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

INTERESTING ITEMS.
DR.. Mary Walker is forty-eight years
old.
Suicides number two a day in New
York City.
A spirit wrapper-The paper around a
bottle of whisky.
Mrs. Van Colts price for evangelism in
Omaha was $35 day.
Some Indianapolis people are getting
up cremation society.
1t is noticed that picnic lemonade is
built without lemon-aid.
Every body has seen house with
wings, and also house fly.
In France there is a society for the pre-
vention of the abuse of tobacco.
A burning lake of sulphur has been dis
covered in the Indian Territory.
| A Western girl likes to make br cad, it
leans her hands 50 beautifully.
The grain area of the South is said to be
larger than at any time since 1865.
In China they spend s150,0OO,0OO
year in worshiping their ancestors.
Gen. Grant will return to the United
States next spring by the way of India.
Texas has more miles of railroad being
constructed than all the rest of the Union,
Sig. Fereyre, ''the man flute" blows
dulcet airs out of his thumbs, in New
York.
| Elopement, marriage, twins and divorce
have happened to an Indiana girl within
year.
An EPSON salts mine has been discov-
cred about twelve miles from Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn.
A baby, according to the French, Is
an angel, whose wings decrease as its legs
lengthen.
Rome has three hundred and sixty-five
Churches church for every day in the
year.
The only medical college for negroes
is in Nashville. 1t has an ample endew-
ment.
A voice from Paris hints that dresses
should no longer be clinging but bout
| fante.
For daylight wedding, the bride
groom still arrays himself in lavender
pants.
If your foot is asleep, do not be
alarmed; the poet tells us that the sole is
not dead that slumbers.
Polygamous marriages continue to be
frequent in Utah, 40 having been SOL
emnized in one day lately.
The Nihilists in Russia show their con-
tempt for religion by smoking cigarettes
in cathedrals and churches.
1t is said that the artists of Paris and
Rome are not as well paid, as class, as
good house painters in this country.
The American who thinks he knows
French has only to reach Paris to find
out that he doesn't even speak good Eng
lish.
Said he-"Matilda, you are my dearest
duck" Said e-aAugustus, you are
trying TO stuff me-" She was too sage for
him.
In New Hampshire the shack farms"
are passing into the hands of men from
the cities, who propose to engage in agri-
culture.
Troy has police justice who is dam
gerous when drunk. He threw six beer
glasses and amustard cup at his bar-room
companions.
There are beautiful warm soda springs
in Colorado, and people who go bathing
in them at once cxclaim: ."Oh, but this is
soda-licious."
It will never do to let women vote.
They would die before election day, try
ing to find out the color of the other par
tvs new ballots.
You might as well try to squelch an
Inshman's love of country as undertake
to convince young mother that her babe
isn't forward for its age"
In some countries broken-down front
gate produced in court is all the evidence
in breach of promise case.
Fifty-one metals are known to exist,
thirty of which have been discovered
within the present century. Four hun
dred years ago but seven were known.
The sales of the largest retail store in
New York, it is said, reach S., 1000 900 per
annrm; another $4,000 two others
$4,000, 900 each, and five s., 10000 each.
Peach brandy enters into the muciIage
composition on postage-stamps; so when
you see the next drunken man, don't lay
it to whisky. He may have just mailed
aletter.
The Graphic makes this cowardly re-
mark: ''When Emerson recklessly wrote
Every natural action is graceful, had he
ever seen an angry woman throw stone
at cow?"
An old maid up town, being asked why
she had never married, replied that she
had never yet seen the man for whom she
was willing to get up three meals a day
for forty years.
Edisons very, very, very latest invention
is the tasimeter, to measure pressure.
Every young lady should wear one about
her waist, as evidence in case of breach
of promise suit.
Probably the Oldest married couple in
the country are Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson. of
Mountain City, Texas, who have lived to-
gether eighty-twp years. They are 103
and 102 years old respectively.
Cherry rum refuse thrown in the ward
of Bangor woman was eaten by turkeys
that apparently died from the effects. |
After being plucked they were thrown
into heap on the grass. On the next
morning they were found walking around
the yard In undress.
@Is there anything that will make grain |
come up quick7" asked the gentleman
farmer of :he old husbandman. .WeIl. |
no, don't know of nothin' that'n do itn
was the genial old fellows reply, sunless
it's crows." Then the gentleman farmer
wanted to know where he could get some.
The number of equine births in France
n 1875 is stated to be nearly three hun
ired thousand, of which tenth part is
The French army re-
luires ninety nine thousand horses when
N peace footing; the Russian army
lightweight thousand: and the Austro.
hungarian army, forty-six thousand /
Arago once confidently announced that
oig comet that was approaching the |,
sarth would not destroy it. aHow do Won
1ro arosis ~ ne was asked. 81 don't" he ,s-
gned;; Abut In either case am safe. Ifit |:
.os not Knock the world to pieces, I shall
= considered prophet; IF it does. fbev
an : dow me upin the newspapers.n
Stanley takes no exercise, drinks moth.
ng but tea, writes from morning mt;l !
1igns upon little African stool abont | !