The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-12-28

lncre are now one hundred and |
eighty inmates in the Ohio Soldiers |
Home.
The President has sent to the SEN
ate one thousand military nomina
tions.
The plan of having stoves in street
cars is likely to be adopted in Pitts
burgh and other cities.
AT Centralia, last week, little girl
was burned to death by her clothes
taking fire at stove.
A paper manufacturing company
has been organized at Henry, Illinois,
and will begin operations in the early
spring.
The lessees of the Ohio canals
have lost 100000 during the pres.
ent year, by damages to the works
from extraordinary causes.
Counterfeit twenty dollar bills of
the National Bank of Portland, have
made their appearance in Colum-
bus.
Messrs. Bateman and Williamson,
of the Senate Committee on Rail
roads, are in Columbus, to examine
certain railroad men in that city.
On the Boston & Worcester Rail-
road, temperance is made an indis-
pensable requisite of all its engineers
A little girl, just returned from
church, said, "a man passed around
plate that had some money in 1T,
but didn't take any"
"Sam, why am de hogs de most
intelligent folks in de world ?"--
"Cause dey nose eberyting."
"Toby, what did the Israelites do
when they crossed the Red Sea p
II dunno, but gueth they dried
themselves"
A German writer says: "Thieves
are so scarce in this country that the
authorities are often compelled to
offer rewards for them"
A contemporary says that "the ma
chinery of the Dunderburg will last
forever" and adds that, afterwards
it can be sold for old iron"
A young lady refused to go int
the Woolrlch Arsenal, the other day
because she heard that some of the
muskets were without brceches.
A man in Maine applied for two
gallons of rum for "mechanica
purposes" "For what mechanical
purposes ?" inquired the agent. =
"For raising a barn." was the reply
A little boy asked another little
boy in Peoria, Illinois, to put hi.
loot on log, and let him see how
near he could strike with an AK anC
not hit it. Part of the little boys
foot was chopped off.
II have place for everything
and you ought to know it," said +;
married man who was looking fol
his booUack after his wife was in
bed. "Yes," said she, land l ought
to know where you keep your lat,
hours, but / don't"
A man applied to be registered il
Newark, New Jersey, and presented
what he called his naturalization pa
pers, but what really proved to be {
United States license as a liquor
dealer. 1t was found that he really
voted at the late charter election on
the authority of that paper, and that
it bore the Endorsement of the in
spectors.
"When l goes a shopping" said
an old lady, Il alters asks for what
| wants, and if they have it, and it's
suitable, and feel inclined to buy
it, and it's cheap, and can't be got
for less, l most alters takes it with
out clappering about it all day, as
some persons do"
Where did you come rrom?" said
Smith, to o bcggar Of the Isle OF
Wight.
"From the devil"
"W hats S going on in his country?"
"Much the same as here"
"W hats that2
"The rich taken in and the poor
kept out"
A few days since young lawyer
was examining bankrupt as to how
he had spent his money. There
were about three thousand dollars
for, when the attorney
put on a severe scrutinizing face, and
with much seli-complac,
ency, "Nor, sir, | want you to tell
this court and jury how you used
those three thousand dollars" The
put on a serio-comic face,
winked at the audience, and exclalm-
ed, "The lawyers got thatw The
Judge and audience were cCnvulsed
with laughter, and the counsellor
was glad to lei the bankrupt go.
A gentleman went with a friend to
tie opera, and arrived before the
doors were open. While waiting in
the crowd, standing behind his
friend, he amused himself by picking
the pocket of the MISUNDERSTANDING
therefrom handkerchief. Hardly
had he done so, when he was tapped
on the shoulder, and on turning