The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-05
GLEkNINGS.

1t is said that there are 5S, 900, 900
gallons of whisky stored in Kentucky.
Edward Payson Weston, of pedes-
trian fame. is now q regularly-e
ployed temperance advocate of the
Church of England Temperance So
ciety.
"A rattlesnske was killed in Savan-
nah, Ga, that was six feet in length
and had thirteen rattles. Owen Far
rell, of Elder Township, Pa, killed one
with fourteen rattles.
Larger hoops are already demand
ed by the leaders of fashion in the larger
cities, and vague, underlined fear per-
vades the sensitive masculine heart that
the old shin-bsrking ''tilters" will soon
again come upon US with all thei5
blighting power.
"A medical practitioner In Vienna
has been fined fifty gulden for using
the title of professor without authority.
1t would be interesting to know how
much of the public debt we would be
able to pay in the United States with
the money gained from the enforcement
of similar statute.
-Sandalwood is the wood of q tree
which grows in Ceylon and on the coast
of CoromandeL When the tree be-
comes old the central wood acquires q
yellow color and great fragrance, while
the outer wood remains white without
fragrance. Only the inner wood is used
in manufacturing boxes, etc.
-" Jack RUSSELL" the celebrated
hunting parson of Devonshire, En-
gland. is eighty six years old, and since
1914, when as q young freshman at Ok
ford he saw his first wild red deer
killed at Exmoor to the present hour he
has never missed an opening day of the
hunting season. He often after hunt
rides fifty miles to his home.
"A French scientific journal relates
an incident illustrating the susceptible
ity of spiders to music. A party at a
country house had formed a quartet
and were performing number of
pieces. when two spiders were observed
to descend upon their threads and hang
near the top of the window of the room.
They continued there for an hour, and
did not go back to their nests until the
music had stopped.
-Moldiness is occasioned by the
growth of minute vegetation. Ink,
paste, leather and seeds most frequent
" suffer by it A Glove will preserve
it; any essential oil answers equally as
well. Leather may be kept free from
mold by the same substances. Thus,
Russia leather, which is perfumed with
the tar of birch, never becomes moldy.
A few drops of any essential oil will
keep books entirely free from it.
The name "Elberon" will now 90
down to history as the place where
President Garfield closed his weary
eyes upon earth, and the manner in
which the name was attached to the
place will prove Of public interest. Z.
l.. Brown, wealthy gentleman, built
a cottage at Long Branch, and being at
q loss for a name, intrusted the matter
to some ladies, who, after experiment
ing, metamorphosed the commonplace
Z. L. Brown into the romantic and ar
istocratic Elberon.
Henry M. Stanley, the intrepid Af-
rican explorer, has been heard from
again. The rumors of his first illness
were true. Mr.. Marston, q member of
London publishing firm. received a
letter from Mr.. Stanley few days
since, dated Congo River, July 4, in
which the writer says he was seriously
sick all through the month of May so
seriously that on the fifteenth day of
his illness he gave, as he thought, his
last orders to his European companions,
but the crisis passed and he is now
strong and healthy.