Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-09-10
Dttuihts
miscellaneous Items.

Russia boasts Of more than ten Thousand
princes.
oberlin has not q drinhing saloon within
ita limits.
There are now ten evening papers in New
York city. f
There are 81 more physicians 10 Boston
than grocere.
The receipts OF peaches at the city of
Cincinnati average about 1900 bushels per
week.
1t is said that Harper's monthly will begin
to publish the names Of its contributors next
spring.
Stage coaches are to be started by an
American between Yeddo and Yokohama, IN
Japan.
-"UniRorm Currencyo-t money paid to
the soldiers lor 1Al
There is in Paris ono .drg.goods estab-
lishment that spends 500, ,0OG' francs year for
advertising. tf.,i .,t,
Some girls lately escaped from BlackwelIs
Island in tub. The World says they were
washed ashore.
st. Petersburg has Chinese library OF
11,6O7 volumes, LIS wood engrayings, and
176 manuscripts.
-Londoners talk Of giving up watch-chains
and jewelry, in consequence OF the boldness
of street robbers.
MANY wheat fields in England have been
set on fire by sparks from locomotives, and
entirely destroyed.
The stalk Of the hop-vine, after the hops
are gathered, makes an excellent hber 1or
coarse cloth and cordage.
Peter p. Boynton, Of New Jersey, offers
to wager $4,000 that he can swim from Cape
NAV to Cape Henlopen, distance OF ffteen
miles, . ,.L
for its object the emancipation OF Canada,
has recently been formed in Burlington,
-Four members Of the East London swim
ming cInb, recently swan distance OF two
hundred yards, clad In their ordinary wearing
apparel The winner wore the heaviest
clothes Of the party. ID
Fifty st. Louis policemen organized and
made descent on 4 dance house on Mulber-
nv street, in that city, late last Sunday night.
| They captured fifty of the inmates, male
and fonale. and carried them to the Gala
| boose,
-ASt. Lonis man. who has just lost case
with heavy damages, for breach OF promise
| thinks to recover the money BY SUNG the
Democrat for libel in reporting the case IN
court. He set his damages at the modest
figures of $4,000. '' ii
| "A method has been discovered Of separa-,
ting honey from the comb, by centrifugal
force. The process leaves the cells so tile
injured that the sweet creatures which NIL
them can go to work filing them again after
a short season spent in repairs. ..r..,.,l
The New York city press is denouncing
the speculators in gold and say the gold
room itself is public nuisance, which Great
Britain refused to tolerate during aperlod oil
specie suspension in that country, and the
sooner it is done away with the better.
Six thousand copies Of the fourth num-
ber of the Lanterne were sent to the news
dealers Of Rouen. The arrival OF such q
large supply Of the spicy opposition Journal
greatly perplexed the Prefect, who finally
\ thought that the best thing he could do I'M
der the circumstances was to buy the whole
six thousand copies Fancy his vexation
when next morning six thousand copies more
arrived by the Paris train.
Two elderly ladies we're contemplating
one of the family Of the Falconid@, at the
Geological Gardens in London. "There's a
| great howl for you2p said one. Get along
with You, stoopid" rejoined the other;
"that's not howl, that's heagle." The
controversy growing warm between them.
"Ladies" "Linterposed one Of the officers OF
the society las in the fable of the Chameleon
"you need not quarrel for you are both In
/ the wrong. 1t is neither an howl nor heagle;
the bird before you is an ork.'