The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MOSES mentions an iron furnace 1890

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MOSES mentions an iron furnace 1890
B. C.
SNowBoDY's child-one that's turned
adrift. Chicago Journal.
GEORGIA is harvesting its own ice-a
thing never attempted before. -
IT Is the deliberate man who carries
wait with Chicago journal.
Last year Chicago erected 1,020 pri-
vate buildings at cost of $1,000. 900.
AT a meeting where doubt ruled
everything was ruled out.-Boston
Transcript.
WE are the most paradoxical Great
ures. We use blotting paper to keep
from blotting paper.
TELL US somebody why our lawmakers
are never arrested for passing worthless
bills.-Bost0n Transcript.
A MAN can never see the point of
joke in paper he does not pay for
Saltwater Lunsbernsan.
NEVER implicitly trust a man whom
you do not know. p. S.-Nor one you
do.-Rochester Express.
A WALK in match-That, young man,
is when she smiles sweetly, and asks
you if you won't walk in.
WHEN q man gets bald in Colorado
they say his head has got above the
timber line.-Chicdgo Tribune.
A WORCESTER, Mass, firm has taken
a contract to build anarrow-gauge rail-
road in Columbia, South America.
A sHoEMAKER's wife out West calls
her husband "Sequel," because he is
e. IL ha loo Raofn,, Tf,n,o
script.
ONE of the strong conundrums in
Burdette's new lecture is: ''Why is it
SO much easier to shoot a good man
than to hang bad one?"
TEA contains tannic acid, which COM
bines with milk and forms leather
and now we know what makes old
maids so tough.-Puck.
In Nebraska they know where to
draw the line. An Omaha paper says:
"No true gentleman will ask lady if
her coral jewelry is made of sealing
wax"
PITY the doomed State whose Legis-
lature fails this winter to pass a pro-
hibitory tariff on tramps. Thither will
flock all tramps whose minds are su-
perior to work.
OFFICIAL returns made to the Bureau
of Statistics show that there arrived at
the port of New York during the month
ended Dec. 81, 1873, 1881 passengers,
of whom 3,317 were immigrants.
The Boston packers who have been
shipping live cattle to England have
lately met severe losses. The weather
has been so bad that the matches had
to be closed, and the animals smoth-
cred.
The Scientific american has just dis
covered new substance called uranine,
a single grain of which will color 800
gallons Of water. This will be glorious
news to the makers of circus lemonade.
-Rockldnd Courier.
THE poorest men are not without
friends. A resident of Washington was
escorted to the almshouse by fifteen
faithful dogs. They gave him one paw
per dog to remember them by.-Phtla-
delphiG Bulletin.
THOMAS MASSEY got out of bed in
Milwaukee on an intensely cold morn
ing to build a fire, instead of making
his wife do it, and was found an hour
afterward frozen nearly to death in the
yard, where he had gone for wood.
"A
in New York harbor last week. 1t is
seldom that these animals find their
way SO far southwark. It is pity that
he could not have been captured for the
Central Park, after long and perilous
journey from the polar regions.-Chrts-
ttan Union.
THE British Admiralty has suddenly
discovered that coal bunkers (when
- off
as armor for ships. Presently they will
be claiming it as an original device,
and ignoring its use for years in the
United States Navy Christian Union.
The TERRIBLE" Ma, is ladies
ducksa'' Ma" Why no, Willy; what
in the world put that idea into your
headP'' Pa (atthe window)-''Whoopee!
Willy, come ere quick and see these
thoughr'- Courier-Journat.
A PLAIN SPOKEN woman recently Wis
tied married woman and said to her:
:. How do you manage to amuse your
self?'' IS sAmuse,'' said the other, don't
you know that have my homework to
do?' eyes," was the answer, 81 see
that you have it to do, but as it is never
done, conclude you must have some
OencI Woy "a Pu>SAnfS JOuh 'A'
ST. LOUIS has a free lodging house,
where from 500 to 600 persons, mostly
tramps, sleep every night. A new rule
is that every lodger must be vaccinated,
and on the first night of its enforce
ment the physician operated on nearly
400 arms. Many objected, but the
was q night in the streets,
and as the weather was bitterly cold,
none chose it.
THE highest paid Judge in France re-
ceives $4,000, which is $500 less than
the pay of the Chief Justice of Massa-
and $4,000 less than Chief
Justice Waite of the United States Su-
preme Court receives. But the Judge
of the Court of Cessation in France is
paid in decorations, so dear to the heart
of Frenchmen.
Law, physic, and divinity are well
supI lied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num-
Der $50, and feminine dentists 42O,
while 68 women are preachers and hve
practice as lawyers. Some ladies adopt .
two or three callings at once. A Mrs.
Gibbs, living in st. Louis, notifies on
her door-plate that she is an "elocu-
zionist, poetess, washer and ironer.
WHAT heap of fun there is in at
tending a church sociable where there
are lot of pretty girls. but how quick
the stuffing is all knocked out OF the ro-
nance when, after volunteering to see
one of them home, to find that she lives
three miles and quarter in the oppo-
site direction from your own domicile
or1 tho fhorp, ovnofor fhirfoou doorooc