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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
POLITICAL BREyITIES.

~The Morey forgery stands con-
fessed. "Hunt the rascal DOWN. Don't
dodge SO, Barnum.
16F Mr.. Tilden will enter upon a
'.feeble" period now, which will possi-
bly, continue till 1884.
1@-"Less liquor at the cross roads
and more hemp at the county seats'' is
the latest good advice to the South, fur
nished by Southern paper.
@~H Indians were eligible for Office
what good Democratic congressman
those two Sioux chiefs, Bull Head and
Don't-Know-How, would make.
N1r 1t does not make much difference
whether the Democracy began the new
year with set of good resolutions or
not. The outcome will be the same
either way-blunders.
R6TThe Southern Senators who pro-
pose to unseat Kellogg are reminded by
the New York Tribune of the late SEN
ator Chandler's defiant utterance on
this subject at the extra session of 1873,
"Show us the way to vacate seats in
this body if you dare"
16y-ls there a man named Allen G.
Thurman in the United States Senate?
A Senator of that name is credited to
the State of Ohio, but if he is present
he openeth not his mouth. Perhaps he
spends his days in silent review of his
fine collection of political blunders;
there are enough of those to keep him
busy and quiet.-M. Y. Tribune.
b0r Truth confesses that the Morey
letter-was forgery, and that it was
''imposed upon" to publish it as gen.
uine chiefly by the representations of
certain members of the Democratic
Committee. Barnum says he was ''im-
posed upon" also. 1t is really doing a
great wrong to permit such guileless
persons as Barnum and the publisher
of Truth to go about in wicked New
York unprotected. Neither one of them
81 able to recognize bold, bad man
when he sees one.
1~ The Democrats threaten that if
Congress does not adopt a particular
programme of exercises for the count
ing of the Electoral vote, the Demo
cratic Representatives will run out of
the chamber while the work is going
on, and then they ask: "How are you
going to have President at alp" They
are always about to break the clock If
you do not let them wind it up, and set
it by their old bulrs-eye watches of the
last century. They will just set fire to
the house unless you give them the
key to the pantry containing the jam.
They will do all sorts of disasreeable
and destructive things unless they are
smoothed down. They are like the
boy who said to his new nurse: 81 am
one of those little boys that have to be
ruled by kindness, and if you don't give
me some more candy I'll kick you on
the SHIN" Or, they are like the young
woman who was always allowed to have
her way, as the only safeguard against
her carrying out her threat that If she
was thwarted she would disgrace the
family Republican.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
A Curious Custom in Syria.

In Syria people never take off their
caps Or turbans when entering house
or visiting friend. but they always
leave their shoes at the door. The
reason is that their floors are covered
with clean mats and rugs, anI in the
Moslem houses the men kneel on the
rugs to pray, and press their foreheads
to the floor, so that it would not be de-
cent or respe ctful to walk. in with dirty
shoes and soil the SHADY on which they
kneel to pray. They have no foot-mat
or scrapers. and it is much simpler and
cheaper to leave the shoes, dirt and all,
at the door. 1t is very curious to go to
the Syrian school-houses and see the
plies of shoes at the door. There are
new, bright red shoes, and old, tattered
shoes, and kob-kobs, and black shoes,
and sometimes yellow shoes. The kob-
kobs are wooden clogs, made to raise
the feet out of the mud and water,
having a little strap over the toe to
keep it on the foot. You will often see
little boys and girls running down steps
and paved streets on these dangt rous
kob-kobs. Sometimes they slip, and
then down they go on their noses, kob-
kobs fly off and go rattling over the
stones, and little Ali or Yusef, or what
ever his name is, begins to shout: "Ya
imme! va INNER ("Oh, my motherrD,
and cries just like the little children
in other countries. But the funniest
part is to see the boys when they come
out of school and try to find their shoes.
There will be fifty boys, and, of course.
a hundred shoes, all mixed together in
one pile. When school is out the boys
make rush for the door. Then comes
the tug of war. A dozen boys are
standing and shuffiing on the pile of
shoes, looking down, kicking away the
other shoes, running their toes into
their own, stumbling over the kob-
kobs, and then making dash to get
out of the crowd. Sometimes shins
will be kicked and hair pulled, and tar
booshes thrown off, and a great scream.
ing follow, which will only cease when
the teacher comes with ASIA" or q
stick, and quells the riot. That pile of
shoes will have to answer for a good
many school-boy fights, and bruised
noses and hard feelings in Syria. You
will wonder how they can tell their own
shoes. So do 1. And the boys often
wear off each others shoes by mistake
or on purpose, and then you will see
Selim running with one shoe on and one
of Ibrahim's in his hand, shouting and
cursing Ibrahim's father and grand
father until he gets back his lost prop
erty.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
Accidents Utilized.

1t is often said that many of the most
serviceable inventions originated in an
accident. 1t should be remembered,
however, that there is one remarkable
fact about such accidents-a man with
brains always witnesses them.
One day, at an English print-works,
a piece of calico became displaced as it
was passing under the printing cylin-
der. The displacement caused a dag
onal repetition of the pattern. and pro-
duced forked-lightning effect. The
master-printer saw it. 1t struck his
fancy, and he suggested to the pattern
designer that it should be initiated. 1t
proved one of the most successful calico
patterns ever printed.
The Journal of Chemistry tells the
story of how the rejecting apparatus
for lighthouses originated in a wager.
An Englishman made a bet that he
could read the small print of a news
paper by the light of farthing candle
placed ten yards distant. He coated a
board with pieces of looking glass, thus
forming rough substitute tor con-
cave mirror. In front of this mirror he
placed a lighted candle, whose rays
were reflected to focus ten yards dis
tant. In that light he read the news
paper. Aucrc was Prdctlcdl HAL
present who had the brains to see the
bearing of fact. He thought if the
light of small candle could be thrown
ten yards, the light of large lamp
may be projected miles. The thought
grew into the rejecting apparatus for
"Not every man." says the Journal,
''can take the hint afforded by chance
occurrence. The result depends not
SO much on the accident, as on the
man who observed it, thought upon it,
utilized it.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The colored people of Boston are
forming a Congregational Church.
The late Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
bequeathed 81, 600 to Hampton Insti-
tute.
There are 1,O37 students in attend
ance at the various schools and depart
ments of Yale College.
There is said to be church accom-
mediation in London for only one-fourth
of the population, yet there are many
vacant pews every Sunday.
The Shaw University, at Raleigh,
N. c., one of the Northern Baptist
schools for freedmen, has sent out more
than 1, 200 teachers among the colored
people. 1t has now 275 pupils.
The Southern Baptist Mission So
ciety has contracted for the erection of
nine spacious buildings at point with
in the Choctaw lines, sixty miles south
west of Muscogee.
There are at present in South Caro-
lima twelve colleges, two professional
schools, three industrial training
schools, eighty one private academies.
fifty-nine public academies, three even
mentary schools, and 1898 public
schools.
The law of California provides that
the same pay shall be given for similar
work, whether done by men or women;
and, as a consequence, the women
vice-principals in the San Francisco
schools receive as much pay as the male
vice-principals. 1t is SAID by the alta
that proposition is under considers
ton to give the title Of "master'' to
male principals, and thus enable
them to draw higher pay.
The new arrangements of the
Louisiana State University provide for
a classical and scientific course of five
years each, including one year of pre-
paratory teaching; also for an agricult-
ural and a mechanical course of three
years each. including similar prepara-
ton. A plan for training ship for
nautical Instructions mentioned in con-
nection with the University.
The last general educational report
shows that Massachusetts, Of all the
States, has the highest percentage of
population of school age enrolled in the
schools, and also the largest average
daily attendance. Massachusetts also
shows the greatest difference in the
salaries given to male and female
teachers. The former receive $75.64,
the latter $33.O4.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
A TOtal.Abstinence Face.

Charity may be virtue, but when
aiming to be good in this direction it is
proper to see that your generosity is
applied to deserving objects. A Hart
ford gentleman, who is charitably dis
posed, has been imposed upon so many
times he is now very cautious to whom
he gives. But this morning a man poor
ly clad. with features pinched by cold,
called at our friends store and asked
for something to eat. The merchant
was about to send him to the right about
with q savage "No." when a something
about the mans face made him think
that this one was possibly deserving OF
charity. So he questioned him and drew
straight story of misfortune, resulting
in the loss of work, and thus compell-
aDo YOU drinka' asked the mer-
chant.
sNo, sir!'' answered the other, a lit
tie indignantly. '.Do look like it?''
The merchant was compelled to in
wardly admit that his pale face did not
look like the phiz of drinking man.
But" continued the merchant, "I
suppose you would prefer tenpence to
a good warm breakfastp'
ssNo, SIR" replied the beggar; 81
would rather have the breakfast"
This seemingly honest answer threw
him off his guard; and he handed him
a quarter, telling him to go and get a
breakfast.
..Thank you," said the fellow, as he
carefully laid away the coin in an in
side pocket to his coat. ''Now, there
be men mean enough to take money
from gentleman like you and then go
off and peddle it out for rum. But I
1 amt that kind of chap. Not much.
GooG day, sir.".
This little speech aroused the mer-
chants suspicious, and he told one of
his clerks to shadow him and see
where he brought up. He turned the
first corner, and there met a COM
panion. and, as the clerk was following
on behind, he heard the following dia-
logue:
1.Well, old rooster, what did you
getP'
"Not cent. How did you make
out P''
"Oh, I got quarter. My total abb
stinence face did the business. Your
rum face spoils you for a first-class
beggar. But come along in here and
get drink" and the clerk saw them
slide into a saloon, and when he went
back and reported, the merchant was
convinced he had been sold again. IL
that total-abstinence face shows up in
that particular store again, there will
be music at the toe Of the merehant's
boot -HarVord tCcnn.} Times;
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Powdered chalk added to glue
strengthens it. 81
The strength of one horse is equiv
alent to that of five men.
The British stationery Office turns
out five tons of waste paper daily.
"A draft horse can draw 1,6 ,600pounds
% miles day, weight of carriage in
cluded.
The humidity of the atmosphere is
greater above forests than over nom
wooded grounds.
Coal gas is not explosive, except
when mixed with a known proportion Of
common air.
Over one thousand printing presses
have been shipped from Philadelphia
to France since the Centennial.
in a horse mill horse moves at
the rate of three feet in second. The
diameter of the track should not beless
than 25 feet.
The stamp duty of six cents per
pack was paid on 1,O94. 1928 packs Of
playing-cards in England last year,
amounting to $65, ,659.
Engineering has succeeded in put
ting into steam only about one-tenth of
heat realized in the furnace of the boiler:
the remaining nine-tenths are lost.
st. Louis has nearly tripled its
grain shipments down the Mississippi
River, the amount rising from about
5000, 900 bushels last year to 15,O00,00
bushels now.
The difference bewteen the highest
speed attainable by an ocean steamer at
sea in good weather and the rate OBJ
tanned during gale is the measure of
the vessels strength.
MIR. Frederick Sansome has sue
ceded in producing good hydraulic
cement from blast furnace Stag by mix
ing it with an additional quantity of lime
and calcimining mass.
Alcohol and acetic acid, says j.
Bechamp, are constant and necessary
products of putrefaction. He has dis
covered alcohol also in small quantities
in normal and sound animal tissues.
The estimate of horsepower in
machinery is $4,000 pounds, avoirdupois,
raised through the space of one foot in
height in one minute; but as horse
power can exert that force but six hours
a day, one machinery horsepower is
equivalent to that of four horses.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
How q Missionary Lost a Wife.

George Bovard is the name of a young
Methodist minister who attended the
annual Conference of the NJ. E. Church
at Mercer a couple of years ago. While
there he and a young lady teacher of
the Soldiers Orphan School, located in
Mercer, fell in love with each other.
Her name was Clara Shaffer. He was
about to start for India to Christianize
the heather. A correspondence was
kept up between the two. and he want
ed her to come to him and be married,
and assist him in his labors. He had
no money to pay her expenses, and she
had none. In this emergency. few
months ago, she made a confidant of
"Dick' Wright, a heavy clothing
merchant of Mercer, and he being q
big-hearted man with generous i'm
pulses. offered to supply her with what
money she needed to reach her far-off
lover. She gladly accepted his offer,
and at once began her preparations for
the long journey. "Dick" and Miss
Shaffer were thrown much together
for a while, and about the time she was
ready to start he was deeply in love
with her himself. But he said nothing,
enough of "Dick's' money in her
pocket to take her to India.
Two or three days after her depart
ure he grew despondent, and chided
himself for having given away his
chance for marrying Miss Shaffer him
self. A thought struck him, and that
was to follow her, and, if possible, over
take her before she boarded steamer
in New York for distant India. He
acted promptly on the thought. took
the cars, reached New York and found
the vessel on which she was to sail.
Miss Shaffer was already on board; he
made known his affection, asked her
for her hand for himself, was accepted,
and the two returned to Mercer a few
days ago as man and wife.
The outcome is a little rough on the
young minister who is wrestling with
superstition and idolatry in the iunqles
Of India, - Rttstnrgh Commercial
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
NEW YORK, December 81, lss

b@-Chalmer's exposition of his case
has not stimulated support of him in
the Northern Democratic press. He
confessed the truth of all the Repub-
lican charges and virtually boiled down
his position to this statement: my
opponent is a niger; therefore, he has
no right to the seat, if he did have the
most votes" The North is bad place
in which to start a boom for that sort
of sentiment Y. Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
NJ Pre- esident HAYES place in history

~ Tr6SIueuI my cS PInCo III HIStOIJ
is giving the Democratic editors just
now great deal of worry. They need
not keep themselves awake nights
brooding over the question. History
will do Justice to Mr.. Hayes and assign
him niche higher than that occupied
by any President elected by the Demo-
Gratis for the pnst forty years. -Es'
sAange,
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27

THERE is in Boston an organization
for the relief of the poor named the
" Stonewall jackson Association" aft
er the Confederate chieftain.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27

Water filtered through charcoal be.
GENES perfectly pures
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-27
Barber Shop.
Druggists.

III G. STARR e. GEO. O. CIR M WELL,
IL. Manufacturing Chemists and Wholesale
and Retail dealers In Drugs, Medicines ana n
full line of Notions and DruGIists Sundries.
North side Liberty street.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-11-03
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR INCOME,

just at this season of the year there
are. among our readers, those looking
Iorempioymentf for the next months
We have lately received from l.. n.
Brown X Co., the well-known mann
facturers of specialties for agents TO
handle, request to put them in com
inunication with one or more suitable
persons in this locality. to act as
agents in introducing several of their
patent household articles 10 this com.
lnunity, aud after consideration. we
take this method To comply with their
request. The firm are manufacturers
of II large number of household arti.
cles, which they introduce to the pub
lie by means of agents, having some
times as many as 900 persons in their
employ, The particular articles which
they seek To introduce here, at this
time, are: Browns Peerless Sitter.
generally acknowledged to be the best
IN the world, OF which nearly one mil
lion were sold during the last year:
the Kitchen Queen, the latest and
best invention In Coal Oil Lamps, and
the only absolutely Safe Lamp made;
the Centennial Cake and Bake Pan,
an article which has n national reputa,
tion. and is the delight of every house
keeper; the Half Minute Egg Heater.
which always sells at sight, and the
new Alto Relieve Bronze Profile Cast
OF JAMES A. GARFIELD, with me
mortal frame the best selling article
ever put into the hands of an agent,
the best of all the portraits, chromos
or steel engravings that have been
offered. II is truer likeness of the
martyred hero than any we have ever
seen before, and its price brings 1t
within the reach of all. For this
county, Messrs. Brown a. Co. desire as
many agents as can work advantage
ously. Any smart, intelligent lady or
gentleman can make fine income in
this way. The firm will send to any
responsible person FREE who will as
sumo the agency here and go TO work
a complete outfit OF these goods, to
the ainout Of five dollars. The reputa-
ton OF this house is first rate the
good are what they represent them
To be. Their terms are liberal. and
we advise those looking for genteel.
remnerative employment TO send to
them for futher information. Their
address is l.. Il. BROWN &CO.
"a Walnut St., Cincinnati, o.
Oct. 27,9w.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-11-03

4, DANIEL BoLENDER, Hish sheriff Of
snyder county, Commonwealth Of Penbsylva.
MIA, DO hereby make known and give notice to
election will be held In the said county OF
snyder, on
Tuesday, Nocember sth, 1881,
for the purpose otsiectiux the several persons
hereinafter named, to wits
One person to All the once OF state Treasurer
OF Pennsylvania.
one person 20 on the. otncc Of President
OF the counties Of Uniop, snyder aud Mniin.
.pc person to OIL the once Of sheriff Of sny-
,One person to all the once Of Treasurer sny
Three persons To AT tho ONCE Of County
lCommiYs Toner for Snyder County.
Two persons 10 nll the once " County Au.
dtor Tor snyder County,
alsohsreby make known and ave notice
that the place OF holding the Aforesaid election
N the several townships and nororghs within
the county OF snyder are as follows, to wit
At the Odi-Foiiows Hsll, iu aud for the Bor.
ough Of Seiinsgroys.
~ ihe Bouseoi Dauioi Hovis In aud for Perry
tovnshlps
a, the house Of David H. Herrold, in and for
Al B6~ fown Hail. in aud for Washington
1.-THE houseof John NJ. Moycr, In the Bor
cugh of Mlidlehurg, for Franklin township.
~ the Odi-Fsliows Hail In Rcayertown III
A. the house Of Jacob Miller In And for wcs
| II aver township.
| At the house ~ James d. Long IN anil fo
| Cent? township
| A. o hor'c of y. Rumbaugh, in and for Mid
| dle'rt"k thwuship.
| A. the House of sarah A. Miller In aud IN
| Penn township
| A. the school house In Kratzcrviilc, IN and fo
| iack son township.
| Al the school house at shamokin Dam In Az,
| fhr Monroe township
N the house " Chrtstian =. Graybill, H. ant
| for Nvst Perry township.
| At thr Court House Ia and for the Borough o
| Middichurf
| Al Tire house of-Bl1ssor In and for Uuibt
tow ship.
| At tho house of the hcirs Of Charles Mattern I
| Irnxlnxlln. IN md lnr Adm. ln ML.hLn.