The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-06-25
GLEANINGS.

About $4,000 dead letters are
opened and disposed of daily.
The Leipzig publishers sold. in
1868, $40, 900, 900 worth of books.
The new French twenty-five franc
gold pieces will be called Empereurs.
The fastest bycicle time has been
made in New Jersey-a mile in two
minutes.
The gas which leaks from London
mains is estimated to be worth three
quarters of million dollars a year.
The Canadian Rifle Association
will distribute $4,000 worth of pri-
zes at the annual tournament, at
Halifax, in August.
The saints in Utah execute capital
punishment by shooting. Three
tinurderers, sentenced in the Utah
district court on Saturday, were sen
fenced to he shot on the 10Th OF
July.
\ Mar, and householder whose
seryaai giri lad ran away with
clothes " hicu he Ia given her in
advance OF salary, came upon her III
the street, and Immediately stripped
her there.
The New York Sorosis have re.
solved to establish a foundling asy
iuln in that-eity This is a practical
step, and if followed up with other
charitable endeavors, will prove the
benefit of the wOman's club.
A bright-faeed little boy in West
Liberty, Ohio, was asked at Sunday
School the other day who wrote the
New Testament. He promptly re
sponded in clear voice, as one who
knew whereof he aflirmed-''Donn
Piatt -
The use of lines instead of lemons
in the manufacture of summer bever.
ages has become very general. The
quantity of that wholesome fruit
imported during the present season
is far greater than heretofore, and its
use ought to be encouraged.
A TAILOR in st. Louis had received
strict orders not TO keep any prison.
er in solitary confinement. Once,
when he had but two in charge, one
escaped, and lie was obliged, in con.
sequence, to kick the otier out OF
doors, to comply with the regula
tions.
The Carson (Nevada) Appeal says
there are dozen or more OF camels
running at large on the Carson, neal
the old overland route and many {
traveller and teamster can bear testi
mony that their numbers have been
increased from year to year by
births.
A suit brought by one Foster
against the proprietor of the Foun
tame Hotel, in Baltimore, for 1000
damages, for the loss of his money
and watch, by robbery at the hote
when a guest there, has just been
decided in the superior court in favor
of the defendant, on the ground tina
the plaintiff did not comply with tn,
hotel rules in not putting his valua
bles in the safe at the office.
In repairing an old homestead ir
Hartford lately, workman fOuni
: that butternut tree had sprOutet
e under the kitchen floor, and withou
sunlight had grown to the size of ,
! : mans waist, running horizontally
: twenty feet. In its course it haC
picked up an old dinner fork, ant
clasping it to branch, hugged it t
the main stem, so as to bend it to
the curve of the tree, and then adopt
ed it as a part of the butternut fam
lily, by growing its wood and bark al
J. around it.
1t has been said that the Mormon
women are generally very unhappy
or at least appear 60 be so, but {
Gentle who has been in Salt Lak'
e City some time informs US that, al
though it is no uncommon thing tt
I see the the principal Mormons at tn,
theatre in calico dresses, plain bon
nets, and modest unassumlng Orna
. ments, very many of them exhibit
desire to be noticed, and an inclins
Il tion to dirt. Woman is woman al
the world over, whether in calico C
satin.
The oldest prisoner in the Massa
chusetts State prison is George Hun
; newell, who has been incarcerate,
twenty-oRe years. The warden call
him ''the Rip Van Winkle of the IN
stitution'' y The other day, Will
The workmen were engaged in paint
ing the cupola OF the prison, he ask
ed to be allowed to go up and loo
y off. His request was granted, an,
furnished with an opera glass. h
made the ascent. 1t was the frs
time he had looked out upon TIL
world for twenty-one years. III
turned his glasses toward his OLE
home in Cambridge. ut is al
changed" was his only comment.
The London Times is now printe,
by new machinery so perfect and 8,
simple that it takes but one enginee
and three laborers to print off tn,
whole edition of the Times. Til,
principle of the machine is that tn,
paper is not cut into sheets before i
e is printed, but Is brought to tn,
: machine in a long roll. 1t passe.
through the machine, is printed OF
both sides, and is divided as it pass
es out, tho whole process being auto
: matte. The idea has long beer
worked at by engineers, but ha.
only lately been practically carried
out, under the superintendence O
Mr.. Macdonald, the engineer who
has charge of the whole Times ma
chinery. The new machine is called
the Walter Press, in honor Of th.
chief proprietor of the Times. Il
will supercede the Hoe machine
ard is an Improvement upon the
admirable French Marioni machine
upon which the Echo is printed