Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-10-15
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Boston has wooden building which was
erected in l7O9.
"A Boston cigar dealer says he sells 800
cigars daily to women.
-Harpar's Bazar is avery great success
Over fifty thousand copies are printedweekly
General Worthington, Of Chillicothe, o.,
has raised q cart-load OF figs the present
season.
1t is estimated that there will be $4,000
miles OF completed railroad in this country
by the end Of 1870,
-Velooipedes are interfering much with
the profits Of suburban railways and omni-
bus lines near London.
Never in the history of Baltimore has
there been more rapid progress in building
than during the present year.
-ATroy exchange says that the wife Of a
teamster employed in the Clinton foundry,
named Kelly, gave birth, few days since, to
four infants--all boys.
The cry of ''Vive 0rsinil" which occurs
in Wagner's new opera Of ''Rienzi," has to be
changed for something quite unhistoric for
representation In Paris
"A Frenchman who proposed TO open a
restaurant on Madison Avenue, New York,
has been bought off by wealthy and fash
ionable resident Of that vicinity.
Who wrote the most-Diekens, Warren,
or Bulwerp Warren wrote "Now and Then"
Bulwer wrote "Night and Morning, Dickens
wrote San the Year Round"
Tho London Tomahawk spells Minnie
Hauck's name "Hawk," and claims to be her
cousin Tommy. Why not trace her relation
ship to Minne-ha-ha-uckr
The New Albany Glass Works have com
menced operations and are manufacturing
large quantities of bottles. They are the
only glass works in Indiana.
Fourteen silver bars, valued at $4,000
each, were received in st. Louis ON the 18th
uit., from the ST. Louis and Montana Mining
Co., the result Of single clearing up.
The fruit crop, particularly apples, is SO
abundant In Northern Berkshire, Mass, that
the trees in many Of the orchards are
breaking down with the immense weight OF
their fruit
San Luis park, the southernmost of the
three great. mountain basins Of Colorado,
contains population OF 24,OO0 Mexican In
dians. They are mostly Catholics, and speak
Spanish.
The Lisbon gold mines in New Hamp=
shire are worked seventy-one feet below tho
surface, the vein being twelve feet wide.
Four days crushing recently amounted to
$2O1.
Not satisfied with the rate Of speed at
tanned by the velocipedes, the French have
invented locomotive with four wheels,
which is said to be safer, swifter, and less ia
tiguing to the rider than any road vehicle
known.
Rice, the great staple of South Carolina,
the culture of which was once confined to the
river swamp lands, is now grown on the up
lands. The seed Of the swamp rice is used,
and the grain raised compares favorably with
that from the old rice fields. t58
"A tooth, weighing between three and
four pounds, was taken from coal bank
near Harader's mill, in Adams county, Iowa.
It is o double tooth, and evidently came
from the extreme back part of the jaw OF
some animal years ago extinct.
The Louvre was commenced by Francis
l., in 1541; the Tuileries by Catherine de
Medicis, in 1854. The Tuileries were united
to the Louvre by Napoleon Ill, from 1852 to
1857. The orange trees, Of which there are
several hundred in the garden of the Tuiler-
les, were placed there by Francis l., and are
now nearly $50 years old. They are noble
tire land still in fine state of preservation.
They are carefully removed to the hot-house
upon the first approach of cold weather.