Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-05-07
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MlsseIIaneOus items.

THarpers Monthly Is eighteen years
-Monograms in the place Of door plates
are the latest style.
| "A colored pedestrian proposes to walk
from Cleveland to Erie.
"A twelve hour prayer meeting was
recently held in Baltimore.
Lake Ontario was four feet higher this
time last year than It is now.
Brigham Ybungs Engllsh converts
can't get money enough to bring them to
Zion.
-Stewarps new store on Broadway,
New York, will contain IA acres Of floor
ing.
What did the spider do when he came
out OF the ArkS he took fly and went
home.
Mrs. E. Cady Stantons paper, The
Revolution, claims to have already circu.
lation Of 10000 copies
MIR. Motley discovers that the substan-
tive ''roughq In our Sang sense was used
by Queen Elizabeth.
"a well ninety-fve feet deep in Mlssou-
RI Is influenced by the sea, and has regular
twelve feet tides.
Stains In marble, caused by oil, can be
removed by applying clay saturated with
benzine.
"A lumberman in the Montreal Gener
al Hospital has the regular old fashioned
Scriptural leprosy.
"A monument, erected to the memory
of Martin Luther, in the City of Worms,
will be dedicated in June.
"A book of religious meditations, writ
ten by the Emperor Charles ", in Latin,
has just been found in one of the libraries
Of Ghent.
AT Petrolia, Canada, oil is worth only
40 cents per gallon. This is the only part
Of the Canada oil regions where oil is now
produced.
The total foreign trade of the United
States is larger now than it was before the
war; $726,0O0,0 900 in 1867, against S7O8,-
100000 in 1860
"A Salt Lake boy blew himself up while
attempting to clean a pot which had been
used to manufacture Illuminating powder
four years ago.
Morris Foley, while plowing in the |
field near Twelve Mile Grove, I'll, last Tues |
day, was killed by flash Of lightning from
an unclouded sky.
"A lady, who was startled out Of sleep
by some one trying, to enter the house,
cried out, "who Is there?" "Yonr late |
husband, was the inlpertinent reply.
"A woman named Josephine Scholt,
wife of John Schott, residing in the town Of |
Corcoran, was kicked'to death by span |
Of horses, at about nine o'clock Sunday |
night.
"A German woman, Eriastina Pohl,
residing in Dubuque, committed suicide, |
on the 21st, by hanging herself Dissatis-
faction with her lot In life is said to be the |
cause Of the act
"A Greek coin of great age has just |
been brought to England from India, where |
it was discovered. 1t is Ofgold, and is by |
weight worth eleven guineas. The owner
has refused 9700 for it.
The late Bishop Meade, of Virginia,
occasionally said witty thing. He was
once lamenting the neglect of education in |
the state, and remarked, with a significant
expression: sour girls are poorly educated
but our boys will never find 1t OUT
The chime of bells given to the First
Parish Church at Charlestown, Mass, by
Miss Charlotte Harris, was dedicated last
week. There are sixteen bells, weighing
l4,864 pounds, and completed at total
cost of $4,000, which was the sum given.
The women in New Paris, o., lately
broke down whisky shop in the town by
visiting it in squads with their knitting
work and staying all day. The publican
stood the siege for few days and then
gave up.
"A North Carolina paper says that the
celebrated kaolln clay, large quantities of
which are shipped north, is not only used
in the manufacture of porcelain ware, but
also for making ''meerschaum' pipes, adul-
terating -four, &c.
AN English gentleman lately refused
to deliver letter to one Of his servant girls
because 1t was directed to her as "Miss"
So-and-So. He thought it was not proper
that servant girl should have Miss" pre-
fixed to her name.
John G., Whittier says: at is little
remarkable that some ofthe best cOntribu-
tions to our periodical literature are made
by writers who never had the good or i'll
fortune to publish book, and whose
names are not included in the guild of
authorship"
The Director Of the United States Mint
gives notice that the mint is now prepared
to exchange, on demand, one and two-cent
bronze, and three and fve-cent nickel cop
per coins for United States notes, or drafts
on Philadelphia or New York banks, pay
able in such notes.
"A revolution is announced in the style
of ladies head-dresses. At the last bali at
the Hotel de Vile In Paris, no chignons
were worn, but the hair flowed over the
shoulders, with ringlet or two drawn in
front. This Is after the manner introduced
by the Princess of Wales In 1863
The riots at Toulon, France, were far
more serious than the Moniteur admitted. |
1uc OdlAlCu hOhb VI ptO-
cession two large figures which represented |
the Emperor and Empress. These figures |
were burned in front Of the Prefecture, |
amid laundering applause.
AN Englishman, residing in Paris,
found that the Prefect had ordered his |
house to become No. 40; so he painted up |
q large 's49n and put on q brass plate the |
words formerly 1877 ''How droll are
your countrymen,n said Parisian: ''who
but you would do that?" "Do what9'
"Why, put up your age after your name"
He thought the inscription was a proper
name--"M. Formerly
Wages went to the depot the other
evening, and finding the best car full, said |
in loud tone: "This car isn't going!n |
OF course these words caused general |
stampede, and Wages took the best seat
The cars soon moved off. In the midst Of