The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-13

| imprisoned In a small space four inches
wide, where she remained at least nine
teen days with no possible chance to get
ANYTHING to eat Yet in one-half hour
after release she fought another hen with
considerable vigor. 1t would seem to
many incredible, but it is positive fact,
of which conclusive evidence can be
given.
y little three year old girl volunteerol
to say grace at the table, and did so a.
| follows: "Oh, Lord, bress the things we
eat; bress mamma and papa and gamma
and gampa'-and here, casting her eyes
to her grandpa in the next seat she dis
covered that he was smiling, the little one
closed her prayer by saying: Behave
yourself, gampa-for Christ's sake,
| amen"
At the close of his life Lord North was
afflicted with total loss of sight. At Bath
he met Colonel Barre, who had been his
warm opponent in the House of Commons,
and who was also blind. On being intro
duced to each other Lord North said,
"Colonel, YOU and l have often been at
variance; but believe there are no people
in the world who, after all, would be more
| glad to see eacn otner.
The flax and linen industry affords rare
encouragement for the employment of
capital and skill in the United States.
Very little is done in this country at the
present time in the production and manu-
facture of flax. Last year we imported
one million two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of raw flax, six million
dollars worth of linseed, and fifteen mil
lion dollars worth of linen goods.
Home scene-Husband entering and
throwing himself languidly upon the sofa,
as he wipes the perspiration from his
brow: 20, dear, business is killing me,
am so tired" Wife, jumping for pill
low: "Lay down there like good, dear
fellow, and take little rest" Little
four-year-old daughter: 80, papa, 1
fought 'ood be awful tired after 1 saw 'oo
carrying the new hired girl all bout the
itchenn Tableaux. blue fire. ETC., etc.
Forty years ago the only college in the
world, it is stated, which admitted women
was in Oberlin, Ohio, and not woman
graduate there was allowed to read her
own essay. Now, there are not only Vas
sar, and Wellesley, and Smith colleges,
but number of other colleges which ac-
cept co-education, and in them all, includ-
ing Oberlin, the 'girl graduate" delivers
her own Grafton, or reads her own essay,
and the question is not even asked whether
it is proper.
The Skokomish Indians IN Washington
territory have been heard from through
their agent, Edwin Ellis. He says they
have enjoyed year of quiet and prosper
irrr ap6 fbaf fhor- 1,a.r
by agricultural pursuits. They have
made good progress in their schools, and
have built church and school house,
and that quite number have taken ont
their first papers with reference to being
naturalized as citizens and voters.
The ingenious French have contrived
novel way to impress the barbaric mind.
III. de Brazza, who has charge of the ex-
pedition to Senegal, carried an electric
battery in his pocket, connecting with
two rings on his hand and with other ap-
paratus scattered about his person. When
he shakes hands with savage chief, that
chief will be very much astonished, for
the electric shock will run up his arm,
and he will see lightning playing about
the head of his visitor.
A little fellow who has seen scarce half
a-dozen summers, and at whose home hens
have been kept for but few weeks, visit
ed a peighbor's, day or two since, to get
company in his play, where he was In
formed that his oft-time playmate was
suffering from chicken-pox. The lady Of |
the house, in tones of curiosity not little |
tinctured with solicitude, asked the little |
fellow if they had had the chicken-pox |
over to his house, and was much amused |
at the reply, with all gravity: mo: we
haven't had our hens long enough, yet"
An eminent Boston physician has found |
in the juice of the milkweed remedy for |
suppurating wounds. The time of heal
ing varied from twenty-four to thirty-six |
formed completely across. He states that |
the only essential point is to dry the |
wounded surface thoroughly and gently |
with blotting paper before applying the |
milkweed juice. After the juice is ap. |
piled, and while the healing is in pro.
gress, piece of blotting paper is used to
cover the surface.
Water forms three-fourths of the weight |
of living animals and plants, and covers |
about three-fourths of the earth's surface. |
Professor Chawssin dried the body of
man in an oven, like brick in kiln,
and after dessication the body weighed |
only twelve pounds. Rather more than
pound of water is exhaled daily by the
breath, about one and three-fourths
pounds by the skin, and two and three
fourths pounds by the kidneys, making
the daily emission of water by the body
about five-and-a-half pounds.
The old watch dog Fidelity of the
Chicago Fidelity Safe Depository, died of
old age. On the night of the great fire.
October o, 1871, Old Fidelity was at his
post in the Fidelity Safe Depository, and
when the hurricane of fire swept over the
city he took refuge In an unoccupied vault
in the basement and remained there until
the morning of the 18th of October, when
the debris was cleared away and the
faithful old fellow was rescued. He has
ever since been an object of interest as
the only living thing that passed through
the great fire.
The oleomargarine question is agitating
English farmers, produce-dealers and
magistrates. The English name for the
compound is '1butterine," which seems to
be more appropriate than its pollysyllabic
designation here. A Liverpool dealer was
prosecuted for selling it as butter, and
the borough analyst reported that the
sample submitted to him by the police
was perfectly clean and wholesome, and
was good substitute for butter.n The
defendant, however, was held to have in
frlnged the law by selling it under q
q wrong name, and was fined in small
amount, and ordered to pay the costs.
They were strolling down Third street, |
,athed in such glorious moonlight as is !
,nown only to Minnesota and Italy, says i
he Saltwater Republican. His arm was i
wined lovingly around her waist, and her /
ITm was twined caressingly around his '
vaist, and the waist places were made s
Had. He was telling her that he could
'uy lop-eared mule for S27, and she was !
enderly describing secondhand cook {
tove she could get for So, and COW re- c
lined directly in their path. Neither of e
hem saw that cow, and In the sweet for I
'etfulness of love they meandered peace .
ully over it and as the COW took the floor Z
pair of number nine boots and pair Of I
lumber two gaiters hung for moment in t
uggestive proximity over that cows back. q
here are moments when soul melts In d
oul, too holy and too blissful to be rude +
disturbed by any third presence, and we s
1T that loving pair to bright dreams of q
a frrfr- c.