The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-20
INTERESTING ITEMS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.
Sailed rats are actually exported from
India to China as an article of food
A Partisan female afflicted with klep-
tomania has stolen zoo cravats from men.
A Baltimore dentist SAYS that eight
children out of ten Inherit the fathers
teeth, not the mothers.
Crisfeld, Md-Colored woman-115.
Very clipper and could read without
glasses if she could read at all.
A girl in Oil City, Pa. saw decapita
ton trick in a pantomime, and was so
frightened that she had spasms and died.
The stagnation of the English iron trade
causes the consumption of coal to be very
small in England compared to what it
was.
It has been remarked that 'the eli
max of human indifference has arrived
when woman doesn't care how she
| looks"
A monopoly for preparing and selling
opium has been established at Canton,
and sold to a committee for $140, 900 per
annum.
It's a popular delusion to think that
powder on lady's face has the same eff
feet as in barrel of a gun-assists her in
going off.
An auctioneer recently declined to
praise some old china he was offering for
sale, saying it had already been sufficient
ly cracked up"
The expectation Of American pork has
made the keeping of pigs Improbable in
England, and even the Irish farmers are
giving up the attempt.
According to salesman of experience
in one of the largest houses in New York
city, the average New York woman wears
five and one half shoe.
1t is safe to guess of what a young
man is thinking when he takes short
steps, and holds his arm as though a
little hand rested on the crook of his ell
bow.
"The words facile and docile," says the
teacher CWebster), "are not pronounced
'fay-cile,' or 'doe-cile,' as most people are
wont to use them, but 'fas-ip and dos
sil,n
aHow like its father" said the nurse,
on the christening of baby whose faith
er was over seventy. "Very like" said
satirical lady; "bald and not a tooth in
its head.n
By an accident at hotel an empty
champagne bottle was placed at guests
folla Turnirrr 70 ha l,aa AT
did not order Extra Dry" The waiter
saw through it.
1t takes twenty yards of dry goods to
make fashionable young lady's dress
nowadays-six to wear on her person and
fourteen to carry in her right hand or up
under her elbow.
A Buffalo man dreamed that he was go
ing over the Falls, and had his wife by
the throat when he woke up. Next night
she had dream, and broke his nose as
she struck at an Indian.
The exact sciences may be very smart
fellows, but their efforts have all been
vanity so long as the average mind fn;.s
to comprehend why a dog wags his ot
when you scratch his back.
A Western paper tells of man who
claims to have traded horses thirty-seven
times, and cheated the other man every
time, and yet when his wife died the 9TH
er day he promised to meet her In Heaven.
English Bishops wore heavy powdered
wigs until their opposition, in 1881, to the
Reform bill made them so unpopular that
they were glad to drop SO conspicuous an
ensign of prelacy for fear Of being mob
bed.
A county girl worked the motto, 81
need thee every hour" and presented it
to her chap. He says he can't help it
it takes him two hours to milk, and feed
the pigs, morning and night, and business
has got to be attended to.
1t is striking instance of the depravi-
ty of inanimate things that when bobtail-
ed coats are in fashion pantaloons wear
out behind in about quarter of the |
time that they do when the friendly gar
ment which reaches to the knee is worn. |
Insurance dialogue: "Jamie, why do |
you not be after the getting the life of |
you insuredl" can why should /, my |
honeyr "Ah, indade, that after you are
dead and gone, you may be sure of
comfortable subsistence for yourself and |
family"
Song-writers have good deal to say
about the ''old schoOlhouse," but are very |
careful not to mention the fact that q rab-
bit track would have pulled them away
from the dear old structure, at race-horse
speed, during any period of their attend
ance.
Judge Rives, o. the United States dis
trict court for the Western district of Cal
ifoinia, has decided that negroes have a
right to demand that they shall be tried
by jury which includes some at least of |
their own race. Judge Rives says that
negroes are entitled to be tried by their
peers, and intimates that the Judges of
the State courts shall not select their jury
men exclusively from the whites.
An Ohio woman, it is said, is at work
upon a patent watch which will have
hands so made and adjusted as to seize
the wearer by the collar every evening
about ten o'clock and walk him off home.
Ten gross have been ordered for use in
Paris, and ten gross of long waiting
wives and maidens, whose "beauty sleep"
is too often postponed until the watching
hour, are praying for their coming.
The sales of one Of the largest firms
If hair merchants in Germany have fallen
IF 25 per cent in bulk, and 40 to so per
,ent in value, within the last three years,
.ntirely through the increased demand
or Chinese, Japanese, and other cheap
,airs. In 1871 the exports of hair from
he treaty ports were 2s6 tons; in 1874,
$50; in 1876, $40. This serves in some
legree to explain the pigtail robbing
which has been rife, and which is also
aid to have been prevalent at the peruke
period. one hundred and fifty years ago.
Says the Scientific American: SIN con-
equence of the increasing number of ?
dissertations, the genius Of the
inventor has been incited to devise means |