The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Czar is about to reorganize his
army on the German system
jim" Keene. the stock broker,
was once . stationery peddler in San
Francisco. He saved little money
and put it in the Savage Mine just as Il
was being "pooled,l and he thereby
cleared nearly 1000, 900.
"A woman teacher in Georgetown,
Mass, was driven out of her school by
the sight of q loaded pistol in the hand
of q pupil she had reprimanded. but she
met one of the committee at the door
and he went in and disarmed the boy.
"A tract Of land in Oregon. between
the waters of the Santiam and Clack-
alnas. about twenty by ten miles in di-
mensions, Is covered by dense forest
of larches. The trees grow from 250 to
800 feet in height, many of them rising
$50 feet withouta = limb. -
jay Gould's greenhouses, at his
summer residence on the Hudson, which
were burned ten months ago, have all
been rebuilt. They are 372 feet long
by eighty wide. and it requires sixteen
men, 250 tons of coal and five large
furnaces to transform the freezing air
to tropical during the winter season.
BEN Hilliard, of Washington Coun-
ty, Ga, Is perhaps the greatest sufferer
in the world. he has been thirty-three
years in his bed. enduring the most ex-
cruciating agony from rheumatism,
unable to move any part of his body ex-
cept his lower jaw and to slightly shrug
his shoulders. For all those long years
of suffering his joints have been as stiff
as If grown together solid. 10y j
One of the most fashionable New
York amusements is "a horse hop;"
that is, some society woman engages |
the riding grounds and horses, and then |
invites twenty-five or fifty of her friends |
to be present. Two or three hours are
spent in cantering, galloping and dam
the guests adjourn to the house of their |
hostess, where they find an elegant |
supper. -TEW ~ ~ q TsSI
Henry Clay. a grandson Of the
famous bearer, of that name. went to
Greenland year or SO ago. with the
purpose. of joining the Howgate expe-
dition there. The expedition, like
Captain Aowgate, was a failure, and
MIR. Clay was left toslook for the north
pole on his own hook. He did so, trav-
eled great deal by dog-team and got
enough of it. He has Just reached his
home in Kentucky.
I'm some parts of the Maryland pen
insula the following is believed to be q
sight cure for chills and fevers: q live
spider is caught and placed in shim-
bLe, and a cloth tied over securely to
keep it confined. The thimble is sus-
pended around the neck of the afflicted
person until the spider dies, which not
only cures, but prevents the chills. Ii.
will doubtless tickle the spider to learn
that he is worth anything to nybody.
AT the recent funeral of the Earl Of
Airlie, in Scotland, Lady Airlie followed
the coffin, leaning on the arm of her
eldest son, Lord Airlie having been
chief OF the clan Ogilvy, the procession
was headed by the pipers, who played
the Portuguese Hymn" and ..rhe
Land o. the Leal." while, before 1T
started. the pipers of Lord Breadalbane
and other noblemen played in front of
the Castle. The pibrochs were rLoeh-
aber no More" and ''Glengarry's La
ment."
Various cases of poisoning from the
use of perfumes have been reported in
recent English journals. In one in
stance little girl had bought some
heliotrope perfume at u bazar, and had
applied it on her face. This caused q
vesicular eruption, swelling, itching,
and in fact erysipelas, which lasted for
some time. The scent was made with
some of the products of coal tar. and
not with the odoriferous principles of
plants, thus acquiring its irritating
| properties
-Bradhaur accepted an invitation to
dine with Frohberg at Columbia, ). c.
The meal passed pleasantly, and a bot
tie of wine was drunk. The subject of
baptism came up. and one held that I'M
mersion was the only proper mode,
while the other argued that sprinkling
answered the purpose quite as well.
| They grew earnest and then angry,
Bradhaur withdrew in a rage, Froh-
berg followed him into the dooryard.
where his antagonist stabbed him with
knife. Frohberg hastily got a gun
and shot Bradhaur. The baptismal
| question, however, was not settled.
Wise County, w. Va, is underlaid
with rich mines of GOAL and iron. lying
side by side, without intervening bar
riers. This is the report of a compe-
tent geologist who has made careful
examination of the strata in that re-
gion. On this assurance of what has
long been believed, Pittsburgh capital
lists have bough. &c, 900 acres OF land in
the heart of the mining region. and
railroads will be hult SO as TO bring
/ this new natural wealth within reach Of
| the commercial world. The coal, which
is abundantly distributed, is said to
yield the purest coke Tor carbon) that
has been prouuced in this country, The
locality OF these great mines Ia near the
frontiSrs of Kentucky and tennessee,
outside the line of existing railroads.
They will not long remain isolated.
/; DIR. Tuttls, of Naugatuck, Conn.,.
lost q valuable horse in a most singular
manner. His two horses stood side by
side in the stable as they have done for
years; but the ether morning one of
them was found bleeding at the mouth,
and the manger and stable floor were
covered with gore. Investigation showed
th&t in some way the other horse had
gotten hold of the wounded animai's
tongue and literally pulled it out by the
roots. The tongue was found in the
other horses manger with plain teeth
marks upon it. The horses were wont
to nip at each other in play, and it is
supposed that one got hold of the others
tongue as if it had been bit of rope
or other inanimate substance. The in
jpred horse was killed to end its sui-
ferings.
"A singular criminal case has Just
been tried at Berlin. Some time ago
Prince Eristof, Russian, called on q
firm of jewellers in that city, and under
false pretences induced them to send
to his hotel articles to the value of about
5000 marks, for which he also per-
suaded the hotel porter to advance In
payment tho sum of 5000 marks. Thus
possessed Of the jewelry the Prince sold
part of it and was about to depart from
the Eastern Station for st. Petersburg
when he was arrested on suspicion at
the instance of the confiding porter.
The counsel for the defense stated that
the hotel porter had been paid the
money ha had advanced and that the