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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
Wickle and His Wife.

The other night old man Wickle and
his wife, while walking along the street,
gong home from a mite society, en-
gagged in a quarrel.
"rm not going out with you any
more, Samuel. said Mrs. Wickle. You
are too old a man to cutup the way you
did tonight. The idea of an old man
who has the rheumatism so bad that he
can't put his socks on mornings, going
to a mite meeting and cavorting and
romping as you have done tonight. l
say that it is a shame"
II may have rheumatism, replied
the old man, "but l haven't got dys-
pepsia 1 don't growl and snap at ev-
erybody. You have been growing
worse for the last ten years. II you
didn't have me to pick at, l believe
you die.''
II won't walk with a man that acts
like q rhinoceros."
"How does the rhinoceros actp'
asked the old man, thinking that he
would catch her on natural history.
"Acts like fool, that how he acts, "
and Mrs. Wichle walked rapidly away,
leaving the old man several PAGES be-
hind. He finally caught up, just as a
young man came walking along.
"You are walking pretty fast" said
the old gentleman.
His wife didn't say anything.
"It's clouding up," he remarked;
"must be going to rain"
The old lady made no reply, but the
young man took in the situation. I" You
old villainr' he exclaimed, addressing
Mr.. Wickle. ''what do you mean by at
tempting to thrust your company on
lady who does not want you! It's be-
coming too frequent in Cleveland for
ladies to be insulted on the streets by
loafers. Get backr' The young man
struck at Wickle. Mrs. Wickle clubbed
her umbrella, and, exclaiming. That's s
my husband" struck the young man an
undignified blow. The old man. en-
coura2ed by his wife's strike for the
union, jumped on the young man and
held him while the rattling ribs of the
umbrella fell on the youths head with
a noise like the falling OF hail stones.
"Samuel, nobody can break up ouI
domestic felicity" said the wife, afteI
the battle.
mo, sir" answered Samuel. ''When
a man tries to destroy the domestic
happiness of my household. he catches
my consolidated power of wrath. -
Cleveland Leader.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

During the last ten years the royal
lottery has yielded the Italian Govern
ment 1924, ,00O,O from 1.786, 1872
tickets issued.
An American locomotive of the
most usual size, say 16 or II by 24-inch
cy linders and five-feet drivers, such as
could be had less than ten years ago
for 81, 900 Or less, now commands $10.-
500, and very generally the works will
not contract 10 deliver before 1882.
I'm South Africa ostriches cost as
much as carriage horses do here. At
recent sale, we are told. the chief at
traction centered in the ostriches, which
were in good condition. The following
list speaks for itself: One pair of os-
triches for f175; do, fl60; do, E155;
do, E15O., do. f145; do, f145; do,
ESQ; do, f100 do, f95; do, Eos.
Fifty-five young birds, with and without
plumes, sold in lot for ESQ each; nine
do. at f29 each !; six pairs camping
birds at Els per pair.
Prof Charles E. Monroe, of Annap-
oils, states that the ordinary fruit acids,
such as those contained in apples. to-
matoes. rhubarb, lemons, ETC., all acted
upon tin. Some cider which he exam
ined, and which had been stored in q
tin fountain, contained III milli-
grammes of metallic tin to the liter in
solution. One case was given where
persons eating fruit preserved in tin
cans were made violently sick. and tin
only was found in the fruit. CoTosion
of tin pipes by water was referred to,
and it was suggested that the corrosion
was due to the vegetable acids in the
water.
AS the result of observation, and
from the testimony of reliable men. the
following is about the average growth
in II years of the leading desirable
varieties of timber, when planted in
belts or groves and cultivated: White
maple, one foot in diameter and 80 feet
high; ash. .eaf maple or box elder. one
foot in diameter and 20 feet high; white
willow, one and a half feet in diameter
and 40 feet high; yellow willow, one and
half feet in diameter and 35 feet high
Lombardy poplar. 10 inches in diane, er
and 40 feet high; blue and white ash. 10
inches in diameter and 25 ieet high;
black walnut and butternut, 10 inches
in diameter and 20 feet high.
"A watch which requires no wind
ing has been invented by Mr.. A. 3. Won
LOehr, of Vienna He has con >tructed
the mechanism on the same principle as
the pedometer. A weighted lever,
pivoted at one end. is kept in position
against the upper of two banking pins
by long curved spring of such strength
that the motion of the body in walking
is sufficient to cause the lever to de-
send. at each step of the person carry
ing the watch. to the lower bank pin.
There is q ratchet wheel with very line
teeth pivoted at the same center as the
weighted lever. and fixed to the lever
s a pawl which engages with the wheel.
This pawl is made so elastic that it
takes up the strain produced when the
handspring is wound up. A train Of
gearing connects the ratchet wheel with
the barrel arbor. and there is pawl to
prevent any tendency of the ratchet to
reverse its action.
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WIT fND WISDOM.
"A Wholesale Obituary Poem

"A Wholesale Obituary Poem:
Full many a maid has toyed with kerosene,
And sailed to glory in gorgeous R.aIe;
And iown promiscuous lhroSSS the desert
air.
Mrs. Spaggins was boasting of her
new house. The windows, she said.
were all stained. "That's too bad, but
won't benzine or turpentine wash it
Off" asked the good Mrs. Oldbody.-
Boston Transcript.
Parents who contemplate making
railroad men OF their boys cannot be too
careful how they bring them up. We
learn that the cause OF many of our rail
road disasters is defective training
Io,skers Statesman. cd
We will be one of seven hundred
men who will contribute weeks sal
ary to be devoted to the determination
OF those awful wretches who say ''fuu
as an egg is of meat" 1.-THE tables
groaned beneath the luxuries," ETC., or
"rose, PhGnix-ike, from its ashes. -
Lockport Union.
-Coleridge has written that pedantry
consists in the use of words unsuited to
the time. place and company. And yet
you wouldn't call the man pedantic on
account of the remarks he made whom
he slipped down in the midst of the
crowd coming out of church last Sum
day.-L0aOeLt Citizen. a@e
"A soft voice in woman always goes
with a gentle spirit. A gentleman sit
ting in friend 8 parlor engaged in con-
versation with him was startled by q
noise down stairs. and paused to ask,
What s that-a crash of crockery1'
"No; that's only my wife calling to
me. .''-Brooktyn Eagle. .-..-.
Montreal has haunted house, in
which 1.-THE stove Ids are lifted off the
stoves and sent flying through the air."
If the owner of the haunted house takes
our advice, he will buy his vile a new
dress. He may think he can Always
dodge them, but some time one of those
lids will take him on the side Of the head
and scalp him.-Peck's Sun.
Behold the superiority of the
Sweet Singer of Michigan to Ten
nyson. A little noise disturbs Ten
nyson SO he can't think, while the
Singer can write just as good poetry
with seventeen children bawiing, q hog
squealing and cat fight in progress in
the room, as she can with the most sol
emn stiffness prevailing. Boston Post.
Servant girl question. Matilda, q
colored servant, on being told to pack
up and leave. blubbered dreadfully and
refused to be comforted. The lady of
the house tried to comfort her, telling
her not to give way 80; that she might
call in on Sunday and see the family.
'''Taint dat ar. jess can't help bell
erin. l always bellers when l quits
place. has worked for some of de
lowest-down, meanest folks on Calves
ton Island. but when comes to leab I
alters beliers-and de meaner dey is the
louder bellers. Bohoo! Bohoo! Oh,
Lordy! My heart will burst. shuah.
oh. Lordy! Oh, Lordyr'-Gasueston
NetCS.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31

swore by the tooth of the prophet that
each and all would drive into the coun-
try and put up with farmers and at
country taverns before they would sub
nit to that extortionate rise of ''six-
pence" Hence, after just one day the
five-and-sixpence combination busted.
1t was the almost universal custom in the
''country taverns'' to keep big black
bottle sitting on convenient shelf be-
hind the little counter or desk in the
corner. which would be set out with q
tumbler as each man paid his bill, with
q "Wil you have a smack before start
ing?" Very few, however, partook.
and it was rare thing to see any one
of that immense throng of farmers and
teamsters under the influence of liquor.
Whisky at that time was only worth
about twenty-five cents a gallon, about
the same price as kerosene and benzine
now.
The winter of 1sS0-,s1 will go into
history as a much colder and harder
one than either of the two before men
toned. The cold weather set in as
early as either of the others, but. be-
fore the snowfall, the ground. in
places not protected by straw or stub
BILE, was frozen to the depth of five
feet, and the earth is now a frozen
mass all over the Northwest to that
depth. After this came the snowfall,
which has kept up at intervals, until it
is now three feet six inches deep on a
level. The cold thus far this winter is
more severe than during the previous
"hard winters" The thermometrical
records for 1S42'43, so far as we can
get them, when compared with this
winter, show this to be a good deal
colder than that one. The snow is also
considerably deeper now than then.
The same may be said of the winter
of 1848'49; the present one excels it
in deep snow and extreme cold. The
snow is now piled in immense drifts,
ten feet high in some places. The rail-
roads have been blockaded since
Wednesday night. The streets are al
most impossible. The city is obliged
to keep a large force of men employed
cleaning out cutters and opening water
ways to prevent an overflow when the
thaw does come. Country roads are
almost impossible, and it may be said
that business has never. since the set
tlement of Northern Illinois, been at
such q stand-still as now.
The winter of 18S0'S1 may be fairly
set down as the hardest one since the
settlement of the country, both in the
severity of the cold and depth of the
snow.-Rockford (iu.) } journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
TOngue.Tips.

One very ancient Greek ceremony,
strangely enough. has survived to our
times. 1t is the cutting off the tip of .
tongue at the dinner-table and keeping
it '.for luck" The origin of this.
which is mentioned in Homer, Sopho-
cles and Aristophanes, seems to have
been the symbolical offering to the gods
of the organ of voice, the interpres liss-
qua through which even animals, birds
especially. were thought to utter sounds
communicating to 1.-The knowing" Il. g,
to the impostors, the priests) the win
of the gods. These ''tongue-tips,"
which last for many years. and become
in time as hard as piece of wood.
have known to be kept in families who
could never be induced to throw them
away as Fraser's Ad0G-
zine,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
A Story Of Three Printers.

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Erening Fosi writes: Agreat
many years ago. before the present
Government Printing Office was estab-
lished, there were three printers en-
gagged upon Government work who were
fast friends and constant associates.
They neither had nor cared to have
other acquaintances. One day one of
the three fell sick and died. Then the
question was who would perform the
usual rites of friendship for the dead.
Nobody outside took any interest in the
matter, SO that the two friends were
obliged to care for the body themselves.
Now, all these printers were very fond
of liquor. and though they never were
to be seen in bar-rooms, had many a
bout by themselves in quiet nook.
The two remaining friends then sat
up with the corpse, and to while away
the time brought their pack of cards and
bottle for company. Eucher was the
game, and they played for a stake, the
winner to drink on scoring the game
and the loser to stay dry. The luck ran
one-sided. Seated on either side of the
corpse, with the coffin between them as
a table, the players played and recount
ed the virtues of their dead friend. But
the one who never won was getting
more and more thirsty. The cards had
run steadily against him and not a drop
of liquor had passed his lips. Finally
the luck changed. and slapping down
the right bower on the coffin, he ex-
claimed: "There! now it's my turn. "
With hasty motion he reached for
the bottle. but at that instant consterna-
ton filled the breasts of both friends as
the supposed corpse rose up and said,
"Not drop till I've had mine" With
q scream of horror the two friends
jumped up and rushed, one to the door
and the other to the window. The lat
ter leaped to the ground in his terror
and broke leg, the other gained the
street without misadventure and disap-
peared.
Years have elapsed. Both the watch
ers have died. but the friend who was
supposed to be dead still lives, an &c
centric, aged man. who is now a COM
positor in the Government Printing
house.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
A New Departure.

An advertising agent for one of the
great circus combinations has been in
Detroit for a week past, and yesterday
sat down long enough to answer a few
questions. The interview started off as
follows:
"How many diamond pins will you
wear this summer, and what will be
their value?'
81 shall not wear any. Our show has
made a new departure in that matter,
and nobody except the man in the
ticket-wagon will be allowed to wear
diamonds. am just going up to the
express office to send my seven pins
four rings and sleeve buttons home to
my brother"
'How many consolidated shows do
you advertiser
..Only thirteen, but we have exactly
sixteen. We do not intend to do any
blowing this summer, but will practice
the modesty dodge. We have twelve
clowns. but advertise only ten. We
eight, and SO on right through"
who can turn double somersault over
sixteen horses?'
.sNo; there is another man who can
do it, and although he is in State Prison
we didn't want to say we had the only
one. Weshan practice no deception and
carry no humbugs."
..Have you the only baby elephant?'
Eyes, sir, but we don't advertise it.
We don't want to be mean towards
other combinations.
''Have you twice as much capital in
vested as any other travelling show?"
.'Yes, sir, but we don't say so on the
bills. The public don't care about the
capital, but want to see the animals. :"
"Will your street parade be a mile
longP"
Two of them, sir, but we don't ad-
vertise that fact. We let people come
and be agreeably surprised"
Have you got an elephant that has
killed seven menp"
Seven! Why he's laid out eight
this very winter! think the list foOts
up thirty-two, but we don't advertise
it. An elephant is an elephant. and
what's the use of blowing about it?''
'You have two or three man-eating
tigers. of courseP'
"Of course-seven or eight of them,
and we also have list of the names of
people who have been eaten by them,
but we make no blow about it."
Have you boa-cOnstrlctor forty-
eight feet longP"
We have one sixty-two feet long.
He's the longest and largest snake ever
imported. but we give him only one line
on the bills"
Have you the sacred COW of In
dia?"
Yes, sir, and the sacred OK of Ja-
pan, and a sacred calf and a sacred pig,
but we don't blow over 'em. We
let the public come in and separate
the sacred from the unsacred them
selves"
Will you have two circus ringsp''
"We shall have four, but we don't
put it on the bills, As told you at the
start we are making a new departure.
We shall not exaggerate. We shall not
even tell the PLAN truth. No diamonds
no trumpets-no snide challenges
no humbug ofers-no field of the cloth
of gold. We are going to sail along in
a gentle, modest way and give the peo.
pie five times the worth of their money.
That's all-children half-price and NO
lemonade sold in the tent. ."-Detroi,
Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31
ON A CROPPED MAIDEN

She's rosy, bright and fair,
And cuts her curly hair
Like q mop.
But love her, that do,
From her dainty little shoe
To her cropi
How studious she looks
Al she's working at her books-
Maiden sage. ...r.
But sometimes there will unfuri
Anaughty little curl
Ger the page.
Then the rosy head she shakes,
Which matters only makes
Rather worse:
For the curly little pate
Becomes, instead OF straight, 49,
The reverse.
Iwonder how q fay,
II she wore her hair this way,
Would appeArl
Though Tn certain that to me
No other head could be
Half 90 dear.
But she says I mustn't laugh,
And Twill not stand my chaf1-
She's too big;
And, "if I don't take care,
Wear wig!"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31

1T is said the losses entailed on the
principal Western Railroads in conse-
quence of the snow blockades this
winter will more than equal the net
earnings of these lines for January and
February.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-31

Virginia claims FIVE of the twenty
eight new iron furnaces built in the
United States last year.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27

ONE of the most important duties
of the legislature of Tennessee. at
the extra session to be held next
winter, will be the settlement of the
question of additional representa-
ton under that clause of the Con-
stitution which authorizes an increase
of the number of representatives in
the lower house to 80, and in the
senate to 80. II the increase is
decided upon, as it probably will be,
then the State must be laid off into
senatorial divisions and representa-
tive districts accordingly. Under
this arrangement. many coun les
which have not representatives now
separately will be entitled to elect
representatives. The apportionment
will be made on the basis of cleo.
toral census just taken.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27
Gbf 9ailg GBroaitlt.
Entered at tho Post ONCE at Knoxville, Tsa.
o e6ssee, - 6ecOnd-cass matter.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1851.

IF the supreme court of Tennessee
sustains the validity of the law passed
by the last legislature for the settle
ment of the State debt the repudia-
tionists will begin to howl for the
Constitutional convention, upon
which the peop'e are to vote next
summer. Their object will be to
punish the court by turning out the
present judges and eleeting others.
They have already more than limited
that this is their purpose. They will
influence the court with threats if
p possible, and, failing in that, they are
ready to resort to revolution, if need
be, to carry their points.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27
A Fool Once Moro.

For ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such complication of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her, and I used up a
small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months
ago saw o. s. flag with Hop Bitters OH
it, and thought I would be fool once
more. I tried it, but my folly proved to
be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she is
now as well and strong as any mans wife,
and it cost me only two dollars. Such folly
pays" III. w, Detroit, Mich.-Free Press.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27
LOVELY
COMPLEXIoNS
POSSIBLE 70 ALL.

What Nature denies to many
Art secures to all. Hagan's
Magnolia Balm dispels every
blemish. OyercOmeS Richness,
Freckles, Sallowness, Rough.
ness, Tan, EruptiOns and
BlOtches, and removes all evil
dences of heat and excitement.
The Magnolia Balm imparts
the most delicate and natural
complexional tints-no detec-
ton being possible to the clos
est observation.
Under these circumstances a
faulty complexion is little short
of a crime. Magnolia Balm
sold everywhere. Costs only
Is cents, with full directions.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27

we may hear 8 good report from
East Tennessee. A large number of
our people will want to be at Atlan-
ia, and they will want to see what
we have represented there, and
strangers will be disappointed if they
do not see it.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27

We fear that the people of this
section do not properly appreciate
the importance of being represented
at the great international cotton ex-
position, to be held at Atlanta this
TALL. The name given to the EXPOSE
ton is probably misleading. There
may be those who suppose that only
cotton, cotton products and cotton
machinery will be on exhibition, but
if SC, they are mistaken. 1t is to be
q grand exposition, where every
thing pertaining to the products of
tie country-agricultural, mining
and manufacturing-will be exhibit
ed. We have before spoken OF
the arrangements bling made,
on large scale for the accommoda-
ton Of exhibitors. A large number
of manufacturers and capitalists in
the Northern States are interesting
themselves in it's success. In oul
own s ate, Nashville people are tax
ing a deep interest in the enterprise
Chattanooga, never behind in any
thing of that nature, where the pro-
ducts of Chattanooga manufactures
may be exhibi ed to the world, hal
taken Steps to be we'll represented
at Atlanta. Other Southern cities
and towns are doing the same thing
Knoxville should bestir herself ant
be on hands with her coal
iron, marble and zinc. Eas
Tennessee agriculture shoult
have a showing. It is a grand or
portunity to advertise to the worl'
our resources, and We should no
neglect it. But if our people ar
going to avail themselves of such q
opportunity they should lose no tim
in getting ready for it. We trus
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-27
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
In the County Court Of Knox
County.
AMENDED PETITION

J. H. Widner ct al. VS.. ]. K Gibson er al.-Bill to
Pa [. tion Land.
TN THIS CAUSE IT APPEARING FROM THE
J. allegati III of the amended petition, which is
swo to, that the child of Martha and James
Kennedy, both deees.se whose name is uli-
Ward both decreased whose names are unknown
are non residents of the 5 ate of Tennessee ii
is therefore ordered that publication be mace
.HRoN Gle, neWsp per uhlished In the city ei
Knoxville, notifying said d, PENDANTS above
named to appear and make ten e to said
anne d. d petitio !, on or before the 1st Monday
10 August next it being the d st day of said
m nth. n the said county court, to be held at the
court in Knoxville. or said etition will be
taken fos confessed as 10 them and the cause sci
for hearing ex parte.
J.F.J LEWIS,
July 4, 1881. j6w4t Clerk.