The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-06-11
GLEANINGS.

| The Hu5, ,"for the carriage and car-shop,' is q
new journal isiic enterprise at Boston.
with kerosene, ON account of the price oTE'ls.
Miss Ida Lewis, the Newport heroine, has
received a silver medal and check Tor SlOO
from the Life Saving Benevolent Society OF
New York.
| Sandusl,y has n population Of 5000 and last
year sold one million two hundred thousand
dollars worth of fish.
Maine has a family in which the father is
six feet four inches nigh, the son six feet four,
and the grandson SIX feet SIX.
Almost as many lies are now told of militia
ry events in Cuba as used to be reported by
"reliable contrabands" in the south.
Twenty-Five tons of Strawberries were
brought To san Francisco in April, and retail
ed at twelve to fifteen cents "A pound.
| Boston has found that the Roman Coliseum
held l000G0persuns. Oicourse tue Hub, not To
be beaten, viii make room Tor lUOfU2
| 4 Democrat OF Indianapolis has blaclSed the
boots ola coiored barber as the penalty OF los
ing an election bet.
More than one thousand swallows have ta-
ken up their abode in n Norwich, Connccu-
cut school house chimney.
Five hundred dozen pigeons were caught In
nets near Oakland station Wisconsin, iii one
day recently.
The grasshoppers came and Kansas was in
ItribuIafion; Ih,. blackbiTds came, aud eat
them all up, and Kansas IS joyful.
| Rochester or,laius that box Of Strawberries
shall hold Il quart, amount it was never
known 10 hold in this neigiborhood.
| Chicago Is 10 appropriate sixty thousand
dollars TO drcdge the Chicago river and its
nranches-probabiy 10 find out which way it
runs.
| A two-thirds majority ofthe Dominion House
| Of Commons have decided that the salary Of
the gOyernor-general shall be fifiy thousand
dollars.
| A s,.con,nrc free i'm RaIrnnpt NJ. peaSnreS
| forty feet two inches i'm circumference. The
trunk is hollow, and will comfortably conta'1
twenty men.
The Boston Universalist Association. at It's
recent session, adopted a resolution iaVorinl;
the organization of temperance party IN
Massachusetts.
The Catholic priest called Father Hecller'
predicts that the dominant influence OF this
country, at the close ot the present century,
will be in favor Of CItaolicisIr.
New York theaters are generally reducing
the price of admission, which nave for several
years been extrSVa@antly high, very much
above those charged iii other cities Tor similar
entertainments.
| \ new hotel in New York is 10 have through
out the summer season "A pyramid of natural
flowers, seventeen lee, high, Ia be changed
once or twice week, IN the center oi the
main hall.
Tom. Boytl, of Moor's Hill, Indiana, has been
sent 10 the ps-niienjiarE, irom Ripley county ,
for term of fOur years, iof committing an
Ioutrage ON the person oi litt!e Sirl about
fourteen years OF age.
| IL was considered a great thing in the Penn
syIvania oil regions when oil was produced by
the barrel. Mnat Will be said oI the same re-
gions now when It - nltSgeu tiai s"ld mas
| been found there III qu@r!Z'
James Gillespie, of Germantown, Mont gom-
with him and terribly crushed one of his legs,
had his limb fractured again 10y an accident,
last Saturday, and II IS stated that lac cannot
survive.
\ visitor who for the first time enjoyed the
luxury oil n Russian bath remarked to "a
friend upon leaving: This sort OF thing
takes the conceit out of n fellow. Ii inuke>
him believe that he never WAS really clean
before"
The handsomest bridal dress seen in New
York for years, SAYS the reporters, was worn
by a Cuban heiTesS To ssi,tstt,tIi, who married
a Cuban nabob, last week, in that city, al
though she had expressed IL desire - be q nun.
Nathaniel Pratt, of Arlington, Mass. has of
fared to give $1,000 for the foundation of n
home for aged aud INDECENT women IN Fitch
burg, Mass, il an equal sum can be raised
there b, subscription for ihe same purpose.
\ Lewiston, Me- carpenter, who came there
two years ago, and has worked nj 81 IA day
since, has saved enough Ia BUY house and
lot, and material wherewith Ia build a house,
which he has buiit and completed i'll evening
and morning hours, even shingilng by candle
light.
A fellow at Peel,,liiIl is I'm Iail for numbering
his little daughter. lie attempted to chastise
his wife with a poker, when the child inter-
cetied and he hurled the weapon at her. IL
stuck in her mead and she ran screaming into
the street, where a passing man pulled II out.
She died in "A few days.
A child in Springfield, H., fell down stairs
the other day and broke out four teeth
Three of them Were Immediately reinserted
and have grown nrmly in their places The
fourth had been trOdden upon and 1t was
thought best not to restore IL.
John Keen, who was six feet four inches in
height, and weighed three hundred pounds,
died recently in Portland, Me The boards OF
which his cof54n was made were sawed by
himself from the same log which furnished
the boards for his fathers coffin, twenty-seve4l
years ago.
A singular presentiment was connected with
the recent death of Freeman Iamprey, of
HAMPTON, New Hampshire in the recent rail-
road accident AT Berwick, Maine. \ little sew
en- year old niece clme into the house, crying
bitterly because u ncle Freeman was going To
he brought home dead.
Sycamore Ill, has adopted rule which is
to the effect that no boy under eighteen years
of age is allowed 10 enter a saloon, unless ac-
companed by his parents or Guardian, and
any saloon keeper allowing said youth To
drink liquor ia his establishment shall be i'm
cd ten dollars iOr each oficnse.
The mothers of indianapolis have adopted
the water cure in eases of nuughtiness i'll
children One OF them at least. Last Satur-
day morning she held her little boys head
under water for some slight offence until he
the matter is that she is 10 be tried for muir
der.
Choate. the alleged "iirc-buc'' OF Newbury-
port, Massachusetts, has signed an AFFIDAVIT
DENYING all knowledge of the letters confess
ing the crime. ana the way in which the ''bug"
operated, alleged To have been written by
him, and which have been regarded rs bear
ing directly upon the case
The following German translatiOns have
been proposed fnr the word VclOcipede: Trett-
wagen, sclneiiwagen, reiIGaui, rlitiinssiuIre,
strsimpiewagen, elsellsaul, StloststfiDef, ana
rennhoid, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS !
9th, Is the German language going 10 stop
with words OF no sreaier Longitude than tins : !
James Brooks, a life prisoner in the COnnec !
ticut State Prison, committed suicide by hang !
ing himself in his CELL some time before day /;
light Saturday morning. lie was serving out I;
a sentence ior the murder ol an old man NAM
ell Bradley, who kept a small Jewelry store III
Hartford, on Thanksgiving nlght, 1901.
a Chicago reporter who attended spring
opening OF fashionable millinery, says OF
"A cabbage leaf trimmed with three red pep 1,
peIS and dried cherry sells Tor SID III Is call /
ed the jockey; has one great adVantage-can
be eaten as Il salad when the season cnanseS.
one composed OF three sighs and bit OF PINK i
coiored fur was considered cheap al sS1."
Tho JEFF and Joe Davis plantation, thirty
miles below Nlcksburg, is leased by an Ola ne
gro at $4,000 year. He hires one hundred
and fifty hands Ia work ii. Not a white man
is TO he seen about the place. The whole plan
latlon OF several thousand acres Is planted IN L
cotton, which appears very promising.
In a homicide case in Philadelphia, IL came
out that the blows were given on the sixth OF
March, and death did not occur until the 3lst,
and yet the post m0Tfen developed the fact
hat the fracture which commenced at both
sides extended until il nearly met in front,
and consequently the man lived with nearly
lie whole OF the top of the skull separated
rom the other portion.
The execution of John Griffin, for the muir
Ter of Prickett, the wrestler at Cincinnati, has
Jeen deferred until after decision Il the
Court of the state can be had in
une on the ground that defective transcript {
# the indictment was made by the clerk
iriffin was to have been hanged on the nth g
lit.
\ singular relic of the mound builders has
leen discovered near Cumberland Ford, in
1t is a beautifully carved statue
f man, in yellow pine, which from the
uantity of pitch it contains, Is known To be
: indestructIble as stone. IL was evidently
n object OF workmanship, and of date an |
erior TO the Christian era. IL is 10 be sent to
he Smithsonian Institute at washington.
A planter near Lake Pieg1eur. Louisiana, +
Tho had been much annoyed by the coons de-
Iroying his newly-planted corn, some weeks 10
go, determined to rid himself of these pests N
y means of poison. Soon alter, dead coOns III
oil hs.t,