Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-13
ALL SORTS.


without arrival"
When an Indian can jump up and
hit his heels together three times he is
considered a masher.
-s' That's Illustrate idea,'' said the
anxious father, when he shrewdly de-
vised how to prevent the anticipated
elopement of his daughter.
America imported from Europe
last year 29, 9,642, 396 gallons of wine, an
increase over the Importation of 1873
of nearly Is, 900, 900 gallons.
Hail March, thou August month!
We own thy royal sway;
Who now declines to hail day reign
Perhaps in April May!
-Kansas City Times.
"A Pole-axer. "Al
umbug, not bein' able to find the
North Pole. If they can't find it, let
me ak the question: Who put it thereP"
The Chicago Times is inclined to
credit Seth Green's assertion that fish
have the faculty of conversing with
each other, and in this way accounts
for the many fish stories we hear.
"A lady one day wrote to her absent
husband the following letter, which
may be quoted as a model in its way:
&C I write to you because have nothing
to do; end because 1 have nothing to
say"
The other day the Gar came in
and found his fire out, the shavings
wet, and a kerosene can standing con-
viently by. He saw the trap and fed,
and says he thinks nothing too wicked
for the Nihilists to do.-Boston Post
We protest against the folly of this
senseless demand that the money of the
land should be kept in circulation.
That's just the trouble with it. 1t cir
culates too fast. What we are trying
to do is to stop little of it.-E1change.
The man who is bringing up fam
lily on an income of six dollars a week
will be happy to learn from the fashion
predictions ''that the spring and sum-
mer fashions in elegance and style will
surpass any thing ever seen in Amer
ica."
Some of the high toned would-be
fashion able people of Fifth avenue,
New York, are giving receptions at
which only French is spoken. Some
thing still more remarkable would be a
swell party at which only good English
was spoken.-N. O. Picayatase.
They were sitting together Sunday
them, when she pleasantly asked:
.How would you like to have nv
mother live with you?'' In just fifteen
seconds he had his hat down half way
over his face, and was boiling through
the gate.
AT the Boston cat show there are
nearly three hundred cats on exhibi-
ton, classified as horthaired, long
\ +
Maltese, Manx, or tailless, tortoise
shell, tabby, brindle tiger, and cats of
unusual species. The highest priced
are valued at from $500 to 81, 900.
"A Tennessee man accidentally shot
a dog, and in trying to explain to the
| owner how it occurred accidentally
shot him. A Coroner thought he ought
to explain how he shot the man, but
couldn't get jury that was willing to
listen to the explanation; they were
kind of shy of him, as it were.-Bostoaa
Post.
"A servant girl in Philadelphia fell
while carrying a tray of dishes down a
short flight of stairs from the dining
room, the other day, and one of the
sharp pieces of the broken china cut a
cash on her forehead, above the left
eye, and another penetrated her throat
severing the jugular vein. She died in
a few minutes.
The st. Gothard Tunnel, the boring Q
of which has just been completed, will
not be equipped with rails before Au-
gust, when it will be opened for traffic.
1t is to be lighted with gas, like the
Mount Gents Tunnel. As str aight as an
arrow, it will ventilate itself by a
strong current of air passing from one
extremity to the other.
"A young architect recently created
a reputation by building for newly
married couple a house in which the
parlor had two fireplaces close togeth-
er, SO designed that the husband and
| wife could each build fire in an in
dividual manner without quarrelling,
and then could sit together at the same
hearth, warmed by mutual blaze.
Their place is hence called Harmony
Grove"
The New York GraEHec cautions
the public against using playing cards
of a bright green color, saying that
preparations of arsenic are employed
in coloring them, and distressing affec-
tions of the fingers have often been
known to follow their use.o You're
right, but why didn't you add that dis
tressing &C affections of the pocket have
also been known to follow their use?-
Troy Wing.
"A Suffolk (Va.) paper says that a
few days ago large saw-log was
placed on the carriage of saw-mil in
that town and the saw started, when all
of a sudden there was crash, strik-
ing Of fire and demolished saw. An
examination showed that a piece OF
shell fired during the war had been i'm
bedded in the tree, the bark had grown
over the wound, and no outward sign
remained.
"A singularly rare and beautiful
bankruptcy was announced in the Lon
don court reports the other day. A
gentleman of well known family re-
turns his liabilities at f119,535, "with
assets consisting of books and other
articles of the estimated value of f3
1Os., subject to any claim for rent OF
apartments" His unfeeling creditors
insisted on appointing a committee to
inquire into the process by which this
result had been reached.
I'm the pastoral regions of Texas
one thousand head of stock cattle, as
usually found on ranches, will double
their number within three years. This
allows for losses of age, disease,
and accident. The net increase is at
the rate of thirty three and one-third
per cent. per annum. This accounts,
in part, for the fortunes accumulated
in few years by cattle raisers. Some
of the cattle men are immensely
wealthy.
To have that pretty girl of twenty
recall that piece of deviltry which she
recollected Mr.. Gallagher had been
guilty of when he was ten-year-o
boy, and to have her remind him of it
before lot of people, naturally en-
barrassed him, but he didn't feel half
SO badly as she did when he made be-
lieve to laugh at the reminiscence and
said, "Ah, yes; 1 reeollect the scrape
as well as you do, though it was almost
thirty years ago. ."-Boston Post.
1t was wild-eyed man who rushed
around an. Oil City hotel yesterday,
searching for his overcoat, when the
train he wished to reach was just start
ing. He tumbled around the valises
behind the counter, rushed backward
and forward between his room and the
Office, and finally, as the train went of
and left him, he would have whipped
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