Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-02-06
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The Great Eastern has now been
idle for four months.
The cost OF each pupil in the New
York public schools Is $40 20 year.
Eaters OF horaehesh in Paris are
said TO be suffering from nightmare.
-Isaac q. Allen, the attorney general
Of Iowa, has become hopelessly insane.
The Ohio river is 900 miles in
length, and has 800 steamers enrolled
upon it.
In Flushing, L. T., there is a home
stead said to be more than four CEN
turtles old.
Miss Harris, the American canta-
trice, is the ruling Star at the Paris
ItAlienR.
The widow of the ex-Emperor
Iturbide is in Paris and in need Of
money.
IA boy Of twelve, named Dudley
Waller, is astonishing Canada with
readings.
"A man in Norwich dropped live
coal into . bomb shell ito hear it fizz."
BE Leard ii.
Charles Dickens is 100000 better
off than he was when he arrived in this
country last November
"A young lady fell dead suddenly in
the streets Of New York, recently, from
the effects Of tight lacing.
--On the New York Central railroad,
by late regulation, lost time is not to
be made up by increased speed.
The Yale Ceurant is about to open
an intelligence Office for studenta in
want OF innumerative employment.
Sheridan is growing fat in these
piping times Of peace. He needs some
chap like Early to give him exercise.
--On Monday last Miss Gilbert,
aged 19, residing in Newark, New Jer,
sey, eloped with her fathers coach
man.
Penny readings are successfully
tried in Liverpool Choice literary se-
lections and only two cents admission
fee.
The new volume Of poems by
Adah Menken, just issued in Paris, is
dedicated to my friend Charles
Dickens"
Gold in 1867 opened and closed at
very nearly the same figure. 1t stood
Jan. l, 1857, at $133, and Jan. l, 1868.
at $l.33 1-2.
Four hundred and fourteen brown
stone front buildings were put up in
Brooklyn, New York, during the past
year.
The Oldest inhabitant Of Detroit is
q negro whose years are said to num-
Der ia. His fifth or sixth wife is
woman of SO.
Mrs. Mary Gray,of Greenup coun-
! ty, Kentucky, has been proved, in open
court, to be one hundred and eighteen
years old.
/ --Telegraphic operators are begin
ming to style themselves ''Tele-
gramers," and very bad grammars they
sometimes are.
| Near Paris is cemetery having
upon it's gate the following inscription:
"Only those who live in this commune
are buried here"
| Miss Emma Hunt, not discouraged
by the failure of female suffrage, is 0
candidate for clerk OF he Kansas House
Of Representatives.
| -Overcoats are advertised in the
Derbyshire, (Eng.) Gazette, for 81
mems boots for $2,75, and q full black
dress suit for $500.
The poet to when the French
Academy voted q prize for an ode tC
} the martyred Lincoln, is going to seni
5000 OF it to Mrs. Lincoln.
Work has been suspended for foul
centuries on the tower Of the Cologne
Cathedral, but in the spring it will bt
begun again after the brief hiatus.
1T has recently been discovered
: that five or six boys Of good families
. living in Williamsvillo, N. Y, have or
! ganized thieving band. The body
has been broken up.
{ The Chicago Evening Post want
. the reporting of divorce cases by tn
a newspapers prohibited. Half the Chi
! cago papers would wind mp if that wa
, done.
5 MIR. Charles G. Burleigh, o promi
/ nent merchant and citizen of Saco
: Maine, died instantly Tuesday. H
: appeared to be in his usual health tn
day before.
q 1t is proposed to establish in Con
] necticut an Industrial School for va
Q grant and vicious young girls, and $25,
/; 900 have already been pledged for th
Z purpose. M
y "A laborer in Silesia picked up
Q $12, 900 diamond the other day. Th
! Prussian government lays hands o.
r $4,000 and generously let's him kee
i the rest.
6 "A Missourian vindicated his righ
!, to seat his little daughter on he
t stove, by shooting a friend who IN
: wisely interfered with the family dis
& cipline.
Q "A COW in West Brattleboro', vt
y recently lost q large part Of her tongu
; by its being bitten off by horse stand
}. ing in an adjoining stall. The COW wa
d accustomed to steal hay from her neigh
y Dor, who showed his resentment by dt
b priving the culprit of the ''unrul
. member"
! --Miss Letitia Christian Tyler, borl
% in the presidential mansion, the bear
tifnl and accomplished grand-daughte
of the late President John Tyler, an
the Oldest daughter Of Robert Tyler
, is setting type in the Montgomer
( Ala.) Advertiser Office.
u "A Roman Catholic damsel in Cor
necticut was beloved bya Protestar
youth, and loved in return, where's
: her parents arranged her for taking th
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