The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-06
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FISH STORY.

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FISH STORY.
Mahl Ferneau shipped a fine lot of
shovel head catfish to his friend ex-
Mayor volley Dahl, of Washington
G. H. Thursday morning. There
were twenty fish in the shipment,
none of which weighed less than ten
pounds and one weighed 42i. They
we're shipped alive, and had been
caught by Mr.. Ferneau, Wednesday
afternoon with hook and line. 1t
was the finest string of fish ever seen
in Bainbridge and they will no doubt
be thoroughly enjoyed by Volley and
his friends. Chronicle.
HOW MANY WILL co?
Up in Washington Court House,
which is the county seat of Fayette,
they are going to have purity fair
this year, and no man with a game is
to be permitted to even look through
knot hole in the fence; red lemo-
made will be barred, and the horses on
the race track will be required to 60
on slow walk. All the hand-organs
on the ground will play only hymn
tunes, and each days proceedings
will be opened with prayer and sing
ing by the choir. The man with the
merry-go-round will hardly be permit
ted to operate, as his proceedings
would be too much in the line of
levity. The man with the canes and
rings can't ring Unlikely there won't
be even a speed ring. All the sta
tury will be clothed in proper drapery,
and the directors in white robes will
patrol the grounds to see that none of
the crowd indulge in profane story
telling. This fair is to be no vanity
fair. The band will please play the
doxology.-Clermont Courier.
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
A certain minister of this city owns
COW. This COW is kept on rented
pasture and the minister supplies
milk to family of two in his imme-
diate neighborhood. In one of these
families there is baby who demands
fresh supply of milk every morning.
Now the minister thought it not con-
sistant with his standing in the COM
munity to be dealer in milk on the
Sabbath day and accordingly the
parents of the infant we're notified
that they could have no milk on the
Lords Day. Although this action
was strictly within the legal rights of
the ministerial milk-man it savored
strongly of the Scriptural "straining
at gnat," and the incident was re-
peated few times until it came to
the ears of the owners of the pasture.
These parties are not devoid of
strong sense of humor and before the
next Sabbath came around they sent
word to the minister that they pre-
ferred that the COW should not eat of
their pasture on the Sabbath day.
What the minister said has been left
to imagination but it is probable that
if he was not sufficiently impressed to
change his mind on the true ethics of
Sabbath observance, he has acquired
some knowledge of the way other
people are disposed to regard his
rather Puritanical ideas. AS a moral
to this little tale it may be observed
that when preacher goes into busi-
ness he generally makes botch of it..
-Xenia Republican.
CAT DIES OF GRIEF.
A tramp kitten camp to the home
of Ed. Snyder few months since and
being kindly treated took up its per-
manent abode there. The animal
soon evinced a fondness for the
society of the chickens around the
place and finally acquired the habit
of going to roost with the fowls. 1t
would climb up on the roost and in
stead of curling up feline fashion,
which of course was impossible on the
roost, would fatten itself out on the
pole with its tail hanging down like
the fowls. 1t was not like many of
its race, a night prowler or back
fence concert singer, and only on one
occasion was it known to leave its
roost to engage in fisticuff with a
pugnacious Thomas. On this occasion
it "came off its perch" rolled up its
sleeves and went after the disturbing
neighbor la Corbett, blacking his
eye, ,disarranging his toilet and putting
him to flight. The hero then calmly
returned to roost among his feathered
friends. But all close ties must final
ly be broken, and there came sad
day when Mr.. Snyder sold his fowls
and the cat was left alone. 1t mourn
ed their absence, dropped, faded and
finally died, Mrs. Snyder says from a
broken heart, grieving for the
companionship of it's feathered
friends. Star.