The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-22
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OF GENERAL INTERESh

OF GENERAL INTERESh
Syracuse, N. Y, claims 70 bc the
residence of five hundred drummers
The Mayor of Saco. Me, refuses to
permit circus to enter that city on
Sunday.
Glass dishes filed with pond lilies
are now table decorations at Newport
dinner parties. Newport (R. ~ Jour
nal.
The very worst thing said of the
trade dollar was by the New York Morn
ing Journal in poem on the '.nl-Eagle
Dollar"
Montana is so infested by bears
that the authorities pay twenty-four
dollars for each scalp taken. Montana
has so, 600 inhabitants.
One vessel recently carried to Great
Britain from Canada 763 head of cattle
and 240 sheep. 1t was the largest
cargo of the kind ever shipped. - Chicago
Times.
The poor people of Donegal, Ire
land, to the number of 1900, are re-
ported by the editor of the British Medi-
icdl Journal to be living on two cents
worth of corn meal q day. They receive
the money to purchase it from America
Two gallons of good whisky were
poured down the throat of a captured
young alligator in Mississippi to see how
it would affect its organization. He
uttered 'shic" or two, wanted to fight
an old scow, giggled in silly manner,
and finally rolled over and went to
sleep.-DetroI Free Press.
Writing from British Columbia to
Forest and Stream, ]. G. Hughes says:
Pigs upon the clearwater rivers learn
to dive after the salmon lying dead on
the bottom of the streams, and the in
teresting sight may be witnessed of a
sow diving for q salmon, and, having
obtained 1t, taking it ashore for her lit
tie ones"
A sad case OF bereavement comes
from Camden, Oneida County, n. Y.
A man there has Just buried his sixth
wife. Her remains were inferred in the
same lot with her five predecessors,
who rest side by side. The afflicted
husband says he will never marry again,
because his burial lot is full.-Irog IN.
T. Times.
Massachusetts law allows an adjoin-
ing real estate owner to forbid the
granting of license to sell liquor. In
Gloucester saloon-keeper tried to evade
this provision by selling to friendly
third party strip foot wide from the
side of his premises next to the objector,
thus creating a new neighbor. But the
courts have decided that the trick is OF
no avail.-Boston Herald.
John Beach, of Bridgewater, Conn,
is about thirty years of age, and has
been confined to his bed for over halt
his life. Being also entirely unable to
hear, his mother converses with him
freely by the strange process of writing
with her fingers upon his cheek, which
he understands and answers. From
long practice they can converse in this
manner very freely.-Boston Post.
The bar of a Fall River (Mass. rum
seller was actually closed in unlawful
hours, but the suspicious officers observed
that he had numerous visitors in his resi-
dence- The house was searched several
times without finding the whisky which
it was clear the company was getting
but at length, on turning gas burner,
the beverage ran from the pipe, which
had been connected with barrel in the
groggery cellar.-N. Y. Sun.
"A device has been introduced at 8
Chicago hotel for the purpose of circum,
venting swindlers, Each guest receive:
a small round piece of cardboard or
which the number of the room he is tc
occupy is plainly marked. This he i:
obliged to present at the Office when
ever he desires his key. Another card
on which the name of the bearer il
written, is a pass for the elevator, anC
Is essential for q ride Both thes,
checks have to be returned to the cash
ier when the departing visitor pays hi
bilL-C Chicago Herald.
An incident of the celebration O
the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Cornelius, which took place a
their country place, near Philadel
phia, the other day, was the presence
of all the children and grandchildren
numbering twenty-three, who hav'
been born within the fifty years. The,
met a family in which, starting from
Robert Cornelius and wife, there ha
not been a single death. All are livin,
, and prosperous, and all were present
There has been no death within the fift,
years among those who married. thei
Fhtd Record.
"A card bearing the following in
structions hangs conspiciously upon tn
safe of one of the stores in Naugatuck
! Conn. ITO burglars: We keep n,
| IuOuCN III bhio 4hAS ID III III Z
only; our money is up to the house; com
: up. We have four shot-guns, tw,
rifles, three horse-pistols, and on
revolver, all loaded and ready for use
and warranted to kill at ten rods
Time spent here is time wasted. Verbun
salts sapienti." Then follows the figure
of the combination, so that If burgla
Is determined to get in anyway, he ca
> do SO in q decent manner, withou
| spelling the door.-Hdrtford Post.
Isaac Sassman, of Reading, Pa.
has lost two daughters by death in
somewhat strange manner. About fou
years agoa young man supposed to b
consumptive paid attentions TO the one
and after about a years courtship
, was noticed that she was in the sam
condition, shortly after which she died
About two years later the young ma
paid attentions to the younger daugh
!. ter, and after about years courtshi
she, toe, contracted the disease, fror
: the effects of which she died last week
1t is creating considerable talk, since
has been learned that the young man
at the point of death at Easton. 1t
professionally believed that the Misse
= Sassman caught the disease from in
halation of the breath of the youn
man, establishing the belief that cor
sumption is contagious to certain dc
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