Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-02-27
BREVIriEs.



Celeste has been on the stage for
fifty years. tSf
.sKentueky"-the horse has been
sold Tor $40, 900. =.
The artesian we'll at Saugerties is
1000 feet down.
"A blind man near Boston has thir-
teen blind children.
France consumed 913, 469, 1851 lbs.
oftobacco last year.
There is q movement in Ohio to
abolish the usury laws.
The little French Prince Imperial
is good chess player.
"A Paris actress, Mile, Thuillier, is
about to take the veil.
Gov. Burnside, OF Rhode Island,
declines a denomination.
"A silk mandatory is to be started
Of San Jose, California. ~ rl
Mario has failed at st. Petersburg.
His voice is almost gone. J
= House rents remain higher in New
York than was anticipated,
"A Judge in New York has decided
that cats are not property.
Toledo has contracted for fire
alarm and police telegraph.
The Lake Superior copper mining
interests are in bad state.
| Reed & Wright is the name of q
newspaper firm in Wisconsin.
California has reduced her debt
over $1,000, 900 in four years.
Phil. Sheridan denies that he is to
be matrimonially "swung Off"
The births in Boston last year
numbered 5,803; deaths, 4,42l.
--Ristori still talks of making New
York her permanent residence.
Mr.. Thornton, the new British
Minister, is Portuguese Count.
Fourteen members of the present
Congress are natives of Vermont.
Susan Denim completes with Men
ken in the number of her husbands.
Charlotte Outbman has removed
her residence from Florence to Rome.
The lovely and litigious Mrs. Yel-
verton has been reading in Charleston.
The lawyers, ministers, and doc.
tors in England number about 35. 900
each. r.,
The winter in California this year
will be long remembered for its se-
verify.
Emerson said, "Charles' Sumner
has the whitest soul of any man I ever
knew"
The severe cold in St. Louis on
Monday night extinguished 500 street
lamps.
"A man killed himself in Hartford
last Saturday because he could not get
work.
France enters the new year with
peace on her lips and her hand on her
sword
"A Mile. Finette is dancing in Lon.
don what she calls ''can-can infer
nale.'' ~
The women's rights question RACES
in Italy. Mrs. Mozzoni is the spokes-
woman.
Fifty thousand hogs we're packed
during the present season at Quincy,
Illinois.
Three volumes, three centuries old,
we're recently discovered in Brooklyn
rag store.
1t is stated that the New York
Central Park has already cost over $10,-
900 900. sR y
, A $50. 900 block Of buildings has
been commenced in st. Paul-the finest
10 the city.
Nashville has only 100000 Of
banking capital. Before the war it had
So, 900, 900. .j5-.
Minnesota had four post offices in
1858. It has now five hundred and
thirty eight.
--About one hundred and forty
''star" actors and actresses died during
the past year.
The future allowance of the British
soldier is to include "a pound of meat
without bone.'
Why is a boy chasing a chicken
like collision at sea? Because he's
running fowl.
The name of river in Maine has
been changed from Passaggassawunkey
to Saxwakeny.
Queen Isabella's children are said
to be very illiterate. That unfortunate
class generally are.
Five hundred dollars reward is
offered for the capture Of ghost in
Scottville, Virginia.
--Adah Isaacs Menken's latest enter
tainmentis entitled "Recollections Of
Two Hemispheres." .a,ru
1t is stated that fourteen ex-mem-
bers of Congress are acting as claim
agents in Washington.
--WBen the Pacific railroad is COM
pleted, q traveller may go around the
world in three months.
"A gentleman in Hartford, Conn.,,
has dined on roast crow, and pronoun-
ces it equal to partridge.
Cashmere is making a raid against
witches, Sitting their noses and tongues
and cutting off their ears. l3E
The report OF Commodore Wander
bilRs serious illness is said to have
been stock iobbers canard.
Why is q dead-broke spendthrift
like fireproof safe? Because he's in
an income-bust-ible condition.
"A man in Virginia, sentenced TO be
hanged, will have anew trial because he
was not indicted by grand jury.
Corporal punishment OF girls has
been abolished at the Cambridge
Mass. schools for one month, on trial.
, "A "fast man about town. in Buff
falo, aged thirteen, has been arrested
for getting drunk and Whippipp his