The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-07-19
WHOLE NUMBER 6S9
VARIETIES.

D n carriage wneei grows less tiret'
7 the more it works.
The only good motive for riding 8
man on a rail is locomotive.
Old maids are fond of pains, but
cannot endure any reference to dates
Pirds NIT yoost der same kind OF
fedders will gone together NIT dhem-
, sells.
People who are always wishing for
somthing new should try neuralgia
!; once.
Eight hundred tons of coal are
necessary to drive a big steamer to
England.
According to statistics one person
in ten out of the whole population OF
,, Virginia, is Baptist.
The largest orchard in the world
is in California 1t contains 426
! acres, and over Is, 600 fruit trees.
!. A little girl who was asked to de-
I fine reading, said, SIT is hearing with
|, the eyes instead Of with the ears.'
! Go not for every grief to the ply
sieian, for every quarrel to the law
yer, nor for every thirst to the ale
pot.
The best of the current conun-
drums is this: What single State will
Mrs. Woodruff be sure to carry?
''Tennie Co.
A negro on being examined, was
asked if his master was a Christian.
"No sir, he is member of Congress-"
was the reply.
An application of 5enzine, followed
by a warm bath for half an hour, will
cure the disgusting disease known
as the scabies, or itch.
You run no risk by pouring oil
out Of a can into your stove if you
have no fire in it. Another safe way
is to have no oil IN the can.
A farm, with shade and fruit trees
set around the house, will sell for two
hundred to one thousand dollars
more than il there were none.
One part OF hot water to two of
vinegar, and as much salt as will dis
solve; one table spoonful every hour
for an adult will cure dysentery.
A Connecticut sheriff says: "If
any msu doubts the Bible doctrine
of human depravity, only ask him to
be sheriff of this county one year."
A Lawrence, Mass, machine for
making wall paper produces seven
ty-nine miles Of paper daily, being
run twenty-three hours out of the
twenty four.
Changing from one thing to an
other is poor way of doing. Select
q business and stick to it, if possible,
do the best you can at it and You will
succeed in life
Politeness is in business what
strategem is in war. 1t gives power
to weakness it supplies great def
ciencies. 1t il, inVincible either in
the attack or defense.
If you want to talk heavy science,
say ''protoxide or hydrogen in
stead of ';ice.n 1t sounds bigger,
and not one man out of a thousand
will know what you mean.
Thirty thousand bisons were killed
South of the Kansas and Pacific
Railroad during the month Of May.
! What is to become OF our royal hunt
ing grounds if this is to go on?
A hundred years ago there were
but four newspapers in America.
Steam engines had not been imagined,
and railroads and telegraphs had not
entered into the remotest conception
of man.
Marriage, after making will, rem
ders the will void, probably for the
reason that the testator is held to have
been OF unsound mind or he would
not have committed the folly of get
ting married.
A western traveller writes: "In
passing through the burnt district in
Wisconsin / never saw no shrubs or
briers anywhere thing / never saw
before, and would not have believed
it had / not seen it,
81 believe that mine will be the
fate of Abel" said lady to her bus
band one day. Show so,' inquired
he. 'Because Abel wss killed by
club, and your club will kill me if
you continue to go to it every night"
81 wish you wouldn't give me such
short weight for my money" said a
customer to his grocer; who replied
remembering the customers unpaid
grocery account) sand I wish you
would not give me such long wait for
mine."
III. Proudhomme, in the decline Of
life, was talking with his nephew, to
whom be related stories of his youth
'sBut uncle" suddenly exclaimed the
nephew, -'what struck you most dur
ing your life p "My dear boy, it
was your aunt"
st. John, Me-, has produced a lamb
with one head, two bodies, nine legs,
acc hoofs and two tails, and feels
rather proud >af the ''lusus nature,'
instead of looking upon It IN the hghs
of ca-"lamb" "-ity, as it rsaffy ys.s
Boston Post.
Walter, a fiye-year old, was sur
prised at breakfast by the presence
of diminutive egg, served for his
special delectation. He thus account
ed for the eggs smallness: "Mam-
ma, / think the chicken was learn
ing to lay"
A man out west undertook to play
with the lion at the menagerie the
other day. He says he finds itmighty
hard to write with his left hand, but
that he missed his eye more than any,
thing else. His nose will always be
a trouble to him.
Women govern us; let US render
them perfect the more they are en-
lightened so much the more we shall
be. On the cultivation of the mind
of women depends the wisdom of
men. 1t is by women that nature
writes on the hearts Of men.
There seems to be the most intense
effort for new discoveries at the pres
ent time. The mos. difficult of which
is the efforts of soreheads to find
out how to bore an auger hole with
gimlet. They are certain they could
accomplish it, but somebody steals
the hole all the time.
"Fred," said father to bis son,
SCI hear that you and your wife quar-
rel and wrangle every day; les me
warn you against such q fatal prac-
tice." "Whoever told you that,
father, was totally mistakenly
wife and have not spoken 20 one
another for q month";
A st. Louis nobby dry goods cierk,
who attended q dance in the rural
districts a few days since, wore a
Cheyoit shirt and put on a great
many airs. He was somewhat taken
down however, when he overheard che
country lass say to another: "That
ST. Louis chap slings on heap of
style for fellow that wears q bed.
tick shirt
Two neighbors, living in West
chester county, had long and en-
yeuomed litigation about a small