The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-25
INTERESTING ITEMS.

flower.
A Chinese lawyer has been admitted
TO the London bar.
Some plants are enabled to yeyetate
without roots, on walls, rocks and
trunks of trees, because the structure
! Of their leaves is adapted for absorbing.
but not exhaling fluids, and by this
means vegetation is carried on indie
pendently of roots.
4 small turtle is found in New En-
gland, which Gears the name of the
bOx-turtle, on account of hinge joint
before and behind, at the ends of the
fat shield, which close up both ends
protecting the feet and head. This is
accomplished at the pleasure of the
animal.
Over one hundred and twenty-five
mountains in South Carolina have been
measured by Professor Guvot of Prince
ton College. Black mountain is the
highest, measuring 6,7O7 feet, while
fifty-four are over 5000 feet high, fifty
five between 5000 and 5000, and fifteen
between 1900 and 5000 feet. The low
est is 2,5O0 feet high.
The settled expression of determina-
ton that mantles the face of man who
is just starting out to have tooth
pulled, is only equalled by the subdued
look that creeps over his features as
he pauses with his hand on the knob
on the dental room door, turns quietly
around, and tiptoes back through the
hallway, outdoors again.
1t is indeed curious to note the
superstitiOns of the Corsican shepherds
touching death. The dead, they say,
call the living in the night time, and he
who answers will soon follow them.
They believe, too, that if you listen at
tentively after dark you may hear at
times the low beating of drum, which
announces that soul has passed.
A youngster being required to write
a composition upon some portion of the
human body, selected that which unites
the head With the body. "a throat is
convenient to have, especially to roos-
ters and ministers. The former eats
his corn and crows with it; the latter
breaches through his'n, and then ties it
up. This is pretty much all 1 can think
of about necks."
The population of England in l5Ol
was 10,100,000. OF the United States
100000. To-day the population of
England is held at 100000, and that
of the United States 45,OOO,OO0. Amore
striking example of comparative na-
tional growth it would be hard to find.
Our population has increased ten-fold.
That of Great Britain two-and-seven-
tenths in three-fourths of century.
The domestic animals are liable TO
many of the diseases that affect the hu-
man race. One of these is what we
term a cold, brought ON by the sudden
change from warm to cold atmos-
phere. This, if aggravated by frequent
exposure to the same cause, aided by
the use of poor or unsound food, may
produce serious Inflammation of the
lungs, and end in tuberculous diseases,
for which there is no cure. The farmer
who values his beast should take the
same care as with himself, rs to expo
sure, feed sound grain or fodder, and
see that the animal has fresh air and
exercise.
A singular description of library ex.
lists at Warsenstein, near Cassel; the
books composing it, or rather the sub
stitutes for them, are made of wood,
and every one of them is specimen of
some different tree. The back is form
ed of its bark, and the sides are con-
structed of polished pieces of the same
stock. When put together the whole
forms box, and inside of it are stored
the fruit, seeds and leaves, together
with the moss which grows on the
trunk, and the insects which feed upon
the tree; every volume corresponds in
size, and the collection altogether has
an excellent effect.
There we're two of them hanging over
the front gate the other night. She was
standing within the yard and he on the
sidewalk outside, both leaning ON the
top rail, and apparently as happy as two
pigs in a cornfield. He was saying,
"Now, my own little darling, sweet
idol of my soul, whose image is ever On
my heart'-when he saw the old man
coming down the front walk, and con-
tinued in a different strain: 1.-The po-
tato bugs haven't destroyed our crops so
much since we purchased Paris green,
and you will find also that cabbages
can be raised better on a richer SOIL"
The old gentleman heard it, and turned
back, saying as he entered the house,
"These young people take more interest
in agricultural affairs than people gen.
orally suppose. Philadelphia Bulletin
A Welsh engineer has invented an
engine of warfare which consists of a
cannon so arranged as to discharge a
sharp sword blade crosswise in the di-
rection of the enemy, the knife being so
poised in its course through the air as
to cover the whole space in a longitude
nal direction described by the blade
itself. An 6-inch ball would carry
sword IA feet in length 600 yards, now
ing down every obstacle in its path.
The Russian peasant has made the
act of splitting fine art. He spits as a
sign of astonishment; he spits as sign
of defiance; he spits to avert an evil |
omen; he spits for fine day, and he |
spits against bad weather. 1t is not |
strange then that those enemies of |
everything that exists in Russia-the |
Nihilists-should adopt as the title of
one of their newspapers:-"I SPIT at |
ErerubodY."
A letter has been received at the Post |
Office department at Washington. from
a country postmaster in Indiana, in
closing another letter received by the
postmaster from an individual in
Chicago. This individual proposes to
buy postage stamps from the post
master at liberal discount, and thus
increase the post-master's salary, while
the buyer to resell at retail or
otherwise dispose of them to his own
advantage.
Observe white cloud through plate
Of glass with one eye and through green
glass with the ether eye. After some
transfer both eyes to the red
glass, opening and closing each eye al