Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-09-17
miscellaneous Items.

"A good person 70 bear witness--A servant
Can well-read lawyer be styled sound
Can a well-behaved male eel be called
gent-eel2
Ought not witnesses to be defined tie
state of being witty.
Many men like many horses are about
this time long OF wind.
The plane we like to meet persons on
The plane of ofinclination.
The first star engagement the
morning stars sang together.
is the uneasiness produced from eating
citrons in excess melonchohc2
"A young woman separated from her lover
is naturally melancholy because she can't
elope. ,a~
-Whyare cigars like the great departed2
Because columns are raised above their
ashes.
The shipments of hay from New York
to Great Britain have been resumed on
large scale.
1t has been stated by savan that Pom
rAii and Herculaneum were destroyed over
10000 years ago.
"A western editor, seeing two washerwo-
men quarreling, quoted Tennyson; Wiring
out, wild beilos." Itlrs
The New York Times states that some of
the leading publishers have lost on every
boolpublished within 2 year.
1t may be stated as general rule that
persons whose acquaintance are most diff
cult to make are best worth knowing.
The Chinese were so delighted with their
visit to the Cambridge (Mess.) Observatory
that it was hard to persuade them to leave it.
An ignorantlittle urchin told his Sunday
school teacher that John the Baptist was
cannibaI because he ate low cusses and wild
honey. aY af
Dartmouth College has promised larger
incoming freshman class than for many
years past. Fifty have already been admit
ted.
"A workingmen's convention 10 called to
assemble in Londen. One object it has in
view is to aid in returning, ifpOssible, at least
a dozen bona fde workingmen to Parliament.
The number Of emigrants passing over the
Central and the Philadelphia
and Erie roads, from January 1st to August
1st, is stated at 1886, an increase of nearly
1000 over the same time last year.
In the Catskill Mountains, visitors have
to pay twenty-five cents to see the cas-
cades, which are "dammed up" by the hun
CRY landlords until the necessary fee is forth |
: ming. .....t.
American hay in the English market at
s2j ton, by auction, will pay the shippers,
and cheaper tie price Of British hay Of the |
same quality, now selling at $50 ton. This
is anew branch of trade. .tl
An illustrated Paris paper publishes en-
cravings Of the feet of certain famous ballet
girls, who, it is said, have to pay round
price for the Insertion. Some OF the young 4
ladies' refuse to fursish pictures of their
ieet.
"A lady adyertises for sale one baboon,
hree tabby cats and a parrot. She states
hat, being now married, she has no further
lse for them, for the reason that their ami
lble qualities are all combined in her hus-
)and
"A rather fast youth was relating the ex-
1erience of his voyage across the Ocean to a
friend. Said he, 81 tell you
What, old fellow, there's one good thing about
/, though, You can get as tight as you
,lease every day, and everybody thinks you're
,nly seasick !"
The President of one OF the Philadelphia
,ity railroad companies has made PROPOSE
ion to it's conductors to fix the amount of
ares they shall be required to return as col
ected each day at & certain figure, and let
hem take what they can collect beyond that
mount in lieu Of wages.
1t has been decided that the sooty, but
Wealthy Pittsburgers are to have park OF 400
lcres for pedestrian, equestrian and Jehu por-
ooses II is very truly remarked that none
If the locations named for it are too far from
he city. All who have seen that city OF coal
lust viii agree with this remark.
Upon whaling bark which sailed from
New London the other day was a young man
Who arrived in New York from ten years
'esidence in China and California on June 20,
laving in his possession s29,S75. He took to
invested too much money in the
faro bank" and upon July 10th he was pen
liless.
a race Of singular character took place
1t the Driving Park, Lincoln, ILL.,, on Monday
ast man was matched to run two hum
lred and twenty yardslyhile horse was 70 II
make four hundred and forty Yards, both to
start at the sound of bell. The man won
IN easy victory.
Newspaper correspondents are becoming
scarce in Afghanistan, In June two persons
we're arrested on suspicion Of ''plying that
and arraigned before the Emir,
who sent them at once 10 the public execu-
TONER. Their heads were fixed ON poles and
placed at the gates of the town, where the
sentence had been carried out, as q warning
to all persons ambitious Of journalistic noto-
riety. -. 49, II
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