The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-27

According 20 the latest returns, the cul-
tivatcd land of France is dir.ded into
100000 properties Five millions arc
under six acres. Belgium has like SUBJ
division of property. In Ireland, on the
other hand, 10 owners hold more than
/ onc-fifth of the soil.
The annexation of Scinde to the Pun
| jaub will very shortly be accomplished.
Indian journals say that some heads of
departments in the Punjaub have already
been warned to prepare for taking over
he corresponding departments in the ter
ritory to be transferred.
John A. Swan, pioneer of Monterey,
an Englishman by birth. says in his auto
biography: "All my share of the gold and
land in California, after 81 years passed
on the Pacific slope, is an old adobe house
in Monterey, once the first theater in Cal
ifornia, with lot attached to it."
Gortschakof was one of the secretaries
to the Russian Embassy In London in
.S24. Mr.. G adstone was still at Eton
NJ. Dsraei had thirteen years to wait
before he entered Parliament for the first
time; and six years had to elapse before
the birth of the present Lord Salisbury.
Charles Matthews told of an aspirant
who replied to question of the manager:
..'Amlet's my leading part" 'What. you
play ;Amlet with such a cold as thatI'
''Well, and why not? Oo's more likely
to ave cold than ,Amlet, always dab
blin' about them nasty damp ramparts."
The entire amount of gold in the world
at present is estimated at S7,OOO,OOO, 900
in value in United States coinage. This
immense sum is hardly comprehensive to
the mind, but if it were put In a solid
mass it would measure only se.enteen
feet high, twenty-eight feet wide and fifty
six feet long.
\ Lowell man who lost his good charac-
over the Goals by some of his former
friends. II know it, boys, l know my
characters gone; lost entirely. And" he
added rather paintedly, '.it's too con-
founded bad, for it was the only one in the
place worth saving"
Water-meions are looming up in the
near future as an important American
product. 1t Is said that experiments in
California have shown that sugar can be
extracted from the melons at cost of two
cents per pound less than from sugar-cane.
Besides this, oil is made from the seed and
ilcohol from the rind.
A plain-speaking country minister was
asked one day how 1t happened that, con-
siGering the good example supposed to be
set before them, so many minister's sons
should turn out ne'er-do-weIls "That's
easily accounted for" said the divine
"You see the devil kens he cannot gel
haud O. the geese, so he just make graf
amang the gaislint?"
A certain excellent lady, better ac-
quainted with the hymn book, than the
works of the immortal bard, and violent
ly opposed to the theatre; reluctantly
consented to go to play with her hus-
band and son. Being asked by neigh
Dor what was on the boards, she innocent
ly replied. that she did not know but tho't
twas "Rummiel and Joliet"
The London Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews has had mis-
sion schools in Palestine place, London,
since 1905. More than thousand He
)rew children have in these schools learned
he truths of the gospel. Ten years after
he beginning of the work school build
ing was erected for the reception of jew
ish boys, and the following year one for
the girls.
Prince Bismarck is not an early riser,
and is fond of sitting up late at night,
over bottle of wine or a glass of beer.
1t is said that nearly all his diplomatic
negotiations, beginning with General Go
vonnes confidential oyertures in 1866 for
an alliance between Italy and Prussia,
until the most recent pourparlers on the
Eastern question, have been transacted by
him in convivial way in the nocturnal
hours.
The fashionable game in the Paris clubs
is baccaret, which seems to exercise an
extraordinary fascination upon many
Frenchmen who have not hitherto shown
any propensity for gambling. Letter
writer's say that gambling has grown to
be a mania in the French capital, owing
partly TO the example set by number of
young noblemen. The baccaret tables
IRE crowded nightly, and the game is often
kept up till 10 or II o'clock the following