Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-18
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Swiss ribbon-makers name 13,O
colors.
CHARLES SUMNER was in the Senate
twenty-three years.
LIvINGsToNE's remains will repose in
Westminster Abbey.
THIS is the thirty-seventh year of the
reign of Queen Victoria.
SKIN diseases are now successfully
treated by electricity alone.
GENEVA, Switzerland, purposes hav-
ing an international exhibition next
year.
THE area of the British Empire is
about one-third of the surface of the
globe.
A PITTSBURGH woman says that ], 200
reporters souls can dance upon the
point of needle.
FILL glass tubes with fine dry sand,
close at both ends, and they will bend
easily after heating.
A HoBoKEN editor, being challenged
sert word in reply: When L want to
die can shoot myself
THE manufacture of wrapping paper
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carried on at new factory in Savannah.
A MAN was lately sentenced in Lon
don (Eng.) police court to six months
imprisonment for skinning two cats
alive.
IT is estimated that the State of Mich
igan now contains $4,000, 600, 900 feet of
pine lumber, and that at the present
rate of taking it off it will last about 90
years.
THE gross receipts from the British
railways have increased from $110, ,000,-
900 in 1858, to 1886, ,00O, 900 in 1872,
having more than doubled in fourteen
years.
EXPERIMENTS are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can proftably re-
place those of copper and brass in loco
motives.
A RAPID drying ink is made by tritu-
rating carmine with some solution of
water-glass in porcelain mortar and
diluting With water-glass solution until
it flows readily.
WHY California does not grow faster !:
Two men own nearly 5000, 900 acres of
land in San Joaquin valley the traveller
may ride forty-fve miles in line upon
it, and may follow fence around a sim
gle pasture for sixty-fve miles while
one other man monopolizes $50, 600
acres.
The New York Times predicts that
within ten years Chicago will have q
worse fire than two years ago. "She
is not careful enough with her fire linn
it's and lumber piles.
THE French writer, Jules Verne, in
his last book, makes a railway train
| on its way to California-stop while two
mer fight duel; and this same train,
when it is discovered that railway
bridge has been carried away, merely
backs few miles, ard putting on full
head of steam, leaps the chasm.
IRON Notifications are to be used for
the defense of German strongholds, the
experiments made during the past six
years having proved them to be almost
sist mainly of drilled cast-iron gun
stands and iron-clad revolving turrets,
and, it is claimed, will make the land
and sea Notifications of Germany supe-
rior to those of any other State.
| WORTH, the man mllllner OF Paris, is
a native of Lincolnshire, England. His
father YVES a lawyer, but became re-
duced, and his children had to shift for
themselves. Charles Frederick went to
Paris and learned to make dresses. He
married one of the young women of the
establishment, and together they have
gradually developed the most celebrated
toilet manufactory in the world. They
employ 1000 work people.
THE latest thing in dolls is young
lady OF tinted wax, who, when wound
up and given high chair at the table,
reaches out her arms, seizes bit of
bread, and slowly puts it in her mouth.
When she has done this a certain num-
Der of times 'tis necessary to open her
back, remove the food, and wind her up
again. Would that human beings could
be relieved of indigestion in the same
| Doonnor