The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-06
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Since the Improvements of machinery
1850, 900 men now do as much as 5000,
600 men did-in former times.
The letter 80" is called the most char.
table of all the alphabet, because it is
found oftener than any in 'doing good.
The slightest excess of expenditure
,ver income is poverty, and the slightes'
excess of income over expenses is wealth
That family is the best who obtain no
unjustly, keep not unfaithfully, and
spend in way that produces no repent
ance.
If you wish to compliment an English
girl in modern ballroom slang, you mus
call her "filly," and praise her groom
ing"
Ladies, don't keep q business man
waiting when he asks an ill-important
question. He may have another engage.
ment.
A sign posted up in I Wisconsin saw
mill reads: ''The saws are runnlng-no
use to touch them to convince your
selves"
Athens, Ca, has 5000 inhabitants
eleven churches, twenty lawyers, nine
doctors, two railroads, three male anG
two female schools.
They buried him darlly, at dead Of night,
And without any pomp or pageant;
As they shoyeIed him in, they said "All right.
He was only sewing machine agent"
There are many things that are thorns
to our hopes until we have obtained
them, and envenomed arrows to oul
hearts when we have.
An Iowa paper gives a thrilling &c
count of the effort of a young man to
take home a widow and three swarms of
bees at the same time in wagon.
Distinguish between idleness, ignor.
ance, want of attention and malice
words sometimes slip from the tongues
which the heart neither Matched nor har-
bored.
At a recent Sheriff's sale in Lebanon
Pa, coffins went at dollar apiece. Al
this rate, for few dollars, a man might
have laid in enough coffins to last him d
lifetime.
When you hear lot of women at wa
tering place hotel slandering another, you
may be sure she has better wardrobe
than they, and that she is minding her
OWN business.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
ordered from Japan large number Of
bamboo shoots, which he intends to plant
in this country. He will also import silk
worm eggs from Japan.
William Lloyd Garrison celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of his apprenticeship
in the Newburyport Herald Office few
days ago by putting in type one Of his
own poems from memory.
"Why does dog chew bone after i,
is devoid of meatl" an inquisitive ex-
change asks. That's easy to answer; of
ten heard of "Bread in the bone," and it's
the bread the dog is after.
Female artists are invading The domf IN
If art in France in formidable numbers.
IN 1874 there were 2S6 female exhibitors
1t the Salon; there were 312 in 1875, 446
in 1876, 64S in 1877, and S62 in 1878.
The official statistics of immigration
for the last thirty years show that Germany
and Ireland have furnished US more than
100000 immigrants each, but that Ger
many is upward of 100000 ahead Of Ire
land.
A bee-master at Kerwick, England,
wanting to sell his hives, advertised:
Extensive sale of live stock, comprising
not less than 100000 head, with unlimit-
ed right of pasturage." The trick sue
ceeded admirably.
Two men go to farm houses in Illinois,
pretend to be gatherers of statistics for
the Agricultural Department, stay all
night, insist in paying for their entertain
ment, and depart with good change for q
bad twenty-dollar bill.
The first oil well was bored in 1859.
There are now $1,000 and the amount of
capital invested in $100,000,000. Petro-
leum stands humber four on our export
list, cotton, flour and provisions only TAX
ing precedence in value.
The lumbermen of the Chippewa, Wis,
and Black rivers expend, in 1873, nearly
$3.50, 900 in improving their streams for
numbering purposes, much larger amount
than was ever laid out in any one year
for like purposes In the West
Cotton mills are becoming numerous IN
it seems probable that with improved
machinery, cheap labor, and the saving
of freight, they will be able to compete
successfully with English goods.
"Anything new with you to day7" In
quired man of his friend who was suf-
fering from Inflammation of the lungs.
II should think So" replied the sufferer.
"What is it?" said the first speaker.
"Pneumonia," )" answered the victim.
A man and a woman went into the
Office of a Vermont justice, took an oath
In this form: "What we say to each other
shall be the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" and departed,
presumably to do the talking truthfully
Eben w. Keyes, Of Denver, made his
wife the legal owner of all his property,
so that it might be out of the reach of his
creditors. The wife separated from him
after quarrel, and refused to surrender
a dollar. He committed suicide.
A young lady In New York, annoyed
by lot of simpletons who under her
window at night sing "If ever 1 cease to
love, - wishes friendly editor to say, if
they will stop that foolishness, come in
and talk cuisines" /" they will corfer a
favor.
Milk is found 10 form an excellent SOL
vent for quinine, and also to disguise, in
a measure, the bitterness of that drug. |
1t will be found particularly useful In
administering quinine to children. Five
grains in tumbler full of milk Is almost |
tasteless.
For years past the number of inven-
ions annually before the English Patent
Commissioners has been nearly the same
about 5000. This year about 200 |
were found to be not worth proceeding |
with. Thousands invent In haste and re- |
pent at leisure.
The General of the Jesuits is reported
to be seriously at variance with the Pope,
and this is supposed to account, In great
for the falling of In the St.
Peters pence, which is likely to reduce
the Pope to great straits, or to the accept
ance of the handsome stipend offered by
Italy, which he, as did his predecessor,
has hitherto refused.
A gentleman, being threatened with an
infectious fever, said to his little son, who
IN an affectionate mood, wished to en-
brace him, "You mustn't hug me; you'll
cstch the fever.n Willie, standing back,
looked in amazement upon his papa, who,
by the way, is q pattern Of propriety, and
6ugp
Formerly all American locomotives
we're jacketed with Russia sheet iron, and
about 25, 900 packages were annually i'm
ported. Now the sales of American plan
shed iron aggregate 10000 packages, and
he importation of 1875 fell to / 900 pack
.ges. The locomotives recently made at
he Baldwin works were jacketed with
he American article.