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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

head are able to communicate with
each other as quickly and intelligibly
as can be wished. 80 80.
John Duncan, a poor Scotch weaver,
has presented the University of Aber-
deem with his herbarium of nearly L.
200 British plants, collected by him
while moving about as harvest laporer
over the southern districts of Scotland
and the north of England. In his ex-
treme old age, this self-educated de-
votee of science is dependent on parish
relief.
DR.. Theobold lately exhibited a
beetle at a scientific meeting, giving
these figures to illustrate its physical
strength: Weight of beetle, two grains ;
weight moved by it, oIa ounces, ,320
times the weight of the beetle. A man
of $50 pounds weight, endowed with
the strength of this insect, should there
fore be able to move l?S,000 pounds, or
nearly 100 tons.
In an essay upon the nutritive value
of fish, PI of. Atwater gives this table
Taking medium beef at 100, we have, as
the food value of like weights of fish
free from bone; medium beef, 100; fresh
milk 23s; skinned milk, 1S5; butter
1924; cheese, l55 hens eggs, a.; Goldfish
fresh, 5S; founders, Co; halibut, SO;
striped bass, 10; mackerel, Sc; lake
trout, 9l cells, 95; shsd, 80; salmon
104; salt mackertl, III; dried cod
fish, 356.
An insect has DO lungs, states Mr.. j
G.. Wood. 1t respires after a manner
totally different from that of higher
animals. The "spiracles" admit all
into two tubes, which run along the
sides of the body. The insect does moi
breathe through its mouth or nose, bu
through the sides of its body. 1t has :
large number of brains through tn,
body, which explains why it is so diff
ficult 10 kill an insect. as each separate
brain has to be destroyed.
According to a recent work by Prof
Bischoff, an eminent Munich anatomist
the average weight of the human brair
is 1862 grammes for men and 1,2l:
grammes for woman. The difference
between the average brain-weight o
man and. woman thus amounts to ii;
grammes, or l0% per cent. The brain
weight of man exceeds that of all ami
mails except the elephant 1850 gram
mes) and the larger Cetaceae (2,50'
grammes). The brain-weight of til,
largest apes is hardly third Of mans
Prof. Bischoff's data comprise tn,
weights of brain of $50 men and "a
women.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Legal Notice.

ANNETT LAND AMI DAVID LAND. whose sup
posed residence is AZ Kmeo Washington County.
Kansas; ani JULIA SPECS and GEORGE L. SPECS.
whose supposed residence Is at Tabor, Fremont
County, Iowa: and ELLEN PACKARD and FREE
MAN PACKHED. whose supposed residence IS at
Ossawatt 'mie. Miami County, Kansas; and Hell
LEN FRANCISCO and EDWARD FRANCISCO.
whose supposed residence is at Stanwood. Me-
costa County Michigan, heirs at law of EBE-
MEIER PARSONS, deceased, viii take notice
that Walter T. Herrck Administrator Of the estate.
with the will annexed Of Ebenezcr Parson deceased,
the 2stl, day of January, A. d. 1881 filed his petit
ton in the PROBATE Court within and for the County
LOrain and State Of Ohio, alleging that the personal
OF said deceased 70 insufficient pay his debts
aud the charges OF administering his estate; that he
died seized In fee simple of the following described
real estate situate in Pittsned Township County of
Lorsin. and State Of Ohio, to wit: Being about 6Sx
of land from the east part of Lot No. hun
dred and thirty In said Township. be the same
less; also about Ssx of land taken from
the north part Of Lot No. hundred and fJrty
in said township. be the same more or less.
The prayer Of said petition is for the sale of said
premises for the payment OF The debts and charges
aforesaid. The persons above mentioned will take
notice that they have been made paroles defendant
said petition, and they required to answer the
before the 18th day of March, A. d. 1851.
WE HEGRIcK.
1876 Administrator of said Estate.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

JuTE culture is becoming one Of the
experiments that promises success in
different parts Of the Union. The plant
Is native CT India but adapted to the
warmer portions OF this country. 1t has
been raised in England but does not
ripen its seeds there. 1t 10 an annual
raised from seed, and grown under the
same conditions that rice can be raised.
Bsgging, burlspe, curtain material and
carpeting are made from the fibre. which
10 DOW prepared by recently invented
machine, instead of by maceration Is
formerly. The plant grows from six to
twelve feet in hight, the fibre coming
from the limbs and upper part Of the
stalk
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

An industrious correspondent has just
fixed up another slate for the Cabinet, in
which Governor Foster is to he Post
master General. As making the story
appear more probable, it il said that
Lieutepant-G Governor Hickenlooper met
an old friend in the rotunda Of the capi-
toll. and. tapping him on the shoulder,
exclaimed, by God, I'm going to be
Governor Of Ohio, and don't Jon forget
it." Whatever may be the probabilities
a. indicated by the foregoing. we must
express hope that NO such disgrace 10
in store for the people of the State Of
Ohio. Setting aside the question OF the
morality of the language used BY the
Lieutenant Governor. any man whose
culture and gentility 10 on . plane with
. third-rate pothouse politician has NO
business to represent N a. Governor.
We even blush for the Republican party.
1t may not be required Of man TO be
religious, but he ought to be . gentle
man. We can better afford to dispense
with Governor Fosters services a. Post
master-Genersl than to have Hicken-
looper made Governor.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

TIE article STANDING by their Friends"
on our first page. ought to convince those
who have been skeptical on the question
Of Southern political methods that the
charges of fraud against the freedom and
purity of the ballot are true, since the
Charleston News openly and unblush.
ipgly admits 1t, and in lsbored article
defends 1t. On the same page, the arti-
Gle Gas to Carret-Baggers," very thor
oughly ventilstes the subject Of Carpet
bag rule in the South, and makes that
great Democratic war cry appear very
small and Insignificant. The fact a.
shown by the census Of 1870 that North
Carolina had 491 more Northern men
than in 1850; South Carolina 172; while
Georgia had 149 and Alabama sos less
than in 1850. makes the sad story Of op-
precision by Carpet-bag rule look like .
myth. And yet all of these States were
ovenun by what the South expressively
denominates "Northean larve" and COM
pares to the ecourge of locusts which
overrun Egypt. But statistics prove that
the average through the South would not
exceed n votes to county. The whole
thing is shown to be superlatively ridi.
culous. Our readers cannot afford to
neglect . careful examination of these
two articles, and II they have any Demo
cratic neighbors who are groaning in
spirit over the oppression OF their South
ern Democratic brethren BY carpet
bsggers, hand the paper to them. 1t
would appear incredible that 20 small .
matter could have raised such . political
tempest.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

By . motion to reconsider the vote
on the Local Option Bill, that measure
was again brought before the Legislature
and put upon its passage. when it WAS 30
efectually killed that it will not likely
be again resurrected. Now let us try
taxing the saloon business. That has
been found beneficial in other States BY
making 1t impossible for the lower class
Of saloons to continue. and thus reducing
the number by one-haH or two-thirds,
and compelling the others to contribute
toward paying the expenses resulting
from the liquor trafnc.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

The most striking Things IN the March
ST. Nicholas are Mrs. Oliphant's ad-
mirable paper giving the touching .tory
of ''Lady Jane Grey" ito be followed in
Ar.ril by the companion article on
"Mary. Queen of ScOts'') an illustrated
account of TWO sturdy Iceland boys and
their desperate Encounter with Al
Polar Bear; "Mary Jane Describes 6
Herself." an illustrated autobiograpi v
of n Sunday-school scholar; a new in
door amusement Called 1.-The Magic
Dance; an incident of Adeline Patii's
childhood, when travelling in the
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Reliability.

The little boy who goes to market and
forgets nothing for which he had been
sent, who goes down street on errsnds
for father or mother and comes back
again with the errxnd done, proves that
he has valuable business faculty, and
one of the most necessary elements OF
character fer success as . man. The
road to failure is macsdamized with
good intentions. "Iforgot" or II meant
to do IL" 10 slender consolation for the
neglect Of important responsibilities. and
'1 was just sgoing to do IL" when the
opportunity or the necessity il past. and
doing at all il Of no use, is in all cases
provoking, and in some instances crimi-
nal. A pilot WAS ordered to take his
place at the wheel. He took his time
for it, what was the hurry, now they
were fairly out at seat The "little more
sleep and little moro slumber" In this
instance cost eleven men their lives. A
fishing smack was run down and its crew
went under in that few moments when
there was no one ct the helm. The
highest positions In life all involve I'm
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Scene in the Wellington High
School

/" First Glass in Ancient History, atten-
tion Who was Joseph ?"
1.-THE son of his father"
Why did he go down to Egypt ?"
90 For the same reason that we come to
school he couldn't help himself"
"Why did his father present him with
a coat of many colors :"
Because he did not have time to
come to Fi:ch's and get coat in
style" 90
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

carefully revised list of their names and
them with each other, SO
that all may be on their guard and thus
compel them to starve, steal, or work
for living, and pay as they go. There
is no more pitable sight than human
being shorn Of honesty and manliness,
stooping away down and offering to
sell his soul for little bill of a few
dollars ;worming, ,wrigglin9 and playing
sycophant, hypocrite and sneak rather
than assume the honorable conditions
and duties of manhood. A VICTIM.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

THE Woman's Repository Of Cleve-
land for the term Of two months ending
Feb. 9th report that lit women have de-
posted articles for sale. 497 articles
have been sold, bringing t50s .O2 in caah.
They have still $s75. 90 worth Of articles
on hand. Their lunch table has brought
In $2S. 100.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

Tm cotton crop Of South Carolina 10
believed to be the largest ever grown in
that State. 1t Is said that total failure
never occurs with them, though the
natural yield is not equal to the growth
on the virgin coil Of Arkansas and
Texas, but these States are liable to dis
sstrous seasons in which the crop il An
entire loss.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
W. RouearoH. \. II. aoueHron. Hdissrs.

THE Atlantic Monthly has not been
paying expenses the last year hy $sO.-
600, and Mr. Howells will retire from the
Management, and T. B. Aldrich take his
place; Mr.. Howells continuing to con-
tribute.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

Brainard's Musical World has enter
ed upon the eighteenth year Of its exis-
rence, and is well known as the best
musical magazine in the United States.
You can obtain specimen copy of the
Musical World" by sending 10 cents
to the publishers, S. Brainard's Sons.
Chicago, Illinois. The regular subscri-
ption price is 81. so per year.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24

United States, in 1854, with Old Bull
and Maurice Strakosch. There are
more than fifty illustrations, a page of
music, and an Anglo Chinese story for
the boys and girls to interpret.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Good Advice.

If you keep hour stomach, liver and
kidneys in perfect working order, you
will prevent AMI cure by far the greater
part of the ills that affiict mankidd in
this or any other section. There Is no
medicine known that will do this as
quickly or sursly as Parker's Ginger
Tonic, which will secure perfect ma
tural action of these important organs
without interfering in the least with
your daily duties. See adv. 23-4
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Fees of Docfora

The fee of doctors is an item that very
many personi are interested in Just at
present. We believe the schedule for
visits is $500, which would tax a man
confined to his bed for a year, and in
need ofa daily visit, over 81 900 a year
for medical attendance alone! And
one single bottle of Hop Bitters taken
in time would save the 81 600 and all
The years cickness.-Post.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Hair Goods,

Mrs. E. p. Baird is prepared to do all
kinds of Hair Work. Cleansing and re-
pairing Switches on short notice. Keeps
ON sale Switches. Curls, Puffs, Crimping
Pins, Invisible Hairpins, etc.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
Correspondence.

We wish 70 be distinetly understood that We do
hold ourselves respunsble for opinions ex-
pressed BY our cerrespondests-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
uNDERTAKING

Made a specially. We guarantee to keep
bodies any reasonable length of time. Fine
Collins and Caskets, Shrouds, etc, kept cor
stantly on hand. Hearse with attendant
had on short notice from the country. AL
the details Of funerals carefully attended to
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-24
STATE OF OHIO,
Insurance Department.
CoLUNBrs, Jan. 81, 1851.
WHEREAS. The
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.,

located a, Hartford. in the state of Connecticut.
has nj u In thi- Office sworn statement, by
the proper officers thereof. showing 5 condition
and business and has complied In all respects with
h. laws o. this state. relating to Fire Insurance
Companies neorp ated by other States of the United
States.
Now. therefore. In pursuance of law. ], j. r.
WRIGHT. superintendent of lnsui of the state of
Ohio do hereby certify. that said Company is author
lied TO transact Its appropriate business Of Fire.
Ins fn this stat. in accordance with
law. during the The condition and busi-
ucss of said Company NJ the date OF such statement
december q. 1850 Is sh5vn as follows:
Aggregate of avail able Assets 81 t53 33 6i
Aggregate amount of Liabilities lexcept
capitaD including rS-insurance....... 9lS 154 al
Net ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Z, $50 2sS %
Amount OF actual paid up capt e. l 10 "
Surplus, aao. 21s 9c
Amount OF income for the year in CASH.. .0 II
Amount of Expenditures for the year in
cash l. 5s7 So 10
In witness whereof. have hercunto subscribed my
NAME ana caused the Seal of my office be
the day and year above written.
JOSEPH WRIGHT, Supt,
W. r. DUR RsND. agent a: oherlu.
". II. SAGE & Co., agents at wellington
J. H. BoYNToN, agent at Eiyria.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-30
Duck Hunting With a Club.

A colored man by the name of Ike
Simpson was seen standing on a street
corner, leaning on an immense club.
"What's yer doing dar, Ike ?" asked
Sam Smith, another darky.
else out duck hunting" responded
Simpson.
"What sorter ducks?"
"Wild ducks, OBJ course"
'sAnd sposin' wild ducks was to light
about heah, what would you kill 'em
wid?"
ovid dis here club" said Ike, swing
ING it over his head in a most alarming
manner.
"Wen, you is de biggest fool on Gal
weston island, sure" said Sam Smith.
"Not much I amt. Use gwine to rake
in dead coolies of wild ducks right heah
on dis corner. I'll bet you foah-dollar
hat I captures noah den a dozen wild
ducks on dis heah corner wild dis heah
short-range club" and once more Ike
swung the club to the great discomfort
of Sam Smith,
The bet was taken and now Ike sports
a fine new hat. When asked how he
managed to get the ducks, he explained
"You knows dat old niggah Moves,
what Ibis down on de island? Well, he
borrowed new saddle wuff $40 from me
befoah de wah, and he hain't neber
fetched it back yit. I heerd he was in
town wild wagon-load Of ducks for sale,
so I jess laid foah him on de corner wild
club, and you bet I kerlected de whole
amount, wild interes' to date, in ducks.
I has clared noah den$25 off dem ducks
already. "-GalUesto,s NeaUs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-30
Architecture in America.

In various parts of America there is
evidence Of the presence of good archi.
tects, and even Of good decorative artists.
Frank Furness has made himself felt at
Philadelphia, Lyman Silsbee at SYRIA
cuse, and Robert Peabody in and around
Boston. by the way, how happens it
be sons Of Unitarian clergymen?] But
generally the noble public buildings in
America put to shame the private resi-
dences. The chief want appears to be
a greater attention to household archi-
lecture. In and around both Cincinnati
and st. Louis I saw a large number Of
houses that might. have been made beau
tiful, and at the same time cost third
less than the expense evidently incurred.
It does not seem to be realized in many
American cities that it is large part of
the art of trained architect to save
money for his employer. Ii any one will
stop long enough in the city Of Syracuse,
N. Y, to take stroll OR drive through
it's streets, especially James street
(Which, notwithstanding its plebeian
name, is one of the prettiest streets in
the world), he will see more beautiful
homes than can be picked out from Gin
cinnati. Chicago and st. Louis all to-
gether. Yet Syracuse has only $4,000
Inhabitants, and few of them wealthy,
according to the standard Of the three
more western cities have named. But
Syracuse happens to have young archi-
tects who have studied their art and
mystery amid the most beautiful houses
and villas Of Europe; they have learned
that the best features of these can be
combined for yet more beautiful effects !;
and they have learned that taste and
skill go farther than money toward the
construction of beautiful residence
Moncure ID. ConW0y's London letter
to Cincinnati Commercial.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-30
How She Kept the Secret.

There are several people living in
Tarrytown, N. Y, who remember the
captors of Andre. A rather diverting
incident connected with his capture is
related by New York paper, showing
the excitable temper of those old war
times. Every movement was critical,
and news travelled too slowly to be kept
long after it was received.
Mrs. See, an old woman living on the
Bedford road, about two miles from the
Tarrytown depot, tells picturesque
tale of events succeeding the capture of
Mai. Andre, as it was told her by the
participants.
The men-called "Skinners'
captured Andre went directly to Mug
Tavern" near White Plains-a hosiery
presided over by Aunt Polly Reed. Aunt
Polly was notorious for her curiosity and
inability to keep a secret.
While the ham and eggs were sizzling
in the pan for the hungry "Skinners,
Aunt Polly was struggling to ascertain
the identity of the melancholy young
stranger, who was SO handsomely clothed
in blue overcoat, claret-colored coat,
and nankeen waistcoat and breaches.
Finally Paulding seized her by the wrist
and drew her close to him.
"Can you keep secret q
"Yesi'' stammered the old woman,
with hardly suppressed eagerness.
"We've got British spy"
In three minutes the old woman had
intrusted household cares to her girl,
saddled her white horse, and was gallop-
ing off to the next house, in place then
called Twitchings." The "Skinners"
finished their meal, and departed
toward Twitchings." AS they APP
preached the house they caught sight of
Aunt Polly flying up the road on her
white horse, daylight showing between
herself and the saddle at every leap.
Her hair streamed out behind. In one
hand she swung her huge poke-bonnet
by the strings, while she shrieked in
shrill, quavering voice,
"They've got the spy! They've got
the spy p
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-30
ZerO,S History.

"ZerO," on the common thermome-
ter. like the fanciful names of the con-
stellations, is a curious instance of the
way wise mems errors are made immor-
tai by becoming popular. 1t may be
worth while to say that the word itself
(zero) comes to us through the Spanish
from the Arabic, and means empty;
hence, nothing. In expressions like
$50 deg. Fahr.," the Authorization
Fahr." stands for Fahrenheit, Prus-
sian merchant of Dantzic, on the Baltic
sea. His full name was Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit. ."
From boy he was close observer Of
nature, and when only 10 years old, in
the remarkably cold winter of 1709, he
experimental by putting snow and salt
together and noticed that it produced
degree of cold equal to the coolest day
of the year. And that day was the cold
est day the Oldest inhabitant could re-
member. Gabriel was the more struck
with the coincidence of his little scien-
tiic discovery, and hastily concluded
that he had found the lowest degree of
temperature in the world, either natural
or artificial. He called the degree zero,
and constructed thermometer, or rude
weather-glass, with scale graduating
up from zero to boiling point, which he
numbered 212, and the freezing point
32-because, as he thought, mercury
contracted the thirty second of its vol
ume on being cooled down from the
temperature of freezing water to zero,
and expanded 100th on being heated
from the freezing to the boiling point.
Time showed that this arrangement,
instead of being truly scientific, was as
arbitrary as the division of the Bible in
to verses and chapters, and that these
two points no more represented the real
extremes of temperature than from
Dan to Beersheba" expressed the exact
extremes of Palestine.
But Fahrenheit's thermometer had
been widely adopted with its inconven-
lent scale, and none thought of any bet
ter until his name became an authority,
for Fahrenheit finally abandoned trade
and gave himself up to science.
The three countries which use Fahren-
heit are England, Holland and America.
Russia and Germany use Runners Their
mometer, in which the boiling point is
counted so degrees above the freezing
point. France uses the centigrade Their
mometer, so-called because it marks the
boiling 100 degrees from freezing point
On many accounts the centigrade system
is the best, and the triumph of conven-
fence will be attained when zero is made
the freezing point, and when the boiling
point is put up 100 or 1000 degrees
from it, and all the subdivisions are
fixed decimally.
If Fahrenheit had done this at first,
or even if he had made this one of his
many improvements after the public bad
adopted his error, the luck of oppor-
tunity, which was really his, wdAld have
secured to his invention the patronage
of the world.