The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-08
Among the Cheviot Hills of Scotland

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Forty prominent citizens OF Lexing- |
lon, KY, all married men, have been 1
indicted by the Fayette county Grand !
Jury for card playing.
The farmers of Santa Aud, Los An
geIes county, Cal, are building canal
fifteen miles long BY ten feet wide, at
cost of Sc, 900, by which 5000 acres or
land will be irrigated.
From 1870 T. 1874 the Austrian gov
eminent realized nearly S35 ,0OO. 600 from
the public lotteries; the ticket-holderS
won l6,5I0.0O0. In Italy the net re-
ceipts of the Government lotteries in
three years reached $40, 100000 while
the sum won by the people was $50. .Oo0.-
900.
Prof. E. S. Morse has discovered sew
eral stull heaps or "KitcheD Middens"
in Niphon, Japan, similar to those in
Florida. They contain specimens of
pottery and human bones, resembling
those found in similar heaps in America,
and pointing to the same races Of an
cient people.
A little more than ten years ago the
japanese army were still using bows
and arrows, and wearing armors; now
the soldiers use breech-loading rifles,
and the Government has recently adopt
ed the most potent weapon for the sup
preston of rebellion-a just adminis-
tration of the laws.
The most essential requisites in Il
fowl house may be briefly stated,
They are warm, dry shelter; pure air,
which is dependent on capability in
the house of being readily cleaned; a
supply of the requisite perches; and a
proper arrangement of nests for the
laying and Matching hens
There are but fifteen coal-prodncing
countries in the world, and the entire
annual product is about 2i9,0O0,O 900
tons. OF this, 135,OGO, 900 tons, or over
one-half, is from the English mines,
and about 5O,0OO,090 from American
mines. In 1901 the production of Eng
lish Coal was but II 600, 600 tons.
The Mayor of a neighboring town In
Illinois was dragged into a temperance
meeting and made to deliver a speech.
He said that, as the executive OF the
city, he intended to see the laws en-
forced. Then they tried to persuade
him to sign the pledge, but he refused,
saying that he loved freedom too well
to do so.
4 Californian, whose wedding day
was fixed, did not appear at the appoint
ed time and place, but sent note to the
clergyman, saying that he had just re-
ceiyed a letter from his wife in New
York, and thereby had his mind recall
ed to the fact that he was married sew
enteen years befOre-a circumstance
which had entirely esca ped his memory.
Hops are now worth at the outside
only beggarly ten cents pound, and
one would think that while they are of
such little value, the bestowal of much
ingenuity in adulterating them would
scarcely be profitable. But in Sweden
we are told the business of sophisticat-
ing hops is carried on IN a large way.
The bitter principle is first extracted
either by brewing or in the form of ex-
tract of hops. The refuse hops are then
revamped by being saturated with tine
.ure of absinthe, or wormwood, are
dried, faced, and sold to unsuspecting
brewers as superior article, their in
creased bitterness finding them ready
purchasers.
Prof. Loomis' experiments in the
mountain regions of West Virginia, re-
suited in the successful transmission OF
messages through elevated currents or
strata of the atmosphere, by means of
kites having strings of copper wire and
elevated ten miles apart. He believes
this plan of telegraphing capable of be-
ing turned to commercial account. The
cheapness and simplicity of the means
employed would certainly counterbal-
ance very many disadvantages.
Heet-suga factories pay well In Ger
nany. The balance sheet of the ecu
iawien" sugar factory at Amsee, now
only in the second year of its existence,
sets forth that during the past season
the company have treated 26, ,2s2 tons of
beets, and after writing off five per cent
for depreciation of buildings and ten
per cent for that of machinary, laying
out S24, 900 on extensions, carrying over
$4,000 to the reserve fund. and hand
somely remunerating officers and direc-
tors, there still remains a net profit of
S3O,O 900 for division among the share
holders, at the rate of twenty per cent
upon their capital subscribed.
a" digger" from California, euIog1s-
ing the climate, says: "There's noun
tain there-the Sawyer Nevaday they
call it-with valley on each side of it
the one hot, and t'other cold. Well
Git on the top of that mountain with a
double -barreled gun, and you can, with
out movin', kill either summer or win
ter game, Jest as you will" "Whatl
have you ever tried it?'' ''Tried i'll
| often-and should have done pretty
well but for one thing" "Well, what
was that?n II wanted dog thatwould
stand both climates. The last dog ]
lad froze off his tail while 'pintin' on
the summer side. He didn't get entire
ly out of the winter side, you see."
A young Japanese, while In the
United States, expressed much surprise
at seeing cranberries eaten at the table,
and said thatin the mountains of Japan
they grow very large and beautiful, but
are never cooked. Some old man occa-
sionally goes up the mountains and
picks a long basket full of them,
which he brings down to the town.
Here the boys gather about him and fol
small coin purchase the right to crowd
their pockets with them. And what
use do you think they make of this
otherwise useless fruit2 The boys blow
the glowing berries through rattan
tubes, as our boys blow white beans
through tin ones. That's what cram
berries are used for in Japan, where
they grow in great perfection.
| A lunatic en- route with two keepers
to an asylum at st. Robert (France)
wouldn't get out at that place, and
while they were coaxing him, the train,
by some oversight of the conductor,
started. At Greenoble he got out, but
| strange to say no telegram ordering his
| arrest appears to have been sent, and Of
ais own accord he took ticket back to
st. Robert, and got into a third class
4 oo rr;o cra with ora yarpu man whom, he