The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The other day ship from the coast
IF Africa brought ]. 400 parrots to New
York.
"A cat at Palestine, Tex, crawled on
Sop of the ventilator on the jail, and
couldn't get down. 1t took her forty
5wo days to starve to death.-N. =. Sun.
Salt Lake City has raised $13, 900
for a chime of cowbells to be used on
occasions of reunions, weddings, and the
like, as they do in Europe.-DenUer
Tribune.
This is the way a Dakota paper gives
taffy to rival contemporary: There
may possibly, in some remote period, have
existed a less interesting sheet, but mag
unanimous history has forborne to record
its name"
Twelve locomotives complete, al
though in detached parts, were shipped
from Philadelphia for Brazil recently.
The cargo was boxed before being put
on board, and will be put together by
Philadelphia workmen on arriving at
Rio Janeiro.- Philadelphia Press.
Considerable care should be OBJ
served in administering patent toothache
drops. The quantity of creosote con-
tanned in some put into the diseased
tooth of a little boy in New York was
sufficient to cause his death in few
hours. The old plan of curing toothache
is, after all, the best. just have the
tooth pulled out.-M. Y. Graphic.
Ten years ago two loving hearts
were separated by little quarrel owing
to the miscarriage of an explanatory let
ter. He went West and married; she
stayed East and married, and now both
are once more free. He has eight chill
dren and the jaundice, and she seven
and the dyspepsia, and neither has any
idea of marrying ChicGgo Her
aid.
There is being an attempt on the
part of the authorities in Ireland to
abolish the practice of holding wakes"
over the dead, because they have con-
tributed so much to the spread of infec-
tious diseases. An act has been formu-
lated against it, and recently man was
arrested under its provision for permit
ting wake over his Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Matte Young, a colored girl, de-
scribes her experience as a slave in Cuba
as follows: '1 was branded on the back
with eighteen names, and as often as the
scars dimmed was branded again. I
was made to pillow like horse. They
hitched three women in harness and
made us drag the plow, one of US carry
ing bit in the mouth. We were some
times whipped three times day, and we
never knew what Sunday was" The
girl at length escaped to ship and
landed in Galveston.-Detroit Post.
The heat of the Colorado desert
has been greater this season than during
any previous year for many years past,
and the suffering of those whose duties
compelled them to make the tedious trip
frequently was almost overpowering.
During two weeks the thermometer in
the day time stuck persistently at 130
degrees, and the close atmosphere made
the heat appear greater than it actually
was. Tremendous thunder storms were
of frequent occurrence, and one swept
| over the desert which was grand beyond
description. 1t was followed by heavy
torrents of rain.-Denuer Tribune.
The City Hall clock at Pittsburgh
wouldn't keep correct time. 1t was re-
paired time and again, but was soon as
untrustworthy as ever. Finally 1t was
cause of the trouble. They will slip
up there in their bare feet" says the
custodian, ''get into the clock, and use
the arms which move the hands for
trapeze poles. The arms are good and
strong, but they were not made for that
purpose, and if they get sprung little
bit of course the clock can't keep good
time. We watch as close as we can to
keep the boys from going up to the clock
tower, but they are too smart for us,
and will get up there in spite of all our
care. ."-Pittsburgh Post.
Young George Huston was milking
a cow in the barnyard of Mrs. Smiths
residence in Monticello, N. Y. The cow
was very restless, as the flies were both
ering her, and she switched her tail al
most constantly. George was annoyed
by the tail switching in his face, and he
finally tied it fast to his ankle. A few
minutes later the cow became fright
ened and rushed around the yard. drag
ging Huston over the ground at a lively
rate. A milkman passing by saw the
critical position the boy was IN and
went to his assistance Failing to cor
ner the COW, he seized the boy by the
shoulder just as the COW jumped over
the fence. The sudden stop caused the
tail to break off close up to the body.
The boy was not seriously injured
N. Y. Tribune
An Albany hotel-keeper says the
destruction of dishes at popular hotels
is enormous, and at some places man
is employed to sort over the swill foe
the express purpose of picking out thr
dishes. ''You should get into the
kitchen of large hotel when q rush
comes," he says, everything goes
spoons, forks, knives and dishes. Cen
orally the silverware is marked, and so
is returned by the contractor. The
walters are very Indifferent. Why, do
you know, once saw waiter with 8
salver full of clean goblets, which cost
s1.90 dozen, actually slide them into
the broken-glass barrel to save him the
trouble of setting them on shelf. The
during a rush is terrible. Albany
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