The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-25
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smoke all you wish, but beware of stair
eases.
A Ioye-sick girl, who had married
against her fathers wishes, came back
after the first conjugal tiff. Kill the
prodigal," exclaimed the father, 1.-THE
calf has returned"
A cow can yield far greater weight |
of butter than she can store up in fat. |
An animal might give the product of
two pounds of butter in day, while |
one half that quantity could not be laid |
on in fat, if fed for that purpose.
1t might be thought that skulls from |
the earliest sepulchres would present |
the smallest capacity, and that the size !
of the brain case has since increased |
with the intellectual development of |
our race. But this is curiously contra |
dicted by fact. The facts are proved to
be just the reverse, and the most ancient
skulls have the largest brain capacity.
The average prices of grain in Scot !
land have for many years been struck |
in peculiar manner. The sheriff of
each county, during the early part of |
spring, empanels a jury before whom
farmers and grain dealers are examined
on oath as to the quantities of grain !
bought or sold of the crop of the previ- |
Gus Autumn, and the prices of the same. |
These averages or flair prices" as they |
are termed, regulate the amount of |
ministers stipends, corn rents and the |
ike.
Verbenas, Vincas, Petunias, Golden |
Feather, Feverfew, Gaura Lindheimeri.
Nlerembergia gracilis, and some other
plants that come so well and easily by |
seeds, should be prOpagatedin this way,
as 1t saves deaf of trouble and care
Sown IN pots or pans of light sandy soil |
In early spring, and the pots placed in |
hot-bed or in the absence of that lust |
treated as is done in raising Tomato or |
early Celery plants in the house, they |
will be seasonable auxiliaries in the
summer flower garden.
A Mr.. Jenness of Portsmouth has a
collection of coins of great value, ex-
elusive OF its intrinsic worth. He be-
gan his collection in his boyhoOd days
twenty-one years ago. 1t now consists
of two large cases of about 40, 900 silver
and copper coins, representing a value
of about $4,000. OF foreign copper
coins he has about $1,000 specimens,
and of American copper coins fifteen
or sixteen full sets. The oldest silver
piece is a Jewish shekel of date 1875
B. c., and the oldest copper coin is
Roman scudi.
Mrs. Cady Stanton remarked to some
one who asked her if she thought that
girls possessed the physical strength ne
cessary for the wear and tear of a col
lege course of study, Il would like to
see you take thirteen hundred young
men and lace them up, and hang ten to
twenty pounds weight of clothes on
their waists, perch them up on three,
inch heels, cover their heads with rip
pies, chignons, rats and mice, and stick |
ten thousand hairpins into their scalps: |
if they can stand all this they can stand
little Latin and Greek"
Here is a story which comes from the |
Midlands. In the little town in which |
the scene is laid, the ''squire's LADY, in |
the handsome old manor house, inter- |
ests herself greatly in the Sunday |
schools, and is rather proud of her
scholars. A Sunday or two ago she took
some friends with her in the afternoon |
to give them an insight into her meth
3D." She choose as her ''lessOn" the |
story of Ananias and Sapphira. The
children showed great intelligence in
answering the questions put to them,
and finally their teacher-the lady her
self-asked them why God did not
strike everybody dead who tells lie?
This seemed rather poser, but sudden
Iy very sharp child exclaimed, ''be-
cause there wouldn't be anybody left
The evils of 'overcrowding" are be-
ginning to attract general attention in |
England, and it has been found that in |
Hanover square, London, twenty-five
houses contain 450 persons, or several
times as many as moderate regard for
health would allow. In one district of
the parish of st. Giles there were $40
families, none of whom occupied more
than single room. This was the case
throughout a dozen districts. In one
room, 12x13 feet, and feet inches
high, eight persons were packed; in
another, only St feet high, man his
wife, and five children were crowded.
The worst features of the oYererowding
is the occupation of the same bed by two
sets of people during the same night.
Certain classes attending the theatres
every night-ballet dancers, supes, and
the mob which is attached to a panto-
mine-let their beds to market people,
who are just ready to get up and go to
work when the theatrical folks come
home.
There is nothing more true than
Richter's remark, that children are
really educated by the spirit Of the age
and the community in which they live.
This occult force called the "spirit OF
the age," provides the child with all
its effective inspirations. Schools only
train that which is in the child-they
create nothing. Children absorb the
spirit of the age, as sponges do water.
The school, in time, if wisely managed,
renders material assistance in working
a change in the spirit of an age, and
they are therefore to be retained and
perfected. But if parents wish to know
how their children are being "edu-
Gated, )" let them find out what the spirit
of the age is. If it is wrong, let them
assist in its correction. The human I
family is mysteriously united, and each
one suffers from the errors Of all the !
rest. The personal interest of each one
requires a constant effort on his part
to educate and elevate, not only HIM E
self, but everybody else. 1t is in this
way only that perfect education can
be given to the young. The response
bility for infantile precocity must be dis
tributed among the masses who create
the spirit of the age.
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