Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
All Sorts.

AL DVA tcs
CHURCH belles-The rector's daugh-
ters.
MISSISSIPPI has 600 Oranges, all de-
voted to the cotton interest.
A PRooF-READER on Columbus paper
has been sent to the lunatic asylum.
IT is said that $50 persons have been
adjudged insane by the courts in Ili
nois, who were made SO by the Chicago
fire.
THE Oldest fireman in Utica died the
other day, and he wanted to be buried
with his red shirt on so as to be ready
for an alarm.
DURING the last twenty years the an
nual product of gold has decreased
thirty-one per cent, while silver has in
creased twelve per cent.
In the last five years Spain has wasted
$500, ,OO0, 900 and lost between SO, 900
and 49, 900 troops, by bullet and disease,
in vain effort to subdue the Cubans.
THE largest tree in Brookline, N. H.,
has just been cut and sawed. It was a
pine, 130 years old. The first log, 13
feet long, made 800 feet of inch boards;
the whole tree, 3,317 feet.
A VERY good ink, that will not dry up
or corrode the pen, can be made by
| mixing together three parts of weight
of glycerine, three parts white honey,
and ten parts violet, black, or other
ink.
PROBABLY the Oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected to the
use of man, is found in the ancient tenn
Piles of Egypt. 1t is found in connec-
tion with stone-work, which is known to
be at least 4, 900 years old.
IT is estimated that, by using power
full telescopes 20, 600, 600 of stars can be
discovered and mapped down. This
will give some idea of the infinity of
the system, which seems to begin no.
where and end nowhere.
A LITTLE boy at concert, when IA
vorite singer was called back, rather
took the starch out of things bo crying
out, ''What's the matter, mother
didn't she do it right? Are the folks
angry cause she squalled SO 2"
IT speaks well for the management of
the railways of Massachusetts, that,
during the last two years noregular pas
senger has been fatally injured from
any cause beyond his own control on
| any Idh1Ottu W1bI1u UuO COu1luOAW Cd1bus
SCREWS of all ordinary sizes are now
made in England by rolling bars of
heated iron between two peculiarly
grooved plates. Two boys with one
machine are able to make 20 cwt. of
fsh-bolts for railways, by this process,
in nine hours.
s. A. HOWARD, of Wolcott, VT, has
kept house for thirty years, and when
first married bought paper of pins and
needles and, though he has brought
up four children, has never bought nor
had any others, and has half of the
original number now in his possession.
rHE Oldest stove, probably, in the
United States is that which is still in
use at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. It
was made in England in ITO, and was
sixty years in the House of Burgesses
in Virginia before it was removed to
the Capitol, where it has been for thirty
years.
A GIGANTIC colored man, according to
the Vicksburg Times, in that city, re-
Gently, with the assistance of two other
men to help him to shoulder it, carried
bale of cotton weighing 400 pounds
from the outer guard of the wharf boat
across the wharf-b boat, and out to the
levee.
A REFRESHING drink in fevers is thus
prepared: Boil an ounce and half of
tamarinds, three ounces of cranberries,
and two ounces of stoned raisins, in
three pints of water, till the water is re-
duced to two pints. Strain, and add q
bit oflemon peel, which must be removed
in an hour, as it imparts bitter taste il
left too long.
PrTTINa from smallpox may be pre-.
vented during the progress Of the dis.
ease by gently breaking the pustules
and covering them with styptic colo.
dion. Painting the face once or twice
day with glycerine will also prevent
pitting. We are not cognizant of any
method to remove the pitting marks aftel
the patient has reco vered.