Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-03

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SOME one has counted up fifty-six ways
of cooking onions.
NONE have less praise than those who
hunt most after it.
DILIGENCE is a fair fortune, and in
dustry good estate.
The Colony of Chinese in Chicago is
constantly increasing.
The last thing a man wants to do is to
die.-New Orleans Picayune.
13LY any perthon who geth the Is
puthel 18th very 14ate.-Free Press.
LEADvILLE disdains mere Colonels
The usual remark is Senator, shove the
bacon.''
The Indian Spotted Tail has five chill
dren who are being educated at Car
Isle, Pa.
Two pounds two ounces was the
weight of perfectly-formed child born
in Auburn, Me-, a few days ago.
If you are in circus when lion es-
capes don't get frightened. The beast
will be more embarrassed than any of the
audience.
ARAB servants are hired to pray for
good weather, and when bad day comes
| they are blamed for it and thrashed ac-
cordingly.
No WIFE ought to desire better in
scription on her tombstone than this:
| Her manners mild, her temper such,
Her language good, and not too much.
| NEWSPAPER business is driving, in fact
| just howling, in Dakota. One city edi-
tor there pays taxes on four dogs that are
assessed at $50 each.
How any man can rack his head over
these new puzzles when he can sit on
log and fish all day without a bite is past
comprehension Press. 80 -s
Mr. JOHN W. GRIM, of Des Moines,
Iowa, is seeking divorce from his wife,
Ida Grim. and in his petition asks to be
restored to the rights of an unmarried
man.
A POET sends us spring ode, begin
ming: &c love to smell the cowslip."
Well, if the COW will stand it, 90 ahead
and smell of herip. We don't care
Boston Post
A WOMAN may not be able to sharpen
a pencil or throw stones at hen, but
she can pack more articles into a trunk,
and without trouble, tilan a man can in
a one-horse wagon.
s'MEDICAL BooTs,n are said to be a
Pennsylvania invention. 1t is supposed
they are the kind used by the old man in
curing the gentle youth of tender pas
sion for his daughter.
PRINCIPAL, drawing out his watch, to
an unpunetual clerk: g Mr.. johnson, it
is already half-past niner' Clerk, draw
ing out his watch and looking at it;
agrees precisely, sir!''
A CONTEMPORARY asks: IS Are skunks
liable to 90 mad?'' We can answer the
| I,,f hot rI/,
; too closely interviews one is liable to 90
very much that way indeed.
The heaviest blow aimed at a mans
estate usually comes after he is dead. In
Indianapolis nine coffins that cost to-
gether $16O were retailed to the relatives
. of the people who had died for $717.5O.
IT took expert workmen thirty-siA
hours to open the safe in the Auditor S
office in Indiana this week, where some
screw had got loose, for which the corps
of clerks were thankful. No such GOOD
: luck visits the ordinary newspaper es
tablishment.
For the encouragement of the boys
! the New York Times says: Nowadays
: every young woman knows as well as
any lawyer, that while a verbal, or bet
ter yet, written, engagement to marry
. Is tuc IuOSU SUUSttt4llldl IOuI1otllOu 1OI {
! breach-of-promise suit, she yet, itigious
6 ly inclined, may get along very wei
without it, provided that she is able tx
3 give satisfactory proof of conduct on tn.
, defendant part from which promis.
j, might fairly be Inferred
. AT Raven Run, Schuylkill County. Pa
v was found recently a remarkable fossil
4 which is now in the possession of Presi
dent Fisher, of the Lehigh Car Works
1t is the stump of a large tree, ten fee
around the base and two feet three inche
at the top. 1t was found under the earth
, Upon being exposed to- the atmospher
, the bark peeled off and left the stump
: solid mass of stone, with the marks of tn
bark plainly upon it, and retaining tn
q shape and all the surface marks of a tre
: stump perfectly.
3 THE first railway in the United State
s was four miles long, ran from Boston t.
: Quincy, and was built to transport tn
Q granite from the quarry to build tn
!, Bunker Hill monument. The first Amer
: lean locomotive was built by the vener
!. able Peter Cooper, of New York, for tn
t Baltimore & Ohio road, and its frs
e trip was made from Baltimore t.
n Ellicott's Mills, drawing very ridicu
: lous-looking car containing the Direct
s ors of the road and others, the first LAM
g journey by steam in America. We hav
e not the exact date, but it was about 1880
o The first railroad built in New Jerse,
Q was the Camden and Amboy, in 1884,
TEA drinkers nowadays will do wei
L to apply the following simple test to tn
:. tea purchased of their grocers: Turn ou
- the infused leaves, and if they are fount
:. good brown color, with fair substance
: the tea will be wholesome; but if th
. leaves are black and of rotten texture
with an oily appearance, the tea will no
: : be fit to drink. The purer the tea th
: more the distinctively brown color of tn
q leaf strikes the attention. The mixin;
q that is frequently adopted to reduce pric
= results in the two kinds of leaves bein,
= supplied together. 1t is important t
= see that the leaves have the serrated o
q saw-like edges, without which no tea
:. genuine.
/ THE rapid growth and development G
4 fish farming is an interesting study, an
It one of the wonders of the last two dec
n AIDES, not to mention numerous inc
q dents and hundreds of experiments
1t nearly all successful nearer home, tn
e correspondent of the I1ste7-Ocedn, writ
d ing from Lake Geneva, Wis, gives som
It entertaining features. One fish farm q
n the head of the lake comprises 150 acres
e arranged in ponds for different kinds {
% fish. One pond contains brook trout i
l. large numbers, ranging from one to thre
years old; another California salmon
1T and another more than half milio
is brook trout of this years Matching
Il From 100 to 200 wild trout from the &C
N jacent country are added daily, and ther
d are hundreds upon hundreds of whit
is fish and lake trout, each species in il
d own particular pond Or kingdom.
5. A WOman's Wickedness.
Few women would have the. enter
a prise and audacity, not to speak of til
n wickedness, to wreck railway train j
# order to get ridsof an Objectionable hus
,r band, and then sue the company fo
e damages. But such a woman has bee
n found at the town of Evart, Mich, an
| has been arrested fOOefher with he