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Bill Arp,s Baby Talk.

The poet hath said that ga baby in
the house is well-spring of pleasure. ~
There is q bran new one here now, the
first in eight years, and it has raised q
powerful commot.on. It's not our
baby, exactly, but it is in the line of
descent, and Mrs. Arp takes on over it
all the same as she used to when she
was regularly in the business. / thought
maybe she had forgot how to nurse 'em
and talk to 'em, but she is singing the
same old familiar songs that have sweet
ened the dreams of half score, and
she blesses the little eyes and sweet
little mouth, and uses the same infan-
tile language that nobody but babies
understand. For she says "tum here
to its danmudder," and s.bess its little
heart, and talks about its sweet little
footsy-tootsies, and holds it up to the
windows to see the wagons go by and
the wheels going rouny-pouny, and
now my liberty is curtailed, for as go
stamping around with my heavy farm
shoes she shakes her ominous finger at
me just as she used to do, and says
don't you see the baby is asleep. and so
l have to tip-toe around, and ever and
anon she wants little fire, or some hot
water. or little catnip, for the baby is
a-crying and surrey has got the collie.
The doors have to be kept shut now for
fear OF draft of air on the baby, and
little hole in the window-pane about
as big as dime had to be patched, and
have to hunt up a passel OF kin liugs
every night and put 'em where they
will be handy, and they have sent me
off to another room where the baby
can't hear me snore, and all things con-
sidered the la Y is running the ma
chine. and the well-spring Of pleasure
is the center of space
A grandmother is a wonderful help,
and a great comfort at such a time as
this, for what does a young mother with
her first child know about collie, and
thrash, and hives, and hiccups, and it
takes good deal of faith to dose 'em
with suet tea, and catnip, and lime water,
and paregoric, and soothing strip, and
sometimes with all OF these the child
gets worse, and if it gets better I've al
wavs had curiosity to know which
remedy it was that did the work. Chill
dren born of healthy parents can stand
a power of medicine and get over ii, fol
after the cry comes the sleep, and sleep
is a wonderful restorer.
Rock 'em awhile in the cradle, and
then take 'em up and ;olt 'em little
on the knee, and then turn 'em over and
jolt EN- on the other side, and then
give em some sugar in a rag, and after
awhile they will 60 to sleep and let the
poor mother rest. There is no patent
on this business, no way of raising 'em
all the same way, but it is trouble,
trouble from the start, and nobody but
a mother knows how much trouble it
is A man ought to be a mighty good
man just for his mothers sake. if moth
ing else, for there is no toll or trouble
like nursing and caring for a little
child. and there is no grief so great as
a mothers if all her care and anxiety
are wasted oman ungrateful child.-At
Lo1lta Constitution.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
sunsrstlt,ons Ahont Love.


From the earliest times no event in
human life has been associated with a
more extensive folk lore than marriage.
Beginning with love divinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the aux-
ious maiden apparently having left no
stone unturned in her anxiety to ascer-
tain herlot in the marriage state. Some
cut the common brake or fern just above
the root to ascertain the initials of the
future husbands name. Again, nuts
and apples are very favorite love tests.
The mode of procedure is for a girl to
place on the bars of a CRATE nut, re-
peating this incantation:
II he loves rue. pop and fly;
II he hates me, lie and die.
Great is the dismay if the anxious face
Of the inquirer gradually perceives the
nut, instead of making the hoped-for
pop, die and make no sign. One means
of divination is to throw lady-bird into
the air, and repeating meanwhile the
subjoined couplet:
Ely away east. and hy away west,
Show me where lives the one like best.
Should this little insect chance to fly
in the direction of the house where the
loved-one resides, it is regarded as a
most favorable omen.
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining five
bay leaves, four of which the anxious
maiden pinned at the four corners of her
pillow, and the fifth in the middle. If
she was fortunate enough to dream of
her lover, it was sure sign that he
would be married to her in the course of
the year.
In selecting the time for the marriage
ceremony precautions of every kind
have generally been taken to avoid an
unlucky month and day for the kuot to
be tied. Indeed, the old Roman potion
that the May marriages are unlucky sur
wives to this day in England. June is
highly popular month. Friday, on ac-
count of its being regarded as an inau-
spicious and evil day for the commence
ment of any kind of enterprise, is gen.
orally avoided.
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been popular day for marriages.
1t is, above all things, necessary that
the sun should shine on the bride, and it
is deemed absolutely necessary by very
many that she should weep ON her we'd
ding day,if it be only few tears; the
omission of such an act being considered
ominous of her future happiness.
In Sussex, bride on her return home
from church Is often robbed or all her
pins about her dress by the single women
present, from the belief that whoever
possesses one of them will be married in
the course. of year, and evil fortune
will sooner or later inevitably overtake
the bride who keeps even one pin used
in the marriage toilet.
'.Flinging the stocking" was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the brides stockings,
and the girls those of the bridegroom.
each of whom, sitting at the foot of the
bed, threw the stockings over their
heads, endeavoring to make it fall upon
that of the bride or her spouse. If the
bridegroom's stockings. thrown by the
girls, fell upon the bridegroom's head,
it was sign that they themselves would
soon be married, and similar luck was
derived from the falling of the BRIDES
stockings thrown by the young men,
Something TO Read.
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De srazza, the American Explorer.

Truth thus describes Lieutenant de
Brazza, Stanley's rival in the explora-
tian of Congo: His is an Italian and
has a very remarkable head. To the
front view of his face, Euclid's defini-
ton of line Qength without breadth)
is applicable. There are, however, q
pair of cleaning, intensely keen black
eyes, the ironical expression of which
must have been CALLING to Stanley. As
to the profile, it is made up of violent
curves. The forehead is bumpy and
strongly modelled. Avery igh-bridged
nose (higher than the Duke of Yelling
tons, but not SO abruptly outlined,) dips
at the end in a rounded point, so far
down as to be almost horizontal with the.
mouth. The chin advances in another
strong curve. Brazza's head is k1orin-
tine, In Leonardo's picture of 1.-The Last
supper" there is such head-snd it is
upon the shoulders of one who betrayed
with a kiss. Judas has not, however.
cleaning eyes and an expression Of
scorching irony. - a
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
..seeins It's You.n

'Do look particularly greenP" asked
a prominent citizen of a Free Press re-
porter yesterday.
''Well, moo. / have seen window
blinds that could give you points,
'.1 received special confidential
offer this morning in the shape of cir
cular through the mails. 1t informs me
that for S75 the sender will send me a
S125 organ, and that this is the only one
he will send into the county. Does he
take me for foolp'' 70
Nothing of the kind! He merely
tempts your cupidity. Experience shows
that large number of people will buy
that which they do not want, provided
they think they are getting it for less
than its value. This characteristic would
make blind man buy pair of spec
tacles." --.5.5-a- 1a
''Why should this man think want
an organ? TIM no machine politician.
How should he know anything about
meP'' =
HE doesn't. He got your name and
address out of the City Directory. As
for his sending you, and you only, of all
the people in Wayne County, S125
organ for S75, that's all CANNON. He
would send one to every person in the
county if they forwarded the $75. His
is an old game, but it works well vet
He is liable to catch a lot of gudgeons in
Wayne County. And then, they are to
be found In every county in the coun-
try" :7sf.
ITO how many people in Detroit do
you suppose he has sent this confidential
circularp'" sol.
THAT I will endeavor to ascertain at
the postoffice.
And this is the reply of Chief Clerk
Hardy to an inquiry as to how many of
the circulars were received at and dis
tributed from the postoffice.
There was big bag of them, from
1000 to 1000. ."-6stroa Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
The American Mother

The American mother-the mother of
the men who usually become our Presi-
dents-knows nothing of matchmaking.
of laying bats to catch eligible young
men of marrying her girls off. She may
not watch them as European mothers do,
and may trust too implicitly in their
good sense, but, at least, she never tries
to getrid of them.
She is no more averse than the mother
in the Cotter's Saturday Night to see
''her bairn respectit like the lave;" to
have gentlemen polite to her." but
when the respect and s.politeness''
turn into downright counting, and she
sees the danger signals ahead, and some
body comes one day, hat in hand, blush
ing like a peony, to mention that eff she
has no objections, Jane hasn't" she is
in despair. To lose her girl by matri-
mony is a fearful blow. Why, the girl
is her own! The little baby that slept on
her bosom and held her finger tight in
its crumpled rose leaf hand was all hers.
The child that toddled after her, copying
her in miniature as she went about her
household duties, and who must have
toy broom, and a tea kettle that held a
tablespoonful of water, and the scraps of
dough to make tiny loaf of bread with,
oh0 a W DC lICdlC0 III ECSDcClS tS
mother treated the new baby, was more
and more her own little Janey.
The bigger, Janey, who grew so fast and
helped so with the little children, and
was her mothers right hand always,
was her very own, morning noon and
night. And now. the pretty young lady,
so capable and bright, so ''stylish'' in
her ''best things" who has stopped
taking lessons, and plays on the pretty,
upright piano in the parlor. who can cut
and make everything for the younger
ones, who helps her, and of whom she is
proud, is she not also her very own, to
love and boast little about? Jane, her
daughter, her one grown-up daughter
shall young Smith, or young Jones, or
middle-aged fomlinson, take her for hts
own, and carry her off to live elsewhere,
and have other interestsP
The mother can not bear the thought,
and when that happens which does hap
pen to most pretty girls, though she
cannot wish her daughter to ''be an old
maid" her heart almost breaks and she
feels sorely injured. People congratu-
late her. but she can only sigh.
Mothers like these, often nice, plain,
country mothers, are not given to much
reading of fashionable foreign news;
but if they should, by chance, take to it
in despair after all their girls are mar
ried, think they would be astonished
bv the glimpses of the mothers forever
plotting and planning to get their daugh-
ters off their hands, marrying them to
anybody who has money, and always in
a hurry to get the eldest off that the
youngest may follow in her steps. That
is phase of domestic life of which the
faithful American mother knows moth
ing.-M Y. Ledger.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
NUMBER II.
Clouds as Weather SienaIs.

Mr.. Clement Ley, the English metser.
ologist, reports a recent Incident Of
British weather which most strikingiy H.
illustrates the value of clouds as storm
signals. He states in Natisre that recent-
ly storm center passed over Scotland
with a progressive velocity of forty-five
miles per hour, and indications of its
progress were afforded by cloud obser-
vations at distance of more than 500
~ = advance of the CENTER the ve-
propagation being supposed
,...,-v. L." The significance of this fact
in its bearing upon the British weather
forecasts is enhanced by the recent sig
nal failure of the London Meteorological
Office to obtain a timely intimation by
means of its barometrics and other i'm
strumental observations of the disastrous
Atlantic cyclone which lately visited En-
gland. This storm extended over q vida
area, sweeping away q bridge on the
Great Western Railway and damaging
many buildings. So that the London
Times, two days afterward said: "Ths
deluge which has overwhelmed the Brit
ish Isles and sent the Thames surging over
its banks causes the curious to consulf
more critically than usual the descrip-
hons or Vaccinations of the weather
which we publish daily" If the British
meteorologists can get the barometers to
give timely warnings of the hurricanex
which sometimes rush upon their coasts,
from the Central Atlantic with q pro-
gressive velocity of more than sixty
miles an hour they can do more with
that inveterately sluggish monitor than
has ever been done before. Though its
monitions are invaluable they can never
be relied on for promptness and timelf-
ness. But the clouds which invariably
precede cyclonic depression, and often
Precede the vortex by several hundred
miles, are both timely and trustworthy
monitors, as in the case reported this
month by Mr.. Ley. During the slow
passage of last September's hurricane
over the West Indies its approach was
indicated at Cardenas. according to a
report published in the Signal Service
Reviea0, by s.small clouds moving
rapidly along the horizon over thirty
hours before its center crossed the meri-
dian of this place, and the Havana re-
cords evidently show that that the cloud
and rain indications announced the hur-
Eicane's advance at least sixteen hours
before its arrival ON the meridian Of
Hayanna. Had these places been in the
storms central track, and hence ex-
posed to its greatest force, they would
probably have had still earlier and more
emphatic cloud indications of its ap-
proach. The timidity with which me-
teorologists make storm predictions
based solely on cloud and rain indica-
tions is excusable in the present very de-
fective system of observing and report
ing these aqueous meteors. But if they
were properly observed and telegraph
cally reported they would generally
afford the data necessary for reliable
forecasts, even when the barometric and
other instrumental data taken alone
were inconclusive.-N. =. Herald
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE THE
WATER.

Keep your head above the water,
Just look up, and you can do IT:
Though the stream be deep and rapid,
Strike out boldly, you'll win through IL
Keep your head above the water,
As you stem Life's stormy tide;
Look up bravelv. strike out boldly,
You will win the other side.
Keep time with some honest purpose,
Hands and heart must go together;
Keep your head above the water,
Heedin2 Meth sr wind nor weather.
Guile AMI envy may annoy you,
Heed them not, but onward go:
Or, IL they needs b. noticed,
Turn and boldly face your foe.
There are sunken rocks below you,
Malice spreads them in your way;
Keep your head up, strike out boldly,
There is danger in delay.
Treachery cries: "Hith=ri HitherT'
SANDER BIDS YOU bids below:
Keep your head above the water,
Look up, and then onward go. -r,.g r
Do not be put down or under
Waves NAV rise, AMI winds may blow.
Keep your head above the water,
Every stroke you'll stronger grow.
III your head and heart are lifted,
Then your feet will tread the tide,
And you III make the strongest current
BE your helper and your guide.
Lille 4. Barr, Ia n. J.. Ledger.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Stupid Answers.

A Swiss physician having to collect
statistics of mortality from the wide
district in which he held Office, sent a
circular 10 the Presidents of all COM
munes. asking: ''How many persons
may die in your commune during the
yearp" One village ma9nate replied:
Nobody may die in our commune"
and another: I'm this place all may
die" Many other ridiculous answers
were received, and, blaming himself
for the loose phraseo'ogy of his ques-
ton. the physician sent out an amended
inquiry in two forms; s.What is the av-
erage number of deaths in your COM
mune in each yearp" and How many
deaths are probable during a single
year in your communea" Most of the
answers were satisfactory, but one Pres
ident wrote back: every one dies here
who cannot help il" and another: 1.-The
undersigned Ortsvorstcher cannot pre-
vent anybody from dying"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
The Saloon Keepers Joke.

A few weeks ago a Detroit saloon.
keeper got hold of the fact that certain
customer of his had invested in lottery
ticket. and on the night of the drawing
the saloon was filed with crowd to en-
Joy joke which the saloonist was to let
loose on his man. The man with the
ticket dropped in at the usual hour for
his beer, and while drinking it he heard
the saloon-keeper remark that ticket No.
63, 256 had drawn $1,000.
''How do you know that?" was quickly
asked.
''Well, also hold couple of tickets,
and afriend of mine in Chicago has tele-
graphed me the winning numbers
Lets see the telegram
1t was produced. 1t had been speci-
ally prepared for the occasion and ap-
peared genuine.
hold that very ticketr' gasped tho
citizen as he produced his wallet.
"Nop'
"Here it isr'
Congratulations were in order, and
only hint was needed to bring an order
for beer and cigars without limit. At
the end of a grand hurrah the saloonist
presented bill for Si3. 25, and was met
with the reply:
''See you later-too excited to make
change tonight"
Yesterday the man of beer went to q
justice to see about suing the bill and
learned thathis debtor was in Colorado.
Just how much he made out of the Joke
can't be figured until he gets over kick
ing himself. Detroit Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
A Reasonable Request.
An Austin Y

An Austin young man has been boring
a young lady with his attentions for
some time past, although on various and
sundry occasions she had given him to
understand that he was distasteful to
her. A few evenings ago he assured
every wish.
..Is it really fact that you will do
whatever 1 ask of youP"
.'Your slightest wish is law. Com
mand me, and 1 shall obey"
swell, then, wish you would see il
you. Sheis widow, and is not as par
ticular about whom she marries as
am" ."-Ierqs StftinQs.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

An engineer in the employ of the
Philadelphia company thatis reclaiming
l1.000, 900 acres of Florida lands says
that the ground so reclaimed will be
found most valuable for the cultivation
of sugar cane, rice and trophical fruits
Philadelphia Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

I'm its prompt and unhesitating
particularly of detail there is a patent
external evidence of internal knowledge
on the part of the Boston Globe when
it says that lit takes ten cents to buy
an apple in New Orleans. At this rate
glass of cider will cost $1S7."-M Y.
GfQphic,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

Recent returns give the italian pop
ulation on January l, 1882, at %, 951;9
gain in ten years of nearly four mil
lions, and this notwithstanding the eness
nous emigration.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

"A New Yorker who was robbed Of
$1,000 in cash didn't go to the detectives
nor give it away to the newspapers. He
simply watched his wife until he found
her paving S207 for the making Of b
single dress.-N Y. Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
New Life

NEW Lie
is given by using Browns
IRON BITTERS. In the
Winter it strengthens and
warns the system; in the
Spring it enriches the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
so surely prevented as by
keeping the system in per
feet condition. Browns
IRON BITTERs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
the danger from impure
water and miasmatic air,
and it prevents Consump-
ton, Kidney and Liver Dis
ease, &c.
II. S. Berlin, Esq, of the
well-known firm of H. S.
Berlin & Co., Attorneys, lie
Droit Building, Washing
ton, d. C., writes, Dec. 9Th,
1881:
Gentlemen. take pleas
ure in stating that have used
Browns Iron Bitters for ma
lana and nervous troubles,
caused by overwork, with
excellent results.
Beware of limitations.
Ask for Browns IRON BIT
TIERS, and insist on having
it. Don't be imposed on
with something recon-
mended as =" "iMsf as good"
The genuine is made only
by the Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Md.
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"A pew in DR.. John Halls church.
New York, sold the other day for S2.-
500.
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PIMPIES

win mail CEree) the receipt for a simple VFeKrA-
BILE BALM that will remove TAN. FKoKIKs PINPI rs
and Blotches leaving toe skin soft. clear and beaut-
full; a In tructions for producing growth
OF hair bald head or smooth face Ad n "a incos-
ing Sc stamp. Ben, VAndeif Co., u Barclay 81 n
Y. l5-1y
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-08-17
Noah's Ark Preserved in a Glacier.

1t is announced from Constantinop'e
that some Turkish commissioners appoint
ed to ivestigate the question of avalanches
on Mount Ararat has discovered gigan-
tic structure of gopher wood, in a good
state OF preservation, pretudlHg from the
front OF a glacier. Effec,ing an entrance
into the vessel, which instantly suggested
Noah's Ark, it was found to be painted
brown, and the interior was divided into
partitions fifteen feet high. Three of these
were penetrated. Further than this the
commissioners, with the Englishman who
accompanied them. could not go as the
remainder of the vessel was concealed by
the ice, which fl led it and inclosed it on
every side except at the point where the
explorers secured an entrance. Hence its
length was not ascertained by actual
measurement The commissioners say it
is Noah's Ark. The Pail Mall Gazette,
which is fully as reliable as the Turkish
commission, states that an American was
soon on the spot, and negotiations have
been entered into with the local pasha for
its speedy transfer to the United States.
Now that we have an Egyptian obelisk
and Jumbo, and have ieveiled in the
possession Of a Cardiff giant and any num-
Der of petrified men, let us by all means,
says the Baltimore Sun, have Noah's
Ark and put them all in it with an assort-
ment of political bosses and presidential
candidates.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-08-17

The New York Times, in recent issue,
pronounced ex-senator Dorsey "small-
beer politician" an outcast and a thief,
whereupon the World produces from the
columns of the Times an account of the
banquet given to Dorsey at Delmonico's
after the election of 1880. Gen. Grant
presided, and declared that to Dorsey's
skill, to his executive ability the re-
publicans were "largely if not wholly in
debted" for the result of the forlorn hope"
in Indiana in October. Gen. Arthur also
spoke, and attributed the Indiana victory
to the liberal response of Mr.. Morten's f.
nance committee and Mr.. Dorsey's match
less skill, cool head and wonderful cour-
age. Mr.. Arthur continuing. said: 81
don't think we had better 60 into minute
secrets of the campaign, because reporters
are present" In view Of the recent de-
velopments by Dorsey and his chosen
lieutenant, there seems to have been wis
dom ia President Arthur's desire to have
the minute secrets of the Indiana cam
paign suppressed. The Republican party
must go!