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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04

a is the hennery; b is the old man, and the
syringe; d Is the young man lightly turning 10
fence; is the house itself, painted brown;
and I is the fat girl sitting by the piano and
singing "Father, dear father, come home;
gggg is the gathering darkness.
Gayly up the back yard the young
man comes. Silently in ambush the
MARBLES. Quiet but awful is the syringe.
In the uncertain light of early evening
the old man sees q figure stealthily
drawing near his guarded pen. With
bated breath he waits the onslaught.
The syringe sounds its dreadful 'wh-s-
SHIP" and its deadly contents fly
through the air like wild and mad
avenger. A yell that tore the azure
robe of night, fairly knocked the fat Q irl
off the piano stool and curdled the old
mans blood, followed the discharge,
and when the neighbors rushed in,
under the impression that a political
boom had burst right in the neighbor-
hood, they found the unfortunate young
man paving madly around on TIE
ground, and screaming out awful MeXi-
can words terrible to hear, while the
old man lowered over the scene with
the syringe in his hands, looking like
an animated figure escaped from an
allegory. Sympathizine arms bore the
young man into the house, after their
owners had stopped tho. nostrils with
cotton, and it require ne combined
efforts of the fat girl ami eight friends
to bring him to, and it Was some hours
before he was able to fairly inquire if
the meteor hit anybody else when it
struck. That night, beneath the dark
some shade of cypress tree, whose
thick branches the struggling moon
beams vainly strove TO pierce, an old
mans tottering form rested upon n
spade, and silently viewed a new made
grave. He had just buried the syringe.
-Rockland Courier.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Atlanta has q new enterprise
watch mandatory. 1t begins with ia
cilities for turning out six watches per
day.
Ice manufacturing machines have
been sent out to military posts in Cen
trail Asia, to supply the Russian troops
with ice in hot weather.
There are in Georgia 8S, 522 colored
men who own, by the tax receivers re-
turns for their respective counties, $751;
1879 acres of land.
-Tweuty-eight iron tanks of thirty
thousand barrels capacity each have
been erected by the united pipe lines In
the Bradford (Pa) district. and one
hundred more are to 60 up at once.
One bark now carries more corn
across the Atlantic from Boston than the
whole export of corn and wheat in 1851,
when the total was $25, 900 worth of
corn. S6. 900 worth of wheat and $685.
900 worth of meal.
In 1860 the number of lunatics in
England was 3S,058. Now it is II, 191,
an increase of no less than eighty-seven
per cent. During the same period the
population increased only about twen-
ty-eight per cent, q third of the rate at
which lunacy advanced.
Two and half millions of tropical
oranges were received in the past six
months at San Francisco from the
French islands Of Tahiti. They have
come in about equal numbers every
month from March to September, show
ing that the trees are in perpetual bear
ing.
According to recent statistics, tax
ing ], ZOO well-to-do persons and /, 200
poor persons, after five years there re-
manned alive of the prosperous 943, of
the poor only 655. After fifty years
there remained of the prosperous 557,
of the poor 283: at seventy years of age
there remained 235 of the prosperous,
and of the poor IS.
The wooi-clip of the world has in
creased five times since 1880. when it
was about 800, 600, 600 pounds IN weight.
In 1873, the latest year for which there
are complete figures, Europe produced
74O, ,OOO, 900; River Platte, 240, ,OOO, 600;
United States, 208, ,OOO, 900; Australia,
$50, 600, 900, and South Africa, 48, ,O0O.-
600; making . total of 1856. .0OO, 900
pounds. Great Britain and France con-
sumo each about the same quantity Of
wool-3sO. .0OO, 900 pounds year. Ger
many consumes about 165, ,0O0, 900
pounds; United States, 250, 600, 600
pounds, and Russia, Austria and other
countries, 400. 600, 900 pounds.
The total value of metals and min
erals produced in Great Britain and
Ireland in 1879 was slightly over EGG, :
100000. The quantity of pig iron
smelted was about 5000, 600 tons, and
of coal brought to the surface 13I, ,O0O,-
600 tons. OF other ores and minerals
raised there were produced 81 900 tons
of copper, 10000 tons of lead, 5000, 900
tons Of porcelain clay. and $500. 600
tons of salt. Altogether there are
3,S77 coal mines in the United King
dom, of which only forty-seven are in
Ireland, and the whole of these only
produce 129. 900 tons of coal, or about
one six-hundredth part of the quantity
obtained from single half riding Of
Yorkshire.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

Mrs. Partington said that gentle
man laughed so heartily that she feared
he would have burst his jocular vein.
-"I am surprised" said a Calves
ton politician to heavy property own
er, "that you don't run for some
Office swell, you see, somebody
has to do the tax-paying."-Galueston
Ne,Ds.
Little GIRL" said the Superintend-
ent of a Galveston Sunday-school,
lean you tell which day is the Lords 8
day?" "Yeth thir; thath the day we
can't have no beer, cos the grothery is
clothed up"
-" Everybody is looking at Rhode
Island" remarks the editor Of the Prov
idence Dispatch in the course of an edi-
torial on "The Duty of the Hour"
This explains the recent advance in the
price of microscopes.
An elderly resident of Newtown was
approached by an agent for . cyclopa-
the elderly resident, and frankly added,
81 know I never could learn to ride
one of the pesky things.
Ne,0s.
&c The first hat of a new fashion for
lduleS Is uOL Luc TcSuIG VI any pdEIlCu.
lar design. One is finished plain and
then sat down upon by the head milli-
ner. Whatever shape it may take un-
der pressure is adopted as the style and
becomes the pattern for others.-M o.
Picayane.
"A contemporary complains that
there are too many laws in this country.
We fear that is true. The police cap
tured burglar not long ago who COM
planned that there were so many laws
that he couldn't break the half of them
in business hours, and had to sit up at
night to finish the restof them.-Hawk5-
eye.
An old monkey, designing to teach
his sons the advantage of unity, brought
them a number of sticks, and desired
them to see how easily they might be
broken one at q time. So each young
monkey took stick and broke it.
Now" said the father, "rn teach you
a lesson" And he began to gather
the sticks into bundle. But the young
monkeys, thinking he was about to beat
them, set upon him altogether and dis
abled him. 'sThere," said the aged
sufferer, "behold the advantage of
unity! If you had assailed me one at
time, would have killed every moth
er's son of your
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NUMBER Z.
lady, but her husband came to her as

lady, but her husband came to her as
sistance.
"We have none here" he said.
"This sirup is the nearest approach we
can make to it. But then this is all
that is Notwithstanding to sweeten
the tea Think of the freedom we en-
Joy! No multiplication-table, no hard
sums, no fractions" :"
Eyes. SIR" answered. Rob, who was
beginning to feel doubtful about the
blessings of such liberty. ''Win you
please tell me what o. clock it Isl"
The whole family looked aghast, and
the host whispered anxiously:
For PHYS sake, my young friend,
speak lower! Such a question is for
hidden by law, and there may be spies
under the window"
"But," said Rob, "have you no
means of telling the time of dayP How
do you manage?
.sOh, that is easy enoughr' answered
the little man. sWe have daybreak and
sunrise; noon, when the shadows fall
directly under us, and sunset What
more do we want?''
ssOhr' said Rob, not knowing what
else to say.
81 have been thinking" said the lit
tle man, 'tnaC perhaps IL Wouiu 70
good thing for you and my Oldest son
to exchange places. He has fond
ness for figures. and gives us much
anxiety and trouble by his vice in that
direction. Now you hate them, you
say, so we will send him back in your
place. and you can stay here in his"
He made this proposition with the air
of person conferring great favor.
Rob was Mortified
..No, thank your he cried.
"Whatr' said the little man, making
| a plunge at Rob, who fell from his stool,
in his effort to escape.
| Lo, and behold! he was sprawling on
the sitting-room floor, and his mother
was asking him:
s'What is the matter, Robp"
s4Oh, mamma, 1 have had such Gu
rious dream! 1 have been in No
Arithmetic Land, and didn't like it a
bitr'
And then he told his mother about it.
| 81 should think not!'' she said, when
he was through. '.But the wonder is
that they had anything at all-how they
managed to buy and sell, or do any
| thing without arithmetic" N. r.
Hardy, in Golden Days.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
Substantial Furniture.

In nothing is a purchaser SO easily
deceived as in cabinet work. Cabinet
making is essentially an art, and de-
mands clear understanding of the
nature of the material which has to be
worked, and the various modes of con-
struction, so as to obtain the greatest
amount of strength with the least waste
of labor or material. The carpenter is
always an honorable person. Why
should not the cabinet-maker be equally
so? For the simple reason that the car
penter is forced, in much of his work
floors, joists, roofs and other response
BILE timbers), to remember that lives
may depend upon the thoroughness of
his work; whereas the cabinet-maker'
craft, though requiring greater precis-
ion and accuracy of finish. seldom has
to resist any great strain, and the con-
sequence is that much of the furniture
sent out is considered durable enough
if it has Just sufficient tenacity to hold
together with careful usage. And the
public encourages this state of things
by asking over and over again for the
cheaper article, without attempting
to form any sound judgment in the
matter.
1t is notorious that we get so accus-
toned to continual breakages in our
furniture (weak joints becoming frac-
tured and bits of carving dropping Off,
as to regard them as inevitable. This
need not be if people would pay more
regard to soundness of construction and
less to meretricious ornament.
1t is not the easiest thing to tell at a
glance whether a chair or a cabinet or
a sideboard is likely to last a lifetime,
or whether it will "spring n leak" the
day after we get it home; and for this
reason few broad hints for the guild
ance of untechnical purchasers may be
serviceable.
Many people seem to think the nature
of wood will allow of its being turned
and twisted about at pleasure; but a
moments reflection will convince the
reader of the absurdity and impossibili-
ty of this. The trunk of a tree may be
described as cluster of tibers running
in the direction of its length, and
through which the sap flows. These
fibers constitute what is termed the
"grain" of wood, and are more or
less compact in different kinds of tim
Der. thus giving rise to the terms ''close-
grained and open-grained." The
closer the grain the harder the wood.
A shortness of grain also renders a
wood more liable to snap when used as
legs or columns.
We have said that the grain runs with
the length of the trunk. II we want to
cut o stick out Of the trunk of q large
tree (Which, by the way, We never do,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
Dandy.

Dandy lived on a farm in Rhode Island,
and had become quite famous for his
sagacity. Mr.. Bundy, his master, had
several friends at his house, and in
speaking to them about Dandy, said,
HE seldom fails to do whatever 1 set
him at. Some times am almost certain
that I see human intelligence in his
eyes,"
The company were all anxious to see
what he could do. They were trying
to think of something to propose, when
Harry, a bright little fellow, exclaimed.
'.Papa, know something that 1 don't
believe Dandy can do" Then he
whispered to his father, saying.
DANDY mustn't hear me. because he
knows every word 1 say
Dandy looked as if he knew perfectly
what was going on, and stood quietly
any task set him. Showing hi>n a
handkerchief, his master said, "This is
what we want, old fellow" and then
directed that he be taken to the barn,
and chained.
Harry hid the handkerchief under the
cushion of grandmother's easy-chair,
and grandma promisedto remain seated
in the chair. Then Harry ran out to
the barn, shouting to Dandy to come
and find the handkerchief.
Dandy trotted up to the house, made
careful survey, and finally begged to
be admitted into grandma's room.
Here, after looking around as before, he
at last placed his fore-paws on grand
mothers lap, and looked his wish that
she should leave the chair.
'.Down, Dandy" cried grandma 81
must not be disturbed to-day: go
away" But Dandy continued his ap-
peal, wagging his tail. and now and
then giving vent to a short, sharp bark.
At length he slowly walked to the
open fire, stretched himself before it,
and appeared to sleep. Occasionally,
however one eye would carefully turn
upon the grandmother, showing it
was only game he was playing to put
her off her guard.
Some time passed in this way, when
suddenly he sprang up; and no roguish
boy ever had mischief more plainly
written on his face, than had Dandy at
this moment. Grandmother's bed was
her special care. 1t was always white
as snow, and perfectly arranged.
Upon this bed the dog sprang, and be-
gan tossing the clothes with his teeth
and paws.
Harry" cried grandma, stake
Dandy away! Down. down! naughty
dog, DOWN.
20 grandma" begged Harry, edo
let him stay. just to see what he will
do"
But, all of sudden, Dandy changed
his course. Jumping from the bed
with pillow between his teeth, he ran
to the fireplace, and threw the pillow
directly upon the blazing fire.
Grandma, with scream, fastened to
save the pillow, when Dandy rushed to
the chair, pulled out the cushion, seized
the handkerchief, and rushed with it in
triumph to his master.
Dear good old Dandyr' cried Harry,
and he fell on his neck, hugging and
kissing him, Dandy very modestly re-.
ceiving the praise for his success
Nursery.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
REMEMBRANCE.
A baby form of gentlcst grace

A baby form of gentlcst grace
Tonight held upon my knee;
"A smiling little cherub face
watched in all Its infant glee.
The baby eyes were blue and bright,
The baby face was passing fair,
And on the baby brow so white
Were tiny rings of clustering hair.
But while wat ched its merry play
So innocent and sweet TO see
The memory of a long-gone day
Rolled with its sadness over me-
For when saw the baby's eyes,
And heard its voice so sweet and low,
form before my gaze would rise
A form loved long years ago.
For had loved q fair young girl
whose eye was blue and bright as this,
And on whose brow the clustering curl
Tempted, as now, my ardent kiss
The same blue eye, the same brown hair,
The same high brow of noble mien,
Was in the baby smiling there
Which in my loved one had seen.
Ipondered on the baby's face,
The dear expression which il wore,
The same which marked, in statelier grace
Its mother in the days OF yore.
The baby play cd upon my knee
Its mother looked and sweetiy smiled;
She must have known, IL seemed to me,
Why 1 so fondly kissed her child.
Ernest Bross, IN Chicago intcT-Occdn-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
Crazy for Show.

A writer who evidently understands
things says: ''This world is crazy for
show This is a fact which strikes us
in whatever circle we may mix. There
is not one person in thousand who
dares fall back on nothing but his real,
simple self for power to get through
the world and extract enjoyment as he
goes along. There is no end to the
aping, the mimicry, the false airs, and
the superficial art. 1t requires rare
courage, we admit, to live up to ones
enlightened convictions. Unless you
consent to join in the general cheat,
you are jostled out of reach. There is
no room for you among the great mob
of pretenders. If man dares to live
within his means, and is resoiute in his
purpose not to appear more than he
really is, let him be applauded."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04

THE latest novelty at the New York
Aquarium is hippopotamus. said to be
the largest yet imported. 1t measures
twelve feet from head to tail, and
weighs a ton. Though larger have
been seen in this country, they have al
ways been very small when imported.
This one differs from those usually seen
at circuses in being somewhat lighter in
color. 1t came from the upper Nile,
and arrived at New York on the steam
ship Alexandria. Fifteen men were re-
quired in transporting the animal from
the wharf to the aquarium. The cage
was curious oblong box of wood and
thongs, made By the African nstivss.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04

LOVELY woman will stoop to folly If
backed stoop now coming into fashion
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04

nyoa want Arss-cias Shave. Hair Cut or shan-
POO ean ss Robinsons o. K Shaving Saloon. Liberty
Street. A fun assortment Of Hair Ofls. Pomsdes and
Hair Rsstorattves. We also keep the best brand Of
Rasors. and warrant them. Rasors honed or ground
70 order. Z. tt ROBINSON.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04

WILMINGTON FLAMING MILL Manufactures
snd dealers IN eaah. Doors. Blinds, Brscksta Bat
ttnR Lumber. Shingles, Lath. Cheese and Butter
Doxss. Scroll Saving Matching and Planning done -
,rdsr. d. L W.dsworth. Prop. once. near rail-
,oad Depot
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BY some mistake the Secretary of
State has issued q commission as
Justice of the Peace for ward one to
Solomon Kraft, instead of Lorenzo
Smith, who was duly elected. The
Secretary's mistake, doubtless. is at
tributable to the fact Of the returns
for this Office being somewhat mixed,
there being several contestants TO.
the two separate Offices Of town and
ward magistrate. Az Mr.. Kraft has
no ground upon which to claim the
Office, having been fairly beaten at
the polls. we bold that be should re-
sign in favor Of his negro competitor
without forcing contest Of the mat
ter before the courts, in which we
assure him he will certainly be de-
feated.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

As . matter Of interest to farmers
and planters we call attention to the
business card of Mr.. Jos. E. Hatrel.
country produce merchant New Or
leans. who also represents the firm
Of Henry Plauche 4 Co. in the cot
ton business. Mr.. Hstrel has spent
considerable time in onr midst. and
made many friends during his stay.
His reputation for securing the high
est market prices on consignments
entrusted to him gives better COM
nendation than anything We can say
in bis behalf See his card for par
ticulars. and take special notice OF
his reference to the arrang ,ment
made with Henry Plauche 4 Co. in
regard to advances upon the coming
cotton crop.