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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26

trimmings needed. The mixed black
and white feathers are very stylish for
trimming black rough straw hats for
general wear, while Tor nicer use are
two shaded red feathers, or else creamy
white ones. 1t is maxim with the
milliners that flowers must not be
mixed with feathers on these rough
straw hats-indeet. they are not used
for any round hats except the very
dressy ones meant for the Watering
places. For travelling, dark oolored
pokes and rough straw hats are chosen.
These rough straws are very handsome
In old gold. olive green, seal brown,
navy blue, and very dark wine-coloy,
with some loops OF widc, dark satin
ribbon outside, two or three curled
tips, and q velvet facing In the brim;
thus an olive rough straw Is trimmed
with deep green, and one OF dark blue
straw has blue and red mixed trim
mings. "
White bonnets and those OF pale pink
are most worn at dressy receptions.
The Tuscans and rough straws Of small
size In cottage shapes, slightly raised
In front. or with the gypsy shape, hav-
ing tho edge turned up all around, are
chosen for these. One very distinguished
and simple style Is q Tuscan cottage
bonnet, with very wide ivory white
watered ribbons, forming an Alsaoian
bow, and strings for its only trimming.
Another Is OF lemon white cactus.laoe
straw, with pendent pearls upon It.
White Spanish lace Ia gathered across
tho top aud forms the strings, while
large egg-shaped pearls are strung on
tho brim. An aigre,te OF white mara
bout feathers tipped with pearls COM
plctes the trimming. Very young Ia
dies find the white rough straw gypsies
most becoming, with two very full
though not long white plumes beginning
on the top and curling down each side
without meeting behind; such a bonnet
goes with any dress. There are two
shapes used for this purpose, one of
which droops very low in the front,
while the other Is worn much further
back. t '.
Among the prettiest pink bonnets are
those draped with the new pink Span
ish lace. or else trimmed with the yell
low-pink roses to form the entire crown,
or else the brim. A crown of pink
Grape in shirred tucks is very hand
some. Another fashion easily done is
to make the small bonnet of puffs of
pink satin Surah, and drape it entirely
with white net that has large white che
nielle dots in it. A wreath of dwarf
roses of shaded pink edges the brim.
The rose bonnet OF faded pink shades
is the most popular flower bonnet;
sometimes these roses are confined TO
the crown, and the brim is covered
with scarf of Spanish lace. which may
be either white, pink, or else black.
The steel and silver lace bonnets with
dark red poppies for thinning are
chosen by elderly ladies for dress oeca.
sions. -H0rper'S Bdzar .,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A few Florida farmers who have
planted arrowroot make as much as
81, 900 on an acre.
Patent medicines in England now
yield q Government revenue of over
$1, 600, 900. They were first taxed In
1888 under an act requiring venders OF
secret remedies to take out . license
and pay a stamp duty. This act did
not apply. however. TO any one who
had served apprenticeship to q asurgeon.
apothecary or druggist. ,ors,.,1 -.
The longest span of telegraph wire
In the world Is stretched across the
Kistnah River, from hill to hill, oach
hill being 1900 feet high, between Be-
zorah and Sectanagrum, in India. The
span Is little over G, 900 feet In length.
The only mechanical contrivance used
In stretching This cable across the river
was common windlass. .t
Several specimens Of fossil woods
and Ignite have been found at depth
of l9l feet below tho surface In boring
an artesian we'll ut Galveston, Tex.
Above these were IS feet of quicksand
and 1856 feet of solid blue clay, The
contractor also asserts that consider
able quantity Of bones and she'll have
been drawn out of the we'll, from what
depth Is not stated. ,l p. rn'a oil
The glass works ut st. Goblain,
Chauny, Circy and Mountolucon, In
France, and Mannheim and Stolberg,
in Germany, have produced plain white
and silver plates varying In weight
from 500 to 1,600 pounds. Some OF tho
mirrors for the new Grand Opera-honse
ut Paris arc forty-five by fifty-two feet.
They also make glass tiles, pressed in
imitation of the clay article; these tiles
are used for roofing, and arc nodded
in such o shape that they can be laid
alongside or one another, making tight
fitting joints without any cement or
mortar. Another article produced in
large quantities at these works is glass
flooring, made of flags or slabs Of rough
cast glass; pavements of glass intended
for carriage ways are likewise made in
the same style as the slabs nss3
If the amount of paper consumed
by q nation has any bearing upon the
question of enlightenment and civiliza-
ton, England and the United States
take the lead of the world. England
produces annually $780, 900 tons, and
uses about five kilogrammes (about
eleven pounds) for each unit of its
population. The United States produce
2O7, 900 tons, and consume five kilo-
grammes per head. Germany produces
2O3, 900 tons. and consumes 4.76 kilo-
grammes; and France produces 132, 900
tons. and consumes 1858 kilogrammes.
The consumption of paper in other
countries is in the following order:
Switzerland. Belgium, Holland, Aus
tria, Italy, Sweden, Portugal. Switzer-
land uses 4.54 kilogrammes per head
and Portugal 1.8O kilogrammes. Aus
tria produces 81, 200 tons; Italy, $4,000;
Russia, 80, 400; Spain. 80, 600. Turkey,
Greece and Roumania produce none.
Asia, Africa, Australia, South America
and Canada combined, produce less than
$4,000 tons and import 10000.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A Philadelphian has resolved to
starve himself to death. He will engage
board at a watering place and never fee
a waiter. -Eiinira Advertiser.
Why are the men who charge
or Senators? Now. don't go off mad.
Because-because they fill-a-buster for
iving.-M y. Graphic. .s.-g
-"Young Husband''-House- clean
ing means for the women to tie towels
around their heads and run the men
into the streets without any breakfast
every morning for a week or SO, while
they break lamps and spill whitewash
on the stairs. = Chicago Tribune.
Strange, the glass bomb has been
used on almost all American railway
trains for many years without fatal or
oven disastrous results. But then we
notice that the American usually presses
the cork back firmly into the glass
bomb after shooting himself with it.
Perhaps this may account for it.
Burlington Hawkeye.
"A street-car conductor carelessly
carried his bell punch home and allowed
his children to play with it. The next
day, when the company informed him
that he was nine million nine hundred
and ninety-nine fares short, his hair
rose so rapidly that his hat, in banging
against the ceiling. broke out fifteen
yards of plaster. er.--Philadelphia Chroni-
Gle Herald.
In the spring the merry housewife ties q ra9
around her head,
In tho spring she breaks the furniture and dis
locates the bed, y
In the spring she has the carpets beaten till
the wekin rings,
In the spring she swaps her husbands clothes
for china dogs and things.
In the spring what's called s'house cleaning
occupies the female mind, S-ssl
In the spring your wife some bargains gay.
ly starts her out to find,
In the spring she pays 3 for a tub that has nc
hoops,
In the spring she buys fiat-irons, and arranges
them in groups.
In the SD, ing the prudent husband buys him.
self Book of Prayer, sHi- a.5
In the spring he soon discovers that he's bet
ter OF elsewhere,
In the spring he lets the women turn things
over till they're tired,
In the spring he finds it healthy to be more o.
less retired.
Chicago Tribune.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
Spring and Summer Bonnets.

The newest round hats are in Marie
Antoinette style, with large, high crown
and broad brim, not wired, but dented
to suit the iwearer's face. These hats
are very much trimmed inside the brim
with flowers, while outside they have
dropping loops of wide satin ribbon,
and very long ostrich plumes. They
come in Manila straw and in chips,
also the thick English straws, and are
often tinted gold-color. olive. or cream.
To dent the front of the brim in the
middle is found to be becoming to
many, while others are turned upward
directly in front, and on the left as
well. This is prettily shown on the
durable Manila hats with pale blue Su-
rah shirred in the brim, and cut steel
ornaments fastening it up above the
forehead, and on the side. The pale
Florida roses are crushed along the
right side, while the blue ostrich plumes
curl down the left A scarf of point
d'esprit lace trims such hats prettilY,
and is used in connection with both
flowers and feathers. One of the nov
elites is the pink Spanish lace and pink
blonde for trimming white hats, and
for strings of dressy bonncts. The
pretty Veronese hat that is turned away
from the face on one side only has usu-
ally velvet lining for the brim, and is
very handsome in block chip, trimmed
with the chenille dotted net-red or
white dots on black net-and with a
half-wreath of red berries. and some
small dropping tips partly red and
partly black. What is called the
sailor bonnet is pretty shape for
the fine French chip hats that many
choose on account of their light
ness. This has a tlaring front like
the Marie Antoinette shapes, and is also
turned up behind the crown. 1t is the
caprice to select such bonnets of black
chip, and have the inside of the front
and the long ribbon strings covered
with vine of wild roses, or else
daisies or violets; the trailing vine ON
the strings may hang in front, on one
side. or behind. For the rough-and-
ready straws and the porcupine braids
the Olivette shape proves to be very
popular with young ladies. This rolls
upward all around, except in q sharp
point ON the left side. The brim need
not be covered il the straw is we'll
sewed-that is, il it is hand-sewed, and
there are no very long stitches in view
and full thick feathers are the onlv
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THE BLACKsMITEs s0N0.

Taruuss the essewe nj roseats dawn .-
Already steals with cheering ray,
Let's TO the turse aud wake tho morn
I win boistruus voice ana joound layt
nellows, blow. and furnace, smoked
liead tho glowing metal sloul
Hammer fall with telling atrukct
sing TO my Nvyu merry sune' ,.r.
Strike while Tho iroh's hosw IA
strike SArli Tia tor your chubby boy,
Who a. hiH mother fuudly clMra
And trills Bis eooins note OF Joy.
Thnnka 60 the sweat that bathes my faoo,
Tue pathn ut learning he shall tread,
AMI knowledge make her dwelling plnoo
Within my daritux's fair young hoadt
Labor unto the heart gives ease,
n AsS asS. n. ass sas ssssas sss SfeaS %s ;See See
My wife, my household deity,
Our hands were neyer fprmed 90 mako
Muskctn or sword blades, bolts or chntus,
oud Eave vs nruts for labors ,nke,
oar minds Ito ror Loves WORK or'iainsl
Now all WIN day by day pursue
sunto darling hope, Humc cherished cud-
Old hearts, whu have but power IN vicwi
Young hearts, who Lovessou call attends
You. who would wiola the pen or swori-
eNHea and tools, pvasants and klnss-
II you' 4 succeed, take ~ the word
OF wisdom what my anyii rtnEs,
strike whilp Tho iruil's hotl"
-TtuNsldted From an O'd ffvnch Song.
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"a There is an unnecessary amount

1~ There is an unnecessary amount
OF squealing among the patriots who
are suspected of connection with the
Star-route" business. If they are
innocent they. can afford to wait the
vindication which is sure to come. The
Administration is making the investiga-
tion in thoroughly busnesslike man.
ner. and with no effort at dramatic dis
play. No innocent man will be hurt,
and no guilty man can escape justice by
shrieking every few minutes that no u
innocent.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26

M The discovery Of the Hon. Will
lam III. Barnum's name as bondsman
under one of the most eXtravagant of
the "Star-route'' contracts excites emo
tions OF profound grief wherever that
pure patriot is known. He has un-
doubtedly been Imposed upon" again
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
How Girls are Made Straight.

The Hindoo girls are graceful and
exquisitely formed. From their earliest
childhood they are accustomed to carry
burdens on their heads The water for
family use is always brought by the
girls in earthen jars, carefully poised in
this way. The exercise is said to
strengthen the muscles OF the back,
while the chest is thrown forward. No
crooked backs are seen in HindoStan.
DR.. II. Spry says that this exercise Of
carrying small vessels of water on the
head might be advantageously intro
duced into boarding-schoOls and private
families, and that it might entirely
supersede the present machinery Of
dumb bells, blackboard, skipping ropes,
etc. The young ladies ought to be
taught to carry the jar as these Hindoo
women do, without ever touching it
with their hands The same practice
of carrying water leads precisely to the
same results in the south of Italy as in
India. A Neapolitan female peasant
will carry on her head a vessel full of
water to the very brim over a rough
road and not spill drop of it, and the
acquisition of this art or knack gives
her the same erect and elastic gait.
The Albany IN. W Argus says:
An unpretentious-looking little COW was
led through this city yesterday after
noon, en- route to the farm of Mr.. Eras-
tus Corning. The animal was purchased
by MIR. Corning Of Mr.. Burns, at Mid
dletown, Herkimer County, whence she
came to this city by express. She is of
the Jersey breed, is five years old, and
bears the handsome name of "Gold
Thread" 1t is claimed that twenty
three per cent. of her milk is cream,
and that she can produce eighteen
pounds of butter per week. 1t is un-
derstood that she was purchased for
Mr.. Corning's private use, and that the
sum paid for her was fifteen hundred
dollars.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26

"A new floral fancy is to substitute
. blossoming bough for the flower bell
used at wedding ceremonies.
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n. n. GOODWIN
b u I L D e r.


HIRAM ALLYN,
Practical builder and JObber.
Piaus and specifications fer al kinds of bull l.
ins1 fuTuisAea 70 order asd sstisfao,ion yusran-
esss sids HsiIruad street, neat 20 T. Doland's
6nSrinGo IsReosy. -
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26

VRsAC1o4s
I ". HOUGHTON,
Dealer In
SPECTAClES, EYE GLASSES,
Readlng Glasses,
OPERA 0LASSES, TELESCOPES,
And full line Of
o PIT @ L GOOD s.!
Gold. Silver. Steel, Rubber and
Celluloid Frames of the Finest Grades
Kept In stock.
Rsnnins and Repairing Old Frames done 70
order.
FITTING DIFFICULT EYES
A speoialty.
oass, WET sIDE PUBLIC SQUARE
, 1881-03-09
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all reached shore safely on Saturday the 18th.
The vessel is the A. F. Bots ford, from
Newport with Goals. The Captains name is
Atkinson.
Yours truly,
g.. r. BRANCH.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12
Tuesday Morning, April 12, 1881.
A BETTER WAY.

It is evident that the United States can
 learn something from Canada in the matter
 of managing Indians It has been the GUS
 tom in this country to hold whole tribe re-
 sponsible for the offenses of few members
 of the tribe, and it is needless to point out
 that in this way great injustice has been done
 to innocent men, women and children. In
 Canada the system is different. It discrimi-
 mates between the innocent and the guilty
 It arrests and punishes, so far as it can, those
 Indians, and those only who have actually
 been guilty of some offense against society and some infraction of the laws The pun ishment meted out is graded according to the crime. It is intended to be the same that white man would receive for similar of fense, except that the magistrates have ju- dicial discretion and may take into considera- ton, where circumstances seem to warrant it, the Indians inferior knowledge of legal penalties and the meagreness of his opportu- mites for thoroughly understanding his moral responsibility and his obligations to society. The system is said to operate in 8 very satisfactory manner.
 The Toronto Globe calls the attention of those in this country interested in the Indi- an problem to the working of the Canadian system, as shown in detail by the years re- port of the mounted police, and advises them to press it upon the observation of our gov ernment as the best means yet devised for the prevention of the bloodshed and inius- tice which have hitherto so disgraced our dealings with the red men. The Globe says: "The idea seems to have dawned upon the Indian that the policeman represents latent irresistible force, and that it would be better that the guilty man should suffer for his crime than that the whole village should be- come partner in his punishment. At first doubts were naturally entertained as to the practicability of this method of treatment. But as years have gone by it's success has become clear, and now the record of the punishment of Indian crimes is written, not in telegraphic dispatches telling of mur- dered settlers and bloody reprisals but in the prosaic form of 8 return in a blue book showing the criminal cases tried before the officers of the force'"
 There is apparently no reason why the plan which has been so successful in Canada should not work in the United States. It is based on justice, and could be understood by ,ur Indians, which is more than can be said for the policy that has been pursued. It de- serves the careful consideration of those in
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12

malls, such as rats and rabbits it's effect be- ing that of simple irritant, producing no more inflammation than would the same amount of acetic acid under the same conti- tions Lastly, upon my own skin only a slight redness is produced by the application of this fluid.
 From these experiments think we may justly conclude that this secretion. which European naturalists call in the Buffo Yul- garis Common toad of Europe) the ''venom, ]" is in the Buffo Americanus incapable of pro- ducing in man, even when brought in con- tact with an abraded surface, more than a very slight degree of local inflammation. The use of this secretion is, evidently, to pro- tect the animal from the attacks of carnivc rous animals. It is well known fact that 8 dog will not take toad in his mouth This is because his tongue and lips are burnt by the acid fluid, and he has learned by experience it is best to leave toads alone.
 But not only is the toad not venomous, it IS most useful little animal, eating in a single summer thousands of injurious insects, thus ridding the farmer of one of his great est enemies.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12
FOR SPRING HATS.
"Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just, :" And four times he who gets his blow in fust.

ssThrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just" And four times he who gets his blow in fust The man who wears fleece lined stocking is apt to feel down at the heel.-LoaceH Cstt- zen.
 tooth-pulling shop is known as sore gum manufactory.-PhtladeEp Chronicle HerGld.
 Adam ought to have said Hardly Eve, J when he was tempted to bite the apple.-he- 0ltatk Consultation.
 Cupid used to bring down his game with noiseless arrows; now he shoots with bang. -CourIer- Journal
 Some one who has lately been in Chicago has written for Louisville paper the follow ing rhymes, which have more.feet than most ''poems :"
 A Kansas City evangelist wears bright feathers in his hat. huge green goggles over his eyes, and at his belt a can of water, with which to baptize converts before they have time to backslide.
 Wife of an Episcopal clergyman to her washwoman: "Well, Bridget, how did you like the sermon, Sunday ?'' Bridget: I'll was beautiful like to go to that church. It's so nice to see your husband curtseying around in his shroud." '" ''Are you not afraid that the Lord will vis- it you with his wrath ?' said clergyman to profane man. Certainly not" replied the profane man. sHe doesn't know I'm swearing, and I can prove it by John, 1x, 31." The parson looked up the text and found: "Now we know that God heareth not sinners"
 Her life was slowly ebbing away and her inconsolabie husband was weeping silently though copiously by the deathbed. "Hen- ry'' she faltered, as he bent his ear to catch the precious words, fin this solemn moment I feel superior to all the weaknesses of my sex-to all selfish considerations. For tie sake of our poor motherless babes, Henry, for-for your sake, dear, promise me that our dear, good friend, Miss K--." "I promise darling.'' said Henry, thoughtfully, between his sobs Gin fact IT had already thought of it.
 Lift them up tendcrly
 Handle with care
 Fashioned eienderly,
 beautiful pair
 Look at those number tWelves,
 sight in themselves! Made from two ox-hides, the truth must tell: Made Q young girl, Chicago belle
 How were her fathers feet |?
 How were her mothers?
 How her sisters feet I?
 How were her brothers?
 What had this maiden done
 That she should merit it :?
 Was it judgment
 Or did she inherit it Alas for the rarity of Christian charity,
 Scarcer than pearls And o it is pitifu1 to see whole city full
 Of big footed girls.
 Look at the maiden's shoesi
 Look at the shoe laces
 Laces like clothes-lines
 Pass through the holes; And the droves of horned cattle in passing around Look at her brcgans, then paw up the ground, Believing all the while, knowing full well The leather required for Chicago belle.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12
Is the Tead Venomous rD.f,,I, yu Caieo in the Tn7anendant


 Led by various statements in regard to the poisonous character of the European toad, during the past summer made number of experiments to ascertain whether its Amer ican representative was equally venomous. My plan of operating was simply to press upon one of the glands until 8 drop of fluid exuded, collect this on the point of lancet, and then, with few sharp scratches, usually on one of the limbs, inoculate the animal to be experimented upon. Toads vaccinated with their venom, or that of other toads, are unlike the venomous snakes which quickly die from the effects of their own poison should it be introduced into the blood-not in any way affected
 Upon reptiles, such as the tortoise, the fluid acts as a powerful irritant. The wound made by the lancet widens, sloughs and fin- ally leaves hard, round tumor, which is after time absorbed. To pigeons it is powerful poison. The part inoeulated be- comes swollen, purple. very hot. The pigeon, almost unable to stand, squats in corners, with shut eyes and rumpled feathers, refus- ing food. but drinking much water. In one upon which operated the whole outer muscles of the leg sloughed away; but it, like all have experimented on, recovered in afew weeks. s
 This secretion has in my hands proved to be almost harmless in it's action upon mant
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12
3omnI ano Gourier.

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