The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-15

The Central Pacific Railroad COM
pany have ordered 100000 trees to he
set out along the line of their road.
Mary L. Swan and Adele 5. Hutch
inson, graduates of Boston School of
Medicine, are practising successfully in
Minneapolis.
British statistics recently collected go
to show that the number of suicides in
the hot season is immensely more than
at other times.
The idea of teaching every girl to
thumg piano and every boy to be a
book-keeper will make potatoes worth
"a per bushel in twenty years from now.
Noah was Lusbandman, Abraham
had extensive flocks and herds, Isaac
sowed and reaped hundred fold.
What occupation is more ancient or
more honorable than agriculture.
The inventory of the real and per-
sonal property cf the Erie Railway,
compiled after two years labor, fills
twenty large volumes, and cost over
100000. The binding alone cost
twelve dollars volume.
A woman was dragging her trailing
skirt out of Memphis theatre. A
man stepped on and tore the expensive
fabric. S.e did not turn and smile
sweetly when he begged her pardon.
She struck him singing blow in the
face. and said. Take that, you awk-
ward loaferI"
Improved agriculture means in
creased employment for the people,
enlarged use of capital instead of vast
ing the same in worthless railroad
bonds, addition TO our foreign COM
merce, accumulation of wealth, CON-
fort and prosperity TO the farmers of
America
The properties of the fruit of any plant
for example the gluten of beans clover
or wheat, or the starch of potatoes, or
the sugar of the beet-roOt. are more or
less diffused over the entire plant; and
hence sugar may be made ont of the
leaves of the beet. as well as the roots,
and starch out of the stems of the po-
tato, as well as out of its tubers: always
presuming that the leaves or stems are
in nearly nature state.
Some women of Germantown hit on
a novel way of raising $1,000 for
charitable purpose. Their smoking
friends were asked to preserve the
points of their cigar that they bit off
before smoking. 1t became fashiona-
ble to take this way of winning the
women's smiles. The points were sold
to manufacturer when bulk had ac-
cnmulated, and were made into snuff.
The money was raised in four months.
No attempt should be made to put a
colt to work before l. is three or three
and half years old, and it would be
far better to exact no work, beyond
gentle exercising before he is at least
five years old. Although this may not
seem to be profitable at first, it will
prove so in the end, since the year or
two lost in early life will generally add
six years to 4 horses working time
A medical college for women has bee..
established in Henrietta street. London.
DIR. Cookie of the Gray's Inn RoaCsIos-
pital and Mrs. Garrett Anderson. a fe-
male physician, pronounced tie OPEN
ing addresses. DR.. Cookie said he
could not judge to what extent women
would be able to endure the fatigue of
medical practice, but believed that she
certainly had the necessary intellectual
qualifications for it.
The Viceroy of Egypt has offered Our
government one of Cleopatra's Needles,
and a New York gentleman has offered
to contribute the whole amount needed
to secure its transportation, Sl0O, 900, so
that we may expect, at no distant day,
to see the mate TO England's monolith
set up in one of the parks of New York.
Mr.. Dixon, the English contractor, now
engaged in removing Cleopatra's Nee
die TO England, IS prepared to under
take the transportation of the mono
lith.
The British Government has made to
several of the Fenian prisoners the
welcome present of their liberty.
five work upon marble it viii perish:
If we work upon brass time will efface
it; if we rear temples, they will crumble |
into dust, but if we work upon immor-
tai minds-if We imbue them with prin-
ciples, with Just fear of God and our
fellow-men-we engrave on these tab
lets something which will brighten all |
An Irish jury has mad the audacity to |
assess a woman for damages done to a
mans heart. Mr.. Egan, a linen Diapers
assistant, of Roserea, was Tilted by a
winsome young lady of thirty-fye; and,
after hearing the sad story of lovers
woes from his own lips, the generous /
jury awarded him 81 $50 as damages, SO
that the consolation afforded him is of
q very solid kind. The lady coolly ad-
mitted promise to marry the plaintiff, /
but pleaded that she was not very much
in love, and that she declined to be |
dictated to- during the courtship.