Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-27
ALL SORTS.
-Awl mankind-the cobblers.
Cremation is popular in Italy.


Envy no mans talent, but improve
thine own.
Better is a portion in wife than
with wife.
Past men, like fast rivers, are gen.
orally very shallow.
He that lives in leisure is dead while
he lives.
He who does good turn should
never remember it.
Cheap out-of-door breakfast-A roll
on the grass.
Can't make cider out of the apple of
your eye.
In England the patriot stands for a
seat; here he runs for one.
The mule can never do wrong. To
rer is human. Post.
-''Spring is coming 1t is neces-
sary to leap-year.
The monarchs of the Cs-Caucuses,
conventions, candidates.
In Turkey there are eleven different
Christian sects, all at enmity.
No man likes to credit story when
he is doing a cash business in truth.
Is a tout ensemble anything like a
toot enabrasshorn?-C Cincinnati CONNER
cidl.
The current indications are that
America will have to feed Europe next
year.
&c Be sure you are right, and then
sit down and enjoy the prospect. Ben
Franklin.
Maine has sixty savings banks, two
less than a year ago The total deposits
are more than $23, 100000.
The Connecticut State Capitol is fin
100000 appropriated for the cost.
In Boston it is fashionable for young
ladies to have the mumps, which, the
Courier thinks, are very swell.
The latest London fog: First pedes-
trian-'' Is your lantern out?' Second
pedestrian don't know. I'll feel"
General Fitz John Porter is light,
trim man, of about fifty years. He has
a white mustache and white side whisk-
! erS.
The name of a New Hampshire
school-teacher is May l. Cough. 1t is
much more common to hear school
teachers addressed as May I. Gwout.
| The bangs on lady's brow are bet
| ter than a barometer. In wet weather
they straighten down; in dry weather
they frizzle up.
| If some men were measured by the
size of their hearts and souls, gun-patch
would make them a suit of clothes, in
| cluding an ulster overcoat.
| There is Latin term for cod-liver
oil, but none for the taste of it. The
Latin races were not well up in profani-
| ty.-BOst0n Post.
/ The Erpress declares that so far as
| the young men of Rochester are con-
cerned, the game of sweet sixteen is rath-
er more popular than that of fifteen.
| Where railroads are conveniently
parallel the locomotive engineers can be
relied on to keep up a running arrange
ment whenever their trains start out
about the same time.
Fame is tardy in reaching some men,
but if man is deserving, it is bound to
strike him sooner or later. A country
editor has had blue and red canal-boat
named after him.
Twelve colored washerwomen OF
Atlanta, Ga, run the first Chinaman who
made his appearance there a mile and q
half. John says the Mclean very black
worse than thlite in 'Frisco.-N Y
Graphic.
An English writer wishes to improve
the gypsies. There are only two means
for improving them. First, keep them
from stealing your horse. Second, keeI
them from selling it back to you.
-'' Don't be in such a hurry said g
reckless Californian murderer, on his
way to the gallows, to the fastening
crowd; g take the thing easy, as do, i
you want to enjoy it.
/ DO not weep for Jason Rogers,
| He has gone away for good,
Quickly passed his latest moments,
Showing little blocks of wood.
An exchange says: ss Doves quarrel
more than eagles No doubt of it
but then, from what may be seen of the
doves, they have such a nice time when
they make up, and that accounts for the
quarreling. g.-Neae York Express.
Inmates of prisons are always fed OF
plain food to prevent them from break
ing out To give them rich rations the
keepers think would be rash.- Yonkea.
Statesman.
Chicago has many woman collec
tors who do paying business. Thus de
all our cherished maxims fade away
Where now is the truth of this oft-quote(
couplet:
Mans work is from to sun,
But womans work is never dun!''
There are 10000 locomotives in the
United States, and each contains 2,80|
different pieces, requiring renewal ever.
ten or twelve years. This conveys a no
ton of the industries which railroad
foster.
"A Cincinnati exchange says: eth
secret of fashionable dressing is to sur
. prise" 'Tis, eh? Then if girl appear
! at party in suit of India rubber witt
, cowhide boots and necklace of old ink
bottles she's fashionably dressed, ac
: cording to the Cincinnati idea.-Bosto1
, Post.
1 The fastest time ever made by
freight train between ST. Louis and Tex
] as has Just been accomplished. Their
, were twenty cars with a thousand keg
: of lager beer. Galveston and other TeXa
D cities had run out of beer and wer
2 thirsty; hence the hurry.
-Ex-United States Treasurer Genera
Spinner resides permanently in Jackson
. vile, Fla, and has not been out of tn
State for fifteen months. He is interest
e ed, but takes no active part, in the Na
) tional bank of which his son-in-law
cashier, and he occupies himself in study
E ing the history of Florida. " Rows {
! books line his study, and fine micro
scope is a prominent object in it.
. A Boston swindler advertised for g
: lady or gentleman to address circular
. at home," and to the thousands of pei
- sons who responded by mail he sent lie
ters saying he would pay 81 a thousan
9 for addressing envelopes. He added
q s.There are many who answer advertise
j ments for mere curiosity; to protect ou
:, selves against such bore, we are oil
q liged to insist upon a deposit of s.
: which you can claim after the deliver
. of the first 1000 circulars The pa
), offered was so liberal that the dollar
= = poured into his postoffice box at the rat
of 200 day, but he got none of then
for the Postmaster refused to delivt
~ them.
q A parrot took the witness stand in
,s London police court a fortnight ago. II
: bird was claimed by Mrs. Tanner, WI
v said that it had:escaped from its cage an
t been caught by Mr.. Isaacs, who refuse
+. to give it up. Mr.. Isaacs admitted tn;
ha had cauoht tho OarrOt h11t diSp11te