Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Miss Kneiss, of Armstrong County,
Pa, aged fifteen years, weighs 236
pounds. -
When ladies meet they always greet
with kisses heard across the street; but
men, more mild, don't get SO wild; they
meet, they part, when both had
ss smiled
The shell-mounds of Amori, Japan,
contain bones of monkeys, deer, boars,
wolves and dogs, with not fewremains
that plainly point to the former preva-
lence of cannibalism.
I'm one of the private gardens of
Aiken, S. c., there are twenty-five tea
plants five years old. They are about
three and a half feet high and, though
growing in sandy soil and dry situa-
ton, they are healthy and vigorous.
1t is stated that railroad accidents
are rare in France because the Govern
ment requires that two-thirds of all the
officers shall have been soldiers. The
military training of these men makes
them excellent servants, and although
their minute and tedious discipline is
often exasperating to foreign travellers,
it undoubtedly effects great saving of
human life.
There is little doubt but that the inn
migration from Ireland during the pres
ent year win be greater than in any
twelyemonth since the famine of '47-8
sent the tide of Celtic immigration with
unexampled force across the Atlantic.
Already the inpour has begun, an unu-
sually large number Of Irish immigrants
having landed at New York during the
past few weeks. s
The house of Mr.. Walter, the pro-
prietor of the London Times, is adjoin-
ing and runs into the Times building, in
fact is substantially a part of it, although
far away from the social life and rest of
London. The dwelling Of Mr.. Delane,
the late editor, stands quite near the
office. The leading men of the paper
attend very closely to its business, and
work as hard as if it were a new enter
prise. -.
The law in New York recently per-
fected, rendering women eligible to Office
and electors in all matters relating to the
public schools of the State, proves to be
SO circumscribed in its action that its en-
thusiastic advocates will experience q re-
vulsion of feeling. The Attorney Gem
eral of the State gives it as his opinion
that while women, Under the provisions
of the law, may be elected to any school
office, from the highest to the lowest,
they can vote only in the rural districts,
and in three cities, where school officers
are, elected at district meetings. The
suffrage is limited, also, to women own
ing or hiring real estate.
The saddest story which has yet
come from Ireland is that detailed by q
member of the New York Herald COM
mittee in a cable dispatch to that paper.
Large numbers of children are unable to
attend school in consequence of the de-
bility resulting from insufficient food.
Starvation has SO reduced them that they
are unable to undergo the slight labor
involved in school attendance. The
School Commission reports 10000 alb
sentees from this cause, combined with
insufficient clothing. The plan has been
adopted, in some instances, of furnish
ing breakfasts to children at the school
rooms, and the fanished little ones,
many Of them almost naked, repair thith-
er with alaerity.
"A strange and nearly fatal fight be-
tween a child and an eagle took place in
Pearson County, N. C. The three-year-
old child of Mr.. VIM. Murray was sitting
on stile feeding chickens when large
eagle swooped down at the chickens,
scattering them in all directions. As the
child was moving off the eagle made a
second swoop, catching the child in its
talons. With its prey it rose in the air,
but the child was too heavy, and the
eagle managed to fiutter short distance
to the limb Of a decayed oak. It's talons
were so entangled in the clothing of the
child that it could not get loose, and the
weight soon made it come down to the
ground The frightened father of the
child came up and killed the eagle. The
child, save some deep scratches, was
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