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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
The Early Rose Potato.

The Gsrnaantoaon Telegraph, which
we consider first-class authority,thus
speaks as to the merits of this vari-
ETY. of potatoes, which is being rapid
ly introduced among our farmers
The evidence now before us is sat
isfactory enough to establish the
character of this new variety of the
potato. This evidence, coming from
a hundred quarters, endorsing its
great productiveness and good quail
itY. We have had it cooked repeat
edly this season and can speak of its
excellence for the table. While it
is not equal, in our Judgment, to the
White Peachblow, it is especially
valuable as maturing before any 9TH
er good, productive kind, and for
the market during the fall
and the first two winter months. We
have no doubt but that, in another
year, as the potato can now be pur-
chased at a market price, the cultiva-
ton of the Early Rose sill become
general all over the country, and
will be the leading variety with our
farmers. We trust it will hold.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
A Rat-PrOOf House.

A correspondent of the Country
Gentlema1a, residing near Toms Riv
er, n. j , tells us how he builds rat
and mouse proof structure, as fol
lows:
"Rats and mice in a house were
ever an intolerable nuisance to me /;
AMI before commencing the cottage,
! it was something of study between
the builder and myself, how we couId
best keep them out OF the premises
| If the walls were of brick or stone it
would be easy enough but all ex-
eept the basement were to be OF
wood, which made the accomplish
ment of the object sought much more
difficult. ....
eAbout sixteen years ago built
a brick stable in the city OF New
York, the floor OF which was formed
by laying sleepers for it at suitable
distances apart, fiat on the ground,
and then filling up between them
with cement to level of their face,
and before it dried IN the least, nail
ing hemloek plank firmly to them.
No rat or mouse has ever been able
to dig or gnaw hole through this
floor.
"The basement Of my cottage be-
ing divided between a kitchen and
cellar, / merely cemented the latter,
but the floor OF the former was laid
in the same manner as the stable
above described, except substituting
matched inch pine boards for the
hemlock plank. To keep rats and
mice from getting IN between the
lathing and siding of the walls of the
upper stories, cement about three
inches thick was laid on each floor
between the studs, the mop board
and the outside covering of the house
The cottage has been finished about
five months, and only one mouse has
made its appearance in it finding en-
trance by an open basement window.
"When il is not wished to incur
the expense of laying the floor Of a
barn or any other out-building in &C.
ment, it may be kept tolerably clear
of rats and mice by raising it about
eighteen inches above the ground.
Cats and TERROR dogs can then run
under it and catch anything harbor
ing there. If the floor be laid close
to the ground, then it becomes per-
feet warren for all sorts of Vermin,
and it is impossible tc drive them
out.'
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Finding the Mammoth.

In the year 1899 chief of native
tribe was searching for ivory along
the banks of the Lena, when, to his
great horror and fright, he saw in a
cliff of the gravel mentioned, huge
block of ice, and in it what he con-
sidered beas. of evil omen. He
became i'll from terror, but, on his
recovery, remembering that the beast
had tusks which were like those he
was searching for, he again visited
the spot. There stood, all encased
in transparent ice, creature like an
elephant in shape, nine feet high and
sixteen feet long, and with enormous
tusks projecting for eight or ten feet,
and eurving at their tips. The huge
brute was hairy it had long black
bristles all over it, and they were
from foot TO sixteen inches long
it had also long red hair covering the
whole body, and short fur. The
chief waited for five years. By the
end OF that time the ice had melted,
and the mammoth presented itself in
it's flesh aud hairy hide to the aston
ished natives. The tusks were cut
off and sold, the eighboring inhab-
itants came with their dogs ana feast
ed on the earease, and the wolves
picked the bones. Fortunately a
naturalist heard of it, and collected
the bones and specimen OF the hair,
thirty pound weight of which were
gathered from the wet sand bank on
which the mammoth rested, and the
tHsks he purchased. He carried the
whole to the capital, st. Petersburg,
a distance of seven thousand three
hundred and thirty miles, where it
became one of the wonders of the
world, and where it may still be
seen in the museum of which it forms
a most remarkable feature.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Rural Taste.

1t is common mode of thought
to assert that the farm and the house
should be the spot in which taste
for rural ornament can be most ap-
propriately and successfully develop
ed. This is true, but as sequence
from other beginnings, and we are
compelled to attribute the education
of ones taste as much TO the assOci-
ations of the school room and ground
as to home associations If in our
districts the old shaggy, red or brown
weather beaten structures were re-
placed with buildings of an orna-
mental style of architecture, with
grounds appropriately laid out, and
planted in something simple, perhaps
nothing beyond pretty lawn plat,
surrounded by a neat fence, and
planted in evergreens, We feel sure
that the constant sight of this pleas
ant object, and the association nat
urally formed in the mind of the
scholar, would do far more good
than centuries of lectures or libraries
of books.
The taste of the child comes from
the school room as well as the home,
and goes from the one to tue other
Hence, We make a plea not only for
the Improvement of our country
school houses, but for the Importance
of extending this subject even be
yond the college grounds. In the
minds of college managers, 1t seems
only necessary to secure the ground,
the ''terra firma," and then build
their massive walls, and when that is
done all is done. Not so, indeed
Thousands OF young men and women
frequent these grounds day after day
and year after year If the grounds
are well laid out and tastefully dis-
played, there is an opportunity pre-
sented for the development and cul-
ture of a refining taste, such as no
musty literature ever possessed. Ii
| is practical too, and will insensibly
help to mould the future disposition
and character, and act on it for
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
PaWning Money in Ireland.

The fund of Irish anecdotes will
probably never be SO much drawn
upon, but there will be one left
Among a portion of the people OF
Galway, so little is the commercial
value Of money known, that they are
constantly in the habit of pawning it.
A traveller visiting that place. having
been Informed of the fact, was so IN
credulOus as to its truth, that he
went to q pawnbroker's shop to sat
isfy himself in regard to it. On ask.
ing the question, the shopmau said it
was quite common thing to have
money pawned, and he produced 8
drawer containing a fl0 Bank OF
Ireland note, pawned six months be-
fore, for ten shillings; thirty shil-
ling note of the National Bank,
pawned for ten shillings; thirty
shilling Bank of Ireland note, pawn
ed for one shilling; a fl Provincial
Bank note, pawned for six shillings /:
and a guinea in gold, of the reign of
George the Third, pawned for fifteen
shillings, two months before Any
thing more blindly ignorant or absurd
than this, it is scarcely possible to
conceive. The f10 bank note would
produce six shillings and sixpence
interest in the year, if put into the
savings, while the owner, who pledg-
ed it for ten shillings, will have to
pay two shillings and sixpence
year for the ten shIllings, and lose
the interest on his fI0; in other
words, he will pay ninety per cent,
through ignorance, for the use of ten
shillings, which he might have for
and realize besides, some
five or six shillings fer the use of his
nine pounds ten shillings. The keep
er of the establishment also stated
that in many cases money was sold
as a forfeited pledge; that a man
would pawn a guinea for fifteen shil-
Iings, keep it in pawn till the interest
amounted to three or four shillings
and then absolutely and doggedly re-
fuse to redeem it. .c -
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
How to Breathe.

There is one rule to be observed
in taking exercise by walking-the
very best form in which it can be
taken by the young and able-bodied
OF all ages--and that is, never allow
the action OF respiration to be carried
on through the mouth. The nasal
passages are clearly the medium
through which respiration was
designed by our Creator to be carried
on. "God breathed into mans nos
trils the breath of life' previous 10
his becoming q lively creature. The
difference in the exhaustion of
strength by long walk with the
mouth firmly closed, and respiration
carried through the nostrils instead
Of through the mouth is inconceiva-
BILE to those who have never tried the
experiment. And indeed this mis-
chievous and really unnatural habit
of carrying on the work of inspira-
ton and expiration through the
mouth instead of through the nasal
passages is the true origin of almost
all the diseases of the throat and
lungs, as bronchitis, congestion,
asthma, and even consumption itself.
That excessive perspiration to which
some individuals are so liable in their
sleep, which is so weakening to the
body, Is solely the effect of such per-
sons sleeping with their mouths
Enclosed. And the same unpleasant
and exhaustive results are occasion
ed to the animal system from walking
with the mouth open, instead OF,
when not engaged in conversation,
preserving the lips in state of firm
but quiet compression. AS the heart
and velocity of the FLOOD through the
lungs depend almost entirely upon
the quantity of the atmospheric air
with each inspiration, and it
Is unavoidable that it should be taken
in volume, by the mouth, while it
can be only supplied in moderate
quantities and just in sufficient pro
portion to serve the purpose OF
healthy, respiratiye action while
supplied through the nostrils, it is
clear that the body must be much
lighter and cooler, and also the
is much freer and easier
when the latter course rather than
he former one is adopted. Children
ought never to be allowed to stand
,r walk with their mouths open; for
besides the vacant appearance it
gives to the countenance, it is the
certain precursor of colds, coughs
md sore throats- . ..a ell. !
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
r RELIGIOUS.

FIRST ESBYTERLAN CHURCH, Rev. ].
NJ. Gross, Pastor. Services every Sabbath al
l01x O'Clock, A. NJ, and7 O'Clock, P. NJ. Sab
bath School O'Clock, A NJ. Prayer Meet
ing O'clock p. NJ, Thursday evening. Cor
ner of Main and Hardin streets.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,Rev.
J. A. Meeks, Pastor. Services every sabbath
AZ i0ex o'clock, A M, and O'Clock, T.. M
sabbath school O'Clock, A NJ. Prayer Meet
ing O'Clock Thursday evening. Broadway,
south of Main-Cross street.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev.
Oliver Kennedy, PastorsServices every Sab
bath at l01z o'clock, A. NJ, and O'Clock, p.
NJ. Sabbath School , o clock, p. NJ. Prayer
Nesting o'clock Thursday evening. San
dusky street, west OF Main street.
ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rev. d.
p. g. Hooper Pastor Services every Sabbath
at loh O'Clock, A. NJ, and O'Clock, 7. M
Sabbath School at O'Clock, A M Prayer
Meeting o'clock Thursday evening. Crsw
ford street, west of Main street.
UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, Rev. T.
s. Ingle, Pastor; Services every sabbath al
bath School at 9 O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer Meet
ing O'Clock Thursday evening. Corner OF
Crawford and West streets.
CHURCH OF GOD, Rev. g. W. oeherman,
Pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10 O'Clock,
A. NJ, and O'Clock p. NJ. Sabbath School
at O'Clock A. NJ. Prayer Meeting o'clock
"Wednesday evening. Front street, west of
Main street.
81. NICHAE ELS CATHOLIC CHURCH, Rev
n. Vattman, Pastor. Every other Sabbath,
First Mass at so'clock, A. NJ, High Mass at
IL, A. NJ. Catechism at ?, p. II. Services in
English, German and French. Mass every
morning at O'Clock, A. NJ. West end of
nain-CroSs street.
GERAANLUTHERAN " ISL Johns CHURCH, |
Rev. II. Buerkle, Pastor. Services every 1
other Sabbath at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, Sabbath
School at eo'clock, A. NJ Singing Society at
o'clock Friday evening. Corner OF West
and Front streets.
EyGLLSHREFORMED (lSz Puurs) CHURCH,
Rev. Josiah May, Pastor. Services every
other Sabbath at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. East end |
of Main-Cross street.
9ERMANREFORJfED CHURCH, Rev. ]. q.
Ruhl, Pastor Services every other Sabbath
at 8 O'Clock, A. NJ. Sabbath School at
O'Clock A. NJ. Prayer Meeting at O'Clock
Cross street.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
The Local Paper.

The following tribute to the local
paper from the Chicago Republican,
contains so much truth that we trans
fer to our columns and commend it
to the careful consideration OF our
business men and those interested in
our town:
"What tells as readily the stand
ard of town or city IS the appear
ance of its paper And its youth or
its age can as well he determined by
the observing as by apersonal notice.
The enterprise OF it's citizens is de-
picted by It's advertisements, their
liberality by the looks of the paper.
Some papers show a good, solid,
healthy foundation, plethorio purses,
and a we'll to do appearance general
ly; others show striving to con-
tend with the grasping thousands
around them, trying hard to wrench
out an existence from the close fist
ed community around them. An Oc-
casional meteoric display in its col
umns of editorials, show what it can
do if it had the means, but 1t cannot
continue in the expensive work until
support comes. which ought to be
readily granted. A newspaper is
like church it wants fostering In
the commencement and for a few
years then as a general thing it can
work alone and reflect credit upon
its location. Take your home paper,
it gives you more news of Immediate
interest than New York or other pa
pers; it talks for you when other To-
calities belle you, it stands up for
your rights; you always have a
champion in your home paper, and
those who stand up for you should
certainly be sustained your inter
ests are kindred and equal, and you
must rise or fall together. There
lore it is to your interest to support
your home paper; not grudgingly,
but in liberal spirit; as pleasure,
not as a disagrseable duty, but as an
that will amply pay the
Expenditure"
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Our Evenings. Bows.

Great boys and little bows, here is
a question which concerns yop all.
How do you spend your evenings2 If
your parents or guardians allow you
to go from home in the evenings,
where do you go, and how is this
time spent by you2 Read this little
account, and think of the lesson it
teaches:
Joseph Clark was as fiue- looking
and healthy a lad as ever left the
country to go into a city store. His
cheek was red with health, his arm
strong and his step quick. His mas
ter liked his looks, and said, "That
boy will make something He had
oeen clerk about six months, when
Mr.. Abbott observed a change in
Joseph. His cheek grew pale, his
eye hollow, and he always seemed
sleepy. Mr.. Abbot said nothing for
a while. At length find Joseph alone
IN the counting room one day, he
asked him if he was we'll.
"Pretty we'll, sir,' answered Jo-
seph.
"You lock sick Of late,' said Mr..
Abbott.
II have the headache sometimes"
the young man said.
"What gives you the headache ?"
asked the merchant.
"I do not know as / know, sir.''
"Do you go to bed in good sea-
son ?"
Joseph blushed.
'As early as most of the board
ers," he said.
.And how do you spend your
evenings, Joseph p
"Oh, sir, not as my pious mother
would approve answered the young
man, tears standing in his eyes.
"Joseph," said the merchant,
''your character and all your future
and prosperity depend
upon the way you pass your eve-
lings. Take my word tor it, it is
Young mans evenings that make or
break him."
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Averaging EXPENSES.

1t is very seldom that any business
can be counted upon as sure TO yield
q large and constant income. There
are many chances and casualties in
trade and business which cannot be
foreseen. He is q fortunate man in
deed, whatever his calling, Who does
not find himself, sooner or later, 60
ing "out of fashion, The new COM
er, or more dsshing, ingenious, or
willy competitor, will sometimes dis
tance an old public favorite. Or
successful man may be spoiled by
success, or over confidence in his
reputation. For these and many
ot-er reasons, it should be the effort
OF every man to become independent
of his business. We mean that he
should place q part, however small,
OF his earnings in some description of
investment, which shall be secure
from the chances which effect his
regular calling. To do this, he
should tax, not his business means,
but his personal vanity, and be con-
tent to creep, as the phrase goes, be-
fore he attempts to walk; and walk
before he essays to run. There is
many a man who looks back on the
careless expenditure of past years
with regret, but who might now be
assisted by the interest of his pros
porous acquisition, if he had but
funded, instead of spending his mon
ey for temporary gra.ification.-
Workingmen, while in the prime of
their strength and manhood, and in
the receipt of liberal wages, might
secure themselves not only against
the distant day of old age, but also
against much of the inconvenience of
dull times, of sicknes, or of forced
inactivity from any other cause.
Whoever will make a firm rule, and
abide by it, always to live within his
is on the safe road to compe-
tence, if not to wealth
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Home, Farm and Garden
FARM LIFE.

The following beautiful lines from Mrs
'igourney, give lively and truthful picture
Il life upon a farm:
Saw We the farmer at his plow,
As ye were riding Oye
Or wearied meath the noOn-day toll,
When the summers suns were highe
And thought you that his lot was hard,
And did you thank your God
That you and y ours were not condemned
Thus like a slave TO plOd?
Come and see him at his harvest home,
When garden, field and tree
COnspire with flowing store TO fill
His barn and granary.
His healthful children gaily sport
Amid the new-mown hay,
Or proudly aid with vigorous arm
His tasks as best they may.
The Harvest Oliver is his friend,
The Maker of the soil,
And earth, the mother, gives them bread ,
And cheers their patient toll;
Come join them round their wintry hearth,
The heartfelt pleasure see;
And you can better judge how blest
The Farmers life may be-
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
BENEVOLENT.

FIHDLAY COUNCIL, NO: 80 r.. d s. N.
Regular Convocafion second Monday IN each
month. B. F. KIMMoNs, L. l. q. NJ, b. +.
HYATT, Recorder.
FINDLAY CHAPTER, NO. IS, n. A. NJ
Regular Convocation, First Monday in each
month WILLIAM ANDERSON, IL. p, ID. b.
BEARDsLEY, Secretary.
FJyDLAY LODGE, NO 2s, f. d n. M
Regular Communication First and Third
Wednesdays in each month. ID. B. Boards
LEY, W. NJ, b. F. HYATT, Secretary.
BLlNCHARD LODGE, NO. 403, f. & A. u
Regular Communication Second and Fourth
Wednesdays in each month. II. ID. BAL
LARD, W. NJ, ]. c. MARTIN, Secretary.
GOLDEN RULE ENCAMPMENT, NO. g,
4. o. o. H. Stated meetings on the second
aud fourth Fridays of each month, O'Clock,
p. NJ. in Odd Fellows Hall. FRED. KIN
NAMAE, C. p, and r. H. HoLLYDAY, Scribe
HANCOCK LODGE, NO; 20. l. Q. Q. r..
ffated meetings every Tuesday evening at
..6 o'clock P. NJ, in Odd Fellows Hall. ID. III.
PUGH, n. G., and q. f. PENDLEroN, Secy-
FIyDL4Y LODGE, NO. ls6, l. O. @. t.
Stated MeefinEs every Friday evening NJ. NJ.
SAVIOR, VIC. and j. ID. FLESNER, Secretary.
Degree Meetings first Monday evening of
each month.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
g FND14AY OHIO FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER % 1862

his luggage, he asked me to assist
the descent of his dog. 1 shook
hands with him cordially, and then
called Bevis, who seeing me on such
good terms with his master, placed
his large paws on my breast, and
uttered low friendly bark. Shortly
after they both disappeared from my
sight, but not from my memory, as
this little narrative has proved.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
Mr.. l.. B. ARNOLD gives the Co,r

Mr.. L. B. ARNOLD gives the Co,1a.
tyy Gentienlan marked instance of
the tact that odors inhaled by dairy
COWS will affect the milk. In June
he lost calf, the carcass of which
was placed where northwest winds
carried the stencil over his pastures.
1t was soon found that the milk was
tainted or pure as the wind changed.
The cause being traced and remov-
ed, the troaDle ceased. In smother
case dead horses in the COW pastures
caused serious loss to all the patrons
of q cheese factory.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
% |S|1|'|8 S|i|'IE

This INFALLIBLE REMEDY does not, ike the
poisonous irritating snuffs and strong caustic
solutions with which the people nave long
been humbagged, simply paillate Tor a short
time or driue The disease 10 the lungs, as there Is
danger OF doing in the use OF such nostrums,
but produces perfect and permanent cures OF
the worst cases of chronic catarrh, as thous-
ands can testify. GOLD IN THE HEAD" Is
cured with few applications CATARRHAL
HEADACHE is relieved and cured as II by mag
ic. 1t removes offensive Breath, Loss or I'M
pairment of the sense of taste, smell or hear
Ing, Watering or Weak Eyes, and Impaired
Memory, when caused by the violence OF Ca
tarrh, as they all frequently are. / offer in
good faith 8 standing reward of 500 for a case
OF Catarrh1 cannot cure.
FOR SALE BY MOST DRUGGISTS EVERY
WHERE
PRICE ONLY so CENTS.
Ask your Druggist for the RENEDY I; but If
he has not yet got it on sale, don't be put on
| by accepting any miserable worse than wor. h
les subititufe, but enclose sixty cents to me,
and the Remedy will be sent you post paid
-Four packages e 90, or one dozen for So Co
| Send a two cent stamp for DIR. Sage's pamphlet
on Catarrh. Address the Proprietor,
| r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D.,
| uoIsm3l BUFFALO, n. Y.
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'hl bhUWNs W. n ANBEhc
New Law Firm.

"ENRY BROWN and WILLIAM II. AN
Ill DERSON, Attorneys at Law, have formed
a partnership for the practice of law in Han
cock and other counties.
They are admitted to practice in both State
and United States Courts, and will give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to them In
any of said courts.
BF Especial attention given to Collections
Administration and Guardian Matters, Set tie
ment of Disputed Titles to Real Estate, &e,
Office at "Old White Corner" Upstairs
door; south of Courthouse. .-
369tf BROWN q ANDERSON, i