The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-26

sugar.
Near Manistee, Mich, is a well
thirty one feet deep, in which there
is an abundant supply of water
when the wind blows from the west,
but which is dry when it comes
from the east.
Making paper is profitable to the
manufacturers but death to the fish,
On a single small island in the Gen
esee, 10000 were found dead the
other day, killed by the chemical
poisons contributed by the paper
mills.
The Ohio Legislature recently
passed a law that the books in pse
in the public schools Of the State
shall not be changed oftener thar
once in three years; and then only
by vote of two-thirds Of the respec-
tive School Boards.
DR.. Willard Parker the eminent
physician of New York, says that no
man can do head-work faithfully for
more than four, five, or six hours.
If he exceeds, that, he becomes irri-
table, broken down, and softening of
the brain results.
"The fact is" said an elderly wife,
"a man does not know how to
straighten up things. don't won.
der" she remarked in conclusion,
''that when God made Adam, he
went right to work and made a
woman to tell him what to do"
The British census enumerstors
have discovered that the most m
blushing liars are the female cooks.
Mistresses and maids may be depen-
ded on to tell the truth, but cooks
make nothing of returning them
selves ten or a dozen years less than
their real age.
The well which has Just been
bored at Muskegon, Mich, is now
considered as finished. At the depth
af l,50O feet anger struck a powerful
stream Of mineral water, and on be-
ing withdrawn, the water welled up
to the surface, and has since been
running over.
In California the superficial or
sand washings for gold BY indepen-
dent miners or small ASSOCIATIONS
have general ceased to BE remuner-
atiYe, and gold miGing is being mo-
nopolized almost entirely by large
companies with sufficient capital to
undertake extensive works.
England has learned a great many
things from America. Legal codes
monitors, sewing machines, tele-
graphs, rifles, revolvers, rocking
chairs, plowing, reaping moving,
washing and cow-milking machines,
ex-handles, and other of our inven-
tions, she has freely adopted.
A girl in st. Louis who is study
ing law and intends to practice, was
asked by an envious LAWYER if she
was not afraid Of loosing her repu-
tatiOn. She said it had never occur
red to her that lawyers generally
had any reputation to lose The
conversation was here terminated.
Rector to Farmer Giles: "How
came you to put my ho1se into the
pound, GilesP" Giles:-"For tres
pass, per reverence. He was look
ing over into the garden" Rector;
Gies:-"He would if he could, and
you was saying on Sunday as how
the intention was as bad as the act
As showing what women can do,
1t is stated that Mrs. Henry, a popu-
lar preacher in Missouri, acts as
pastor, does the singing for the con-
gregation, breaches three times a
week, looks after the morals of the
members, and takes care Of six lit
tie children. This is the record of
a busy life.
The new bogus five cent nickel of
which there a great number in cir
culation, can be detected by an in
spectiOn Of the motto. "In God We
Trust" which is much larger on the
counterfeit than on the genuine.
The yellow color of the counterfeit.
caused by the presence of zinc, is
also noticeable.
The Buffalo Commercial Adrer-
tiser says it has not encountered in
any influential American Journal a
single positive expression of hostil-
ity to the treaty. That states the
fact. Every American journal of
influence favors the treaty, because
it is a fair and favoroble settlement
ofan irritating difficulty, on only
basis possible-mutual concession
and mutual good feeling.
The round figures of the railroad
interest are easily learned and re-
membered. The whole length of all
4he railways In the world is 10000
miles. The cost of The same was,
in round numbers ten billions of dol
lars. Those of Great Britain are
the most costly, and those of the
United States the least so. The
railway system Of the world is sup
posed to give employment to over
one million persons.
Scandinavian immigration appears
to be reviying. It was the largest
in 1868 90, when the number reached
about 10000 from Sweden, and 1000
from Norway. Last season there
was a considerable reduction, the
number being hardly half that in the
previous year mentioned. At the
rates immigrants are now coming,
the number will be much larger than
last year, though not as large as in
| 1869.
A dispatch dated Berlin, Sunday
night, says twenty-eight Arch
bishops and Bishops of the Catholic
Church have addressed a petition to
the Emperor of Austria on the RO-
man question. In the petition the
Emperor is requested to inform the
King of Italy that the independence
| of the Pope is necessary to the CathO-
! lie Church, and to demand that Rome
and a suitable territory shall be i'm
mediately returned to the Pope.
The Rev. Asa Bullard has come to
the rescue of thai slandered class of
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