The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A .canalboat on the Erie Canal
makes SIX trips q season between New
York and Buffalo.
Twenty sudden deaths in New York
City were investigated by the coroners
In one day recently.
Congressman Brown, of Georgia,
gets one thousand dollars a day from
bis iron and coal works.
There are neither dressmakers nor
milliners in Brazil. Yes, we'd kind o.
like to live there.-Detrot Free Press.
The increase of insanity among the
colored people in Georgia Is one Of the
most alarming problems now presented
in that State.-Chicago Times.
-Nebraska has one woman minister,
one woman lawyer, six women county
superintendents, and ten women physi-
clans. Many women are engaged in edi-
torial work.
"A butcher in Pougkeepsie killed an
OK few days ago, and on opening its
paunch found therein a five hundred
dollar certificate of stock in the Pough-
keepsie bridge.-Poughkeeps IN ~
Eagle.
The San says the vast increase Of
wealth of the last twenty-five years in
New York City has bred variety Of
youth which is as uninteresting as it is
lamentably deficient, both morally and
intellectually.
A Detroit tailor advertises: s.Per-
sons leaving the city for the summer
resorts can have their statements of ac-
count promptly forwarded by leaving
their address. State to what street and
number last postal card was sent" -
Detroit Post.
The man who gets on street car
on o rainy day and sits down between
two passengers with his India rubber
coat dripping all over them may be a
Christian, but he promotes profanity as
much as the young man who rocks the
boat.-Milton Ne,0s.
The Brooklyn IN II Eagle claims
to have attained, on the day of the
bridge opening, the greatest circulation
ever reached by an American Journal.
Overe 250,0 600 copies of the paper were
printed and sold between morning and
night, and the presses were again set
in motion to supply the demand.
-Harper's Weekly thinks it has heard
nothing about the bridge opening any
funnier than that about the Irishman
who, at q Victoria-birth-day-o
protest meeting, finding that his appeal
would be abortive, snapped his fingers
with gesture signifying that he would
brace against it mo longer and exclaimed,
Let the farce go on!N
-Itis believed that Lydia Pinkham' S
advertisements were on greater scale
than those of any one, Holloway, of
London, excepted, whose charitable
endowments amount to $3.50, 600. News
papers can be seen at Holloway's which
can be found nowhere else in London,
as those containing his advertisements
are forwarded from the remotest parts OF
the globe. e.-Indidndpolis Journal.
Woman suffrage prevails in Utah
with vengeance, and every Mormon
woman votes as the President of the
church from the pulpit of the tabernacle
tells her 10. Every ballot is numbered,
and the number is set upon the registra-
ton books beside the name of her OF
him who casts it. Woe be to the
Mormon who votes anything but the
straight ticket-C Chicago Net1s.
Colonel C. J. Carraway, citizer
| of Polkton, N. c., put an advertisement
| in the Baltimore Sun few weeks ago
wanting wife. A day or two after the
| advertisement appeared Colonel Car
i raway received letter from a Baltimore
lady, inclosing her photograph with 6
description of herself, and he was Sc
pleased with itall that he concluded tc
go to Baltimore and see the lady il
| person. BE went last week, and wher
be returned he brought the lady home
with him, having married her.-Ch1T'
| lotte Journal.
| The Humane Society cannot deco
rate him with medal, but it can erect
monument to Henry Parish, of Bow
ling Green, Va, who saved the life O
his invalid brother last Wednesday a
the sacrifice of his own. The residence
was discovered to be on fire, and all O
the family escaped as soon as the alarm
was given except one son, a cripple four
teen years old. As soon as he was missed
Henry, boy of eighteen, dashed into the
building, and was for some time sup
posed to be swallowed up in the flames
but finally reappeared, bearing hi:
cripple brother in his arms. He was 81
badly burned and so completely ex
hausted, however. that he died within 8
short time Chicago Inter Ocean.