The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

pipes, az u minute D. Warnlng.-OOStOH
Post.
"A writer in the Contemporary Re
Uietc says of American cities: "There is
the most extravagance in New York, the
most comfort in Philadelphia, the most
philanthropy in Boston, the most eti-
quette in Washington"
They have finally concluded not to
make an inland sea of the great Sahara
Desert. One reason is because it is 900
feet above the ocean, and water doesn't
run up hill even in barbarian countries.
-Det oil Free Press.
Partisan duelists have got down to
using clubs instead of rapiers. From
clubs, by easy gradations to stuffed clubs,
after which the one insulted will have to
content himself with making faces at his
opponent.-Indi0adpo Journal.
When a man speaks of woman he
raves over her beauiful complexion, her
delicately-cut features, her glossy hair,
and all that sort of thing. When q
woman wishes to describe one of her sex
she simply tells what she had on. Each
particularizes what each values the
highest Chicago Journal.
"A Kansas paper gravely accuses a
mail route agent, recently discharged for
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proportionate to the size of the twn, and
throwing them of, regardless of the des-
| tination of the matter, 80 that by the
time he reached the Colorado line he.had
no mail with which to serve Colorado.
Native merchants in Mexican cities
| complain that their Yankee competitions
who are becoming numerous, are disre-
| garding the old custom of closing the
stores between eleven o'clock and three
every day in hot weather. The lazy
Mexicanss are compelled to lose either
their siesta or considerable trade.-N. y.
Sun.
Willie and Jennie Ridge, he thir-
teen and she seven, drew seven dollars of
their fathers money from a New Haven
savings bank and disappeared. They
were, found two days later wandering
about the streets of Hartford, and as
tonished that their fund should so soon
be exhausted by the expenses of travel.
-Net0 HdUen Register.
The children of Donaldson, the lost
aeronant, are at present hvingin Roches-
| ter with Mr.. Keller, q well known
printer. They were boarding with him
at the time of their fathers tragic death,
and since then he has cared for them as
his own. There are two of them, a boy
and girl, aged respectively ten and
twelve years.-N. Y. Post.
Two Sunday excursion managers
who were lately arrested at New Haven,
i Conn, have been released by Judge
Studley, on the ground thatth statutory
prohibition does not merely imply ply
sical and absolute necessity, and that
some things may be necessary and merci-
full in a crowded city that would be
neither in farming district
Inventor Edison tells a reporter that
he does not believe submarine tele-
phone comes within the region of posi-
bilities He says: "The present condi-
ton of the art will not permit sound to
be audible by submarine or underground
conveyance more than a few miles. II
is all they can do to talk across the Eng
lish channel, and that with the very
best instrument yet constructed"
AT Fish Greek, N. Y, is a driven
well ninety-eight feet deep. When il
was driven it first threw water and gravel
forty feet high or more, and still it has q
very heavy pressure and never freezes
The water contains magnesia, salt, and
| sulphur, and has a very peculiar taste
This well emits gas which burns equal
to any manufactured illuminating gas
giving brilliant, clear fame, without
smoke or offensive odor.
The city of Texarkana is a phenom
email city. 1t lies in tie two States oi
Texas and Arkansas, hence its name
The State line runs through the center oi
its chief street, and on each side is a pop
ulation of three thousand, though only
eight years old. Four railroad lines cen
ter there 1t has an Italian-like climate
trapps are not tolerated, the Sunday law
is enforced, money is plenty and the peo
pie are prosperous.-N. Y. Timss.
A story comes from Staunton, Va,
that one day recently a stranger askeC
Chief of Police Walters if he knew of &
Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey in that city, ex
planning that he had, twenty-five year
before, when boy eight years old, rur
away from his home in Staunton, anC
had not heard from his family since
Capt Walters knew the lady, and tool
the stranger to the house, and there wa,
joyous meeting of mother and son.
i'm certifying to the death of Mr.
James J. Sullivan in New York recently
DR.. Willard Parker declared that b,
died from poisoning the system witt
tobacco" The deceased was twenty
six years of age, book-keeper, and haC
fused tobacco so constantly that his sys
tenn had become impregnated with nico
tine" and the significance of the matte
is that Mr.. Sullivan smoked cigarette
slmost exclusively, the empyreumatic oi
uniting with the nicotine, forming
deadly poison, resulting in this instanc
fatally, and at an early age.
A news item states that can Obi,
farmer who started for Sneighbor's t.
borrow some matches, about seventeen
years ago, has Just got back" WheI
neighbors live 30 far apart, it would saw
time to resort to the primitive method o
producing fire by rubbing couple o
pieces of wood together. Just fancy tn,
thoughts of that mans wife, as she sat il
the dark, night after night for seventeen
years, waiting for her husband to re
turnl More than once she inpatient.
exclaimed, "What keeps John, anyhow
He must have gone to China for then
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The census in Prussia, taken at tn
end of 1880, showed that among the pop
ulation of the kingdom there were 35
individualsover 100years of age, of whom
12S were men and 231 women, thirty-tw
men and five women being stiH married
There were 1856 individuals between
the ages of ninety and 100, 2,025 mel
and $3.50 women. The total number o
individuals born in the eighteenth cen
tury was "a, ,66S. Whether it is the eli
mate, mode of life, or that Spartan-lik
. severity which prohibits to the inhabi
tants of Prussia such emotional excite
ments, for example, as come from gamt
ling, certain it is that the conditions o
life there are eminently favorable 7
longevity.
The largest number of United State
vessels ever together at any place in tn
world was at Portsmouth Harbor one da
| recently. They were the Tennessee