind ~
"Why, the pizun kind, of course. PiZur
is pizun the world over. Don't seem as
you were used to handling EN-"
do you want arsenic"
Certainly, but you want TO be powerful
| keerful! Pm woman of fifty mine, anG
I've nuss'd the sick ever sine l was a girl
but never handle piZun without a chill
creepin' up my back. Where is lty'
He handed down the jar and she smell
of the stopper shook her head, turned the
jar around, and whispered:
"That looks powerful sight like cream
a-tartar."
| "Oh, no-that's arsenic, and no mis-
take"
"Well, I've got to take the chances,
s'pose. Pll take ten cents worth-dowI
weight Any one who will be stingy sell
in pizun will be stingy in other things
and do hate stingy person. My frs
husband was powerful stingy, and be wa.
struck by lightning"
When the poison had been weighed an(
labeled she carefully took up the package
and said:
"Now, then, write on tais that it is t.
be kept in the old china teapot, on the
third shelf in the pantry, that it's for rats
Then write on this ki-nine that it is to b.
kept in the old coffee-pot in the cupboard
and that it's for chills."
The druggist followed orders, that tn
old lady put the "pizun" in her pocket ant
the "ki-nine" in her reticule, and went Ou
saying:
at may be all right, but l dunno. 1
my old man is took off instead of the rats
III begin a lawsuit next day after th'
funeral."-[Detroit Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
General WashingtOn's Great Great.
Grandfather.

Perhaps no place in 1.-The old country
is calculated to be of more interest to
Americans than the parish of BringtOn, in
Northamptonshire, its old church contain
ing as it does memorials the most curious
and suggestive of the Washington ances-
try, while at Althorp house and the village
of Little Brington there are mementoes of
the same family no less interesting. The
parish of Brington is situated about six
miles from Northampton, and contains the
villages of Great and Little Brington, No
bottle, and Althorp, the seat of the Spen-
Ger family-a family that has been pow
er in the state and has influenced the tide
of affairs for many generations. Great
Brington Tor Brighton, as il is called by
the natives, from iryn, hill, and ton, town.
Is village of some hundred to hundred
and twenty houses, and is the seat of the
parish church. Little Brington and No
bottle are mere hamlets. The former is
about half a mile from Great Brington,
and is noteworthy as containing the house
formerly occupied by the ancestors of
George Washington.
The church at Little Brington-an an
cient structure dedicated to the Virgin
bears the traces of many alterations and
restorations. Originally of the style
known as decorated, it now has the ap.
pearance of perpendicular church from
the repairs ana additions made by the
families of Ferrers, Gaey, and Spencer dur,
ing the 18th and 10Th centuries. 1t con-
sists of tower containing five bells, nave,
north and south aisles, modern south
porch, chancel, end north chapel The
north chapel is divided from the chancel
by three pointed arches, completely built
up with monuments, and from the north
aisle by an arch closed with a wooden
screen. 1t is lighted by three uniform
windows This is the mortuary chapel of
the Spencers, and exhibits an interesting
and almost unbroken series of tombs and
effgies from the time of the TudOrs to the
present day. Of the mural monuments
one of the latest is in marble, sculptured
by Flaxman, to the memory of Georgina,
Countess Spencer. Another is to the men,
ory of Sir John Spencer, the third of the
Althorp line, who married Kitson.
daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, a London
merchant, and through whom he became
related to the Northants Washington fam
lily.
There is tradition that when Charles
the First was prisoner at Holmby house
-'the fair house of Holmby"-situated
within some three miles of Brington, and
distinguishable amid the trees to the
southwest from the church-yard, he used to
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
A Young Woman and Her Diary.

A case that occurred in a small Pennsyl-
vania town the other day will serve to H.
lustrate this last fact. A young lady
dashing, pretty, charming, and decidedly
the belle of the village-lived, loved (pre-
sumedly), and kept her diary. She Kept
it, too, with that faithfulness and accuracy
which young ladies of the period love to
assume. She dealt with her dates, and
facts and names with unsparing hands,
and dissected her own feelings with the
artless enthusiasm of her age and sex, and
a devotion to detail which comes only to
the true artist. One day she lost this diary,
and it was picked up by some one else,
and its contents made the text of a village
uproar. Amaryllis had kept her book too
faithfully for the comfort of many. "Went
riding with Mr.. Peterkin," said she on a
certain day, land had such nice time; he
hugged and kissed me all the time" Mr.
Peterkin, it seems, was the leader of the
church-choir of the village, highly-re
spected young man, with wife and sew
eral children. Another day she wrote
MIR. Judkins came home with me from
prayer-meeting, and hugged me for hall
an ho;,r ut the front gate" All, Amaryllis
you should have thought, before confiding
the name Of Judkins to paper, of his gen
tie, confiding fiancee on the ne1t SQUARE
but one, who was waiting for him in hel
| COZy pdTlOT! lnen, again, On duOtneT udy
went with Mr.. Henthorne to the ice
cream saloon, and talked about our choir
meetings while there. After we got hom,
l sat in his lap, and he hugged and kisse(
me till IL o clock. Turned down the ligh
real low" Mr.. Henthorne, it must be re
corded, was an amiable music-teacher jus
recently arrived. and engaged in the rathe
perilous enterprise Of supporting wife
and several children by his fiddle-strings
Once more she noted the fact that M
Hadlock took me out riding, and hugget
me till l screamed, and told me if
wouldn't run away with him and MARI,
him he would kill himself" Mr.. HadlOck
it seems, was a demure bachelor, an eide
of the church, and was at that moment en-
gagged to a widow with five children, VIII
owned farm adjoining the town. Ant
so this reckless, truth-telling diary, wen
ON through all its pages, dealing with tn
best citizens of the town, and their hug
ging, kissing, until the wonder is no,
Amaryllis could stand it all. But the VI
tality of the young woman of the period i
something wonderful, and the truth of he
diary could hardly be disputed. The n
suit was, that it set the town by the ear.
and it has not yet recovered, and will nc
recover until she is fairly married off,
cincinnati Enquirer.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03
Consumption Cured

An old physician, retired from practice
having had placed in his hands by an,
East India missionary the formula of a.
simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
throat and lung affections, also positive,
and radical cure for nervous debility and
nervous complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it
known to his suffering fellows. Actuated
by his motive and a desire to relieve
human suffering, will send free of charge
to all who desire it, this recipe, with full
directions for preparing and using, in
German, French, or English. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, naming
this paper, w. w. SHERAR, 149 Powers
Block Rochester. N. Y. cow
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-03

Emperor is the most vicious, as he is
the finest elephant in this country. Dur.
ing the winter mouths he and six cOmpan.
ions are chained by their hind legs in an
outbuilding in the Central Park. Boats
vain, until the arrivallof Emperor, was the
pride of all the female elephants, and
Gypsy especially loved to caress him with
her gentle trunk. But Boatswain once
cried out under punishment and from that
hour he lost his place in the respect of his
associates, and Gypsy transferred her
Establishments to the last conner.
The device of circus men for Furnishing
an elephant is cruel. To the legs of an
animal are fastened strong pulleys, which
are attached to Jewelers.. At a signal the
legs are drawn asunder, and the animal
sinks down, a mass of helpless tortured
flesh. Then the keepers, armed with long
clubs, approach and beat him on the legs
and bottoms of the feet. The elephan,
during punishment curls his trunk be
meath him, and closes his eyes. Hour af
ter hour goes by sometimes, but the keep
ers only relax when the elephant either be
comes insensible or cries out, which
latter is token of submission and a con.
quered spirit. Boatswain cried out and
was never again guilty of offence. EN-.
perOr, however, has stood this terrible pun.
ishment several times and with such cx.
traOrdlnary nerve that the keepers arc
! afraid of him. He is vicious, and when
ever a missile comes within his reach he
discharges it at the nearest keeper straight
way.
On Monday night Emperor watched one
Of the attendants whom he particularly
dislikes. 1t was bedtime, and the man
was making everything snug when En-
peror suddenly turned on him and
knocked him down. The keeper screamed
rs Emperor, with shrill cry of rage, was
on the point of dragging him beneath his
feet and stamping him to death. Help
came, and the keeper was saved, and then
it was determind that Emperor should
suffer for what he had done.
The attendants took the long iron poker
with which the fires are stirred, and this
they heated red hot. Emperor was then
bound down in the fashion that has been
described, and while one of the keepers
held his trunk, the other ran the red hot
poker up into il. The savage punishment
nearly blinded Emperor, but he did not
squeal. He looked sullenly all the time
at his keepers. Since then the elephant
has been unable to eat, and stands alone
and sullen, slapping his horribly mutil.
ated trunk wherever there is cool spot in
the shed. The men call this the extreme
punishment, and say that it has never been
applied before in this country. 1t was not
strong enough to subdue Emperor.--[N.
Y. Sun.